Milton S. da Costa

About

Professor of Microbiology, Dept. Life Sciences, Univ Coimbra. B.S. University of Arizona, USA (1968). M.S. Northern Arizona University, USA (1972). Ph.D., Indiana University, USA (1977); President Portuguese Society of Microbiology (1996-2002), President Elect and President European Federation of Microbiological Societies (FEMS, 2004-2010), Chair Microbiology and Biotechnology, Mediterranean Science Commission (CIESM, 2010-2013). Chair International Committee on Systematics of Peokaryotes (ICSP), 2014-2017.

Employment

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Education

• Indiana University Bloomington Ph.D.
  1972 - 1977
• Northern Arizona University M.S.
  1970 - 1972
• University of Arizona B.S.
  1966 - 1969

Projects & Funding

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Publications (213)

• Lysobacter silvestris sp. Nov., isolated from alpine forest soil, and reclassification of Luteimonas tolerans as Lysobacter tolerans comb. nov
  International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 2018 DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.002710
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• Proposal of the suffix -ota to denote phyla. Addendum to 'Proposal to include the rank of phylum in the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes'
  International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology 2018 DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.002593
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• Proposed minimal standards for the use of genome data for the taxonomy of prokaryotes
  International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 2018 DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.002516
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• Raineya orbicola gen. nov., sp. nov. a slightly thermophilic bacterium of the phylum bacteroidetes and the description of raineyaceae fam. nov
  International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 2018 DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.002556
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• Solimicrobium silvestre gen. Nov., sp. nov., isolated from alpine forest soil
  International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 2018 DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.002861
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• Study of methanogenic enrichment cultures of rock cores from the deep subsurface of the Iberian Pyritic Belt
  Heliyon 2018 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2018.e00605
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• Complete genome sequence of Tessaracoccus sp. strain T2.5-30 isolated from 139.5 meters deep on the subsurface of the Iberian Pyritic Belt
  Genome Announcements 2017 DOI: 10.1128/genomeA.00238-17
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• Dehalogenimonas formicexedens sp. nov., a chlorinated alkanerespiring bacterium isolated from contaminated groundwater
  International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 2017 DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.001819
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• Diversity of bacteria and archaea from two shallow marine hydrothermal vents from Vulcano Island
  Extremophiles 2017 DOI: 10.1007/s00792-017-0938-y
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• Mariniblastus fucicola gen. nov., sp. nov. a novel planctomycete associated with macroalgae
  International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 2017 DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.001760
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