Dr. Ana C. Moreira is a Junior Researcher at IBMC. She earned her Ph.D. in Biosciences from the University of Coimbra in 2013. Her Ph.D. project was essentially focused on the effects of phytoestrogens in mitochondria to study the role of phytoestrogens as an alternative to hormone replacement therapy during menopause. In 2014, she was hired as a postdoc fellow at the Iron and Innate Immunity group of IBMC, and in 2015 she obtained an individual postdoc fellowship from FCT to investigate iron metabolism regulation during bacterial infection under the supervision of Prof. Salomé Gomes and Prof. Pedro Rodrigues. Since September 2018, she has been an Invited Assistant Professor at ICBAS, teaching a Microbiology lab course. She has been a Junior Researcher since January 2019. Her research now mainly centers on the (dys)regulation of metabolic pathways in the host during mycobacterial infections.