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Cláudia R. Serra obtained her PhD in Biology at ITQB-NOVA, where she applied microbial genetics and molecular biology tools in the functional analysis of bacterial genomes, identifying and characterizing important genes of gastrointestinal isolates with biotechnological potential. She is currently an Auxiliary Researcher at CIIMAR- Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Universidade do Porto, dedicated to the characterization of gastrointestinal microbial communities of economically important fish species and the development of novel probiotics and vaccine strategies for use in aquaculture. Claudia has more than 10 years of practical lab experience in academic settings with strong connections to pharma and animal-feed industries, counting 2 PATENTS, and 1 LICENSING AGREEMENT in the field of PROBIOTICS. RESEARCH ACTIVITIES RESUME i) isolation / characterization of bacteria with probiotic properties for animal nutrition/ health; ii) development of vaccines for aquaculture; iii) characterization of gastrointestinal microbiota and microbiome and its modulation by different host conditions (e.g. health/disease, feeding regime, stress ); iv)functional analysis of bacterial genomes, with characterization of genes (recombinant DNA technology; gene expression analysis ) and proteins (recombinant protein expression and purification technologies) responsible for important probiotic features as well as biotechnological applications. MAIN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INDICATORS: i) Participation in >20 R&D projects with competitive funding (2H2020; 1 EU; 2 International; 9 FCT; 1PT 2020; 1 Mar2020; 1 ON.2; 1 CCDRN-Norte2020; 3 Industry; 3 BIP); ii) PI of 4 R&D Projects with competitive funding: PI of 1 FCT Project (PTDC/CVT-CVT/2477/20211; ProbioVaccine: Probiotics as novel platforms of oral vaccines for Aquaculture); PI of 1 BIP PROOF Project (ProbioVaccine: Proof of Concept); Co-PI of 1 FCT project (02/SAICT/2017/29540 CyanoVaccine); PI of 1 Patenting Project (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-042734 ¿ Protection of ProZyme Invention through National and international Patenting), securing a total of 450 000 EUR; iii) 60 publications in peer reviewed journals, of which 6 as senior author (42 Q1, 9 Q2) and 2 book chapters in international books. Scopus h-Index 21; 1400 citations by 1035 documents; iv) >80 communications in oral/poster format in national and international conferences (including key notes and 13 invited talks); v) Teaching experience in Microbiology and Molecular and Cellular Biology; vi) Supervision experience of 4 Postdocs (2 ongoing); 6 PhD (4 ongoing); 13 MSc (4 ongoing); 17 BSc (2 ongoing); 1 PEEC (Extracurricular Internship Program of UP) vii) IP experience: 2 International Patents (1 Industrial: DSM NUTRITIONAL PRODUCTS; 1 Academic: CIIMAR & UP) (WO/2020/084565; WO2008110325); 1 Provisional Patent Application (PPA 117786) (European; Academic: i3S, CIIMAR & UP); 1 License Agreement with EPICORE BIONETWORKS INC (USA)/NEOVIA; 6 technology ideas selected by Tech Transfer Programs: CoHitec-2017 training program in technology commercialization; Winer of the 2018 BIP Business Ignition Program of UPorto and of the 2018 Born from Knowledge Contest (BfK IDEAS 2018); BIP PROOF 2020, 928 Challenge Startup International Competition 2021, BIP PROOF 2022.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Cláudia Alexandra Reis Serra

Citation names

  • Serra, Cláudia
  • Serra, Claudia R.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
AF13-B898-6164
ORCID iD
0000-0002-9852-2426
Google Scholar ID
8a0capIAAAAJ
Researcher Id
D-6771-2011
Scopus Author Id
7102417964

Email addresses

  • cserra@ciimar.up.pt (Professional)

Addresses

  • CIIMAR - Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research. Faculty of Sciences - University of Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre S/N, Edifício FC4, Lab 1.16, 4169-007, Porto, Porto, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Molecular Biology
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Microbiology
  • Agrarian Sciences - Veterinary Sciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
English Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1)
French Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Elementary (A2) Upper intermediate (B2)
Spanish; Castilian Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2013
Concluded
 PhD in Biology, Specialization in Molecular Biology (Doutoramento)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
"Biology and applications of an undomesticated gut strain of Bacillus subtilis. ISBN: 978-989- 97932-0-0" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2003
Concluded
 Engenharia Zootécnica (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
"Antimicrobial Growth Promoters on Pig Production" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2025/04/01 - Current Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/02/01 - 2055/03/31 Auxiliary Researcher (CEEC 2022) : Strategies to fight Aquaculture Diseases and Vaccine Development for fish (PI of FCT PTDC/CVT-CVT/2477/2021 - ProbioVaccine ) Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
2018/09/01 - 2023/01/31 Auxiliary Researcher (DL57): Strategies to fight Aquaculture Diseases and Vaccine Development for fish (PI of BIP-PROOF - ProbioVaccine and Co-PI of FCT 02/SAICT/2017/29540 - CyanoVaccine) Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
2015/07/01 - 2018/08/31 Post-Doc Fellow (SFRH/BPD/101038/2014): Sporeformers Antimicrobial Compounds as an approach to control Aeromonads Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
2013/05/01 - 2015/06/30 Post-Doc Fellow (NORTE-07-0124-FEDER-000038-BPD-2013-02):Fish intestinal microbiota characterization by conventional (classical microbiology) and unconventional (DGGE, NGS) methods Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
2011/06/01 - 2012/04/30 Science and Technology Management Fellow (042/BI-BGCT/2011):Screening the collection of undomesticated sporeformers of the Microbial Development Laboratory, for antagonists of Clostridium perfringens Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
2007/04/01 - 2011/03/31 PhD Fellow (SFRH/BD/29397/2006): Biology and Applications of an undomesticated gut strain of Bacillus subtilis Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
2006/10/01 - 2007/03/31 Researcher: Sequencing and patenting the genome of a PROBIOTIC gastrointestinal isolate of Bacillus subtilis DSM Nutritional Products, Switzerland
2003/03/01 - 2006/09/30 Research fellow (008/BIC/2003). EU-5th Framework Programme: Project QLK5-CT-2001-01729 “Spore Probiotics: An Alternative to Antibiotics in Animal Husbandry" Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
2002/09/01 - 2002/12/15 Research assistant: Efficacy of different fructo-oligosaccharides in reducing Salmonella and Campylobacter colonization in broiler chickens, by general microbiology and animal testing techniques Wageningen University and Research Wageningen Bioveterinary Research, Netherlands
2001/10/01 - 2002/07/31 Research Trainee (Leonardo da Vinci Fellowship): Analyze pigs performance indicators (growth rate, feed conversion ratio, morbidity) when fed a diet containing or not antimicrobial growth promoters Wageningen University and Research Wageningen Bioveterinary Research, Netherlands
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2015/07 - 2018/06 (Pos-doc Fellow SFRH/BPD/101038/2014) SNACk for fish: Sporeformers and their Natural Antimicrobial Compounds as a knowledgeable approach to control Aeromonas
SFRH/BPD/101038/2014
Post-doc Fellow
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2013/05 - 2015/06 (Pos-doc Fellow NORTE-07-0124-FEDER-000038-BPD-2013-02) AQUAIMPROV - Sustainable Aquaculture and Animal Welfare of IC&DT program MARVALOR - Building research and innovation capacity for improved management and valorization of marine resources
NORTE-07-0124-FEDER-000038-BPD-2013-02
Post-doc Fellow
Ministério da Ciência Tecnologia e Ensino Superior
2011/04 - 2012/03 (Science and Technology Management Fellow 042/BI-BGCT/2011) Screening undomesticated sporeformers for antagonists of Clostridium perfringens
042/BI-BGCT/2011
Science and Technology Management Fellow
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2007/04 - 2011/03 (PhD Fellow SFRH/BD/29397/2006) Biology and Applications of an undomesticated gut strain of Bacillus subtilis
SFRH/BD/29397/2006
PhD Student Fellow
Ministério da Ciência Tecnologia e Ensino Superior
2003/03 - 2006/09 (Research fellow 008/BIC/2003) Spore Probiotics: An Alternative to Antibiotics in Animal Husbandry. EU-5th Framework Programme QLK5-CT-2001-01729
008/BIC/2003
Research Fellow
European Commission

Contract

Designation Funders
2023/03/12 - 2026/03/11 Biorrefinaria de macroalgas: uma nova abordagem para produzir alimentos sustentáveis e aditivos funcionais para aquacultura com baixa pegada de carbono
2022.06587.PTDC
Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2021/01/01 - 2025/12/31 Centre for Marine and Environmental Research
LA/P/0101/2020
10.54499/LA/P/0101/2020
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal

Universidade do Algarve Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2021/10/01 - 2025/09/30 (Core Team Member) NeoGiANT-The power of grape extracts: antimicrobial and antioxidant properties to prevent the use of antibiotics in farmed animals Coordinator: Marta Lores (USC-ES). Funding: H2020 Grant Agreement number: 101036768. H2020-LC-GD-2020. Total Funding: 8.3M. FCUP Funding: 431K
H2020-101036768
Researcher
Horizon 2020
Ongoing
2021 - 2025 (Core Team Member) GRINNAQUA: Green innovation strategies for animal health management:
101079467
Researcher
Ongoing
2021 - 2025 GRINNAQUA: Green innovation strategies for animal health management: towards sustainable Aquaculture
101079467
Researcher
Horizon 2020
Ongoing
2022/01/01 - 2024/12/31 (PI) ProbioVaccine: Probiotics as novel platforms of oral vaccines for Aquaculture. Coordinators: Claudia R. Serra (CIIMAR-FCUP-PT) and Patricia Diaz-Rosales (CSIC-INIA-ES). FCT, Governo de Portugal. Funding: 233K
PTDC/CVT-CVT/2477/2021
Principal investigator
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
2022/01/01 - 2024/12/31 (Core Team Member) MIDIVAC-Relation between the microbiota, diet composition and response to vaccination in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). Coordinators: Carolina Tafalla and Patricia Díaz Rosales (CSIC-INIA-ES). Funding: 287K
PID2020-113268RB-I00
Researcher
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación. Gobierno de España.
2023/03/01 - 2024/08/31 (Core Team Member) ProZyme ¿ Novos probióticos isolados do microbiota intestinal de peixes para melhorar a utilização de farinha de inseto, saúde intestinal e resistência a doenças de peixes carnívoros
2022.02618.PTDC
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2020 - 2023 (Core Team Member) ATLANTIDA - Platform for the monitoring of the North Atlantic ocean and tools for the sustainable exploitation of the marine resources. Institutions: UP, FCUP, ICBAS, FEUP, CIIMAR. Funding: 1.6M (Total); 624K¿ (FCUP); 50K (NUTRIMU).
NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000040
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
Ongoing
2018/07/26 - 2022/07/25 Vesículas de membrana externa de Cianobactérias como plataformas inovadoras para a tecnologia de Vacinas
PTDC/BIA-OUT/29540/2017
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2019/01/01 - 2021/12/31 (WP leader) FeedMI - Improvements in disease resistance, stress and environmental sustainability in aquaculture systems through nutritional tools and modulation of microbial communities. Coordinator:Luis Conceição (SPAROS, Lda). Total Funding: 935K. CIIMAR funding: 70K.
ALG-01-0247-FEDER-039948
Researcher
Ongoing
2021/02/19 - 2021/08/15 (PI) ProbioVaccine - Proof of Concept of Oral Probiotic Vaccines for Aquaculture. Coordinator: Claudia R.Serra (CIIMAR-FCUP). BIP PROOF -BUSINESS IGNITION PROGRAMME UP. Funding: 10K
n/a
Principal investigator
Fundação Amadeu Dias

Universidade do Porto
Ongoing
2018/07 - 2021/06 (Core Team Member) InovFeed, Innovation in the biotechnological valorization of industrial by-products for the promotion of sustainable fish feed for aquaculture. Funding 389K
MAR-02.01.01-FEAMP-0111
Researcher
Ministério da Ciência Tecnologia e Ensino Superior
2018/07 - 2021/06 (Core Team Member) SPO3- Development of innovative sustainable protein and omega-3 rich feedstuffs for aquafeeds, from local agro-industrial by-products. Funding - 238K
02/SAICT/2017/30377
PTDC/BAA-AGR/30377/2017
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Desporto, Portugal

Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2018/07 - 2021/06 (Core Team Member) Comparison of oral vaccination strategies in trout against IPNV. Alternatives of antigenic expression and identification of transcriptomic pathways involved. Funding 108K
AGL2017-85494-C2-2-R
Researcher
Gobierno de España Ministerio de Economía y Empresa
2018/07 - 2021/06 (Core Team Member) CRAGIAMP: Search for Antimicrobial Peptides in Crassostrea gigas oysters and Paracentrotus lividus sea urchin. Funding 239K
02/SAICT/2017/30232
Researcher
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2018/07 - 2021/06 (Co-PI) CyanoVaccine: Cyanobacterial outer membrane vesicles as novel platforms for Vaccine technology. Funding 235K
02/SAICT/2017/29540
Principal investigator
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2018/02 - 2019/01 (Full Team Member) Black Soldier Fly (Hermetia illucens) as fish meal substitute in diets for meagre (Argyrosomus regius): growth, digestibility and gut health.
PP-IJUP2017-SOJA DE PORTUGAL-33
Researcher
Universidade do Porto
2016/01 - 2018/12 (Core Team Member) ALGAFISH: Inclusion of microalgas in sea bass diets: boosting immunity through nutrition. Funding 169K
PTDC/MAR-BIO/6233/2014
PTDC/MAR-BIO/6233/2014
Provided by PTCRIS: 144873
Researcher
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
2016/01 - 2018/12 (Core Team Member) EICOSABREAM: Effect of fatty acid source (n-6 vs. n-3) on the eicosanoid cascade and intestine inflammation in gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata). Funding 179K
PTDC/MAR-BIO/1949/2014
PTDC/MAR-BIO/1949/2014
Provided by PTCRIS: 140575
Researcher
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
2015/10 - 2018/09 (Core Team Member) ZEBRALGRE: From zebrafish to meagre: use of macro- and microalgae as functional feeds. Funding 181K
PTDC/CVT-WEL/5207/2014
PTDC/CVT-WEL/5207/2014
Provided by PTCRIS: 143842
Researcher
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
2014/01 - 2015/04 (Core Team Member) PROFISH - Screening for novel probiotics within the European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) microbiota capable of improving plant feedstuffs utilization. Funding 40K
EXPL/MAR-BIO/0351/2013
EXPL/MAR-BIO/0351/2013
grant.Provided by PTCRIS: 133373
Researcher
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Stichting Weten
2011/01/01 - 2012/12/31 Strategic Project - LA 4 - 2011-2012
PEst-OE/EQB/LA0004/2011
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Portugal

Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal

Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica, Portugal

Universidade NOVA de Lisboa NOVA Medical School, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2009/01 - 2012/06 (Core Team Member) Site-specific labeling of proteins in vitro, in vivo and at the cell surface by a novel type of transglutaminase isolated from spores of Bacillus subtilis. Funding 80.5K
PTDC/BIO/73946/2006
PTDC/BIO/73946/2006
grant.Provided by PTCRIS: 73946
Researcher
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Stichting Weten

Other

Designation Funders
2023 - 2024 (Co-PI) AquaBakillus: Bacillus spp. as source of bioactive compounds for aquaculture bacterial diseases control
n/a
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
2022 - 2023 (Co-PI) GreenNanoVax: a green, sustainable and nano-sized platform for the delivery of antigens to fish in aquaculture.
n/a
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Concluded
2021 - 2022 (Co-PI) ProAqua - Novel probiotics for improving insect meal utilization and gut health
n/a
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Borges, A.; Serra, Cláudia; Saavedra, M. J.; Simões, M.. "Activity of allyl isothiocyanate and 2-phenylethyl isothiocyanate on motility and biofilm prevention of pathogenic bacteria". In orldwide Research Efforts in the Fighting against Microbial Pathogens: From Basic Research to Technological Developments, edited by A. Méndez-Vilas. United States: BrownWalker Press, 2013.
  2. Barbosa, Teresa M; Serra, Cláudia R; Henriques, Adriano O. "Gut sporeformers". In Bacterial Spores: Probiotics and Emerging Applications, edited by Ezio Ricca, Adriano O. Henriques, and Simon M. Cutting. Horizon Scientific Press, London, UK, 2004.
Conference abstract
  1. Guttuso, Paolo; Santos, Rafaela; Pousão-Ferreira, Pedro; Serra, Claudia R.; Oliva-Teles, Aires; Guerreiro, Inês. Corresponding author: Guttuso, Paolo. "Effect of oilseed ingredients on growth and appetite regulation in gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata)". Paper presented in SOFAS 2023 - International Symposium on Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Trabzon, 2024.
  2. Martins, Nicole; Bizogno, T; Piscitelli, Fabiana; Verde, R; Magalhães, Rui; Vieira, Lúcia; Couto, Ana; et al. Corresponding author: Martins, Nicole. "The role of oleic acid in fat deposition in European Seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax) juvenile". Paper presented in Aquaculture Europe 2022, 2023.
    Published
  3. Rangel, Fábio; Cortinhas, Rita; Gasco, Laura; Gai, Francesco; Oliva-Teles, Aires; Serra, Cláudia; Enes, Paula. "Effect of dietary inclusion of chitinolytic bacteria on insect meal diets for Dicentrarchus labrax". Paper presented in 73rd Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science, Porto, 2022.
    Published
  4. Rangel, Fábio; Gasco, Laura; Gai, Francesco; Oliva-Teles, Aires; Enes, Paula ; Serra, Cláudia; Pereira, F.C.. "Modulation of Europran sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) gut microbiota by dietary insect meal". Paper presented in Aquaculture Europe 21, Funchal, Madeira, 2021.
    Accepted
  5. Teixeira, Carla; Serra, Cláudia; Dias, Jorge; Rema, Paulo; Costas, Benjamín. "Immune and intestinal benefits of krill meal and krill oil in Pacific white shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) diets". Paper presented in Animal Science Doctoral Programme - VIII Workshop, Porto, 2021.
  6. Rangel, Fábio; Gasco, Laura; Gai, Francesco; Oliva-Teles, Aires; Enes, Paula ; Serra, Claudia R.; Pereira, Fatima C. "Modulation of European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) gut microbiota by dietary insect meal". Paper presented in Aquaculture Europe 2021, Madeira, 2021.
    Published
  7. Rangel, Fábio; Santos, Rafaela A.; Monteiro, Marta; Gasco, Laura; Gai, Francesco; Oliva-Teles, Aires; Serra, Claudia R.; Enes, Paula. "Isolation of putative probiotics with chitin-metabolizing abilities from European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) gut microbiota". Paper presented in Aquaculture Europe 2021, Madeira, 2021.
    Published
  8. Rangel, Fábio; Santos, Rafaela A.; Monteiro, Marta; Oliva-Teles, Aires; Enes, Paula ; Serra, Claudia R.. "Isolation of potential probiotics from European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) gut microbiota for improving insect meal utilization". Paper presented in AQUAIMPROVE 5th Aquaculture Research Workshop, Porto, 2020.
    Published
  9. Teixeira, Carla; Serra, Claudia R.; Dias, Jorge; Rema, Paulo; Costas, Benjamín. "Dietary oxytetracycline treatment can modulate gut health condition in the Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus)". Paper presented in Animal Science Doctoral Programme - VII Workshop, Porto, 2020.
    Published • 10.2495/meb140051
  10. Rangel, Fábio; Santos, Rafaela A.; Monteiro, Marta; Oliva-Teles, Aires; Enes, Paula ; Serra, Claudia R.. "Isolation of chitinolytic bacteria from the gut microbiota of European sea bass fed with insect meals". Paper presented in Blue Think Conference, 2020.
    Published
  11. Teixeira, Carla; Serra, Claudia R.; Costa, Paulo M.; Dias, Jorge; Rema, Paulo; Costas, Benjamín. "Effects of therapeutic dietary administration of oxytetracycline on growth performance ad immunity in Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus)". Paper presented in 4th Aquaimprove - Aquaculture Research Workshop, Matosinhos, 2019.
    Published
  12. Teixeira, Carla; Serra, Claudia R.; Costa, Paulo M.; Dias, Jorge; Rema, Paulo. "Effects of therapeutic dietary administration of oxytetracycline in Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus)". Paper presented in Animal Science Doctoral Programme - VI Workshop, Porto, 2019.
  13. Rangel, Fábio Jorge Oliveira; Guerreiro, Inês; Coutinho, Filipe; Castro, Carolina; Couto, Ana; Serra, Cláudia; Peres, Helena; et al. "Black Soldier Fly Hermetia illucens meal as fish meal substitute in diets for meagre Argyrosomus regius". Paper presented in AQUAIMPROVE 4th Aquaculture Research Workshop, Porto, 2019.
    Published
  14. Magalhães, Rui; Coutinho, Filipe; Guerreiro, Inês; Couto, Ana; Serra, Cláudia; Peres, Helena; Oliva-Teles, Aires. "Effect of dietary ARA/EPA/DHA ratios on growth performance, intermediary metabolism, and health indicators of gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata).". Paper presented in AQUAIMPROVE, Matosinhos, 2019.
    Published
  15. Magalhães, Rui; Coutinho, Filipe; Guerreiro, Inês; Couto, Ana; Serra, Cláudia; Peres, Helena; Oliva-Teles, Aires. "Oxidative stress status and microbiota of Gilthead sea bream Sparus aurata fed different dietary ARA/EPA/DHA ratios". Paper presented in Aquaculture Europe, Berlim, 2019.
    Published
  16. Lavrador, Ana Sofia; Guerreiro, Inês; Coutinho, Filipe; Castro, Carolina; Couto, Ana; Peres, Helena; Pousão-Ferreira, Pedro; et al. "Black Soldier Fly (Hermetia illucens) meal as a fish meal substitute in diets for meagre (Argyrosomus regius): effects on gut microbiota". Paper presented in Meeting of Junior Research from Porto University - IJUP 2019, porto, 2019.
    Published
  17. Teixeira, Carla; Serra, Claudia R.; Costa, Paulo M.; Dias, Jorge; Costas, Benjamín. "Alternative and healthy food from an environmentally friendly aquaculture". Paper presented in International congress of business sciences, Maia, 2018.
  18. Monteiro, Marta; Santos, Rafaela; Couto, Ana; Serra, Claudia R.; Gouvinhas, Irene; Barros, Ana; Oliva-Teles, Aires; Enes, Paula ; Díaz-Rosales, Patricia. "The use of macro- and microalgae as functional ingredients in diets for meagre (Argyrosomus regius, Asso 1801)". 2018.
    10.3389/conf.fmars.2018.06.00117
  19. Lavrador, Ana S.; Santos, Rafaela A.; Oliva-Teles, Aires; Enes, Paula ; Serra, Claudia R.. "Molecular tools for Bacillus probiotics monitoring in fish gut". 2018.
    10.3389/conf.fmars.2018.06.00130
  20. Santos, Rafaela A.; Oliva-Teles, Aires; Saavedra, Maria José; Enes, Paula ; Serra, Cláudia. "Bacillus spp. as source of Natural Antimicrobial Compounds to control aquaculture bacterial fish pathogens". 2018.
    10.3389/conf.fmars.2018.06.00129
  21. Jorge, Sara; Enes, Paula ; Serra, Cláudia; Oliva-Teles, Aires; Couto, Ana. "Effect of microalgae in gilthead seabream Sparus aurata diets". Paper presented in II AQUAIMPROVE, Porto, 2017.
    Published
  22. Luz, T.; Couto, C.; Serra, Claudia R.; Oliva-Teles, A.; Enes, Paula. "Potential of novel probiotics isolated from fish gut microbiota for improving plant feedstuffs utilization and gut health in white seabream (Diplodus sargus) juveniles". Paper presented in 10th Meeting of Young Researchers of University of Porto - IJUP 2017, Porto, 2017.
    Published
  23. Santos, Rafaela; Couto, André; Oliva-Teles, Aires; Saavedra, Maria José; Enes, Paula ; Serra, Claudia R.. "Fish Gut Sporeformers to Control Fish Pathogens". 2016.
    10.3389/conf.fmars.2016.04.00052
Conference poster
  1. Castro, Miguel; Serra, Cláudia; Magalhães, Rui; Oliva-Teles, Aires; Ana Couto; Roberto Bermúdez; María Isabel Quiroga; Maria Celeiro; Marta Lores. "AquaGrape: grape extracts as novel antimicrobials to prevent the use of antibiotics in aquaculture". Paper presented in MicroSummit 2024, 2024.
  2. Aluai-Cunha, Catarina; Correia, Alexandra; Serra, Cláudia; Andreia Alexandra Ferreira Santos. "Peripheral Blood Immunophenotyping in 50 dogs: comparison between healthy dogs and dogs with mast cell tumors". Paper presented in 8th European Veterinary Immunology Workshop (EVIW), 2024.
  3. Aluai-Cunha, Catarina; Isabel Alexandra Duarte Ferreira Lopes Correia; Serra, Cláudia; Andreia Alexandra Ferreira Santos. "Peripheral blood immunophenotyping in 50 dogs: comparison between healthy dogs and dogs with mast cell tumours". Paper presented in EVIW - European Veterinary Immunology Workshop, 2024.
  4. Ricardo Couto; Gonçalves, Gabriela; Santos, Rafaela A.; Rangel, Fábio; António Paulo Carvalho; Oliva-Teles, Aires; Enes, Paula ; Serra, Cláudia. "Santos, R.A. "Couto, R., Gonçalves, G. C., Santos, R.A., Rangel, F., Carvalho, A. P., Oliva-Teles, A., Enes, P., Serra, C.R. 2024. ProBioChit – Spores of Probiotics as carriers of Chitinases for improved insect meal utilization in aquaculture fish. Microsummit 2024 (Lisboa, Portugal)."". 2024.
  5. Guedes, Bárbara; Gonçalves, Gabriela; Santos, Rafaela A.; Oliva-Teles, Aires; Couto, Ana; Serra, Claudia R.. "Santos, R.A. "Guedes, B., Gonçalves, G. C., Santos, R.A., Oliva-Teles, A., Couto, A., Serra, C. R. 2024. Enhancing Fish Oral Immunisation: fine-tunning SporoVaccines for Aquaculture. Microsummit 2024 (Lisboa, Portugal). "". 2024.
  6. Maria Carolina Oliveira; Matinha-Cardoso, Jorge; Gonçalves, Gabriela; Santos, Rafaela A.; Tamagnini, P; Oliveira, Paulo; Serra, Claudia R.. "Santos, R.A. "Oliveira, M. C., Matinha-Cardoso, J., Gonçalves, G. C., Santos, R.A., Tamagnini, P., Oliva-Teles, A., Oliveira, P., Serra, C. R. 2024. Characterization of Bacillus spp. vesicles and assessment of their potential as delivery vehicles of heterologous proteins. Microsummit 2024 (Lisboa, Portugal)."". 2024.
  7. Aluai-Cunha, Catarina; Isabel Alexandra Duarte Ferreira Lopes Correia; Serra, Cláudia; Andreia Alexandra Ferreira Santos. Corresponding author: Andreia Alexandra Ferreira Santos. "Characterization of the immune cell infiltrates in tumour microenvironment and peripheral blood in dogs with mast cell tumours". Paper presented in European Society of Veterinary Oncology Congress, 2023.
  8. Aluai-Cunha, Catarina; Isabel Alexandra Duarte Ferreira Lopes Correia; Serra, Claudia R.; Andreia Alexandra Ferreira Santos. Corresponding author: Andreia Alexandra Ferreira Santos. "The immune cell infiltrates in tumour and peripheral blood leukocyte populations of healthy dogs and dogs with mast cell tumours.". Paper presented in SPI 48¿ XLVIII Annual Meeting ¿ Portuguese Society for Immunology, 2023.
  9. Magalhães, Rui; Santos, Rafaela A.; Sousa, J.I; de Azevedo, A.; Pérez-Díaz, M.; Couto, Ana; Oliva-Teles, Aires; Serra, Claudia R.. "Santos R.A. "Magalhães, R., Santos, R.A., Sousa, J.I., Bermúdez, R., de Azevedo, A., Pérez-Díaz, M., Couto, A., Oliva-Teles, A., Serra, C.R. 2023. White grape marc extracts as potential antimicrobial products and modulators of European seabass growth and immune status. Aquaculture Europe 2023 Conference (Vienna, Austria)."". 2023.
  10. Gonçalves, Gabriela; Santos, Rafaela A.; Dias, J.; Carvalho, António Paulo; Diaz-Rosales, Patricia; Couto, Ana; Oliva-Teles, Aires; Serra, Cláudia. "Santos, R.A. "Gonçalves, G. C., Santos, R. A., Dias, J., Carvalho, A. P., Díaz-Rosales, P., Couto, A., Oliva- Teles, A., Serra, C. R. 2023. Development of antigen-displaying Bacillus spores for oral vaccination against vibriosis and mycobacteriosis in fish. Microbiotec'23 - Congress of Microbiology and Biotechnology (Covilhã, Portugal)."". 2023.
  11. Santos, Rafaela; Reis, Mariana; Oliveira, O.; Gonçalves, Gabriela; Jerusik, R.; Oliva-Teles, Aires; Serra, Cláudia. "Santos, R.A. "Santos, R.A., Reis, M., Oliveira, O., Gonçalves, G. C., Jerusik, R., Oliva-Teles, A., Serra, C. R. 2023. Bacillus spp. Natural Antimicrobial Compounds are promising antimicrobial agents for aquaculture. Microbiotec'23 - Congress of Microbiology and Biotechnology (Covilhã, Portugal)."". 2023.
  12. Vieira, Lúcia; Filipe, Diogo; Magalhães, Rui; Fontinha, Filipa; Martins, Nicole; Serra, Cláudia; Oliva-Teles, Aires; Belo, Isabel; Peres, Helena. "Solid-state fermented plant-feedstuff mixture with Aspergillus niger for European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) juveniles effects on oxidative stress, immune system, and gut microbiota". Paper presented in Aquaculture Europe 2022, 2022.
  13. Docando, F.; Serra, Claudia R.; Arense, P.; Nuñez-Ortiz, N.; Enes, Paula ; Oliva-Teles, Aires; Tafalla, Carolina; Díaz-Rosales, Patricia. "Evaluation of the potential of two strains of Bacillus subtilis as oral adjuvants in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)". Paper presented in Aquaculture Europe 21, 2021.
  14. "Fábio Rangel, Susana Pereira, Paulo Santos, Wilson Pinto, Isidro Blanquet, Luís Conceição, Benjamin Costas, Claudia R. Serra. 2021. GUT microbiota dynamics in solea senegalensis juveniles fed fortified diets. Aquaculture Europe 2021 Conference (Madeira, Portugal).". Paper presented in Aquaculture Europe 2021 Conference, 2021.
  15. Rangel, Fábio; Pereira, Susana; Santos, Paulo; Pinto, Wilson; Blanquet, Isidro; Conceição, Luís; Costas, Benjamin; Serra, Claudia R.. "Gut microbiota dynamics in Solea senegalensis juveniles fed fortified diets". Paper presented in Aquaculture Europe 2021, 2021.
  16. Santos, A.R.; Joana Azevedo; Leão, Pedro N.; Costas, Benjamin; Serra, Claudia R.; FERNANDEZ-BOO, SERGIO. "Searching For Antimicrobial Peptides On Coelomic Fluid Of Sea Urchin Paracentrotus Lividus". Paper presented in Blue Think Conference, 2021.
  17. Matinha-Cardoso, Jorge; Coutinho, Filipe; Lima, Steeve; Oliva-Teles, Aires; Tamagnini, Paula; Serra, Claudia R.; Oliveira, Paulo. "Extracellular vesicles from cyanobacteria as novel molecular display systems for fish-related applications". Paper presented in Virtual TRAIN-EV International Conference, 2021.
  18. Teixeira, Carla; Serra, Claudia R.; Dias, Jorge; Rema, Paulo; Costas, Benjamín. "Dietary oxytetracycline treatment can modulate gut health conditon in the Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus)". Paper presented in 1st Blue Think Conference, 2020.
    10.1063/1.4946964
  19. Serra, Claudia R.. "Matinha-Cardoso, J., Coutinho, F., Lima, S., Cardoso, C., Oliva-Teles, A., Tamagnini, P.,Serra, C., Oliveira, P. 2020. Engineered outer membrane vesicles from cyanobacteria as an alternative technology for modulating fish immunology.". Paper presented in 11th European Workshop on the Biology of Cyanobacteria, Porto, Portugal, 2020.
    10.1109/sbrc.2015.29
  20. Matinha-Cardoso, Jorge; Coutinho, Filipe; Lima, Steeve; Cardoso Cláudia; Oliva-Teles, Aires; Tamagnini, Paula; Serra, Claudia R.; Oliveira, Paulo. "Engineered outer membrane vesicles from cyanobacteria as an alternative technology for modulating fish immunology". Paper presented in 11th European Workshop On The Biology Of Cyanobacteria, 2020.
  21. Serra, Claudia R.. "Matinha-Cardoso*, J., Coutinho, F., Lima, S., Cardoso, C., Oliva-Teles, A., Tamagnini, P., SERRA, C. R., Oliveira, Paulo. 2020. Engineered outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) from cyanobacteria as an alternative technology for modulating fish immunology. 11th European workshop on the biology of cyanobacteria. May 3rd to June 4th 2020. (Porto, Portugal)". 2020.
  22. Matinha-Cardoso, Jorge; Coutinho, Filipe; Lima, Steeve; Oliva-Teles, Aires; Tamagnini, Paula; Serra, Claudia R.; Oliveira, Paulo. "Cyanobacterial extracellular vesicles as innovative molecular display systems for fish-related applications". Paper presented in Young Algaeneeres Symposium 2020, 2020.
  23. Coutinho, Filipe; Lima, Steeve; Matinha-Cardoso, Jorge; Oliva-Teles, Aires; Tamagnini, Paula; Serra, Claudia R.; Oliveira, Paulo. "Cyanobacterial outer membrane vesicles as antigen delivery-platforms for modulating fish immunology". Paper presented in Microbiotech19-Congress of Microbiology and Biotechnology 2019, 2019.
  24. Teixeira, Carla; Serra, Claudia R.; Costa, Paulo M.; Rema, Paulo; Dias, Jorge; Costas, Benjamín. "Effects of oxyteracycline therapeutic treatments on growth performance and immunity in Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus)". Paper presented in Aquaculture Europe 2019, 2019.
  25. Teixeira, Carla; Serra, Claudia R.; Costa, Paulo M.; Dias, Jorge; Rema, Paulo; Costas, Benjamín. "Effects of therapeuthic dietary administration of oxytetracycline in Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus)". Paper presented in Animal Science Doctoral Programme - VI Workshop, 2019.
  26. Coutinho, Filipe; Lima, Steeve; Matinha-Cardoso, Jorge; Oliva-Teles, Aires; Tamagnini, Paula; Oliveira, Paulo; Serra, Claudia R.. "Evaluation of outer membrane vesicles as antigen-delivery platforms for fish". Paper presented in 19th International Conference on Diseases of Fish and Shellfish, 2019.
  27. Serra, Cláudia. "Coutinho, F., Lima, S., Oliva-Teles, A., Tamagnini, P., Oliveira, P. & SERRA, C.R *. 2019. Cyanobacterial outer membrane vesicles as antigen delivery-platforms for modulating fish immunology. Microbiotec´19, Congress of Microbiology and Biotechnology. December 5-7 (Coimbra, Portugal).". 2019.
  28. Pena, Ramon; Oliva, Pedro. "R.A. Santos, A. Oliva-Teles*, M.J. Saavedra, P. Enes and C.R. SERRA. 2019. Fish-gut Bacillus spp. are potent inhibitors of aquaculture fish pathogens. Microbiotec´19, Congress of Microbiology and Biotechnology. December 5-7 (Coimbra, Portugal).". 2019.
    10.22564/16cisbgf2019.253
  29. Pinto, Matheus Leitzke; de Oliveira, Andre Schneider; Wehrmeister, Marco Aurelio. "Coutinho, F., Lima, S., Oliva-Teles, A., Tamagnini, P., Oliveira, P. & SERRA, C.R.*. 2019. Evaluation of outer membrane vesicles as antigen delivery-platforms for fish. 19th International Conference on Diseases of Fish and Shellfish 2019 (Porto, Portugal).". 2019.
    10.1109/icar46387.2019.8981645
  30. Serra, Cláudia. "Garcia A*, Santos R, Azevedo J, Leão P. N, Costas B, SERRA C, Fernández-Boo S. 2019. Antimicrobial activity of the sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus coelomic fluid against pathogenic bacterial strains from fish and shellfish. 19th International Conference on Diseases of Fish and Shellfish 2019 (Porto, Portugal).". 2019.
  31. Serra, Cláudia. "R.A. Santos, A. Oliva-Teles*, M.J. Saavedra, P. Enes and C.R. SERRA. 2019. Fish-gut Bacillus spp. as powerful antagonists of bacterial aquaculture fish diseases. Aquaculture Europe 2019 Conference. (Berlin, Germany).". 2019.
  32. Serra, Cláudia. "R.A. Santos, A. Oliva-Teles, M.J. Saavedra*, P. Enes and C.R. SERRA. 2019. Bacillus probiotics as an alternative to antibiotics: fighting growth and biofilms of fish bacterial pathogens. 1st International conference of the European College of Veterinary Microbiology 2019. September 26-27. (Athens, Grece).". 2019.
  33. Serra, Cláudia. "R.A. Santos*, A. Oliva-Teles, M.J. Saavedra, P. Enes and C.R. SERRA. 2019. Using fish-gut Bacillus to prevent aquaculture fish diseases. FEMS - 8th Congress of European Microbiologists 2019. July 7-11. (Glasgow, Scotland).". 2019.
  34. Serra, Cláudia. "R. Magalhães, I. Guerreiro, A. Couto, C. SERRA, H. Peres, A. Oliva-teles, 2019. Intestinal immune status, histomorphology and microbiota of gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata) fed diferent dietary ARA/EPA/DHA ratios. Aquaculture 2019. New Orleans, USA, March 7-11, 2019". 2019.
  35. Serra, Cláudia. "Hinzmann, M., SERRA, C.R., Guerra, l., Picchietti, S., Buonocore, F., Scapigliati,G., Oliva-Teles, A., Couto, A., 2019. Sea bass galt and microbiota modulation in response to fish meal replacement by microalgae. Mucosal Helath in Aquaculture, Oslo, Norway, September 11-13, 2019". 2019.
  36. Serra, Cláudia. "R. Magalhães, F. Coutinho, I. Guerreiro, A. Couto, C. SERRA, H. Peres, A. Oliva-teles, 2019. Oxidative stress status and microbiota of gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata) fed different dietary ARA/EPA/DHA ratios. Aquaculture Europe 19, Berlin, Germany, October 7-10, 2019.". 2019.
  37. Serra, Cláudia. "M. Monteiro, F. Rangel, C.R. SERRA, A. Oliva-teles,A. Couto, P. Enes, P. Díaz-rosales, 2019. Antibacterial and antiviral activities from macro- and microalgae extracts. Aquaculture Europe 19, Berlin, Berlin, Germany, October 7-10, 2019.". 2019.
  38. Serra, Cláudia. "M. Machado, C. SERRA, A. Oliva-Teles, N.M. dos Santos and B. Costas, 2019. Methionine and tryptophan play different modulatory roles in the European seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax) innate immune response and apoptosis signaling – an in vitro study. AQUAIMPROVE 4th Aquaculture Research Workshop, Matosinhos, Portugal, November 29, 2019.". 2019.
  39. Serra, Cláudia. "M. Hinzmann, C. R. SERRA, L. Guerra, S. Pinchietti, F. Buonocore, G. Scapigliati, A. Oliva-Teles and A. Couto, 2019. Impact on Sea Bas GALT response and microbiota modulation to fish meal replacement by microalgae. AQUAIMPROVE 4th Aquaculture Research Workshop, Matosinhos, Portugal, November 29, 2019.". 2019.
  40. Serra, Cláudia. "R. Magalhães, F. Coutinho, I. Guerreiro, A. Couto, C. SERRA, H. Peres and A. Oliva-Teles, 2019. Effect of dietary ARA/EPA/DHA ratios on growth performance, intermediary metabolism, and health indicators of gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata). AQUAIMPROVE 4th Aquaculture Research Workshop, Matosinhos, Portugal, November 29, 2019.". 2019.
  41. Serra, Cláudia. "F. Rangel, I. Guerreiro, F. Coutinho, C. Castro, A. Couto, C. R. SERRA, H. Peres, P. Pousão-Ferreira, E. Matos, A. Oliva-Teles and P. Enes, 2019. Black Soldier Fly Hermetia illucens meal as fish meal substitute for meagre Argyrosomus regius. AQUAIMPROVE 4th Aquaculture Research Workshop, Matosinhos, Portugal, November 29, 2019.". 2019.
  42. Monteiro, Marta; Rangel, Fábio; Serra, Cláudia; Oliva-Teles, Aires; Couto, Ana; Enes, Paula ; Díaz-Rosales, Patrícia. "Antibacterial and antiviral activities from macro- and microalgae extracts.". Paper presented in Aquaculture Europe 2019, 2019.
  43. Magalhães, Rui; Guerreiro, Inês; Couto, Ana; Serra, Cláudia; Peres, Helena; Oliva-Teles, Aires. "Intestinal immune status, histomorphology and microbiota of gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata) fed different dietary ara/epa/dha ratios.". Paper presented in Aquaculture 2019, 2019.
  44. Lavrador, Ana Sofia; Oliva-Teles, Aires; Couto, Ana; Serra, Cláudia. "Molecular tools for labelling and monitoring Bacillus subtilis probiotics in vivo.". Paper presented in Meeting of Junior Research from Porto University - IJUP 2019, 2019.
  45. Serra, Cláudia. "A.S. Lavrador*, R.A. Santos, A. Oliva-Teles, A. Couto, C.R. Serra. 2018. Molecular tools for Bacillus probiotics monitoring in fish gut. Doi: 10.3389/conf.FMARS.2018.06.00130". Paper presented in IMMR-International Meeting on Marine Research 2018 (Peniche, Portugal)., 2018.
  46. Serra, Cláudia. "M. Monteiro*, R.A. Santos, A. Couto, C.R. Serra, I. Gouvinhas, A.I.R.N.A Barros, A. Oliva-Teles, P. Enes, P. Díaz-Rosales. 2018. The use of macro- and microalgae as functional ingredients in diets for meagre (Argyrosomus regius, Asso 1801).". Paper presented in IMMR-International Meeting on Marine Research 2018 (Peniche,Portugal)., 2018.
  47. Coutinho, Filipe; Monteiro, Marta; Vila-Franca, Carlos; Serra, Claudia R.; Santos, Rafaela A.; Ordóñez, R.; Simões, R.; et al. "Methionine and taurine effects on post inflammation oxidative stress in European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) juveniles". Paper presented in 18th International Symposium on Fish Nutrition and Feeding, 2018.
  48. Serra, Cláudia. "C.R. Serra*, A. Oliva-Teles, P. Enes and F. Tavares. 2017. Gut microbiota dynamics in carnivorous fish fed plant-based diets.". Paper presented in 7th Congress of European Microbiologists - FEMS 2017 (Valencia, Spain), 2017.
  49. Coutinho, Filipe; Monteiro, Marta; Vila-Franca, Carlos; Serra, Claudia R.; Santos, Rafaela A.; Ordóñez, R.; Simões, R.; et al. "Effect Of Methionine And Taurine On Inflammatory Response Of European Seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax)". Paper presented in 2nd Aquaimprove, 2017, 2017.
  50. Serra, Claudia R.; Guerreiro, Inês; Almeida, Eduarda; Santos, RA; Fernando Manuel dos Santos Tavares; Oliva-Teles, Aires; Enes, Paula. "Diversity of sporeformers associated with European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) juveniles fed plant-based diets: towards selection of carbohydrate-active probiotics". Paper presented in Aquaculture Europe 2016, 2016.
  51. Serra, Cláudia. "C.R. Serra*, F. Gil, A. Oliva-Teles, P. Enes and F. Tavares. 2016. Gut microbiota dynamics in European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) juveniles fed plant-based diets.". Paper presented in Aquaculture Europe 2016 Conference (Edinburgh, Scotland)., 2016.
  52. Serra, Cláudia. "Rafaela A. Santos*, André Couto, Ana Lavrador, Aires Oliva-Teles, Paula Enes and Cláudia R. Serra. 2016. Snack for fish: sporeformers and their natural antimicrobial compounds as a knowledgeable approach to control fish diseases.". Paper presented in Aquaculture Europe 2016 Conference (Edinburgh, Scotland)., 2016.
  53. Serra, Cláudia. "Tiago Luz*, Ana Couto, Cláudia R. Serra, Aires Oliva-Teles and Paula Enes. 2016. Potential of novel probiotics isolated from fish gut microbiota for improving plant feedstuffs utilization and gut homeostasis in White sea bream (Diplodus sargus) juveniles.". Paper presented in Aquaculture Europe 2016 Conference (Edinburgh, Scotland)., 2016.
  54. Serra, Cláudia. "Alexandre Firmino Diógenes*, Carolina Castro, Cláudia Serra, Adriana Rego, Aires Oliva-Teles, Helena Peres. 2016. Exogenous enzymes supplementation of distillers dried grains with solubles based diets modulates the activity of digestive enzyme and microbiota in turbot (Scophthalmus maximus l.) juveniles.". Paper presented in Aquaculture Europe 2016 Conference (Edinburgh, Scotland)., 2016.
  55. Serra, Cláudia. "S. Jorge*, P. Enes, C. R. Serra, A. Oliva-Teles and A. Couto. 2016. Effect of microalgae in Sparus aurata (gilthead seabream) diets.". Paper presented in Aquaculture Europe 2016 Conference (Edinburgh, Scotland)., 2016.
  56. Serra, Cláudia. "Rafaela A. Santos*, André Couto, Aires Oliva-Teles, Maria José Saavedra, Paula Enes and Cláudia R. Serra. 2016. Fish gut sporeformers to control fish diseases.". Paper presented in IMMR-International Meeting on Marine Research 2016 (Peniche, Portugal)., 2016.
  57. Serra, Cláudia. "S. Moutinho, C. R. Serra, A. Oliva-Teles, M. Jover Cerdá, S. Martínez-Llorens, H. Peres. 2016. Potential use of meat and boné meal in diets for gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata) juveniles.". Paper presented in 17th International Symposium on Fish Nutrition and Feeding (Sun Valley Resort, Idaho, USA)., 2016.
  58. Serra, Cláudia. "Calisto*, Rita S.; Graça, Ana P.; Serra, Claúdia R.; Fontes, Natacha; Graça, António R.; Lage, Olga M. 2016. The study of grape bacterial community.". Paper presented in Meeting of Junior Research from Porto University – IJUP 2016 (Porto, Portugal)., 2016.
  59. Luz, Tiago; Couto, Ana; Serra, Cláudia; Oliva-Teles, Aires; Enes, Paula. "Potential of novel probiotics isolated from fish gut microbiota for improving plant feedstuffs utilization and gut homeostasis in white sea bream Diplodus sargus juveniles". Paper presented in Aquaculture Europe 2016, 2016.
  60. Santos, Rafaela; Couto, André; Lavrador, Ana S.; Oliva-Teles, Aires; Enes, Paula ; Serra, Cláudia. "Snack for fish: sporeformers and their natural antimicrobial compounds as a knowledgeable approach to control fish diseases". Paper presented in Aquaculture Europe 2016 Conference, 2016.
  61. Almeida, Eduarda; Serra, Claudia R.; Albuquerque, Pedro; Guerreiro, Inês; Oliva-Teles, Aires; Fernando Manuel dos Santos Tavares. "Species specific-DNA markers for culture-independent detection and quantification of Bacillus licheniformis in fish gut". Paper presented in FEMS 2015 - 6th Congress of European Microbiologists, 2015.
  62. Serra, Cláudia. "E. Almeida, C. Serra, P. Albuquerque, I. Guerreiro, A. Oliva-Teles, P. Enes, F. Tavares*. Species specific DNA-markers for culture-independent detection and quantification of Bacillus licheniformis in fish gut". Paper presented in 6th Congress of European Microbiologists - FEMS 2015 (Maastricht, The Netherlands)., 2015.
  63. Serra, Cláudia. "C.R. Serra*, I. Guerreiro, E. Almeida, F. Tavares, A. Oliva-Teles, P. Enes. 2014. Screening for Bacillus species from European Sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) gut microbiota capable of improving plant feedstuffs utilization.". Paper presented in Aquaculture Europe 2014 Conference (Donostia, San Sebastian, Spain)., 2014.
  64. Serra, Cláudia. "A.Couto*, C. Castro, A. Pérez-Jiménez, P. Diaz-Rosales, C. Serra, A. Oliva-Teles. 2014. Vegetable Oil in European Sea Bass diets: effects on digestive enzymes and intestinal histomorphology.". Paper presented in Aquaculture Europe 2014 Conference (Donostia, San Sebastian, Spain)., 2014.
  65. Serra, Cláudia. "Carolina Castro*, Amalia Peréz-Jiménez, Filipe Coutinho, Patricia Díaz-Rosales, Cláudia Serra, Helena Peres, and Aires Oliva-Teles. 2014. Dietary carbohydrates and lipid source affect oxidative status of European Sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) juveniles.". Paper presented in Aquaculture Europe 2014 Conference (Donostia, San Sebastian, Spain)., 2014.
  66. Couto, Ana; Castro, Carolina; Pérez-Jiménez, Amália; Díaz-Rosales, Patrícia; Serra, Cláudia; Oliva-Teles, Aires. "Vegetable oil in european sea bass diets: effects on digestive enzymes and intestinal histomorphology". Paper presented in Aquaculture Europe 2014, 2014.
  67. Serra, Cláudia. "Cláudia R. Serra*, Ghislain Schyns, José Pereira-Leal, Patrick Fickers, Sébastien Potot, Teresa Barbosa, Bastien Chevreux, Antoine de Saizieu, John B. Perkins, Markus Wyss, Adriano O. Henriques. 2011. Biology of an undomesticated gut strain of Bacillus subtilis: from genome to probiosis.". Paper presented in III Jornadas Nacionais de Genética e Biotecnologia, UTAD (Vila Real, Portugal)., 2011.
  68. Serra, Cláudia. "Cláudia R. Serra* and Adriano O. Henriques. 2009. Increased activity of the phosphorelay triggers sporulation during growth in a gut strain of Bacillus subtilis. Poster presentation S4/P383.". Paper presented in National Congress of Microbiology and Biotechnology, MICRO-BIOTEC 09 (Vilamoura, Portugal)., 2009.
  69. Serra, Cláudia. "Ghislain Schyns, José Pereira-Leal, Cláudia R. Serra*, Patrick Fickers, Sébastien Potot, Teresa Barbosa, Bastien Chevreux, Antoine de Saizieu, John B. Perkins, Markus Wyss, Adriano O. Henriques. 2009. The genome of a gut strain of Bacillus subtilis: molecular insights into a bi-phasic life cycle and the mechanisms of probiosis.". Paper presented in National Congress of Microbiology and Biotechnology, MICRO-BIOTEC 09, 2009.
  70. Serra, Cláudia. "Schyns, G., Serra, C. R., Potot, S., Barbosa, T. M., Chevreux, B., Rodriguez, S., de Saizieu, A., Perkins, J. B., Wyss, M., and Henriques*, A. O. 2007. The genome of an undomesticated, probiotic strain of Bacillus subtilis (BSP1). Poster presentation S4/P40.". Paper presented in National Congress of Microbiology and Biotechnology, MICRO-BIOTEC XXXIII JPG 2007 (Lisboa, Portugal)., 2007.
  71. Serra, Cláudia. "Cláudia R. Serra*, Teresa M. Barbosa, Ashlee M. Earl, and Adriano O. Henriques. 2007. High level sporulation during growth of a gut isolate of Bacillus subtilis. Poster presentation P82.". Paper presented in 4th Conference on Functional Genomics of Gram-Positive Microorganisms / 14th International Conference on Bacilli (Tirrenia, Pisa, Italy)., 2007.
  72. Serra, Cláudia. "Serra*, C. R., Barbosa, T. M. and Henriques, A. O.. 2005. Regulatory circuits involved in the initiation of spore development in undomesticated Bacillus subtilis. Poster presentation P45.". Paper presented in National Congress of Microbiology and Biotechnology, MICRO´05-BIOTEC´05 (Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal,)., 2005.
  73. Serra, Cláudia. "Cláudia R. Serra*, Teresa M. Barbosa, and Adriano O. Henriques. 2004. The initiation of sporulation in undomesticated Bacillus subtilis. Poster presentation PG9.". Paper presented in XIV National Congress of Biochemistry (Vilamoura, Portugal,)., 2004.
  74. Serra, Cláudia. "Barbosa*, T. M., C. R. Serra, and A. O. Henriques. 2003. Bacillus spores as animal feed additives: unravelling the mechanisms for their protective effects. . Poster presentation F28.". Paper presented in National Congress of Microbiology - MICRO´2003 (Tomar, Portugal,), 2003.
Journal article
  1. Ferreira, Marta; Ramos-Oliveira, Catarina; Magalhães, Rui; Martins, Nicole; Serra, Cláudia R.; Salgado, José Manuel; Belo, Isabel; Oliva-Teles, A.; Peres, Helena. "Effects of solid-state fermentation of Gelidium corneum by-product on immune status and gut microbiota in European seabass". Animal Feed Science and Technology 324 (2025): 116332. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anifeedsci.2025.116332.
    10.1016/j.anifeedsci.2025.116332
  2. Vicente-Gil, Samuel; Nogales-Mérida, Silvia; Gonçalves, Gabriela; Serra, Cláudia R.; Ordás, M. Camino; Tafalla, Carolina; Díaz-Rosales, Patricia. "The oral delivery of Bacillus subtilis spores modulates skin and intestinal mucus responses in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)". Aquaculture Reports 37 (2024): 102253. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aqrep.2024.102253.
    10.1016/j.aqrep.2024.102253
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  61. Potot, S.; Serra, C. R.; Henriques, A. O.; Schyns, G.. "Display of Recombinant Proteins on Bacillus subtilis Spores, Using a Coat-Associated Enzyme as the Carrier". Applied and Environmental Microbiology 76(17): 5926-5933. (Impact Factor: 3.686; SJR Quartile Q1 in Applied Microbiology & Biotechnology). (2010): http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/aem.01103-10.
    10.1128/aem.01103-10
  62. Tam, N. K. M.; Uyen, N. Q.; Hong, H. A.; Duc, L. H.; Hoa, T. T.; Serra, C. R.; Henriques, A. O.; Cutting, S. M.. "The Intestinal Life Cycle of Bacillus subtilis and Close Relatives". Journal of Bacteriology 188 (7): 2692–2700. (Impact Factor: 3.993; SJR Quartile Q1 in Microbiology). (2006): http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/jb.188.7.2692-2700.2006.
    10.1128/jb.188.7.2692-2700.2006
  63. Barbosa, T. M.; Serra, C. R.; La Ragione, R. M.; Woodward, M. J.; Henriques, A. O.. "Screening for Bacillus Isolates in the Broiler Gastrointestinal Tract". Applied and Environmental Microbiology 71(2):968-78. (Impact Factor: 3.818; SJR Quartile Q1 in Applied Microbiology & Biotechnology) (2005): http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/aem.71.2.968-978.2005.
    10.1128/aem.71.2.968-978.2005
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Serra, Cláudia. "Biology and applications of an undomesticated gut strain of Bacillus subtilis. PhD Thesis in Biology". PhD, 2013.

Intellectual property

Licensing patent rights
  1. 2018. "Aquaculture Probiotics with EPICORE BIONETWORKS, Inc. Defining a know-how license and commercialization agreement related to 3 bacterial strains with anti-pathogenic activity; the primary purpose of which is ultimately developed a product or a family of products including the strains (alone or combined) and commercialize them through EPICORE well-established company and its affiliates.". United States.
    Assigned
Patent
  1. Oliveira, Paulo; Matinha-Cardoso, Jorge; Lima, Steeve; Serra, Claudia R.; Coutinho, Filipe; Oliva-Teles, Aires. 2023. "GreenNanoVax: Protein Carrier System Based On Cyanobacterial Nano-Sized Extracellular Vesicles". Portugal.
    Granted/Issued
  2. Serra, Cláudia. 2018. "SERRA, C., Oliva-Teles, A., Tavares, F.,Enes, P. 2019. Sporeforming probiotic strains, methods and uses thereof. Worlwide Patent Application PCT/IB2019/059131 - WO/2020/084565. Applicants: CIIMAR - Centro Interdisciplinar De Investigação Marinha E Ambiental, Universidade Do Porto".
  3. Serra, Cláudia. 2008. "Adriano O. Henriques, Cláudia A. R. SERRA and Ghislain Schyns. 2008. PROBIOTIC: New probiotic strain, where the genome comprises a polynucleotide encoding a protein involved into probiotic behavior, useful in the production of animal feed, functional food, and non-food preparations: Worlwide Patent Application PCT/EP2008/001892 WO2008110325-A2; WO2008110325-A3. DSM Nutritional Products Ltd, DSM".
Provisional application for patent
  1. 2022. "GreenNanoVax: PROTEIN CARRIER SYSTEM BASED ON CYANOBACTERIAL NANO-SIZED EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES".
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/10 Guttuso, P., Santos, R.A., Pousão-Ferreira, P., SERRA, C.R., Oliva-Teles, A., Guerreiro, I. 2023. Effect of oilseed ingredients on growth and appetite regulation in gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata). SOFAS 2023 - International Symposium on Fisheries and Aquatic Science. (Trabzon, Turkey). International Symposium on Fisheries and Aquatic Science
2023/09 Guttuso, P., Santos, R.A., Pousão-Ferreira, P., de Carvalho, N.M., Madureira, A.R., SERRA, C.R., Oliva-Teles, A., Guerreiro, I. 2023. Effect of diets with different non-starch polysaccharides profiles on gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata) growth and appetite regulation. AquaImprove 7th Aquaculture Research Workshop. (Matosinhos, Portugal). AquaImprove 7th Aquaculture Research Workshop
2023/09 (INVITED) Claudia R. SERRA.2023. Bacterial spores as a platform for production of novel oral viral vaccines. Invited Speaker at the Workshop “Research Milestones and Future plans on Fish Health management” organized by AQUATRECK- New Technology Vaccines Company, BUSINESS MEETING ROOM 1, MESSE WIEN EXHIBITION AND CONGRESS CENTER. September 19, 2023 (Vienna, Austria). Research Milestones and Future plans on Fish Health management
2023/03/08 (INVITED) Claudia R. SERRA. 2023. Os microorganismos esporulantes como solução para os problemas da aquacultura. Biologia ao fim da Tarde. March 8, 2023. FCUP (Porto, Portugal).
2023/03/01 Claudia R. SERRA., 2023. Bacterial sporeformers as weapons against aquaculture diseases. MicroHub.. i3S. March 1, 2023 (Porto , Portugal)
2022/09 Docando, F., Núñez-Ortiz, N., Gonçalves, G., SERRA, Cláudia R., Gómez-Casado, E., Abós, B., Arense, P., Oliva-Teles, A., Tafalla, C., Díaz Rosales, P. “Bacillus subtilis spores as a combined adjuvant-delivery system for new generation vaccines in aquacultre”. BioAqua 2022, Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Cuba, 2022. BioAqua 2022, Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology,
2022/08 Gonçalves, G. C., Santos, R. A., Pedrosa, N., Coutinho, F., Machado, M., Costas, B., Bonneville, L., Serrano, M., Carvalho, A. P., Díaz-Rosales, P., Oliva-Teles, A., Couto, A., SERRA, C. R. 2022. ProbioVaccine: novel oral vaccines using Bacillus subtilis spores as antigen-displaying vehicles. Microsummit 2022 (Porto, Portugal). Microsummit 2022
2022/06 Gonçalves, G. C., Santos, R. A., Coutinho, F., Machado, M., Costas, B., Bonneville, L., Serrano, M., Carvalho, A. P., Díaz-Rosales, P., Oliva-Teles, A., Couto, A., SERRA, C. R. 2022. Potencial dos esporos de Bacillus subtilis como veículos de vacinação oral contra vibriose em aquacultura. Congresso Internacional em língua portuguesa Microbiologia 2022- Microbiologia 2022- Online event.. Congresso Internacional em língua portuguesa Microbiologia 2022
2021/10 Santos, R.A., Mariz-Ponte, N., Martins, N., Jerusik, R., Saavedra, M.J., Oliva-Teles, A., Peres, H., Carvalho, A.P., Santos, C., SERRA, C.R.,2021. Quorum-Quenching Bacillus spp. protect fish from Edwardsiella tarda infection and modulate the immune system of gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata). Aquaculture Europe 2021 Conference (Madeira, Portugal). Aquaculture Europe 2021 Conference
2021/10 Gonçalves, G., Santos, R.A., Carvalho, A.P., Machado, M., Bonneville, L., Costas, B., Serrano, M., Couto, A., Tafalla, C., D az-Rosales, P., Coutinho, F., Oliva-Teles, A., SERRA, C.R., 2021. Bacillus subtilis spores are efficient vehicles for vaccination of fish against vibriosis. Aquaculture Europe 2021 Conference (Madeira, Portugal). Aquaculture Europe 2021 Conference
2021/10 Rangel, F., Santos, R.A., Monteiro, M., Gasco, L., Gai, F., Oliva Teles, M., Enes, P., Serra, C.R., 2021. Isolation of putative probiotics with chitin-metabolizing abilities from European seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax) gut microbiota. Aquaculture Europe 2021 Conference (Madeira, Portugal). Aquaculture Europe 2021 Conference
2021/10 Coutinho F., Cardoso, J., Lima, S., Gonçalves, G., Boneville, L. Serrano., M. Oliva-Teles, A., Tamagnini, P., P. Oliveira. SERRA, C.R. 2021.Evaluation of cyanobacterial extracellular vesicles as as antigen delivery-platforms for fish. Aquaculture Europe 2021 Conference (Madeira, Portugal). Aquaculture Europe 2021 Conference
2021/09 (INVITED) Claudia R. SERRA: Personalized Solutions for Aquaculture: building Bridges between Industry and Research. II Encontro Universidade Empresa.
2021 Gon alves, G., Santos, R.A., Carvalho, A.P., Machado, M., Costas, B., Bonneville, L., Serrano, M., Couto, A., Tafalla, C., D az-Rosales, P., Coutinho, F., Oliva-Teles, A., SERRA, C.R., 2021. Bacillus subtilis spores displaying an immunogenic protein are efficient oral vaccines against vibriosis. Animal health symposium (Matosinhos, Portugal). Animal health symposium
2020/12/07 Cardoso, J., Coutinho F., Lima, S., Cardoso, C., Oliva-Teles, A., Tamagnini, P., SERRA, C., P. Oliveira 2020. Cyanobacterial extracellular vesicles as a promising technology for modulating fish immunology. 2020 Virtual Forum of the UK society for Extracellular Vesicles (UKEV). December 7-8, 2020
2020/11/06 F. Rangel, R. A. Santos, M. Monteiro, A. Oliva Teles, P. Enes, C. R. SERRA, 2020. Isolation of potential probiotics from European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) gut microbiota for improving insect meal utilization. 5th Aquaimprove Workshop, 6th Nov 2020, CIIMAR (Matosinhos, Portugal)
2020/11/06 Gonçalves, G., Santos, R., Carvalho, A. P., Gomez-Casado, E., Diaz-Rosales, P., Piñeiro, C.T., Oliva-Teles, A., Coutinho, F., SERRA, C.R. 2020. Probiotic Bacillusspores as antigen delivery vehicles: towards the development of oral vaccines for aquaculture. 5th AQUAIMPROVE - Aquaculture Research Workshop. November 6, 2020. CIIMAR (Matosinhos, Portugal)
2020/09/17 Rafaela A. Santos, Liliane Ferrador, Aires Oliva-Teles, Maria J. Saavedra, Paula Enes, Cláudia R. SERRA. 2020. Fish-gut Bacillus spp. harbour promising Quorum-Quenching molecules to control aquaculture bacterial pathogens. Blue Think Conference: Share Science, Spread Knowledge 2020, 17th September2 CIIMAR (Matosinhos, Portugal).
2020/09/17 F. Rangel, R. A. Santos, M. Monteiro, A. Oliva Teles, P. Enes, C. R. SERRA, 2020. Isolation of chitinolytic bacteria from the gut microbiota of European sea bass fed with insect meals. Blue Think Conference : Share Science, Spread Knowledge 2020, 17th September 2020, CIIMAR, (Matosinhos, Portugal).
2020 Santos, R.A., Ferrador, L., Oliva-Teles, A., Saavedra, M.J., Enes, P., Serra, C.R., 2020. Fish-gut Bacillus spp. harbour promising Quorum-Quenching molecules to control aquaculture bacterial pathogens. Blue Think Conference: Share Science, Spread Knowledge (Matosinhos, Portugal). Blue Think Conference: Share Science, Spread Knowledge
2019/02/27 (INVITED) Cláudia R. Serra*. Microbiota intestinal de peixes: importância no desenvolvimento sustentável da aquacultura Jornadas de Biologia - Evento Ciência e Cidadania da UTAD
UTAD (Vila Real, Portugal)
2019 A. S. Lavrador*, I. Guerreiro, F. Coutinho, C. Castro, A. Couto, H. Peres, P. Pousão-Ferreira, E. Matos, A. Oliva Teles, P. Enes, C. R. Serra. 2019. Black Soldier Fly (Hermetia illucens) meal as a fish meal substitute in diets for meagre (Argyrosomus regius): effects on gut microbiota. Meeting of Junior Research from Porto University – IJUP 2018 (Porto, Portugal).
2019 B. Antunes*, I. Guerreiro, F. Coutinho, F. Rangel, C. Castro, A. Couto, C. R. Serra, H. Peres, P. Pousão-Ferreira, E. Matos, A. Oliva Teles, P. Enes. 2019. Black Soldier Fly Hermetia illucens meal as fish meal substitute in diets for meagre Argyrosomus regius. Meeting of Junior Research from Porto University – IJUP 2018 (Porto, Portugal).
2019 R.A. Santos, A. Oliva-Teles, M.J. Saavedra, P. Enes and C.R. SERRA*. 2019. The bioactive potential of fish-gut Bacillus to prevent aquaculture fish diseases. 19th International Conference on Diseases of Fish and Shellfish 2019 (Porto, Portugal). 19th International Conference on Diseases of Fish and Shellfish 2019
(Porto, Portugal)
2019 (KEYNOTE) Claudia R. Serra. 2019. Microbial Strategies for Health & Welfare in Aquaculture. Plenary Lecture. AQUAIMPROVE 4th Aquaculture Research Workshop. Nobember 29. (Matosinhos, Portugal).
2018/10/03 Cláudia R. Serra*. SNACk for Fish: Next Generation Fish Probiotics. Pitch at Agora - My BlueCity BioMarine Business Convention 2018 (Cascais, Portugal)
2018/04/06 (KEYNOTE) Cláudia R. Serra*. Fish Gut Microbiota: selective manipulation to improve fish digestive capacity, immunity and disease resistance XX Congresso de Zootecnia- ZOOTEC 2018
UTAD (Vila Real, Portugal)
2018/02/14 (INVITED) Cláudia R. Serra* & Paula Enes. ProZyme: Next Generation Fish Probiotics, In&Out sessions
Porto Design Factory (Porto, Portugal)
2018 A.S. Lavrador, A. Oliva-Teles, A. Couto, C.R. Serra. 2018. Molecular tools for labelling and monitoring Bacillus subtilis probiotics in vivo. 3rd AquaImprove-Aquaculture Research Workshop, CIIMAR December 18, (Matosinhos, Portugal).
2018 Monteiro, M, Santos, RA, Couto, A, Serra, CR, Gouvinhas, I, Barros, A, Oliva-Teles, A, Enes, P, Díaz-Rosales, P. 2018. Effect of extraction method and solvent system on the phenolic content and antioxidant activity of selected macro- and microalgae extracts. 3rd AquaImprove-Aquaculture Research Workshop, CIIMAR December 18, (Matosinhos, Portugal)
2018 R. A. Santos, A. Oliva-Teles, M.J. Saavedra, P. Enes and C.R. Serra. 2018. Bacillus spp. as source of Natural Antimicrobial Compounds to control aquaculture bacterial fish pathogens. Doi: 10.3389/conf.FMARS.2018.06.00129 IMMR-International Meeting on Marine Research 2018 (Peniche, Portugal).
2017/03/24 (INVITED) Cláudia R. Serra*. What can bacterial spores do for aquaculture fish? Oceanus Seminar Series
CIIMAR (Porto, Portugal)
2017 Rafaela A. Santos*, Aires Oliva-Teles, Maria José Saavedra, Paula Enes and Cláudia R. Serra. 2017. Bacillus spp. as an effective strategy to inhibit bacterial fish pathogens. 2nd AquaImprove-Aquaculture Research Workshop, CIIMAR March 17, (Porto, Portugal).
2017 Rafaela A. Santos*, Aires Oliva-Teles, Maria José Saavedra, Paula Enes and Cláudia R. Serra. 2017. Fish commensals to control fish pathogens: Bacillus and their Natural Antimicrobial Compounds (NACs). Meeting of Junior Research from Porto University – IJUP 2017 (Porto, Portugal).
2016/06/17 (INVITED) Cláudia R. Serra*. What can spores do for fish? More than you think! Seminars in Biodiversity and Evolution
CIBIO-Inbio (Porto, Portugal).
2016 Cláudia R. Serra*, I. Guerreiro, E. Almeida, R.A. Santos, F. Tavares, A. Oliva-Teles and P. Enes. Diversity of sporeformers associated with European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) juveniles fed plant-based diets: towards selection of carbohydrate-active probiotics. Aquaculture Europe 2016 Conference (Edinburgh, Scotland).
2016 Rafaela A. Santos*, Aires Oliva-Teles, Maria José Saavedra, Paula Enes and Cláudia R. Serra. 2016. Fish gut sporeformers to control fish pathogens: Bacillus and their Natural Antimicrobial Compounds. X Jornadas da Biologia 2016 (Vila Real, Portugal).
2015/12/12 (INVITED) Cláudia R. Serra*. Fish gut microbiota modulation by dietary manipulations AquaImprove- 1st Aquaculture Research Workshop
CIIMAR-UP
2015 Patrícia H. Brito*, Bastien Chevreux, Cláudia Serra, Ghislain Schyns, Adriano O. Henriques, José B. Pereira-Leal. 2015. Genomic dynamics in Bacillus subtilis, patterns of niche adaptation and domestication. 2015. 8th International Conference on Gram-Positive Microorganisms / 18th International Conference on Bacilli (Montecatini Terme, Tuscany, Italy).
2011 Ghislain Schyns*, Aurelie Brelin, Cláudia R. Serra, Christopher Zschiedrich, Nicolas Pizzato, Sebastien Potot, and Adriano O. Henriques. Learning from probiotics to improve availability of feed enzymes. 2011. 6th International Conference on Gram-Positive Microorganisms / 16th International Conference on Bacilli (Montecatini Terme, Tuscany, Italy).
2010 (INVITED) Cláudia R. Serra*. Diversity and applications of bacterial spores Conferences Cicle on Biodiversity
Universidade Lusófona (Lisboa, Portugal).
2009/05/06 (INVITED) Cláudia R. Serra*. A versatilidade do Engenheiro zootécnico: da zootecnia à ciência fundamental. XVIII Congresso de Zootecnia – ZOOTEC2009
UTAD (Vila Real, Portugal).
2009 Cláudia R. Serra* and Adriano O. Henriques. Increased activity of the phosphorelay triggers sporulation during growth in a gut strain of Bacillus subtilis. ITQB PhD Seminar (Oeiras, Portugal)
2009 14. Sébastien Potot*, Adriano O. Henriques, Cláudia R. Serra and Ghislain Schyns. 2009. Bacillus subtilis spore display of recombinant proteins using a coat associated enzyme as carrier. 5th International Conference on Gram-Positive Microorganisms / 15th International Conference on Bacilli (San Diego, California, USA).
2008 Ghislain Schyns*, José Pereira-Leal, Cláudia R. Serra, Sébastien Potot, Teresa M. Barbosa, Bastien Chevreux, Sabrina Rodriguez, Antoine de Saizieu, John B. Perkins, Markus Wyss, and Adriano O. Henriques. 2008. The genome of an undomesticated, probiotic strain of Bacillus subtilis (BSP1). 3rd European Spores Conference (Naples, Italy).
2007 Ghislain Schyns*, Cláudia R. Serra, Sébastien Potot, Bastien Chevreux, Sabrina Rodriguez, Antoine de Saizieu, John B. Perkins, Markus Wyss, and Adriano O. Henriques. 2007. Genome blueprint of an undomesticated Bacillus subtilis strain (BSP1) for probiotic use in feed. 4th Conference on Functional Genomics of Gram-Positive Microorganisms / 14th International Conference on Bacilli (Tirrenia, Pisa, Italy). Oral presentation T78.
2004 Barbosa*, T., C. R. Serra, and A. O. Henriques. 2004. Gut Sporeformers. EMBO Conference, Molecular Microbiology: exploring prokaryotic diversity (Heidelberg, Germany).
2002 A.W. Jongbloed, Cláudia R. Serra*, J. Th. M. van Diepen and M. Krimpen. 2002. Long term effects of feeding both antimicrobials and high copper levels or none, and their withdrawal in-between, on pigs performance from weaning to slaughter in a very healthy herd. 27th Annual Meeting of Dutch Young Researchers of Nutrition, (Lelystad, The Netherlands). 27th Annual Meeting of Dutch Young Researchers of Nutrition, (Lelystad, The Netherlands).

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2024/11/01 - Current November 2024-Present Supervisor of the PhD student Bárbara Alexandra Gaspar Guedes. PhD Project: “SporoVaccines: Exploring the potential of ProbioSpores as Oral Vaccines for Aquaculture”. University of Porto (www.fc.up.pt ), Porto, Portugal. Doctoral Program in Biology. FCT funded PhD grant 2024.01523.BD.
Supervisor
 Doctoral Program in Biology (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2024/11/01 - Current November 2024-Present Supervisor of the PhD student Miguel António Pinho de Castro. PhD Project: “AquaGrape: grape extracts as novel antimicrobials to prevent the use of antibiotics in aquaculture”. University of Porto (www.fc.up.pt ), Porto, Portugal. Doctoral Program in Biology. FCT funded PhD grant 2024.03488.BD.
Supervisor
 Doctoral Program in Biology (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2024/07/01 - Current July 2024 – Present Supervisor of the master’s student Mariana Rebelo Trigo. Project: Genomic and phenotypic characterization of a newly isolated and virulent Vibrio harveyi strain: towards selection of biocontrol targets. Master’s Degree in Applications in Biotechnology and Synthetic Biology, Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto (www.fc.up.pt), Porto, Portugal.
Supervisor
 Master’s Degree in Applications in Biotechnology and Synthetic Biology (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2024/07/01 - Current Supervisor of the master’s student José Diogo Moreira Dias. Project: Establishing Novel Oral ProbioVaccines against Mycobacteriosis. Master’s Degree in Biological Aquatic Resources, Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto (www.fc.up.pt), Porto, Portugal.
Supervisor
 Master’s Degree in Biological Aquatic Resources (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2023/09 - Current Supervisor of the master’s student Ricardo Daniel Coelho Couto. Project: ProBioChit – Spores of Probiotics as carriers of Chitinases for improved insect meal utilization in aquaculture fish. Master’s degree in applications in Biotechnology and Synthetic Biology, Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
Supervisor of Ricardo Daniel Coelho Couto
 Aplicações em Biotecnologia e Biologia Sintética (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2023/09 - Current Supervisor of the master’s student Maria Carolina Patrício de Oliveira. Project: Characterization of Bacillus EVs potential as vaccine delivery vehicles. Master’s degree in applications in Biotechnology and Synthetic Biology, Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
Supervisor of Maria Carolina Patrício de Oliveira
 Aplicações em Biotecnologia e Biologia Sintética (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2023/09 - Current Co-Supervisor of the master’s student Rodrigo Oliveira. Project: Exploring Bacillus spp. bioactive compounds as a novel strategy to prevent fish bacterial infections. Master’s degree in applications in Biotechnology and Synthetic Biology, Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
Co-supervisor of Rodrigo Oliveira
 Aplicações em Biotecnologia e Biologia Sintética
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2023/09 - Current Supervisor of the Biology Graduation student Tomás da Silva Coelho Gabriel. Project: Raise ProbioVaccines specific antibodies: towards selection of spores-based oral vaccines for aquaculture. Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto (www.fc.up.pt), Porto, Portugal.
Supervisor of Tomás da Silva Coelho Gabriel
 Bioquímica (Degree)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2022/11/01 - Current November 2022-Present Co-Supervisor of the PhD student Jorge Alexandre Ferreira Matinha Cardoso. PhD Project: "OralVax4Fish: a green, sustainable and nano-sized antigen-delivery platform for Oral Vaccination of European seabass”. University of Porto (www.fc.up.pt ), Porto, Portugal. Doctoral Program in Molecular and Cell Biology. FCT funded PhD grant 2022.11873.BD.
Co-supervisor
 Doctoral Program in Molecular and Cell Biology (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
2022/09/01 - Current Supervisor of the Biology Graduation student José Dias. Project: Establishment of the polyvalent nature of a newly developed vaccine for aquaculture. Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto, (www.fc.up.pt), Porto, Portugal.
Supervisor
 Biologia (Degree)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2022/09/01 - Current Supervisor of the Master student Joana Sousa. Dissertation Project: Novel grape functional extracts to prevent antibiotic use in European seabass aquaculture. Master ´s Degree in Biological Aquatic Resources, Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto (www.fc.up.pt).
Supervisor
 Biological Aquatic Resources (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2022/01 - Current Co-supervisor of the PhD student Catarina Aluai Cunha . PhD Project: Investigation of tumour and gut microbiota in dogs with mast cell neoplasms and its relationship with the immune response and patient survival. Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar (ICBAS-UP), University of Porto (www.fc.up.pt), Porto, Portugal. Doctoral Program in Veterinary Sciences. FCT funded PhD grant 2021.08598.BD.
Co-supervisor
 Ciências Veterinárias (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
2021/10 - Current Co-Supervisor of the PhD student Paolo Guttuso. PhD Project: Appetite regulation in gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata): microbiota-gut-brain axis interplay. University of Porto (www.fc.up.pt), Porto, Portugal. Doctoral Program in Biology. FCT funded PhD grant 2021.05635.BD.
Co-supervisor
 Biologia (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2021/10 - Current Supervisor of the PhD student Gabriela Catarina Chaves Gonçalves. PhD Project: "ProbioVaccine ¿Probiotics as novel platforms of oral vaccines delivery for Aquaculture. University of Porto (www.fc.up.pt), Porto, Portugal. Doctoral Program in Biology. FCT funded PhD grant 2021.07724.BD,
Supervisor
 Biologia (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2019/09 - Current Supervisor of the Biology Graduation student Liliane Miguel Dias Pinto Ferrador. Project: Quorum-Quenching genomic potential of fish gut sporeformers. Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto (www.fc.up.pt), Porto, Portugal.
Supervisor
 Biology (Degree)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2018/09/01 - Current Co-Supervisor of the PhD student Fábio Jorge Oliveira Rangel. PhD Project: Novel probiotics isolated from European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) gut microbiota for improving insect meal utilization and gut health. University of Porto (www.fc.up.pt), Porto, Portugal. Doctoral Program in Biology. FCT funded PhD grant SFRH/BD/138375/2018.
Co-supervisor of Fábio Jorge Oliveira Rangel
 Biologia (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2018/09/01 - Current Aquaculture Microbiota Diversity: seasonality of water-fish interaction
Supervisor of Rúben Tiago Mota Martins
 Biologia (Degree)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2018/01/01 - Current Co-Supervisor of the PhD student Carla Sofia Rodrigues Teixeira. PhD Project: Gut health improvement in fish and shrimp through fortified diets: focus on inflammatory condition, immune status and microbiota diversity, under the SANFEED Program (Sustainable Animal Nutrition and Feeding), a Doctoral ANIMAL SCIENCE Program in an INDUSTRIAL SETTING funded by FCT(PD/BDE/135541/2018).
Co-supervisor of Carla Sofia Rodrigues Teixeira
 SANFEED Program (Sustainable Animal Nutrition and Feeding) (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
2022/09 - 2033/12 Co-Supervisor of the master’s student Catarina Maio Nunes. Project: Development of molecular tolls for pathogens detection in aquaculture. Master’s Degree in Biological Aquatic Resources, Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
Co-supervisor of Catarina Maio Nunes
 Recursos Biológicos Aquáticos (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2022/09 - 2033/12 Co-Supervisor of the master’s student Pedro Lages. Project: Novel probiotics isolated from fish gut microbiota for improving plant feedstuffs utilization, and gut health of carnivorous fish species. Master’s Degree in Biological Aquatic Resources, Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
Co-supervisor of Pedro Lages
 Recursos Biológicos Aquáticos (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2023/02/06 - 2033/07/04 Supervisor of Biochemistry Graduation student João Alexandre Ferreira Almeida. Project: ''Establishment of Fish Bacterial Infection Models using Zebrafish Larvae ''. Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto, (www.fc.up.pt), Porto, Portugal.
Supervisor
 Bioquímica (Degree)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2018/01/01 - 2022/05 Supervisor of the PhD student Rafaela Alcina Araújo dos Santos. PhD Project: Sporeformers Quorum-Quenching Molecules for Fish Bacterial diseases control. University of Porto (www.fc.up.pt), Porto, Portugal. Doctoral Program in Biology. FCT funded PhD grant SFRH/BD/131069/2017.
Supervisor of Rafaela Alcina Araújo dos Santos
 Biologia (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2020/09 - 2021/09 Supervisor of the Master student Neide Esperança Pedrosa. Dissertation Project: Using probiotic Bacillus spores as vaccines against photobacteriosis. Master ´s Degree in Applications in Biotechnology and Synthetic Biology, Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto (www.fc.up.pt).
Supervisor
 Aplicações em Biotecnologia e Biologia Sintética (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2019/09/01 - 2020/12/18 Supervisor of the Master student Gabriela Catarina Chaves Gonçalves. Dissertation Project: Probiotic Bacillus spores as antigens delivery vehicles: towards development of oral vaccines for aquaculture. Master ´s Degree in Food Science and Technology, Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto (www.fc.up.pt).
Supervisor
 Food Science and Technology (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2017/09/01 - 2018/12/13 Supervisor of the Master student Ana Sofia Ferreira de Almeida Ramos. Dissertation Project: Exploiting the bioactive potential of microbial small molecules for the development of next generation antimicrobials. Master ´s Degree in Biological Aquatic Resources, Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto (www.fc.up.pt), in collaboration with the BIOMERIT Research Centre (https://www.ucc.ie/en/biomerit/), School of Microbiology, University College Cork, Ireland.
Supervisor of Ana Sofia Ferreira de Almeida Ramos
 Recursos Biológicos Aquáticos (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

University College Cork Department of Microbiology, Ireland
2017/09/01 - 2018/12/13 Supervisor of the Master student Ana Sofia de Castro Lavrador. Dissertation Project: Molecular tools for labelling and monitoring Bacillus subtilis probiotics in vivo. Master ´s Degree in Biological Aquatic Resources, Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto (www.fc.up.pt), Porto, Portugal.
Supervisor of Ana Sofia de Castro Lavrador
 Recursos Biológicos Aquáticos (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2016/09/01 - 2017/06/30 Supervisor of the Biology Graduation student Ana Cláudia Moutinho Gonçalves. Project: Quorum-Quenching for Fish Pathogens Control. Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto (www.fc.up.pt), Porto, Portugal.
Supervisor of Ana Cláudia Moutinho Gonçalves
 Biologia (Degree)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2016/09/01 - 2017/06/30 Co-Supervisor of the Biology Graduation student Pedro Campelos Ribeiro. Project: Potential of novel probiotics screened within European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) gut microbiota for improving plant feedstuffs utilization: effects on growth performance and nutrient digestibility (www.fc.up.pt), Porto, Portugal.
Co-supervisor of Pedro Campelos Ribeiro
 Biologia (Degree)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2015/09/01 - 2016/12/05 Sporeformers and their Natural Antimicrobial Compounds as a knowledgeable approach to control fish diseases
Supervisor of Rafaela Alcina Araújo dos Santo
 Recursos Biológicos Aquáticos (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2015/09/01 - 2016/06/30 Supervisor of the Biology Graduation student Bruno Filipe Pereira de Sousa. Project: Evaluating the impact of feeding habits on Fish Skin Mucus and Gut microbiota: community fingerprinting of important omnivorous (Diplodus sargus) and carnivorous (Sparus aurata) aquaculture fish species. Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto (www.fc.up.pt), Porto, Portugal.
Supervisor of Bruno Filipe Pereira de Sousa
 Biologia (Degree)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2015/09/01 - 2016/06/30 Supervisor of the Biology Graduation student André Couto Cardoso. Project: Fighting fish pathogens with fish commensals: Bacillus and their natural antimicrobial compounds. Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto (www.fc.up.pt), Porto, Portugal.
Supervisor of André Couto Cardoso
 Biologia (Degree)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2015/09/01 - 2016/06/30 Potential of short-chain fructooligosaccharides (FOS), xylooligosaccharides (XOS) and galactooligosaccharides (GOS) in modulating intestinal microbiota of Gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata).
Co-supervisor of Pedro Rafael Martins Vaz
 Biologia (Degree)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2014/09/01 - 2015/06/30 Screening for novel probiotics within the European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) microbiota capable of improving plant feedstuffs utilization
Supervisor of Francisco Vilas Boas Gil
 Biologia (Degree)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2014/09/01 - 2015/06/30 Effect of dietary administration of resveratrol on immune gene response and gut microbiota in turbot (Scophthalmus maximus)
Co-supervisor of Maling Wang
 Biologia (Degree)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2014/09/01 - 2015/06/30 Potential of short-chain fructooligosaccharides (FOS), xylooligosaccharides (XOS) and galactooligosaccharides (GOS) in modulating intestinal microbiota and digestive enzymes in European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax)
Co-supervisor of Cassandra Peixoto
 Biologia (Degree)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2011/06/01 - 2012/02/29 (043/BI-BI/2011). Project (no dissertation associated): Screening the collection of undomesticated sporeformers of the Microbial Development Laboratory (MDL-ITQB), for antagonists of Clostridium perfringens
Co-supervisor of Teresa Maio
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
2008/12/01 - 2009/11/30 Functional analysis of the genes that code for an adhesin for collagen binding and a sortase in a gastrointestinal isolate of Bacillus subtilis
Co-supervisor of Joana Lopes
Biology Student (Research Integration Fellow (BII) at Microbial Development Lab-ITQB (Scientific initiation)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2024/11/16 - 2024/11/16 Microsummit 2024 - pioneering initiative of the Portuguese Society of Microbiology aiming at bridging academia and the business sectors, therefore creating opportunities for strengthening knowledge transfer, co-creation and employment of microbiologists. (2024/11/16 - 2024/11/16)
2024/09/10 - 2024/09/13 CHAIR of the Scientific and Organising Committee of the 3rd International Symposium on Mucosal Health in Aquaculture MHA2024 -( https://mha2024.com ). 10-13 September 2024, CIIMAR, Matosinhos, Portugal. (2024/09/10 - 2024/09/13)
Conference (President of the Organising Committee)
2022/11/25 - 2022/11/25 Microsummit 2022 - pioneering initiative of the Portuguese Society of Microbiology aiming at bridging academia and the business sectors, therefore creating opportunities for strengthening knowledge transfer, co-creation and employment of microbiologists. (2022/11/25)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Portugal
2020/11/06 - 2020/11/06 Organizing Committee of AquaImprove: 5th Aquaculture Research Workshop, CIIMAR, Matosinhos, Portugal. (2020/11/06 - 2020/11/06)
Workshop (Member of the Scientific Committee)
2018/12/18 - 2018/12/18 Organizing Committee of AquaImprove: 3rd Aquaculture Research Workshop, CIIMAR, Matosinhos, Portugal (2018/12/18 - 2018/12/18) Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
2018/10/23 - 2018/10/23 Organizer of Mini-Symposium on Aquaculture: Building Bridges between Industry and Research (2018/10/23 - 2018/10/23)
Symposium
 Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
2017/03/17 - 2017/03/17 Organizing Committee of AquaImprove: 2nd Aquaculture Research Workshop, CIIMAR, Porto, Portugal. (2017/03/17 - 2017/03/17)
2009/07/10 - 2009/07/10 Organizing Comittee of the 1st ITQB´s Institute Day, ITQB NOVA, Oeiras, Portugal. (2009/07/10 - 2009/07/10)
2009/06/19 - 2009/06/19 Organizer of a Science Day for primary school students at Escola Básica de Sá, Agrupamento Vertical de Escolas EB2-3/S de Castelo de Paiva, Portugal. (2009/06/19 - 2009/06/19)
2007/09/01 - 2008/07/31 Organizing Committee of ITQB´s SCANS: Science Conferences at Noon, ITQB NOVA, Oeiras, Portugal. (2007/09/01 - 2008/07/31)
Seminar
2006/01/28 - 2006/01/28 Organizing Committee of the 2nd ITQB´s Open Day, ITQB NOVA, Oeiras, Portugal. (2006/01/28 - 2006/01/28)
2005/01/29 - 2005/01/29 Organizing Committee of the 1st ITQB´s Open Day, ITQB NOVA, Oeiras, Portugal (2005/01/29 - 2005/01/29)

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2019/09/12 - Current Chair of the Prophylaxis Session at the 19th International Conference on Diseases of Fish and Shellfish 2019 (Porto, Portugal).
2019/09/09 - Current Chair of the Nutrition & Health Session at the 19th International Conference on Diseases of Fish and Shellfish 2019 (Porto, Portugal).
2020/10/01 - 2020/11/01 Blue Bio Value 2020 - Acceleration Program for the Blue Bioeconomy promoted by Oceano Azul Foundation and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in collaboration with Fábrica de Startups and Bluebio Alliance. Project: “INNOVTrials: Validating your products”, a project to improve aquaculture products quality by providing fish nutrition consulting, fish trials and laboratory analysis to new products for marine fish.
2018/11/14 - 2018/11/16 Volunteer from CIIMAR at “BUSINESS2SEA-FÓRUM DO MAR 2018: Desafios do Mar 2030”, Centro de Congressos da Alfândega do Porto, Porto, Portugal.
2018/10/17 - 2018/10/17 Chairmen at the thematic conference “Como alavancar o mar enquanto recurso estratégico nacional”, Technological Park Inova.Gaia, Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal.
2018/10/02 - 2018/10/04 Volunteer from CIIMAR at My BlueCity - BioMarine Business Convention 2018, Cascais, Portugal.
2018 - 2018 Born from Knowledge (BfK IDEAS 2018), a Program promoted by the Portuguese Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education, through the National Agency of Innovation, S.A. (ANI) to create new technology-based business, Porto, Portugal.
2018 - 2018 Elixir-Excelerate Workshop on Marine Metagenomics, (35 hours), IGC, Oeiras, Portugal.
2018 - 2018 Business Ignition Program (BIP 2018) promoted by the University of Porto, to create new technology-based business for technologies developed in the academic environment
2017/09/14 - 2017/09/14 Chairmen at IV Workshop Animal Science Doctoral Programme – SANFEED, ICBAS, Porto.
2017 - 2017 OHiTEC 2017: Turning Science into Business, a training program in technology commercialization created by COTEC Portugal - Associação Empresarial para a Inovação, with the support of Caixa Geral de Depósitos and Caixa Capital and held in partnership with the Porto Business School, Nova School of Business and Economics and with the north-american universities of North Carolina State, Brown and Rutgers. 100 hours including: Patents & Landscape; Cold Calling & Market Research; Legal & Financing; Business Plan; Financials; War Stories; Business Developm
2016 - 2016 Animal Cell Technology ESACT Course 2016 – 6th edition, (30 hours), organized by The European Society for Animal Cell Technology in Llafranc, Spain.
2015/11/18 - 2015/11/18 Volunteer from CIIMAR at “Fórum do Mar”, Exponor, Porto, Portugal.
2015/10/01 - 2015/11/06 Volunteer at YScience (www.yscience.pt), organizing several science activities for primary school students, Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal.
2015 - 2015 Proteomics course: gel based protein separation by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis and protein characterization by MALDI-TOF/TOF mass spectrometry, (28 hours), CIIMAR, IPATIMUP, I3S, FCUP, Porto, Portugal.
2013 - 2013 Workshop on Liquid Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS) - General principles and environmental applications (6 hours), MARINNOVA, Porto, Portugal.
2013 - 2013 Curso de Formaçao Profissional: Formação Pedagógica Inicial de Formadores (CAP-Certificado de Aptidão Pedagógica), (99 hours), Comunilog, Bragança, Portugal
2009/01/31 - 2009/01/31 Volunteer at the 5th ITQB´s Open Day, ITQB NOVA, Oeiras, Portugal
2009 - 2009 Workshop on Flow Cytometry (14 hours), IGC, Oeiras, Portugal.
2008/11/23 - 2008/11/23 Volunteer from ITQB NOVA at the “Fórum Ciência Viva 2008”, FIL, Lisboa, Portugal.
2008/02/23 - 2008/02/23 Volunteer at the 4th ITQB´s Open Day, ITQB NOVA, Oeiras, Portugal.
2008 - 2008 Quantitative Image analysis Short Course (16 hours), IGC, Oeiras, Portugal.
2005 - 2005 Advanced course on Flow Cytometry and Microscopy (16 hours), IGC, Oeiras, Portugal.
2004 - 2004 III Course on Laboratory Animal Science (100 hours), organized by CIISA / Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal, in collaboration with the Department of Laboratory Animal Science, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. The course meets the requirements of FELASA level C courses to license persons responsible for directing animal experiments.
2001/09/15 - 2002/07/31 International Livestock Production Course (1 year). Christelijke Agrarische Hogeschool (CAH), Dronten, The Netherlands. The course confers the Title of Ingenieur (Ing.); Bachelor Honours.

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2024/10/07 2024.10.07 – Main Opponent of Diogo Correia Martins. Dissertation: Biology and Interactions of gut anaerobic spore-formers. Doctoral Program in Molecular Biosciences, Specialization in Biology. ITQB-NOVA (https://www.itqb.unl.pt ), NOVA University Lisbon ( https://www.unl.pt ), Lisbon, Portugal.
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Diogo Correia Martins (PhD)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Portugal
2023/12/01 2023.12.01 – Main Opponent of Alba Vázquez Barca. Dissertation: Estudio transcriptómico de Photobacterium damselae subsp. damselae: influencia de la salinidad, identificación de nuevos factores de virulencia y diseño de aplicaciones biotecnológicas. Doutoramento en Avances en Bioloxía Microbiana e Parasitaria. Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (https://www.usc.gal/gl), Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Alba Vázquez Barca. (PhD)
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2023/09/29 2023.09.29 – Main Opponent of João Nuno Alves do Vale Marques. Dissertation: CRISPRi as a tool to improve Synechocystis-based chassis. Master Degree in Functional Biologu and Biotechnology of Plants, Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto (www.fc.up.pt).
(Thesis) Main arguer
 João Nuno Alves do Vale Marques (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2022/12/19 Spore surface display of enzymes used for molecular diagnosis by RT-LAMP. Master degree in Medical Microbiology, New University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal. ( https://www.unl.pt )
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Constança Maria Baptista Machado dos Santos Neves (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal
2022/12/15 Exploring Drosophila suzukii microbiome as a new pest biocontrol tool. Master Course on Molecular and Cellular Biology Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto (www.fc.up.pt).
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Rodrigo Filipe Fernandes Narciso (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2022/12/09 Improve isoprene production in Syechocystis by Downregulating native competitive pathways via RNA interference. Master degree in Synthetic Biology and Biotechnological Applications, Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto (www.fc.up.pt).
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Karen Raquel Galle (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2022/12/06 The role of sigma factors in the formation of bacterial persister cells¿ Master Degree in Synthetic Biology and Biotechnological Applications, Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto (www.fc.up.pt).
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Luisa Lautert Santos (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2022/05/06 Sporeformers Quorum-Quenching Molecules for Fish Bacterial diseases control. University of Porto (www.fc.up.pt), Porto, Portugal. Doctoral Program in Biology. FCT funded PhD grant SFRH/BD/131069/2017.
Supervisor
 Rafaela Alcina Araújo dos Santos (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
2021/12/10 Unveiling the bioactive potential of marine bacteria . Master ´s Degree in Microbiology. University of Aveiro (www.ua.pt).
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Susana Afonso João (Master)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2021/11/17 Using probiotic Bacillus spores as vaccines against photobacteriosis. Master ´s Degree in Applications in Biotechnology and Synthetic Biology, Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto (www.fc.up.pt).
Supervisor
 Neide Esperança Pedrosa (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2021/11/17 Study of the influence of seawater in antibiotic susceptibility. Master´s Degree in Applications in Biotechnology and Synthetic Biology, Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto (www.fc.up.pt).
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Raquel Maria Rocha Magalhães. (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2021/02/23 Cyanobacterial Outer Membrane Vesicles and Lipopolysaccharides Virulence In Zebrafish Larvae: Towards The Development Of A New Vaccination Platform. Master’s degree in Biomedical Research, Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra (www.fmuc.pt ), Portugal.
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Cláudia Sofia Gomes Cardoso (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2020/12/18 Probiotic Bacillus spores as antigens delivery vehicles: towards development of oral vaccines for aquaculture
Supervisor
 Gabriela Catarina Chaves Gonçalves (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2020/12/18 Assessing antioxidant and antimicrobial potential of brewery, winery and olive-oil byproducts extracts produced through solid state fermentation in European sea bass
(Thesis) Main arguer
 João Manuel Félix Silva (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2020/12/16 Aplicação da tecnologia de biofloco num sistema IMTA: O futuro da aquacultura sustentável
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Carmo Filipa Silva Cunha (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2020/07/06 “STEPS TOWARDS A PROBIOTIC CONSORTIUM FOR THE BROILER HOLOBIONT”
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Pedro Henrique Gradeço Félix (Master)
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
2020/06/08 Investigação da Diversidade e Potencial Bioativo de Actinobactérias Isoladas de Amostras de Mar Profundo
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Francisco Gonçalves Santos (Other)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2018/12/19 Several aspects of planctomycetes biology
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Ofélia Henriques Dordio Godinho (Master)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2018/12/13 Exploiting the bioactive potential of microbial small molecules for the development of next generation antimicrobials
Supervisor
 Ana Sofia Ferreira de Almeida Ramos (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2018/12/13 Molecular tools for labelling and monitoring Bacillus subtilis probiotics in vivo
Supervisor
 Ana Sofia de Castro Lavrador (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2017/07/07 Screening for activity against fish pathogens among bacteria isolated from Portuguese salterns
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Jacek Lyczko (Other)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2017/07/06 Adequacy of bacteria as supplementary food source for Daphnia magna
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Maria da Conceição Paiva Marinho (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2017/06/30 Planctomycetes bacteria against fish pathogens
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Kaja Mysliwiec (Other)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2016/12/05 Fighting fish diseases with fish commensals: Bacillus and their Natural Antimicrobial Compounds (NACs)
Supervisor
 Rafaela Alcina Araújo dos Santos (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2016/10/24 Linking Bacterial communities on grapes to biogenic amines production in musts
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Rita Isabel da Silva Calisto (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2015/12/09 Diversity and Biotechnological potential of epiphytic bacteria of macroalgae
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Vera Lurdes Carvalho Ferreira (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2014/11/24 Influence of decapsulation and probiotics in the microbiome of Artemia Franciscana
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Pedro Bernardino Quintela Vale (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2019 - Current EAFP - EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF FISH PATHOLOGISTS Associate Number 2019125
2004/01/01 - Current SPM - Sociedade Portuguesa de Microbiologia
2004/01/01 - Current ASM - American Society of Microbiology
2000/01/01 - Current APEZ - Associação Portuguesa de Engenharia Zootécnica

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2024/09/10 - 2024/09/13 CHAIR of the Scientific and Organising Committee of the 3rd International Symposium on Mucosal Health in Aquaculture MHA2024 -( https://mha2024.com ). 10-13 September 2024, CIIMAR, Matosinhos, Portugal. CIIMAR
2022/10/17 - 2022/10/19 Microbiologia 2022 - Congresso internacional de microbiologia em língua Portuguesa (International Congress of Microbiology in Portuguese Language)

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2020 - Current Peer Review activities Quartile 1 Journals : BMC Veterinary Research (1), PlosOne (2), PeerJ (1), Aquaculture (2), Scientific Reports (1), Fish & ShellFish Immunology (1), Microorganisms (1) Quartile 2 Journals : Microbial Pathogenesis (2), International Journal of Genomics (1); Aquaculture International (1), Journal of the World Aquaculture Society (4); Journal of Functional Foods (1), Microbiology Open (1), BMC Microbiology (1), Quartile 3 Journals : Archives of Microbiology (1), Biochemical Genetics (2), Journal of Applied Ichthyology (2

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2019/10/02 - Current Invited Lecturer: Bacillus sporeformers as biotechnological models. Curricular Unit of Biological Models (BIOL4056) , Master Course on Synthetic Biology and Biotechnological Applications (M: ABBS), Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto (www.fc.up.pt), Porto, Portugal. 2019/2020; 2020/2021; 2021/2022; 2022/2023 Aplicações em Biotecnologia e Biologia Sintética (Mestrado) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2023/09 - 2024/08 Invited Auxiliary Professor (<25%) of THEORY and PRACTICAL CLASSES of BIOL1017 Biologia Molecular e Celular (L:EA); BIOL1001 Biologia Molecular e Celular (L:CC / L:F / L:G / L:M / L:Q); BIO1001 Biologia Molecular e Celular (L:EBF); Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto (www.fc.up.pt), Porto, Portugal. Engenharia Agronómica (Licenciatura) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2023/09 - 2024/08 Invited Auxiliary Professor (<25%) of PRACTICAL CLASSES of BIOL2004 Microbiologia Alimentar (L:B / L:CC / L:EA / L:F / L:G / L:M / L:Q), Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto (www.fc.up.pt), Porto, Portugal Biologia (Licenciatura) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2023/09 - 2024/07 Invited Auxiliary Professor (<25%) of PRACTICAL CLASSES of BIOL1020 Biologia Molecular e Celular II (L:B). Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto (www.fc.up.pt), Porto, Portugal. Biologia (Licenciatura) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2022 - 2023 Invited Auxiliary Professor (<25%) of THEORY CLASSES of BIOL1020 Biologia Molecular e Celular (L:B). Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto (www.fc.up.pt), Porto, Portugal. Biologia (Licenciatura) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2022 - 2023 Invited Auxiliary Professor (<25%) of PRACTICAL CLASSES of BIOL1007 Introdução à Microbiologia (L:CTA / L:EA); BIO1005 Introdução à Microbiologia (L:EBF); BIOL1020 Biologia Molecular e Celular II (L:B), Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto (www.fc.up.pt), Porto, Portugal. Biologia (Licenciatura) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2021 - 2022 Invited Auxiliary Professor (<25%) of THEORY CLASSES of BIOL1017 Biologia Molecular e Celular (L:EA); BIOL1001 Biologia Molecular e Celular (L:CC / L:F / L:G / L:M / L:Q); BIO1001 Biologia Molecular e Celular (L:EBF); Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto (www.fc.up.pt), Porto, Portugal. Biologia (Licenciatura) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2021 - 2022 Invited Auxiliary Professor (<25%) of PRACTICAL CLASSES of BIOL1013 Biologia Molecular (L:B); BIOL1017 Biologia Molecular e Celular (L:EA); BIOL1016 Biologia Celular (L:B / L:BQ); BIOL1001 Biologia Molecular e Celular (L:CC / L:F / L:G / L:M / L:Q); BIO1001 Biologia Molecular e Celular (L:EBF) Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto (www.fc.up.pt), Porto, Portugal. Biologia (Licenciatura) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2020 - 2021 Invited Auxiliary Professor (<25%) of Molecular Microbiology (B4036), Master Course on Celular and Molecular Biology (M:BCM), Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto (www.fc.up.pt), Porto, Portugal. Biologia Celular e Molecular (Mestrado integrado) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2019/12/02 - 2021 Invited Lecturer: Aquaculture Diseases and Microbial Strategies for Health & Welfare in Aquaculture. Curricular Unit of Microbiology, BSc Course of Zootechnical Engineering. Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (www.utad.pt), Vila Real, Portugal. Engenharia Zootécnica (Licenciatura) Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
2017/03/18 - 2017/04/22 Adequacy of Bioinformatics Tools to the 3rd Cycle of Elementary and Secondary Education.Training Course (CCPFC / ACC-88413/16) (Outros) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2016/03/10 - 2016/03/10 Case Studies: Sporeformers as models of microbial development, industry workhorses and food contaminants. Curricular Unit of Advanced Microbiology, Master Courses of Food Science, Biochemistry, Biology and Enology. (Mestrado) Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
2011/10/12 - 2011/10/19 Pratical Module I, Theme 5: recombinant DNA; functional analysis of a LysM domain for peptidoglycan biding, at Microbial Development lab, ITQB NOVA Microbiologia Médica (Mestrado integrado) Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2009/10/13 - 2009/10/20 Pratical Module I, Theme 5: recombinant DNA; functional analysis of a LysM domain for peptidoglycan biding, at Microbial Development lab, ITQB NOVA Microbiologia Médica (Mestrado integrado) Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization Funding entity
2021 - 2021 External Reviewer of Grant Applications on behalf of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada¿ - NSERC submitted to the ALLIANCE Grants 2021 competition.
Evaluator
 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Canada Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
2020/06/15 - 2020/07/15 Member of Evaluation Panel of CIIMARs PhD programme BYT - BYT PhD
Evaluator
 Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2019/12/11 - 2020/01/17 Extrenal Reviewer of Grant Application on behalf of Canada’s three research granting agencies, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), submitted to the New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF) 2019 Exploration competition. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Canada Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2023/12/01 - Current 2023.12.01 – External Evaluator of Younus Mohd Tilwani. Dissertation: Characterization of exopolysaccharide producing probiotic bacteria Enterococcus faecium MC5 and its applications in fish aquaculture. Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Biotechnology. Department of Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Pondicherry University (https://www.pondiuni.edu.in ), India. Pondicherry University, India
2019/09/04 - 2019/09/04 Jury of STARTUPS School Prize 2019 – UPTEC. FCUP, Porto, Portugal UPTEC Associação de Transferência de Tecnologia da Asprela, Portugal
2018/12/17 - 2019/01/25 Jury of Research work contract for 1 ASSISTANT RESEARCHER (PhD) CyanoVaccine/IA/2018-106) in the framework of the R&D project POCI-01-0145-FEDER-029540 (PTDC/BIA-OUT/29540/2017)“CyanoVaccine" within the R&D Institution CIIMAR (Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2018/12/07 - 2018/12/18 Jury of a Research grant for an MSc-holder (PR451803) in the framework of the R&D project POCI-01-0145-FEDER-029540 (PTDC/BIA-OUT/29540/2017) “CyanoVaccine”, within the R&D Institution i3S (Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde)
2018/08/08 - 2018/08/30 Jury of a research work contract for an ASSISTANT RESEARCHER (PhD), in the framework of the project 02/SAICT/2017/030232 CRAGIAMP, within the R&D Institution CIIMAR (Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research),financed by COMPETE 2020, PORTUGAL 2020, FEDER & FCT.
2017/05/24 - 2017/06/14 Jury of a research work contract for 1 ASSISTANT RESEARCHER (PhD) in the framework of the Structured Program of R&D&I INNOVMAR - Innovation and Sustainability in the Management and Exploitation of Marine Resources, reference NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000035, namely within the Research Line INSEAFOOD Innovation and valorization of seafood products: meeting local challenges and opportunities, within the R&D Institution CIIMAR (Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research)
Distinctions

Award

2021 Winer of the 928 928 Challenge Startup International Competition 2021 by Faculty of Business City University of Macau
2021 Winer of the BIP-PROOF 2021 by UPorto Inovação, Fundação Amadeu Dias, Santander Universidades
2018 Winer of BIP 2018 – Business Ignition Program of UPorto
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2018 Winer of BfK IDEAS 2018 - Born from Knowledge, AgroFood Industry Category
Agência Nacional de Inovação SA, Portugal

Other distinction

2020 Journal Topics Board Member of "Antibiotics", MPDI, IF: 3.893
2019 Editorial Board Member - Review Editor for Biosafety and Biosecurity of "Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology", FRONTIERS, IF:3.644
2018 Editorial Board Member of "Marine Biotechnology", SPRINGER, IF: 2.798
2017 FEMS Early Career Scientists Grant to attend the 7th FEMS Congress of European Microbiologists. FEMS 2017, Valencia, Spain.
Federation Of European Microbiological Societies, United Kingdom
2016 ESACT grant to attend the Animal Cell Technology Course 2016 – 6th edition, Llafranc, Spain.
2011 Best Poster Presentation in "III Jornadas de Genética e Biotecnologia", UTAD
2005 Best Poster Presentation in the National Congress of Microbiology and Biotechnology MICRO-BIOTEC´05