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PhD student in the Doctoral program in Chemical and Biological Engineering; Master in Applied Microbiology; Interested in the field of Mycology, specially in the impact of Filamentous Fungi in Food Security; Also focused on Communication of Science in Society.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Teresa Ventura Vale Fernandes Dias

Citation names

  • Vale Dias, Teresa

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
031C-EA53-7377

Email addresses

  • id9616@alunos.uminho.pt (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Mycology
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Microbiology
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Molecular Biology
  • Agrarian Sciences - Agrarian and Food Biotechnology - Agricultural Biotechnology and Food Biotechnology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
French Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2)
Spanish; Castilian Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
Portuguese gestual language Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2021/02/03 - 2025/07/31
Ongoing
 Doctoral Program in Chemical and Biological Engineering (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Minho Departamento de Engenharia Biológica, Portugal
"Inside of Portuguese Cheese Industry: risk assessment for mycotoxigenic fungi and quality control" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2024/02/06 - 2024/02/08
Concluded
 MALDI-TOF MS na Identificação Microbiana, Novos Contributos para os Microbiomas e Interações Microbianas (Outros)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2023/10/13 - 2023/10/13
Concluded
 SeqStudio Genetic Analyzer SmartStart Training (Outros)
Thermo Fisher Scientific Portugal, Portugal
2023/10/12 - 2023/10/12
Concluded
 QuantStudio Real Time PCR SmartStart Orientation–Gene Expression Application Overview (Outros)
Thermo Fisher Scientific Portugal, Portugal
2022/07/13 - 2022/07/15
Concluded
 Analysis of Genomes: Basic concepts (Outros)
Instituto Politécnico de Bragança Centro de Investigação de Montanha, Portugal
2020/01/18 - 2020/01/18
Concluded
 Pediatric First Aid (Outros)
Formetra , Portugal
2017/09/14 - 2019/12/10
Concluded
 Applied microbiology (Mestrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Study of non-conventional Aspergilli and Penicillia Ochratoxin-A producers" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 18
2014/09/14 - 2017/06/12
Concluded
 Biology (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Isolation, phylogenetic analysis and biotechnological potential of bacteria from saltern environments" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 15
2016/02/15 - 2016/02/15
Concluded
 Basic life support (Outros)
Cruz Vermelha Portuguesa, Portugal
2015/03/24 - 2015/04/30
Concluded
 Forensic Science Course (Outros)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021/03/01 - Current Researcher (Research) Instituto Politécnico de Bragança Centro de Investigação de Montanha, Portugal
Instituto Politécnico de Bragança Centro de Investigação de Montanha, Portugal
2021/01/04 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade do Minho Centro de Engenharia Biológica, Portugal
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2018/09/01 - 2019/12/09 Research Trainee (Research) Universidade do Minho Centro de Engenharia Biológica, Portugal
2018/07/01 - 2018/08/01 Researcher (Research) Edge Hill University, United Kingdom
Edge Hill University, United Kingdom
2018/02/01 - 2018/06/30 Research Trainee (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2016/08/01 - 2017/08/31 Research Trainee (Research) Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/09/01 - 2021/02/15 Professora em Centro de Explicações Infantário "A Teia", Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2021/03/01 - Current Inside of Portuguese Cheese Industry: risk assessment for mycotoxigenic fungi and quality control
2020.05849.BD
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade do Minho Centro de Engenharia Biológica, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing

Contract

Designation Funders
2022/10/03 - Current MYCOTOX-PALOP - Multi-actor partnership for the risk assessment of MYCOTOXins along the food chain in African Portuguese-speaking countries (PALOP)
FCT AGA-KHAN / 541590696 / 2019
Researcher
Instituto Politécnico de Bragança Centro de Investigação de Montanha, Portugal

Universidade do Minho Centro de Engenharia Biológica, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2016/08/01 - 2017/08/31 INNOVMAR - Innovation and Sustainability in the Management and Exploitation of Marine Resource
NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000035
Other
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference poster
  1. Vale Dias, Teresa; Matusse, Cláudio; Susana Carvalho; Beatriz Silva; Soares, Célia; Zelda Lucamba; Sandra Afonso; et al. Corresponding author: Rodrigues, Paula. "Isolation of filamentous fungi from different food matrices from Angola and Mozambique". Paper presented in ECCO XLI, 2023.
  2. Vale Dias, Teresa; Santos, Valentina; Santos, Carla; Rodrigues, Paula; Armando Venâncio. "Mycotoxigenic potential of fungi isolated from highly cured Portuguese cheese". 2023.
  3. Vale Dias, Teresa; Santos, Valentina; Santos, Carla; Rodrigues, Paula; Armando Venâncio. "Mycobiota of São Jorge cheeses with different ripening periods". 2023.
  4. Vale Dias, Teresa; Santos, Carla; Susana Salgado; Rodrigues, Paula; Armando Venâncio. "Pilot Study of the air mycobiota of a cheese factory". Paper presented in British Mycological Society 125th Anniversary Conference Fungi and the Environment, 2022.
  5. Santos, Carla; Miguel Pinheiro; Vale Dias, Teresa; Soares, Célia; Gabriela Moura; Lima, Nelson. "Penicillium crustosum as a potential OTA producer - new insights from whole - genome sequencing of strain MUM 16.125". 2021.
  6. Vale Dias, Teresa; Célia Soares; Carla Santos; Margarida Barata; Nelson Lima. "Penicillium crustosum: a threat to food safety?". Paper presented in MICROBIOTEC 2019, 2019.
  7. Vale Dias, Teresa; Marta Simões. "Isolation and Antibacterial analysis of Filamentous Fungi from Roudsea Wood and Mosses National Nature Reserve". Paper presented in FEMS 2019 - 8th Congress of European Microbiologists, 2019.
  8. Vale Dias, Teresa; Célia Soares; Carla Santos; Margarida Barata; Nelson Lima. "Is Penicillium crustosum a potential ochratoxin-A producer?". Paper presented in XXXVIII Annual Meeting of the European Culture Collections' Organisation, ECCO 2019, 2019.
  9. Eduarda Almeida; Vale Dias, Teresa; Gonçalo Ferraz; Olga Maria Lage. "Bacterial diversity of two Portuguese salterns". Paper presented in 12th International Congress of Extremophiles., 2018.
  10. Joana Oliveira; Mariana Girão; Tiago Lopes; Tiago Ferraz; Vale Dias, Teresa; Eduarda Almeida; Maria Amorim; Olga Maria Lage. "Study of the potential antimicrobial activity of hypersaline bacteria isolated from two Portuguese salterns and their phylogenetic characterization". Paper presented in 10.ª Edition - Young Research Meeting, University of Porto 2017 (IJUP’17), 2017.
  11. Vale Dias, Teresa; Eduarda Almeida; Olga M. Lage. "Enzymatic Activity of Halophilic Bacteria". Paper presented in 10.ª Edition - Young Research Meeting, University of Porto 2017 (IJUP’17), 2017.
Journal article
  1. Almeida, Eduarda; Dias, Teresa Vale; Ferraz, Gonçalo; Carvalho, Maria F.; Lage, Olga M.. "Culturable bacteria from two Portuguese salterns: diversity and bioactive potential". Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10482-019-01356-7.
    10.1007/s10482-019-01356-7
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Vale Dias, Teresa. "Study of non-conventional Aspergilli and Penicillia Ochratoxin A producers". Master, Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, 2019. https://repositorio.ul.pt/handle/10451/41387.
  2. Vale Dias, Teresa. "Isolation, phylogenetic analysis and biotechnological potential of bacteria from saltern environments". Degree, Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, 2017.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/09/20 Is hand disinfectant a public health problem? A case study in the Centre of Biological Engineering
(Brussels, Belgium)
2023/06/30 Mitigation of Ochratoxin A in the food chain, from prevention to remediation
(Valencia, Spain)
2021/11/10 Biodiversity of toxigenic fungi in the food chain and the co-occurrence of mycotoxins MycoTWIN-MycoKey INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
(Bari )
2018/07/09 Isolation and Antibacterial analysis of Filamentous Fungi from Roudsea Wood and Mosses National Nature Reserve FEMS 2019 - 8th Congress of European Microbiologists
(Glasgow, United Kingdom)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2022/11/03 - 2023/05/30 Pint of Science 2023 (2023/05/22 - 2023/05/24)
Festival (Member of the Organising Committee)
2022/09/19 - 2022/09/30 2022 European Researchers' Night (2022/09/30 - 2022/09/30)
Other
 Universidade do Minho Centro de Engenharia Biológica, Portugal
2022/02/10 - 2022/09/29 III Chemical & Biological Engineering Doctoral Symposium (2022/09/21 - 2022/09/22)
Symposium (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade do Minho Departamento de Engenharia Biológica, Portugal
2021/10/19 - 2022/05/18 Pint of Science 2022 (2022/05/09 - 2022/05/11)
Festival (Member of the Organising Committee)
2021/02/22 - 2021/09/30 II Chemical & Biological Engineering Doctoral Symposium (2021/09/22 - 2021/09/24)
Symposium (President of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade do Minho Centro de Engenharia Biológica, Portugal
2018/01/01 - 2018/05/31 3rd Meeting of the Planctomycetes-Verrucomicrobia-Clamydiae superphylum community, I participated in the congress and was part of the organizing committee. (2018/05/10 - 2018/05/12)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2022/11/22 - 2022/11/26 Open Day @ CEB, activity to open the labs of the Centre of Biological Engineering to the community
Other
 Open Day @ CEB
Universidade do Minho Centro de Engenharia Biológica, Portugal
2015/10/01 - 2015/10/01 Workshop in Science communication with Dr. Milene Matos
Workshop
 Science Communication
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2019/03/01 - Current Portuguese Society of Microbiology

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2022/11/07 - 2022/11/25 Curso de formação avançada "Fungos e micotoxinas em alimentos e produtos armazenados" - The course took place within the framework of the FCT AGA project KHAN/541590696/2019 "MYCOTOX PALOP". It had a theoretical and practical component. Fungos e micotoxinas em alimentos e produtos armazenados (Outros) Universidade do Minho Centro de Engenharia Biológica, Portugal

Instituto Politécnico de Bragança Centro de Investigação de Montanha, Portugal

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2023/09/04 - 2023/12/04 Study of the mycobiota of Peanuts and Beans from Angola Iván Romero
2023/04/20 - 2023/07/16 Study of the mycobiota from African food matrices Susana Rodrigues Carvalho
2022/06/06 - 2022/07/15 Microbiota study of cheeses Susana Rodrigues Carvalho