Rita Maria Domingues Carvalho (241E-AA23-EE72)

Curriculum Vitae

Rita Maria Domingues Carvalho

Rita Maria Domingues Carvalho attends the PhD in Biology entitled "Epigenetic regulation of Pucciniales life cycles" since 01/10/2021 in Instituto Superior de Agronomia (Universidade de Lisboa) and she is currently at John Innes Centre since 02/2023 . Rita completed the Master degree in Biology of Plant Resources in 2021 by Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia and the Bachelor degree in Biology in 2018 by Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia. Published 6 articles in journals. Has received 2 awards. Participates as PhD Student Fellow in 1 project and Researcher in 1 project. Works in the areas of Biology, Molecular Biology, Mycology, Plant Protection. In her CV the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, output are: Basidiomycota; Urediniales; Fungi; Plant Phatology; Pucciniales; Rust fungi; Cytogenomics; Cytogenetic; RNA-seq; PCR; Fluorescence in situ Hybridization; Heterokayon; Dikarya.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Rita Maria Domingues Carvalho
Date of birth: 1995/02/03
Gender: Female

Citation names

Carvalho, Rita

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 241E-AA23-EE72
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5847-9814

Email addresses

rita.domingues-carvalho@jic.ac.uk (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biology
Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Other Biological Topics
Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Molecular Biology
Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Mycology
Agrarian Sciences - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries - Plant Breeding and Plant Protection

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Upper intermediate (B2)	Proficiency (C2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Advanced (C1)	Upper intermediate (B2)
French	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2021/10/01 - 2025/09/01 Ongoing	Biology (Doutoramento) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal John Innes Centre, United Kingdom
2023/02 - 2024 Ongoing	Visiting student (Postgraduate Certificate) John Innes Centre, United Kingdom
2018/08/31 - 2021/01/19 Concluded	Biology of Plant Resources (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal "Cytogenomics and cytological approaches disclose the occurrence of diploid nuclei throughout the life cycles of Pucciniales fungi and reveal a unique heterokaryotic system" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	18
2014 - 2018 Concluded	Biology (Licenciatura) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal "Variação do nível de ploidia ao longo do ciclo celular de Hemileia vastatrix " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	13
2017 - 2017 Concluded	Entrepreneurship program - Business ideas based on scientific knowledge (Outros) Agência Nacional de Inovação SA, Portugal Beta-I Associação para a Promoção da Inovação e do Empreendedorismo, Portugal
2015/10 - 2016/10 Concluded	PIIC/LEAF internship - Ploidy variation throughout the life cycles of Pucciniales fungi. (Outros) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2019/05 - 2019/12	Researcher (Research)	LEAF - Linking Landscape, Environment, Agriculture and Food - Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2021/10/01 - 2025/09/01	Epigenetic regulation of Pucciniales life cycles 2021.05658.BD PhD Student Fellow LEAF - Linking Landscape, Environment, Agriculture and Food - Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal John Innes Centre, United Kingdom	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2019/05 - 2019/09	A new paradigm on fungal nuclear cycles? An investigation to the widespread occurrence of diploid nuclei throughout the life cycle of rust fungi and comparison with other Pucciniomycotina I&D PTDC/BIA-MIC/1716/2014 Researcher LEAF - Linking Landscape, Environment, Agriculture and Food - Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Conference poster	Carvalho, Rita; Gil Azinheira, Helena; Ribeiro, Teresa; Tavares, Sílvia; Monteiro, Marta; Silva, Maria do Céu; Morais-Cecílio, Leonor; Talhinhas, Pedro. Corresponding author: Carvalho, Rita. "Occurrence of diploid nuclei throughout the life cycles of Pucciniales fungi disclosed by cytogenomic approaches". Paper presented in III International Meeting of the Portuguese Society of Genetics, ISBN 978-972-778-273-4, 2022. Carvalho, Rita; Talhinhas, Pedro; Morais-Cecílio, Leonor. "Epigenetic regulation of Pucciniales life cycles". Paper presented in Encontro Ciência 2022, 2022. Reis, Mariana; Carvalho, Rita; Valada, Tatiana; Ramos, Ana Paula; Talhinhas, Pedro. "Patterns of cytogenomic variability across fungi and the occurrence of very large genomes in the Pucciniales.". Paper presented in 18th Congress of European Mycologists (CEM), 2019. Carvalho, Rita; Figueira, Rui; Ramos, Ana Paula; Talhinhas, Pedro. "An annotated checklist of rust fungi (Pucciniales) occurring in Portugal reveals endangered species, invasion routes and speciation hotspots.". Paper presented in 18th Congress of European Mycologists (CEM), 2019. Ribeiro, Teresa; Azinheira, Helena; Carvalho, Rita; Tavares, Sílvia; Monteiro, Marta; coelho, marco; Silva, Maria do Céu; et al. "Cytogenetic and transcriptomic approaches to understand the nuclear cycle of Hemileia vastatrix.". Paper presented in 27th International Conference on Coffee Science (ASIC), 2018. Loureiro, João; Ribeiro, Teresa; Tavares, Sílvia; Feiteira, Cláudia; Diana Tavares; Carvalho, Rita; Gardner, Rui; et al. "Cytogenomic analyses show expanded genomes in the Pucciniales fungi and reveal nuclear content variation along their life cycles.". Paper presented in 33rd Congress of the International Society for Advancement of Cytometry, 2018. Azinheira, Helena; Ribeiro, Teresa; Carvalho, Rita; Tavares, Sílvia; Monteiro, Marta; Coelho, Marco; Silva, Maria do Céu; et al. "Cytogenomic and transcriptomic approaches to understand nuclear cycle of rusts". Paper presented in European Conference on Fungal Genetics, 2018. Carvalho, Rita; Elsa, Silva; Figueira, Rui; Ramos, Ana Paula; Talhinhas, Pedro. "Inventariação das espécies de Pucciniales em Portugal.". Paper presented in 2º Simpósio SCAP de Proteção das Plantas; 8º Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Fitopatologia e 11º Encontro Nacional de Proteção Integrada, 2017. Talhinhas, Pedro; Carvalho, Rita; Silva, Elsa; Monteiro, Ana; Ramos, Ana Paula. "Ferrugem de lírio-de-um-dia (Puccinia hemerocallidis) identificada pela primeira vez na Europa em Portugal.". Paper presented in 2º Simpósio SCAP de Proteção das Plantas; 8º Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Fitopatologia e 11º Encontro Nacional de Proteção Integrada, 2017. Talhinhas, Pedro; Carvalho, Rita; Silva, Elsa; Melo e Abreu, João Paulo; Monteiro, Ana; Ramos, Ana Paula. "Daylily rust (Puccinia hemerocallidis), a new disease of Hemerocallis spp. in Europe that entered through the West". Paper presented in 15th Congress of the Mediterranean Phytopathological Union,15th Congress of the Mediterranean Phytopathological Union, 2017.
Journal article	Pedro Talhinhas; Rita Carvalho; Sílvia Tavares; Teresa Ribeiro; Helena Azinheira; Ana Paula Ramos; Maria do Céu Silva; et al. "Diploid Nuclei Occur throughout the Life Cycles of Pucciniales Fungi". Microbiology Spectrum 11 4 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/spectrum.01532-23. 10.1128/spectrum.01532-23 Talhinhas, Pedro; Carvalho, Rita; Loureiro, João. "The use of flow cytometry for fungal nuclear DNA quantification". Cytometry Part A (2021): https://doi.org/10.1002/cyto.a.24335. 10.1002/cyto.a.24335 Ramos, Madalena; Carvalho, Rita; Soares da Silva, Elsa; Ramos, Ana Paula; Talhinhas, Pedro. "Pathological and Epidemiological Characterization of First Outbreak of Daylily Rust in Europe and Evaluation of Puccinia hemerocallidis Resistance in Hemerocallis Cultivars". Plants 9 4 (2020): 427-427. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants9040427. 10.3390/plants9040427 Talhinhas, Pedro; Carvalho, Rita; Figueira, Rui; Ramos, Ana Paula. "An annotated checklist of rust fungi (pucciniales) occurring in Portugal". Sydowia 71 June (2020): 65-84. 10.12905/0380.sydowia71-2019-0065 Carvalho, Rita; Silva, Elsa; Loureiro, João; Ramos, Ana Paula; Talhinhas, Pedro. "Characterisation of Puccinia hemerocallidis causing the first outbreak of daylily rust in Europe". Revista de Ciências Agrárias (2019): https://doi.org/10.19084/rca.17075. 10.19084/rca.17075 Silva, Elsa; Carvalho, Rita; Nunes, N.; Ramos, Ana Paula; Talhinhas, Pedro. "First Report of Puccinia hemerocallidis Causing Daylily Rust in Europe". Plant Disease 100 10 (2016): 2163. http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/pdis-02-16-0242-pdn. Published • 10.1094/pdis-02-16-0242-pdn
Thesis / Dissertation	Carvalho, Rita. "Cytogenomics and cytological approaches disclose the occurrence of diploid nuclei throughout the life cycles of Pucciniales fungi and reveal a unique heterokaryotic system". Master, Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, 2021. Carvalho, Rita. "Variação do nível de ploidia ao longo do ciclo celular de Hemileia vastatrix". Degree, Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, 2018.

Other

Dataset

Carvalho, Rita. Occurrence records of rust fungi (Pucciniales) in Portugal. v1.3. Instituto Superior de Agronomia / Universidade de Lisboa. Dataset/Occurrence..

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2019/09/16	Cytogenomic analyses reveal nuclear content variation along the life cycles of the Pucciniales fungi and enable the distinction of heterokaryotic nuclei	18th Congress of European Mycologists, Polish Mycological Society and European Mycological Association (Varsóvia, Poland)

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2023/06/19 - Current	Cambridge Epigenetics Club Summer Symposium in Babraham Institute in Cambridge Symposium	Cambridge Epigenetics Club Summer Symposium
2023/06/26 - 2023/06/27	Rosalind Franklin Women in Wheat Champions Career Development Training and Networking Workshop Meeting	John Innes Centre, United Kingdom
2022/06/27 - 2022/06/28	Participated at II International Meeting of the Portuguese Society of Genetics Conference	II International Meeting of the Portuguese Society of Genetics Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2019/09/16 - 2019/09/21	18th Congress of European Mycologists (CEM) Congress	18th Congress of European Mycologists (CEM)
2017/10/26 - 2017/10/27	Proteção das Plantas 2017, 2º Simpósio SCAP de Proteção das Plantas, 8º Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Fitopatologia e 11º Encontro Nacional de Proteção Integrada, 26-27 de outubro de 2017, Santarém, Portugal. Congress	2º Simpósio SCAP de Proteção das Plantas, 8º Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Fitopatologia e 11º Encontro Nacional de Proteção Integrada Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Escola Superior Agrária de Coimbra, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2019/09 - Current	Part of Flow Citometry Class (Laboratory techniques in Biology )	Biology (Licenciatura)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

	Activity description	Newspaper / Forum
2023/06/02	Short text about the PhD project in a Portuguese newspaper	Público

Mentoring / Tutoring

	Topic	Student name
2021 - 2021	Caracterização do transcritoma nuclear do heterocárion de Coleosporium tussilaginis f.sp. senecionis-silvatici	João Pires
2021 - 2021	Caracterização citogenómica do ciclo nuclear de Uromyces fabae	Mónica Espiñeira

Distinctions

Award

2019	Winner of the Contest "Inovation Ideas" do Instituto Superior de Agronomia, ApiNOV@ISA Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal

Other distinction

2017	Finalista de BfK (Born From Knowledge) IDEAS Agência Nacional de Inovação SA, Portugal Beta-I Associação para a Promoção da Inovação e do Empreendedorismo, Portugal