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Elsa Couto holds a Bachelor's degree (pre-Bologna) in Food Engineering from the University of Algarve, completed in 1991. Her academic journey has been enriched by internships, seminars, and specialized courses that deepened her knowledge. Notable experiences include an internship at the National Laboratory for Industrial Engineering and Technology (LNETI) and at CASO (Centro de Abate de Suínos do Oeste Lda.) in 1992, where she served as an Assistant to the Director of Quality Control. As part of her education, she attended international courses such as "The Quality of Fishery Produce Through Handling" in the United Kingdom and "Milk, Fermented Milk Products and Cheese Technology" in Greece, both supported by the ERASMUS Project. Since June 1993, Elsa has been working as a Laboratory Technician at the Algarve Center for Marine Sciences, being a part of the CEIB research group. She has been involved as a research fellow in various projects and holds a contract as a Senior Technician at CCMAR. Her expertise includes the application of analysis techniques such as hormone identification (Radioimmunoassay, Elisas), Histology, Liquid, and Gas Chromatography, as well as chemical, biochemical, and microbiological analyses in food. She actively contributes to research projects, mentors students, participates in samplings and is responsible for laboratory management, ensuring that daily operations run efficiently, safely, and within the required quality standards. This involves overseeing projects, safety protocols, documentation, stocks, and laboratory waste. Furthermore, Elsa has obtained certifications in the safety and management of chemical and hospital waste. She has attended the European First Aid course, sponsored by the University of Algarve, the Center for Marine Sciences, and other companies. She has received recognition for her scientific contributions throughout her career, evidenced by awards and publications in specialized journals.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Elsa Couto

Citation names

  • Couto, Elsa
  • Elsa Couto

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
9918-9D00-3C5F
ORCID iD
0000-0001-9336-9963

Email addresses

  • ecouto@ualg.pt (Professional)

Telephones

Telephone
  • 289800100 Ext.: 220748 (Professional)

Addresses

  • Universidade do Algarve, Campus de Gambelas- Edificio 7, 8005-139, Gambelas, Faro, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
  • Agrarian Sciences - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Upper intermediate (B2) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2023/01/25 - 2023/01/26
Concluded
 Curso europeu de primeiros socorros//Escola de Socorrismo Cruz Vermelha Portuguesa, Portugal (Curso de Especialização Tecnológica)
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
2012/02 - 2022/01/18
Concluded
 Ação de formação e sensibilização na área de gestão de resíduos perigosos-Empresa Carmona- Fevereiro de 2012, Fevereiro de 2013, Janeiro de 2014, Janeiro de 2016 Janeiro de 2017. (Outros)
Major in Laboratory Chemical Waste Management
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
2018 - 2021/10/27
Concluded
 Ação de formação e sensibilização na área de gestão de resíduos perigosos hospitalares e SPOA - empresas Ambimed e Stericycle (Outros)
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
2016/06/28 - 2016/06/29
Concluded
 Curso europeu de primeiros socorros /Escola de Socorrismo Cruz Vermelha Portuguesa, Portugal (Curso de Especialização Tecnológica)
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
2005 - 2005
Concluded
 Sensibilização sobre segurança em Laboratórios - Entidade Formadora ITSEMAP (Outros)
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
1993/05/02 - 1993/05/07
Concluded
 Milk, Fermeted Milk Products and Cheese Techonology- Intensive Course-Greece-Ioannina (Curso de Especialização Tecnológica)
Institouto Technologias Agrotikon Proionton, Greece
1992/01/05 - 1992/10/30
Concluded
 Programa Jovens Técnicos para a Indústria (JTI). (Curso de Especialização Tecnológica)
Instituto Nacional de Engenharia Tecnologia e Inovação, Portugal
1991/10/18
Concluded
 Engenharia Alimentar (Pré Bolonha) (Bacharelato)
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
1991
Concluded
 The Quality of Fishery produce through Handing (Grimsby UK) (Curso de Especialização Tecnológica)
Humberside Polytechnic, United Kingdom
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/12/01 - Current Research Assistant (Research) Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
1993/06/01 - 2022/11/30 Bolseira de Investigação Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2021/02/01 - 2022/11/30 Aplicação de Tecnologias Inovadoras e Sustentáveis de Processamento e de Monitorização de Qualidade de Produtos Alimentares do Mar (reference: MAR-01.03.01-FEAMP-0050) cofunded by Programa Operacional (PO) Mar 2020, Portugal 2020 and União Europeia by Fundo Europeu para Assuntos Marítimos e Pescas
MAR-01.03.01-FEAMP-0050
Research Fellow
Concluded
2017/12/01 - 2021/01/31 ASSEMBLE PLUS-Association of European Marine Biological Laboratories Expanded.
H2020-INFRAIA-2016-1-730984
Research Fellow
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
Concluded
2015/09/01 - 2017 European Marine Biological Research Infrastructure-EMBRIC
H2020-INFRADEV-2014-2015-654008
Research Fellow
Concluded
2013/09/01 - 2015/08/31 Um novo regulador da puberdade dos peixes
PTDC/MAR-BIO/3890/2012,
Research Fellow
1996/09/01 - 1998/08/31 O PAPEL DA PROLACTINA E DOS SEUS RECEPTORES NA REPRODUÇÃO DA DOURADA: UMA ABORDAGEM BIOMOLECULAR
GGP XXI/BTL/2793/96
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference paper
  1. Pedro M. Guerreiro; Sandra Silva; Bruno Louro; Alexandra Alves; Elsa Couto; Adelino V.M. Canário. "The Stress Response in Antarctic Fish: HPI Modulation, Cortisol Profiles, Interrenal Sensitivity, and Gene Expression of Notothenia rossii Acclimated to Temperature Challenges". 2022.
    10.3390/blsf2022013058
Conference poster
  1. Youssef Elamine; Anjos, Liliana; Pinto, Patricia; Patricia Lima; Elsa Couto; Adelino Canario; Deborah M. Power. "Elamine. "Rapid and non-destructive monitoring of fish freshness using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR).". Paper presented in 36th EFFoST (European Federation of Food Science and technology), 2022.
  2. Youssef Elamine; Anjos, Liliana; Pinto, Patricia; Patricia Lima; Elsa Couto; Adelino Canario; Deborah M. Power. "Elamine E, Anjos L, Pinto PIS, Lima P, Couto E, Canário AVM, Power DM (2022). Rapid and non-destructive monitoring of fish freshness using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR). 36th EFFoST (European Federation of Food Science and technology) International Conference, November 7-9, Dublin, Ireland.". Paper presented in 36th EFFoST (European Federation of Food Science and technology) International Conference,, 2022.
  3. Pedro Miguel Guerreiro Costa Guerreiro; Becker, Alexssandro G.; Louro, Bruno; Couto, Elsa; Silva, Sandra C.; Canario, A. V. M.. "It¿s getting warm and watery!! The stress endocrine axis of Notothenia rossii and N. coriiceps in response to environmental challenges.". Paper presented in 11th International Congress on the Biology of Fish, 2014.
  4. Canário ,A.V.M., Couto E., Vilia ,P.,Kime, D.E.,Hassin , S.,Zohar, Y.,. "Sex Steroid during the Ovulatory Cycle of Gilthead Seabream (sparus aurata).". Paper presented in V Symposium on Reproductive Physiology of Fish, University of Texas: Austin, USA, 1995.
Journal article
  1. Sequeira, Vera; Couto, Elsa; Neves, Ana; Vieira, Ana Rita; Canario, Adelino; Gordo, Leonel Serrano. "Fecundity and sex steroid profile in boarfish Capros aper". (2021): http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/15183.
    10.1071/MF20045
  2. Farias, I.; Couto, Elsa; Lagarto, N.; Delgado, J.; Canario, Adelino; Figueiredo, I.. "Sex steroids of black scabbardfish, Aphanopus carbo, in relation to reproductive and migratory dynamics". (2020): http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/14118.
    10.1016/j.aaf.2020.03.006
  3. Sequeira, V.; Couto, Elsa; Neves, A.; Vieira, A. R.; Paiva, R. B.; Canario, A.V.M.; Gordo, L. S.. "Zygoparity and sex steroid hormone profiles in bluemouth Helicolenus dactylopterus". (2017): http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/13141.
    10.1111/jfb.13299
  4. Boulton, Kay; Couto, Elsa; Grimmer, Andrew J.; Earley, Ryan L.; Canario, Adelino V. M.; Wilson, Alastair J.; Walling, Craig A.. "How integrated are behavioral and endocrine stress response traits? A repeated measures approach to testing the stress-coping style model". (2015): http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/11279.
    10.1002/ece3.1395
  5. Damasceno-Oliveira, A.; Fernández-Durán, B.; Gonçalves, J. M. S.; Couto, Elsa; Canario, Adelino V. M.; Coimbra, José. "Plasma steroid hormone levels in female flounder Platichthys flesus and the influence of fluctuating hydrostatic pressure". (2012): http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/3827.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00360-012-0685-4
  6. Bayunova, L.; Canario, Adelino V. M.; Semenkova, T.; Couto, Elsa; Gerasimov, A.; Barannikova, I.. "Free androgens and progestins and their conjugated forms in serum and urine of stellate sturgeon (Acipenser stellatus Pallas) males". (2008): http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/3888.
  7. Garcia-Lopez, A.; Couto, Elsa; Canario, Adelino V. M.; Sarasquete, C.; Martínez-Rodriguez, G.. "Ovarian development and plasma sex steroid levels in cultured female Senegalese sole Solea senegalensis". (2007): http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/3954.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpa.2006.11.014
  8. Semenkova, T.; Canario, Adelino V. M.; Bayunova, L.; Couto, Elsa; Kolmakov, Nikolai N.; Barannikova, I.. "Sex steroids and oocyte maturation in the sterlet (Acipenser ruthenus L.)". (2006): http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/3938.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0426.2007.00981.x
  9. Garcia-Lopez, A.; Anguis, V.; Couto, Elsa; Canario, Adelino V. M.; Canavate, J. P.; Sarasquete, C.; Martínez-Rodriguez, G.. "Non-invasive assessment of reproductive status and cycle of sex steroid levels in a captive wild broodstock of Senegalese sole Solea senegalensis (Kaup)". (2006): http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/3949.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2005.10.007
  10. Garcia-Lopez, A.; Fernandez-Pasquier, V.; Couto, Elsa; Canario, Adelino V. M.; Sarasquete, C.; Martínez-Rodriguez, G.. "Testicular development and plasma sex steroid levels in cultured male Senegalese sole Solea senegalensis Kaup". (2006): http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/3953.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ygcen.2006.02.003
  11. Ros, A. F. H.; Canario, Adelino V. M.; Couto, Elsa; Zeilstra, IIja; Oliveira, R. F.. "Endocrine correlates of intra-specific variation in the mating system of the St. Peter's fish (Sarotherodon galilaeus)". (2003): http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/3823.