Adriana Alves de Oliveira (E715-53BB-5CE9)

Curriculum Vitae

Adriana Alves de Oliveira

Adriana Oliveira (AO), born in 1998 in Matosinhos, Porto, holds a BSc in Biology (2019) and an MSc in Biological Aquatic Resources (2021) from the University of Porto (UP). She began her research career in 2018 at CIIMAR (Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research), where she studied the effects of environmental stress on marine organisms using oxidative stress markers. Her MSc dissertation, developed in collaboration with CIIMAR’s NUTRIMU group and IPMA’s EPPO station, focused on the diagnosis of fish diseases through histological and molecular tools, as well as the use of algae-based functional feeds to enhance fish immunity and welfare. This experience deepened her interest in sustainable aquaculture practices. Following her MSc, AO was awarded two Erasmus+ Internship grants to work on aquaculture nutrition and aquatic animal welfare in Spain and Italy, under the supervision of Dr. Amalia Jimenez and Dr. Ike Olivotto. She has co-authored two scientific publications and has been actively involved in science communication and outreach, including organizing the “Jornadas do Mar” student congress, participating in international conferences, and volunteering at science fairs and community events. In 2023, AO joined CIIMAR’s LANUCE group under the BLUE BIOECONOMY INNOVATION PACT – Vertical Feed project, focusing on sustainable functional ingredients to improve fish growth and health. She gained hands-on experience in fish husbandry, feed and tissue analysis, histology, oxidative stress, and gene expression techniques. AO is currently pursuing a PhD with the LANUCE group. Her research, titled “Priming for Welfare: Novel Hydrolysates in the Promotion of Fish Robustness Through Modulation of the Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis,” aims to develop innovative nutritional strategies to enhance fish welfare and resilience in aquaculture systems.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Adriana Alves de Oliveira
Date of birth: 1998/05/11
Gender: Female

Citation names

Alves-de-Oliveira, Adriana

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: E715-53BB-5CE9
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5534-2401

Email addresses

adriana.a.oliveira.1998@gmail.com (Professional)

Telephones

Mobile phone

(+351) 934597381 (Personal)

Addresses

CIIMAR - Terminal de Cruzeiros de Leixões. Av. General Norton de Matos s/n, 4450-208, Matosinhos, Porto, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

https://www.linkedin.com/in/adriana-oliveira1998/ (Social media)

Knowledge fields

Natural sciences - Biological Sciences
Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Marine Biology

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)	Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian	Intermediate (B1)	Elementary (A2)	Elementary (A2)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2024/11 - 2028/11 Ongoing	Animal Science (Doutoramento) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
2024/03 - 2024/05 Concluded	Faber Entrepreneurship Program 2024 edition (Outros) Faber, Portugal
2023/12/18 - 2023/12/22 Attended	Curso de ciências em animais de laboratório – organismos aquáticos (FELASA B) (Diploma de especialização) Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
2023/03/03 - 2023/04/22 Concluded	Python Programming (Pós-Graduação) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2022/06/13 - 2022/06/28 Concluded	Biotechnology in fish larviculture to strengthen Ibero-American Aquaculture (Outros) Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Brazil
2019/09 - 2021/12 Concluded	Recursos Biológicos Aquáticos (Mestrado) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal ""NUTRIMU and EPPO Internship: Larval rearing and fish health in Aquaculture"" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	18 values, 19 values in the master's dissertation
2016/09 - 2019/07 Concluded	Biologia (Licenciatura) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal "Internship report: "Effects of stress factors associated with deep-sea mining on Mediterranean mussel"." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	15 in 20; 19 in the internship report

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2023/01 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal

2022/09 - 2022/12	Research Trainee (Research)	Università Politecnica delle Marche Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e dell¿Ambiente, Italy

2022/03 - 2022/08	Research Trainee (Research)	Universidad de Granada Facultad de Ciencias, Spain

2020/09/01 - 2021/12/14	Research Trainee (Research)	Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal

2018/09/01 - 2019/07/01	Research Trainee (Research)	Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2022/05/27 - 2022/05/28	Volunteering in the event "Desgranando Ciencia 8" (science disseminating and communication event)	Universidad de Granada, Spain

2022/01/30 - 2022/01/30	Volunteering at Polling station, 2022 Portuguese legislative election (January 30, 2022)	Governo da República Portuguesa, Portugal

2021/01/24 - 2021/01/24	Volunteering at Polling station, 2021 Portuguese presidential election (January 24, 2021)	Governo da República Portuguesa, Portugal

2020 - 2021	Volunteering in the program "ICBAS dog shelter"	Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2023/11 - Current	Priming for welfare: Novel hydrolysates in the promotion of fish robustness through modulation of microbiota-gut-brain axis 2023.02611.BD PhD Student Fellow	Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2023/01 - 2023/10/31	Blue Bioeconomy Pact-Vertical FEED C644915664-00000026 Research Technician Fellow Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal	Ongoing

Other

	Designation	Funders
2023/05/01 - 2024/07/31	The role of 5-HT system in stress-gut-brain interactions UIDB_SEED-5HT Researcher Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal	Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract	Oliveira, Adriana; Monteiro, M.; Sá, T.; Almeida, A.; Kokou, F.; Valente, L.M.P.. "Enhancing fish growth and resilience: using novel hydrolysates obtained through a circular economy approach in aquafeeds for gilthead seabream". Paper presented in Animal and Veterinary Workshop, Porto, 2024. Monteiro, M.; Oliveira, Adriana; Lobo-da-Cunha, A.; Almeida, A.; Valente, L.M.P.. "How do protein hydrolysates modulate the 5-HT system in stress-gut-brain interactions?". Paper presented in 3rd International Symposium Mucosal Health in Aquaculture, 2024. Oliveira, Adriana; Monteiro, M.; Sá, T.; Lobo-da-Cunha, A.; Almeida, A.; Kokou, F.; Valente, L.M.P.. "Protein Hydrolysates from agri-food by-products boost Sparus aurata growth, oxidative status and preserve intestinal integrity". Paper presented in Blue think conference 2024, 2024. Oliveira, Adriana; Monteiro, M.; Sá, T.;; Almeida, A.; Kokou, F.; Valente, L.M.P.. "Boosting Growth And Stress Resilience Of Gilthead Seabream Through Innovative Protein Hydrolysate Supplementation In Aquafeeds". Paper presented in AQUA2024, 2024. Oliveira, Adriana; Monteiro, M.; Sá, T.; Almeida, A.; Kokou, F.; Valente, L.M.P.. "Agri-food Waste to Fish Welfare: Using by-product hydrolysates to boost seabream growth and cold stress resilience". Paper presented in One Health PhD Forum, 2024. Sousa, J.; Oliveira, Adriana; Monteiro, M.; Magalhães, S.; Aires, T.; Almeida, A.; Valente, L.M.P.. "Modulating stress-metabolic interactions in gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata) with innovative hydrolysates, under a global changes scenario". Paper presented in 8th Meeting of Young Researchers of University of Porto - IJUP 2024, 2024.
Conference poster	Monteiro, M.; Oliveira, Adriana; Lobo-da-Cunha, A.; Almeida, A.; Valente, L.M.P.. "Mitigating Thermal Stress in Gilthead Seabream (Sparus aurata) using novel protein hydrolysates". Paper presented in 22nd Fish Immunology Workshop, 2024. Oliveira, Adriana; Monteiro, M.; Kokou, F.; Valente, L.M.P.. "Priming for welfare: Novel hydrolysates in the promotion of fish robustness through modulation of microbiota-gut-brain- axis.". Paper presented in X Workshop of the Animal Science Doctoral Programme, 2023. Pinheiro, Marlene; Rithielli Marassi; Oliveira, Adriana; Susana Barros; Nélson Alves; Morais, Hugo; Marta Ribeiro; et al. Corresponding author: Pinheiro, Marlene. "Deep-Sea Mining as an Emerging Stressor in Deep-Sea Environments: Case Studies Using Hyperbaric Chambers for Hazard and Risk Assessment". Paper presented in SETAC Europe 33rd Annual Meeting, 2023. Oliveira, Adriana. "Fish Health in Aquaculture". Paper presented in CEEBI (State Congress of Bioscience Students), 2022.
Journal article	Matteo Zarantoniello; Adriana Alves de Oliveira; Tolga Sahin; Lorenzo Freddi; Matteo Torregiani; Isabella Tucciarone; Giulia Chemello; et al. "Enhancing Rearing of European Seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax) in Aquaponic Systems: Investigating the Effects of Enriched Black Soldier Fly (Hermetia illucens) Prepupae Meal on Fish Welfare and Quality Traits". Animals (2023): https://doi.org/10.3390/ani13121921. 10.3390/ani13121921 Marlene Pinheiro; Adriana Oliveira; Susana Barros; Nélson Alves; Joana Raimundo; Miguel Caetano; João Coimbra; Teresa Neuparth; Miguel M. Santos. "Functional, biochemical and molecular impact of sediment plumes from deep-sea mining on Mytilus galloprovincialis under hyperbaric conditions". Environmental Research (2021): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2021.110753. 10.1016/j.envres.2021.110753
Thesis / Dissertation	"NUTRIMU and EPPO Internship: Larval rearing and fish health in Aquaculture". Master, Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, 2021. https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/bitstream/10216/138844/2/523100.pdf. "Assess the effects of deep-sea mining associated stressors". Degree, 2019.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2024/10	Enhancing fish growth and resilience: using novel hydrolysates obtained through a circular economy approach in aquafeeds for gilthead seabream	Animal and Veterinary Workshop 2024
2024/09	Protein Hydrolysates from agri-food by-products boost Sparus aurata growth, oxidative status and preserve intestinal integrity	Blue think conference 2024
2024/08	Boosting Growth And Stress Resilience Of Gilthead Seabream Through Innovative Protein Hydrolysate Supplementation In Aquafeeds	AQUA2024
2024/06	Agri-food Waste to Fish Welfare: Using by-product hydrolysates to boost seabream growth and cold stress resilience	One Health PhD Forum
2022/09	BTC 2022: Oral communication (co-author) in the session of Ecology and Ecosystem Services Blue Think Conference (BTC): annual meeting organised by CIIMAR PhD Students Committee	BTC 2022
2022/06	EO2022: Oral communication (co-author) Encontro de Oceanografia	EO2022

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2023/09 - 2024/06	Modulating stress-metabolic interactions in gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata) with innovative hydrolysates, under a global changes scenario. Co-supervisor	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2020/09 - 2021/05	I was an active member of the scientific department for the 2nd edition of Jornadas do Mar, a student-led marine biology congress supported by AEICBAS and NEBUP. My role involved contacting and coordinating with speakers, maintaining communication, and managing logistical aspects of the event. (2021/03) Congress (Member of the Scientific Committee)	Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2024/04 - Current	Volunteer at Mostra UP Exhibition	Volunteer at Mostra UP Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
2023 - Current	Volunteer at CIIMAR's open day, CIIMAR, Matosinhos, Portugal Exhibition	CIIMAR's open day Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
2024/11/16 - 2024/11/20	From November 16–21, 2024, I participated in the EAS Student Group (EAS-SG) Winter Workshop as the National Coordinator for Portugal. Key activities included: -Participating in meetings with fellow National Coordinators to plan initiatives for the Student Group in 2025/2026 - Gaining hands-on experience in pond harvesting - Learning about genetics and the aquaculture of sturgeons and rainbow trout - Presenting our institutions to aquaculture students at the University of South Bohemia in Ceské Budejovice Workshop	Winter Workshop- Student Group European Aquaculture Society, Belgium
2022/09/27 - 2022/09/30	Annual conference of the European Aquaculture Society (EAS). Conference	AE2022 European Aquaculture Society, Belgium
2022/07/19 - 2022/07/22	CEEBI (State Congress of Bioscience Students) - 1º Edition. I attended several presentations, round tables and two different microcourses. I also participated in this congress with a poster presentation entitled "Fish Health in Aquaculture". Congress	CEEBI (State Congress of Bioscience Students) - 1º Edition Universidad de Granada Facultad de Ciencias, Spain
2019/11 - 2020	The AQUAIMPROVE workshop aims to promote the presentation and discussion of recent research advances in the field of aquaculture in Portugal. I participated in the 4th and 5th edition. Workshop	AquaImprove Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2024/05 - Current	European Aquaculture Society	Student Member

Committee member

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization
2024/05 - Current	National Coordinator (Portugal) - European Aquaculture Society Student Group (EAS-SG) Member	European Aquaculture Society, Belgium

Scientific expedition

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2022/09/16 - 2022/12/15	During my Erasmus+ internship at DiSVA (Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy), I assisted with a seabass feeding trial using insect meal in RAS and aquaponics systems. I gained experience in histology, RNA extraction, cDNA synthesis, and qPCR, and helped maintain aquarium facilities with zebrafish, ornamental fish, and European seabass.	Università Politecnica delle Marche Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e dell¿Ambiente, Italy
2022/03/01 - 2022/09/01	During my Erasmus+ internship at the University of Granada, I studied the health of Anemonia sulcata under rearing conditions, learning techniques like protein quantification, electrophoresis, and oxidative stress analysis. I also volunteered at Desgranando Ciencia 8 and presented a poster at CEEBI.	Universidad de Granada Facultad de Ciencias, Spain
2020/09/01 - 2021/12/14	During my Master’s internship, I analyzed seabass samples with unknown pathologies using histological and molecular techniques at CIIMAR’s NUTRIMU group. I also contributed to marine larvae rearing and a meagre growth trial with immunostimulant feeds at IPMA’s EPPO station.	Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, Portugal

Distinctions

Award

2022	Best Master Student - Awards and Distinctions Ceremony FCUP 2022 Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Other distinction

2022	ERASMUS+ Grant European Union, Belgium