Maria Inês Ribeiro Carvalho (FF19-85A9-A1AC)

Curriculum Vitae

Maria Inês Ribeiro Carvalho

Inês Carvalho graduated in Applied Biology at the University of Minho in 2018, concluded her Master’s degree in Marine Sciences – Marine Resources at the University of Porto in 2020. Currently, she is a PhD student funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). She is enrolled in the Doctoral Programme in Animal Science at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar (ICBAS, Portugal), collaborating with the Aquatic Animal Health team at CIIMAR, Portugal, and CISA-INIA-CSIC, Spain. Her research focuses on the impact of dietary methionine supplementation on fish immune responses, including mucosal immune responses, particularly during inflammation insults.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Maria Inês Ribeiro Carvalho

Citation names

Carvalho, Inês
Carvalho, I.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: FF19-85A9-A1AC
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9309-2650

Email addresses

maria.carvalho@ciimar.up.pt (Professional)

Telephones

Telephone

223401800 Ext.: 450 (Professional)

Addresses

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

Knowledge fields

Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biology
Natural sciences - Earth and Environmental Sciences - Water Resources

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian	Intermediate (B1)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2021 - 2025 Ongoing	Ciência Animal (Doutoramento) Major in Morfologia e Fisiologia Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
2023/06/06 - 2023/06/18 Concluded	Mobility (Outros) The University of Edinburgh The Roslin Institute, United Kingdom
2022/11/03 - 2023/02/03 Concluded	Erasmus+ (Outros) Centro de Investigación en Sanidad Animal, Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CISA-INIA-CSIC), Spain
2020/09/28 - 2020/10/02 Concluded	Laboratory Aquatic Animal Science Course (CAL-AQUA) (Outros) Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal Direcção-Geral de Alimentação e Veterinária, Portugal	Approved
2018 - 2020 Concluded	Marine Sciences - Marine Resources (Mestrado) Major in Aquacultura e Pescas Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal Havforskningsinstituttet, Norway "Effects of dietary histidine and plant lipids on the Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) health status following transfer to seawater" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	18
2019/08/19 - 2019/12/23 Concluded	Erasmus+ (Outros) Havforskningsinstituttet, Norway
2015 - 2018 Concluded	Degree in Applied Biology (Licenciatura) Universidade do Minho, Portugal "Distribuição histórica e atual da espécie ameaçada Margaritifera margaritifera no Rio Neiva" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	15
2012 - 2015 Concluded	Sciences and Technology (Ensino secundário) Major in Especialização em Ciências e Tecnologias Escola Secundária de Santa Maria Maior, Portugal	17

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2021/02/01 - 2021/05/31	Researcher (Research)	Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental (CIIMAR), Portugal
	Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental (CIIMAR), Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2021/10/01 - Current	PhD student	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
	Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal (...)

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2023 - Current	Methionine and tryptophan as nutraceutical strategies to improve mucosal immunity and vaccine efficiency in fish PTDC/CVT-CVT/7741/2020 PhD Student Fellow Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental (CIIMAR), Portugal	Ongoing
2022/09/01 - Current	AQUAVIP - Unraveling the role of viperin in the trout and turbot antiviral responses EXPL/CVT-CVT/0458/2021 Researcher Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental (CIIMAR), Portugal Universidade do Porto, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2022 - Current	GRINNAQUA - Green Innovation strategies for animal health management: towards sustainable Aquaculture 101079467 Researcher Universidade do Porto, Portugal The University of Edinburgh The Roslin Institute, United Kingdom Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental (CIIMAR), Portugal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain Universitetet i Bergen Institutt for biologisk og medisinsk psykologi, Norway	Horizon Europe Excellent Science Ongoing
2021/11 - 2025/11	Beyond methionine nutrition: new tools to improve fish robustness and disease resistance 2021.04867.BD PhD Student Fellow Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental (CIIMAR), Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2021/02/01 - 2021/06/01	Tools4Breed - Challenge tests and genetic markers for Perkinsus as a tool for Rudipates decussatus' selective breeding FA_05_2017_025 Research Fellow Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental (CIIMAR), Portugal Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, Portugal Oceano Fresco SA, Portugal	Fundo Azul Concluded

Other

	Designation	Funders
2023/01/02 - Current	IMMUNAA - Methionine and tryptophan as nutraceutical strategies to improve mucosal immunity and vaccine efficiency in fish PTDC/CVT-CVT/7741/2020 Researcher Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental (CIIMAR), Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing

Outputs

Publications

Conference poster

Carvalho, Inês; Peixoto, Diogo; Ramos-Pinto, Lourenço; Gonçalves, José Fernando; Machado, Marina; Tafalla, Carolina; Costas, Benjamin. "Effects of dietary methionine supplementation on European seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax) mucosal immunity and disease resistance against Tenacibaculum maritimum". Paper presented in 21st International Conference on Diseases of Fish and Shellfish, 2023.
Carvalho, Inês; Peixoto, Diogo; Ramos-Pinto, Lourenço; Gonçalves, José Fernando; Machado, Marina; Tafalla, Carolina; Costas, Benjamin. "Immunomodulatory role of methionine supplementation on mucosal immune response and disease resistance in european seabass". Paper presented in Aquaculture Europe 2023, 2023.
Carvalho, Inês; Peixoto, Diogo; Ramos-Pinto, Lourenço; Gonçalves, José Fernando; Machado, Marina; Tafalla, Carolina; Costas, Benjamin. "Effects of dietary methionine supplementation on European seabass mucosal immune response and disease resistance". Paper presented in X Workshop of the Animal Science Doctoral Program 23, 2023.
Peixoto, Diogo; Carvalho, Inês; Machado, Marina; Aragão, Cláudia; Costas, Benjamin; Azeredo, Rita. "Dietary tryptophan supplementation mitigates stress- and inflammation-induced gene expression alterations in the HPI axis of a teleost fish". Paper presented in Aquaculture Europe 2023, 2023.
Martín, Diana; Ordás, M. Camino; Carvalho, Inês; Diaz-Rosales, Patricia; Machado, Marina; Costas, Benjamin; Tafalla, Carolina. "Rainbow trout IgM + B cells modulate their functionality in response to L-methionine supplementation". Paper presented in 15th Congress of the International Society for Developmental and Comparative Immunology (ISDCI), 2023.
Machado, Marina; Peixoto, Diogo; Santos, Paulo; Ricardo, Ana; Duarte, Inês; Aragão, Cláudia; Costas, Benjamin. "Tryptophan modulatory role in European Seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax) immune response to acute inflammation under stressful conditions". Paper presented in 21st International Conference on Diseases of Fish and Shellfish, 2023.
Martín, Diana; Ordás, M. Camino; Carvalho, Inês; Diaz-Rosales, Patricia; Machado, Marina; Costas, Benjamin; Tafalla, Carolina. "L-methionine modulates the functionality of IgM + B cells in rainbow trout". Paper presented in 21st International Conference on Diseases of Fish and Shellfish, 2023.
Carvalho, Inês; Machado, Marina; Tafalla, Carolina; Costas, Benjamin. Corresponding author: Carvalho, Inês. "Beyond methionine: New tools to improve fish robustness and disease resistance". Paper presented in Animal Science Doctoral Programme – Workshop 2022, 2022.

Journal article

Martín, Diana; Ordás, M. Camino; Carvalho, Inês; Díaz-Rosales, Patricia; Nuñez-Ortiz, Noelia; Vicente-Gil, Samuel; Arrogante, Aitor; et al. "L-methionine supplementation modulates IgM+ B cell responses in rainbow trout". Frontiers in Immunology 14 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2023.1264228.
Published • 10.3389/fimmu.2023.1264228
Machado, Marina; Peixoto, Diogo; Santos, Paulo; Ricardo, Ana; Duarte, Inês; Carvalho, Inês; Aragão, Cláudia; Azeredo, Rita; Costas, Benjamín. "Tryptophan Modulatory Role in European Seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax) Immune Response to Acute Inflammation under Stressful Conditions". International Journal of Molecular Sciences 23 20 (2022): 12475. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms232012475.
10.3390/ijms232012475
Sousa, Ronaldo; Nogueira, Joana Garrido; Miranda, Fernando; Teixeira, Amílcar. "Time travelling through local ecological knowledge regarding an endangered species". Science of The Total Environment 739 (2020): 140047. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140047.
Published • 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140047 • Assistant staff

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2023	Counteractive effects of tryptophan dietary supplementation on neuroendocrine-immune communication pathways	21st International Conference on Diseases of Fish and Shellfish European Association of Fish Pathologists e.V. (Aberdeen, United Kingdom)
2023	Dietary supplementation of tryptophan alleviates gene expression changes induced by stress and inflammation in the hypothalamic-pituitary-interrenal (HPI) axis of a teleost fish	X Workshop of the Animal Science Doctoral Program 23 PDCA (Vila do Conde, Portugal)
2021/10/05	Effects of dietary histidine and plant lipids on the Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) health status following transfer to seawater	Aquaculture Europe 2021 European Aquaculture Society (Funchal, Portugal)
2021/09/25	Effects of dietary histidine and plant lipids on the Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) health status following transfer to seawater	Blue Think Conference 2021 Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research (CIIMAR), Portugal (Matosinhos, Portugal)
2021/06/02	Effects of dietary histidine and plant lipids on the Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) health status following transfer to seawater	Neptune Seminar Series Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research (CIIMAR), Portugal (Porto, Portugal)
2019/03/11	Symposium of the Future	I Science Conference Universidade do Minho Escola de Ciências (Braga, Portugal)

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2018/01/31 - 2018/02/02	XIX Conference of Applied Biology (2018/01/31 - 2018/02/02) Other (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2023/03/16 - 2023/03/17	Workshop on increasing researcher's skills on the use of omics tools Workshop	Omics tools in aquaculture Grinnaqua, Portugal
2022/09/15 - 2022/09/15	Annual workshop of the Doctoral Program in Animal Science of ICBAS-UP Workshop	Animal Science IX Annual Workshop Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
2022/04/24 - 2022/04/28	Presentations given by experienced lecturers regarding the latest insights in the evolution of the immune system and, in particular, immune modulation, host defence against pathogens and vaccination Workshop	21st Fish Immunology and Vaccination Workshop Wageningen University, Netherlands
2020/09/18 - 2021/09/18	Animal Science Doctoral Programme - VII and VIII Workshops Workshop	Animal Science Doctoral Programme - VII and VIII Workshops Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
2021/07/23 - 2021/07/23	Symposium centred on studies approaching animal health and welfare in aquaculture, with focus on nutrition and prophylactic strategies Symposium	Animal Health Symposium Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental (CIIMAR), Portugal
2021/01/25 - 2021/02/12	Statistic course using IBM SPSS Statistics Other	Biostatistics in Health Sciences Universidade do Minho Escola de Medicina, Portugal
2019/11/13 - 2019/11/14	Biennial seminar for communicating recent advances in fish nutrition research in Norway Seminar	The Norwegian Fish Nutrition Seminar Havforskningsinstituttet, Norway
2016 - 2018	National meeting of Biology students Meeting	XIX e XXI ENEB Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2017/07/10 - 2017/07/14	Training for the accomplishment of plankton, vegetation, invertebrates and fish samplings in both sea- and freshwater environments, collection of environmental parameters and analysis of biological samples Other	Summer Course - Tools for Aquatic Ecosystems Research Centro de Ciências do Mar e do Ambiente, Portugal
2014/08 - 2014/08	Diving course	Confederação Mundial de Actividades Subaquáticas, Portugal

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2015 - 2018	Students Union of Applied Biology at the University of Minho	President of the Promotional Department

Distinctions

Award

2023	Best Student Poster Award 21st International Conference on Diseases Fish and Shellfish, United Kingdom
2023	Best Poster Communication Award Animal Science Doctoral Workshop 2023, Portugal
2021	Best Oral Presentation Blue Think Conference 2021, Portugal