Curriculum Vitae
Maria Luis Vilar Correia Brito Bôto
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Maria Luis Vilar Correia Brito Bôto
Citation names
- Bôto, Maria
- Maria L. Bôto
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 0C17-F6A6-CCA3
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-9557-3893
Knowledge fields
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Molecular Biology
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Ecology
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Microbiology
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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| Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
| English | Intermediate (B1) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) |
| Spanish; Castilian | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2020/01/01 - 2023/12/31
Ongoing
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Ciências do Meio Aquático - Biologia e Ecologia (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
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2016 - 2018
Concluded
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Biodiversidade, Genética e Evolução (Mestrado)
Major in Sem especialização
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Development of a georeferenced library of native microbial consortia for bioremediation of oil spills" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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18 valores |
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2010 - 2016
Concluded
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Biologia (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
"Potential of Constructed Wetlands for Bioremediation of Antibiotics from Aquaculture Effluents" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation
Science
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2019/09 - 2019/12 | Researcher (Research) | Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal |
| 2018/07/01 - 2019/01/31 | Researcher (Research) | Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal |
Others
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2020/01/01 - Current | PhD Fellow (SFRH/BD/146523/2019) | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2019/09 - 2019/12 | FEEDMI: Improvements in disease resistance, stress and environmental sustainability in aquaculture systems through nutritional
tools and modulation of microbial communities
Norte-01-0247-FEDER-039948
Research Fellow
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
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Ongoing
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| 2018/07/01 - 2019/01/31 | SpilLess: First line response to oil spills based on native microorganisms cooperation
Research Fellow
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência Center for Research in Advanced Computing Systems, Portugal Universidade de Vigo Facultade de Bioloxía, Spain |
European Maritime and Fisheries Fund Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Ongoing
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Contract
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 | Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental
UID/Multi/04423/2019
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Other
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2021 - Current | OCEAN3R - Reduce pressures, restore and regenerate the NW-Portuguese ocean and waters
NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000064
Researcher
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European Regional Development Fund
Ongoing
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| 2021 - Current | ATLANTIDA - Platform for the monitoring of the North Atlantic ocean and tools for the sustainable exploitation of the marine
resources
NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000040
Researcher
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Ongoing
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| 2019 - Current | NetTag: Tagging fishing gears and enhancing on board best-practices to promote waste free fisheries
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
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European Maritime and Fisheries Fund Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Ongoing
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| 2020/01 - 2021/12 | BIOREM: Bioremediation of hydrocarbon pollutants by autochthonous microorganisms in aquatic environment
PTDC/BTA-GES/32186/2017
POCI-01-0145-FEDER- 032186
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
| 2016/08/21 - 2016/09/04 | BIOMETORE: “Biodiversity in seamounts – the Madeira-Tore and Great Meteor”
Researcher
Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, Portugal
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EEA Grants
Concluded
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| 2016/01 - 2016/07 | 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
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Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
| Conference abstract |
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| Conference poster |
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| Journal article |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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| 2023/04/21 | Constructed wetlands for the treatment of swine wastewater – removing chemical and biological pollutants | IMAB23-International Congress on Metal-microbe applications for circular economy
University of Porto, CIIMAR; CSIC-Instituto de la Grasa (Porto, Portugal)
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| 2022/10 | Hydrocarbon Degrading Microorganisms in the NW Coast of the Iberian Peninsula: A Starting Point for Oil Spill Bioremediation | International Oil Spill Science Conference 2022
(Halifax, Canada)
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| 2022/07 | Marine Microorganisms for Bioremediation of Oil Spills: Culture-dependent and Independent Approaches | FEMS Conference on Microbiology
FEMS (Belgrade, Serbia)
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| 2021/11/25 | A Georeferenced Library of Native Microorganisms for Bioremediation of Oil Spills | Microbiotec 21 - Congress of Microbiology and Biotechnology 2021
Nova University of Lisbon; Portuguese Society of Microbiology and the Portuguese Society of Biotechnology (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2021/09/23 | Diversity of the Functional Machinery of Native Microbial Communities with the Ability to Degrade Petroleum Hydrocarbons | Blue Think Conference: Share Science, Spread Knowledge
CIIMAR (Matosinhos, Portugal)
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| 2019/11 | Bioremediation of oil spills in seawater using lyophilized native hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria | 2nd edition of the International Meeting on New Strategies in Bioremediation Processes (BioRemid2019)
Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP) (Porto, Portugal)
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| 2018/11 | Development of a georeferenced library of native microbial consortia for bioremediation of oil spills | Neptune Seminar Series
CIIMAR (Matosinhos, Portugal)
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| 2018/06 | Oil spills bioremediation with native hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria: SpilLess project | EBC–VII and ISEB–2018
International Society for Environmental Biotechnology (Chania, Greece)
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| 2018/02/07 | Development of a georeferenced library of native microbial consortia for bioremediation of oil spills | 11º IJUP - Encontro de Investigação Jovem
Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
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Supervision
| Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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| 2021/09 - 2022/07 | Development of microbial consortia for bioremediation of hydrocarbons in offshore marine environments
Co-supervisor of André Ferreira
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Biologia (Degree)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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| 2019 - 2020 | Desenvolvimento de ferramentas biotecnológicas para a biorremediação de ecossistemas marinhos
Co-supervisor
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Biorrecursos (Degree)
Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal
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Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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| 2021/12/02 - 2021/12/03 | Member of the organisation committee of the final workshop of the Research Project "BIOREM - Bioremediation of hydrocarbon
pollutants by autochthonous microorganisms in aquatic environment" (2021/12/02)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal |
| 2019/11/27 - 2019/11/27 | Member of the organisation committee of the final workshop of the Research Project "SpilLess - First line response to oil
spills based on native microorganisms cooperation" (2019/11/27)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal |
| 2018/03/26 - 2018/03/26 | Invited researcher of the practical workshop “How native bacteria can remediate oceans polluted after an oil spill: Bioremediation
as an alternative method” in the XI National Meeting of Students of Biochemistry (2018/03/26 - 2018/03/26)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
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Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal |
| 2015/08/31 - 2015/09/04 | Support at the organisation of the 14th Deep-Sea Biology Symposium (2015/08/31 - 2015/09/04)
Symposium (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal |
| 2009/07/18 - 2009/09/05 | Monitor of three activities of “Citizen Science” integrated in the Evolution Megalab project, “Cepaea sob investigacão. Procura-se:
vivo ou morto” promoted by Gaia Biological Park in association with IBMC.INEB (NCC) (2009)
Other (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade do Porto Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Portugal |
Event participation
| Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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| 2016 - 2016 | Oceanographic sampling campaign in the Biometore 7 scientific expedition, inserted in the project "BIOMETORE - Biodiversity in seamounts: The Madeira-Tore and Great Meteor" |
Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, Portugal
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Jury of academic degree
| Topic Role |
Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization |
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| 2020/09/10 | Next Generation Sequencing Technologies in Saltwater Aquaculture Systems
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Sofia Castro Sousa (Other)
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
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Mentoring / Tutoring
| Topic | Student name | |
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| 2019 - 2020 | Monitorização da qualidade de água ao longo do sistema de tratamento de uma aquacultura com recirculação (RAS) | João Pedro Magalhães |
| 2017 - 2018 | Development of native microbial consortia with a cooperative competence for petroleum compounds degradation | Mariana Campos |
Distinctions
Award
| 2023 | Best Poster Award
Sociedad de Microbiologos Espanoles, Spain
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| 2018 | 3rd Atlantic Project Award on the Entrepreneurship & Innovation Category |
Other distinction
| 2022 | Conference Attendance Grant
Federation Of European Microbiological Societies, Netherlands
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| 2022 | Honorable Mention
Mirpuri Foundation Ocean Award, Portugal
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