Inês de Sousa Gregório (CF1D-D6B8-8E79)

Curriculum Vitae

Inês de Sousa Gregório

I am a Molecular Ecologist with a BSc in Biology and a MSc in Applied Ecology, both awarded by the University of Aveiro. My current research interests focus on the use of molecular tools to answer ecological questions and to inform management and conservation strategies in vulnerable ecosystems. After finishing my MSc, I worked as laboratory technician in both private and public institutions. I am currently a PhD student at the Biodiversity, Genetics and Evolution programme (FCUP, University of Porto, Portugal). My PhD project is being developed in the Deep Sea Biodiversity and Conservation Team (CIIMAR, Portugal) and is focused on combining ecological modelling and molecular approaches to unravel the potential climatic resilience of deep-sea habitat-forming sponges. I have published 4 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals (one as the first author) in the areas of population genetics, genomics and conservation. As a PhD candidate, I am discovering a passion and interest in science support activities and wish to pursue this career path after I finish my degree. In the meantime, I am learning as much as I can in the field, taking courses related to project and data management, proposal writing and ethics/integrity in research.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Inês de Sousa Gregório

Citation names

Gregório, I.
Gregório, I.S.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: CF1D-D6B8-8E79
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2855-529X
Google Scholar ID: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-z95zBQAAAAJ&hl=en

Email addresses

igregorio1@ciimar.up.pt (Professional)

Addresses

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

Websites

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-z95zBQAAAAJ&hl=en (Scholar)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/inessgregorio/ (Social media)

Knowledge fields

Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Molecular Biology
Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Ecology
Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biodiversity Conservation
Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Marine Biology

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
German	Elementary (A2)	Elementary (A2)	Beginner (A1)	Intermediate (B1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2020/10 - 2024/12 Ongoing	Biodiversity, Genetics and Evolution (BIODIV) (Doutoramento) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal "Changing seas: Unravelling the genomic diversity, connectivity and climate resilience of deep-sea habitat-forming sponges" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2015/02 - 2017/12 Concluded	Applied Ecology (Mestrado) Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Biologia, Portugal "Genetic structure, diversity and gene flow on a threatened brown bear (Ursus arctos) population in Cantabria, Spain " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	17
2009/09 - 2014/11 Concluded	Biologia (Licenciatura) Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Biologia, Portugal "Evaluation of the parasitism level in bivalves - ecological risk" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	14
2012/03 - 2012/09 Concluded	SOCRATES/ERASMUS Mobility Programme (Bachelor) Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany	18

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2022/01/06 - 2022/05/06	Visiting Researcher (Research)	University of Rhode Island, United States
	University of Rhode Island, United States
2020/08 - 2020/11	Research Assistant (Research)	Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal

2020/01 - 2020/08	Research Trainee (Research)	Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal

2019/08 - 2019/12	Research Assistant (Research)	Biocant Associação de Transferência de Tecnologia, Portugal

2018/11 - 2019/08	Research Assistant (Research)	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal

2014/02 - 2014/09	Research Trainee (Research)	Universität Bielefeld, Germany

Other Careers

	Category Host institution	Employer
2018/07 - 2018/10	Técnico Superior (Técnico Superior)	STIM, United Kingdom

2008 - 2018	Assistente Operacional (Assistente Operacional)	Waitress and sales assistant, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2020/12/01 - Current	PhD student	Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal

2020/12 - Current	PhD student	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
	Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal (...)

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2020/12 - Current	Changing Seas: Unravelling the genomic diversity, connectivity and climate resilience of deep-sea habitat forming sponges 2020.06725.BD	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2018/11 - 2019/12	GENOINSEQ - Next Gen Sequencing Unit . Research Technician Fellow Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal

Other

	Designation	Funders
2023/04/01 - 2026/03/31	Marine sponge biodiversity from genes to ecosystems: delivering knowledge and tools for sustainable management and conservation DivProtect/0011/2021 10.54499/DivProtect/0011/2021 Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2021 - 2024	DEEPbaseline: co-creating a knowledge baseline on the diversity and distribution of sponge and coral vulnerable marine ecosystems of the Portuguese continental shelf ODL/2019/044
2022 - 2022	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 Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal	Concluded
2020/08 - 2020/11	SponGES - Deep-Sea Sponge Grounds of the North-Atlantic: an ecosystem-based approach towards their conservation and sustainable exploitation 679849 Research Technician Fellow

Outputs

Publications

Conference poster	Despujols, Daniel; Figueiredo, Pedro; Soares, Ana Sofia; Gregório, I.S.; Mejía-Saenz, Alejandra; Domingos, Celso; Ledoux, Jean-Baptiste; Carreiro-Silva, Marina; Xavier, Joana R.. Corresponding author: Despujols, Daniel. "New records of cold-water corals collected as bycatch from the northern continental shelf of Portugal: a DNA barcoding approach". Paper presented in 8th International Symposium of Deep Sea Corals, 2023. Figueiredo, Pedro; Despujols, Daniel; Gregório, Inês; Xavier, Joana R.. Corresponding author: Figueiredo, Pedro. "Diversity of Cnidaria on the mainland shelf of Portugal: a DNA barcoding approach". Paper presented in Blue Think Conference 2022, 2022. Gregório, I.; Ferreira, E.; Barros, T.; Fonseca, C.. "¿Caminos para la colonización o el éxodo? Una nueva perspectiva de la población de oso pardo (Ursus arctos) de la Cordillera Cantábrica.". Paper presented in XIV SECEM Congress, 2019. Torres, R.T.; Ferreira, E.; Rocha, R.G.; Gregório, I.; Fonseca, C.. ""Hibridación entre lobo y perro doméstico: primera evidencia en una población en peligro de extinción en el centro de Portugal"". Paper presented in XIII SECEM Congress, 2017.
Journal article	Inês Gregório; Joana R. Xavier; Andrew J. Davies. "Present and future distribution of the deep-sea habitat-forming sponge - Pheronema carpenteri ( ) in a changing ocean". Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers (2024): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2024.104390. 10.1016/j.dsr.2024.104390 Ferreira, Eduardo; Gregório, Inês; Barros, Tânia; Pando, Doriana; Morante, Joaquín; Barbosa, Ana; Hartasánchez, Roberto; Fonseca, Carlos. "And yet, migration, population growth or mortality are not balanced among Cantabrian brown bear subpopulations. Reply to Blanco et al (2020)". PLOS ONE 16 10 (2021): e0256432. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256432. Published • 10.1371/journal.pone.0256432 Albuquerque, L.; Castelhano, N.; Raposo, P.; Froufe, H.J.C.; Tiago, I.; Severino, R.; Roxo, I.; et al. "Comparative genome sequence analysis of several species in the genus Tepidimonas and the description of a novel species Tepidimonas charontis sp. nov.". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 70 3 (2020): 1596-1604. Published • 10.1099/ijsem.0.003942 Gregório, I.; Barros, T.; Pando, D.; Morante, J.; Fonseca, C.; Ferreira, E.. "Paths for colonization or exodus? New insights from the brown bear (Ursus arctos) population of the Cantabrian Mountains". PLOS ONE 15 1 (2020): e0227302. Published • 10.1371/journal.pone.0227302 Albuquerque, L.; Castelhano, N.; Raposo, P.; Froufe, H.J.C.; Tiago, I.; Severino, R.; Roxo, I.; et al. "Corrigendum: Comparative genome sequence analysis of several species in the genus tepidimonas and the description of a novel species tepidimonas charontis sp. nov (Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020, 70, 1596-1604, 10.1099/ijsem.0.003942)". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 70 12 (2020): 6539-6539. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85099074079&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1099/IJSEM.0.004563 Humble, E.; Dasmahapatra, K.K.; Martinez-Barrio, A.; Gregório, I.; Forcada, J.; Polikeit, A.-C.; Goldsworthy, S.D.; et al. "RAD sequencing and a hybrid antarctic fur seal genome assembly reveal rapidly decaying linkage disequilibrium, global population structure and evidence for inbreeding". G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics 8 8 (2018): 2709-2722. Published • 10.1534/g3.118.200171 Cartagena-Matos, B.; Gregório, I.; Morais, M.; Ferreira, E.. "Trends in the extinction of carnivores in Madagascar". Animal Biodiversity and Conservation 40 1 (2017): 103-114. Published • 10.32800/abc.2017.40.0103
Thesis / Dissertation	Gregório, Inês. "Genetic structure, diversity and gene flow on a threarened population of brown bear (Ursus arctos) in Cantabria, Spain". Master, Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Biologia, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/22700.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2024/10	Applying Red List criteria to assess the conservation status of the deep-sea bird’s nest sponge (Pheronema carpenteri) and the habitats it forms	7th International Marine Conservation Conference (Cape Town, South Africa)
2024/07	A cryptic species complex of stony corals (Dendrophyllia, Scleractinia) at mesophotic depths in northern Portugal	European Coral Reef Symposium – ECRS 2024 (Naples, Italy)
2023/09	Exploring Biodiversity: Marine Sponges and Corals as Bycatch in Portugal's Artisanal Fisheries	Blue Think Conference 2023 (Matosinhos, Portugal)
2023/05	Present-day and future distribution of deep-sea glass sponge Pheronema carpenteri in a changing ocean	Seminars in Biodiversity and Evolution Cibio-InBIO/UP (Portugal)
2022/10/10	Present-day and future distribution of the glass sponge Pheronema carpenteri in a changing ocean	11th World Sponge Conference Naturalis Biodiversity Center (Leiden, Netherlands)
2022/09/27	Present-day and future distribution of the glass sponge Pheronema carpenteri in the North Atlantic	Blue Think Conference 2022 Ciimar's PhD Committee (Matosinhos, Portugal)
2020/06/24	Paths for colonization or exodus? New insights from the brown bear population of the Cantabrian Mountains	Wildlife Seminars Wildlife Research Unit - University of Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2021/12 - 2022/09	Diversity of corals in the mainland shelf of Portugal: a DNA barcoding approach Co-supervisor	Biology (Degree) Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2024/08/13 - 2024/09/13	TwinDEEPS kickoff meeting (2024/09/12 - 2024/09/13) Meeting (Co-organisor)	Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
2023/05 - 2023/06	SponBIODIV project Kick-off meeting (2023/06 - 2023/06) Meeting (Co-organisor)
2022/05/27 - 2022/09/27	Blue Think Conference (BTC) 2022 (2022/09 - 2022/09) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
2022/09/17 - 2022/09/17	CIIMAR Open Day (Deep-sea Biodiversity and Conservation Team stand) (2022/09 - 2022/09) Exhibition (Member of the Organising Committee)
2021/09/23 - 2021/09/24	Blue Think Conference (BTC) 2021 (2021/09/23 - 2021/09/24) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
2014/10 - 2014/10	VI ASPOC Meeting (Portuguese Cuniculture Association) (2014/10/30 - 2014/10/31) Meeting (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2024/09/17 - 2024/09/17	Hapiness Camp. Certification on Human Sustainability & Workplace transformation Congress	Hapiness Camp
2024/06/19 - 2024/06/19	SponBIODIV Early Career Researchers Workshop - Bridging Science and Policy for Sponge Conservation Workshop
2024/05/23 - 2024/05/24	Course on Management and Coordination of EU Funded Projects with the PM2 Methodology - PM24EUFunds Workshop	Univerzitet u Novom Sadu, Serbia
2024/05/08 - 2024/05/08	Boosting Research Impact Seminar	Boosting Research Impact
2024/03 - 2024/04	Certification obtained to be a Global IUCN Red List Assessor Other	IUCN Red List Assessor Course
2024/02 - 2024/02	OYSTER network workshop 2024 Workshop
2024/01 - 2024/01	Course on Ethics and Integrity in Research Workshop	Ethics and Integrity in Research Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2023/09 - 2023/09	OYSTER network workshop 2023 Workshop
2023/08 - 2023/08	Summer course in analysis of high throughput data for population genetics 2023 Workshop	University of Copenhagen Globe Institute, Denmark
2023/01/13 - 2023/01/13	Course on Day2Day Data Management for Life Sciences Workshop	Ready for Biodata Management? - Day2Day Data Management Course for Life Sciences BioData.pt, Portugal
2022/11/11 - 2022/11/11	Course on Project Management (BlueBio4Future)
2022/11/10 - 2022/11/10	Course on Grant Proposal Writing (BlueBio4Future) Workshop	Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
2022/10/10 - 2022/10/14	11th World Sponge Conference Conference
2022/09/30 - 2022/09/30	OYSTER network workshop 2022 Workshop	OYSTER (Orienting Young ScienTists of EuromaRine)
2022/09/27 - 2022/09/27	Blue Think Conference 2022 Conference
2021/12 - 2021/12	Aquatic Species Distribution Modelling Workshop Workshop	Aquatic Species Distribution Modelling Workshop Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
2021/09 - 2021/09	Session Moderator @ Blue Think Conference (BTC) 2021 Conference	Blue Think Conference 2021 (BTC 2021) Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
2021/02/01 - 2021/02/05	Advanced Course "Art and Design for Scientists" Workshop	Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
2021/01/18 - 2021/01/22	Advanced Course "Gene prediction and annotation of whole genomes" Workshop	Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
2021/01/06 - 2021/01/08	Advanced course "Reproducibility in Science" Workshop	Centro de Ecologia Evolução e Alterações Ambientais, Portugal
2020/12/09 - 2020/12/11	Trends in Biodiversity and Evolution (TiBE) - Metabarcoding and Metagenomics
2020/10/05 - 2020/10/09	Biodiversity Genomics 2020
2020/07/16 - 2020/07/17	Virtual Symposium on Phylogenomics and Comparative Genomics Symposium	Virtual Symposium on Phylogenomics and Comparative Genomics Instituto de Biología Evolutiva, Spain
2020/05/26 - 2020/05/26	Big Data from Small Organisms (Webinar) Seminar	NatureMetrics, United Kingdom
2020/04/24 - 2020/04/24	The Ocean Genome: Challenges and Opportunities (Webinar) Seminar	World Resources Institute, United States
2020/02 - 2020/02	Marine Information Systems Congress	Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2019/10/07 - 2019/10/07	Hazardous Hospital Waste Management - Screening and Conditioning Workshop	ambiwaste, Portugal
2018/03 - 2018/03	Digital Marketing Course Workshop	Google Inc, United States
2017/12/06 - 2017/12/09	XIII SECEM Congress (Spanish Society for the Conservation and Study of Mammals) Congress	Spanish Society for the Conservation and Study of Mammals, Spain
2016/12/16 - 2016/12/16	XII National Meeting of Evolutionary Biology, Portugal Meeting	Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Portuguese Association of Evolutionary Biology, Portugal
2016/11/03 - 2016/11/03	Conserving Large-Carnivores in a Crowded Europe Seminar	Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
2016/03/16 - 2016/03/16	Don't stress. Use Mendeley! Workshop	Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2015/12 - 2015/12	Introduction to statistical analysis in R Workshop	Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Biologia, Portugal
2013/06/11 - 2013/06/14	Advanced course on scientific communication Workshop	Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2022 - Current	Deep-Sea Biology Society

Committee member

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization
2024/01 - Current	Co-chair at OYSTER \| EuroMarine, Early Career Scientist Working Group from EuroMarine Coordinator
2023/01 - Current	GreenLab CIIMAR Member
2023/01 - 2023/12	Secretary of OYSTER \| EuroMarine, Early Career Scientist Working Group from EuroMarine Member
2021/09 - 2022/09	CIIMAR's PHD students committee Member	Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
2016 - 2017	Founder and President of the Ultimate Frisbee students' association President / Vice-president	Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2010 - 2013	AAUAv Biology students' association Member	Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Consulting

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2015/06 - 2015/06	Field work volunteer in the badger population census in Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2017/07 - 2017/07	Scientific monitor at the "Summer Academy 2017"	Do indício à espécie: as técnicas moleculares no estudo dos mamíferos da Ria de Aveiro (Outros)	Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Evaluation committee

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization	Funding entity
2023 - 2023	Evaluation Committee of EuroMarine/OYSTER Individual Fellowships 2023 Evaluator
2023 - 2023	Evaluation Committee of EuroMarine/OYSTER ECR Cooperation Projects 2023 Evaluator

Mentoring / Tutoring

	Topic	Student name
2020/10 - 2021/12	Molecular techniques applied to Benthic Ecosystems	Daniel Jun Despujols
2021/10 - 2021/10	Molecular techniques applied to Benthic Ecosystems	Andreu Santín Muriel

Distinctions

Award

2022	Fulbright Grantee (Visiting Student Researcher) Fulbright Portugal, Portugal
2022	Best Oral Communication (BTC 2022) - Ecology and Ecosystem services session
2014	ERASMUS+ Internship Programme Scholarship
2012	SOCRATES/ERASMUS Studies Mobility Programme Scholarship