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Raul Valente (RV) is a PosDoc researcher at Interdisciplinary Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research of the University of Porto, Portugal (CIIMAR.UP). RV has BSc degree in Biology, followed by a MSc in Biodiversity, Genetics and Evolution; a postgraduation course on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, and a PhD in Biology, completed in Jan 2024. He was awarded a PhD Studentship in an international competitive FCT Call (SFRH/BD/144786/2019). Currently, RV is employed by the EMPHATIC Project (Biodiversa+) where he has been responsible for establishing a standardised protocol for microbiome analyses from blow samples of free-ranging cetaceans. Additionally, he serves as the EMPHATIC Project manager, actively contributing to the overall progress of the project. He benefitted from several international experiences by doing an internship at Aquatic Mammal and Bioindicator Laboratory (MAQUA), Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ) and at CIMA Research Foundation (Italy). He has conducted research in the field of marine ecology since 2016, focusing on cetacean ecology and evolution. RV has supervised graduation and now MSc students. He has a strong experience in fieldwork activities, organising, coordinating, tutoring interns, and participating in several at-sea campaigns to conduct activities of cetacean monitoring and sampling, applying several techniques. He is licensed by the Portuguese Institute for Nature Conservation and Forests (ICNF) to sample cetaceans. His scientific activities have been dedicated to the use of monitoring tools to improve cetacean conservation and investigate how molecular and environmental factors influence the unique traits found in cetaceans, with a strong publication record on the topics. Therefore, he has developed relevant skills in population and comparative genomics and ecological modeling. He is also involved in studies of photo-ID, ecotoxicology, bioacoustics, and eDNA techniques. RV has participated in 8 research projects (all funded in national & international calls) in which he actively contributed by performing research, discussing ideas, writing manuscripts, supervising, and mentoring students. RV has significantly contributed towards the securing of funding by collaborating as a research team member in several national and European projects. During his career, RV delivered several communications in national and international meetings. To this date, RV has collaborated in co-authorship of scientific papers with over 50 researchers from more than 7 countries - with the size of his network and degree of internationalization evident in his publication record. He has published 17 articles all in international peer-reviewed journals, the majority in the fields of Marine Biology, Evolutionary biology, and Environmental Sciences. RV has an h-index=7 and > 98 citations (Web of Science). RV´s work has significantly contributed to the understanding of the unique Marine Mammals adaptations as well as use of monitoring techniques to assess cetacean occurrence and health.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Raul Fonseca Valente

Citation names

  • Valente, Raul
  • Valente, R

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
FA13-2248-E560
ORCID iD
0000-0001-8544-373X
Researcher Id
HNS-3985-2023
Scopus Author Id
57206179326

Email addresses

  • raulfonsecavalente@gmail.com (Professional)

Telephones

Telephone
  • 223401800 (Professional)

Addresses

  • Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental (CIIMAR). Terminal de Cruzeiros de Leixões. Av. General Norton de Matos S/N, 4450-208, MATOSINHOS, Matosinhos, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Marine Biology
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biodiversity Conservation
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Evolutionary Biology
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Ecology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1) Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2019/11/01 - 2024/01/11
Concluded
 Doutoramento em Biologia (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
"Delving into the Depths: Unraveling Cetacean's Evolution through Gene Loss and Population Genomics" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Aprovado
2018/09/17 - 2019/07/10
Concluded
 Bioinformática e Biologia Computacional (Pós-Graduação)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
 16
2015/09/20 - 2017/11/01
Concluded
 Biodiversidade, Genética e Evolução (Mestrado)
Major in Sem especialização
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Looking for the migratory whales: Routes of the baleen whales in the Macaronesia" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 18
2012/09/17 - 2015/07/14
Concluded
 Biologia (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"The Sorex araneus group in Southern Europe: additional insights into their evolutionary history " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 16
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/04/25 - Current Contracted Researcher (Research) Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
2024/01/11 - Current Postdoc (Research) Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
2019/11/01 - 2024/01/10 Research Trainee (Research) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2019/09/01 - 2019/10/31 Research Trainee (Research) Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
2015/09/15 - 2017/09/22 Research Trainee (Research) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/02/01 - 2024/03/31 Service provider Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2018/09/15 - 2019/05/31 Service provider Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2024/03/01 - Current EMPHATIC
BiodivMon0006/2022
Researcher
European Biodiversity Partnership
Ongoing
2024/01/01 - Current Horizon EU - REDUCE
101135583
Researcher
Horizon 2020
Ongoing
2023/12/01 - Current INTERREG - Whale Deal
EAPA_00004/2022
Researcher
European Regional Development Fund
Ongoing
2020/10/01 - 2023/09 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
European Union
Concluded
2021/03/01 - 2023/02/28 CetAMBIcion - Coordinated Cetacean Assessment, Monitoring and Management strategy in the Bay of Biscay and Iberian Coast sub-region
110661/2020/839610/SUB/ENV.C.2
Researcher
European Union
Concluded
2023 - 2023 GAMA - Discovering Vasco da Gama & Vigo seamounts - expedition to the unknown
SEED 2023 - GAMA
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental
2017/11/29 - 2019/03/31 MarInfo -Integrated Platform for Marine Data Acquisition and Analysis
NORTE-01- 0145- FEDER- 000031
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
 European Regional Development Fund
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2016/08/15 - Current CETUS Project
NA
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract
  1. Afonso, Luís; Valente, Raul; Costa, Joana; et al.; Catarina Magalhães. "Untapping biodiversity assessments: Metabarcoding analysis to characterize marine vertebrate communities in a coastal area". Paper presented in 23rd Encontro Nacional de Ecologia, 2024.
  2. SILVA, NÁDIA; Valente, Raul; Seabra, Rosária; Alves, Filipe; Ruivo, Raquel; Rocha, Eduardo; C. Castro, L. Filipe. "PNPLA1: a case of loss in sperm whales". Paper presented in Blue Think Conference 2024, 2024.
  3. Afonso, Luís; Valente, Raul; Joana Costa; Oliveira-Rodrigues, Cláudia; Nádia Silva; Anxo Gende; Ágatha Gil; et al. "Environmental DNA to characterise marine pelagic megafauna communities in Portuguese seamounts". Paper presented in Blue Think Conference 2024, Matosinhos, 2024.
    Accepted
  4. SILVA, NÁDIA; Valente, Raul; Seabra, Rosária; Alves, Filipe; Ruivo, Raquel; Rocha, Eduardo; C. Castro, L. Filipe. "PNPLA1: A story of gene loss in specific Cetacea lineages". Paper presented in IJUP2024 Encontro de Investigação Jovem da Universidade do Porto, 2024.
  5. Oliveira-Rodrigues, Cláudia; Eduard Degollada; Bebiana Barbosa; Afonso, Luís; Bio, Ana; Valente, Raul; Anxo Gende; et al. "Exploring cetacean habitats and diversity: a multidisciplinary expedition to the high-seas Vasco da Gama Seamount and Vigo Bank, NW Iberia". Paper presented in 35th Annual Conference of the European Cetacean Society, Catania, 2024.
    Published
  6. Anxo Gende; Valente, Raul; Afonso, Luís; Oliveira-Rodrigues, Cláudia; Ágatha Gil; Correia, Mafalda. "Summer spatial distribution of cetaceans in the high seas of the Eastern North Atlantic region and evidence of possible distribution shifts". Paper presented in 35th Annual Conference of the European Cetacean Society, Catania, 2024.
    Published
  7. Afonso, Luís; Joana Costa; Correia, Mafalda; Valente, Raul; Eva Lopes; Maria Paola Tomasino; Ágatha Gil; et al. "Uncovering environmental DNA potential as a complementary cetacean monitoring technique in the north coast of continental Portugal". Paper presented in 35th Annual Conference of the European Cetacean Society, Catania, 2024.
    Published
  8. Correia, Ana M.; Valente, Raul; de Oliveira-Ferreira, Nara; Manhães, Barbara M R; Araújo, Joana; Alves, Filipe; Dinis, Ana; et al. "A silent threat: heavily contaminated common dolphins (Delphinus delphis) with evidence of impacts and health deterioration in the Northwest coast of Mainland Portugal". Paper presented in 35th annual European Cetacean Society Conference, 2024.
  9. Valente, Raul; Raquel Ruivo; Margarida M. Cordeiro; Machado, A.V.; B. Pinto; Alves, Filipe; Sousa-Pinto, Isabel; A. Gutiérrez-Adán; C. Castro, L. Filipe. "Evolution of the Energetic Landscape in Odontoceti Sperm Cells: co-elimination and Metabolic Shifts in Toothed Whales". Paper presented in 35th Conference of the European Cetacean Society, 2024.
  10. SILVA, NÁDIA; Valente, Raul; Seabra, Rosária; Alves, Filipe; Ruivo, Raquel; Rocha, Eduardo; C. Castro, L. Filipe. "Lost in the deep: a story of gene loss in sperm whales". Paper presented in 35th Annual Conference of the European Cetacean Society, 2024.
  11. Joaquim Dias; SILVA, NÁDIA; Ruivo, Raquel; C. Castro, L. Filipe; Valente, Raul. "Shaped by loss: evolutionary determinants for the inactivation of Dhdh in Cetacea and other mammal lineages". Paper presented in IJUP2024 Encontro de Investigação Jovem da Universidade do Porto, 2024.
  12. Diogo Oliveira; Bram Danneels; Odd André Karlsen; Valente, Raul; et al.; Ruivo, Raquel. "Massive gene loss and the making of xenobiotic-induced responses in Cetacea". Paper presented in PRIMO22, 2024.
  13. Pinto, Rui; Miguel M. Fonseca; Josefin Stiller; Valente, Raul; Ruivo, Raquel; Rute da Fonseca; C. Castro, L. Filipe. "From PseudoChecker2.0 to PseudoViz: a story of gene loss". Paper presented in SMBE23, Ferrara, 2023.
    Published
  14. Teixeira, João; Oliveira-Rodrigues, Cláudia; Afonso, Luís; Gil, A.; Correia, Ana M.; Sousa-Pinto, Isabel; Valente, Raul; et al. Corresponding author: Teixeira, João. "Common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) distribution in Northern Continental Portugal - preliminary analyses". Paper presented in Young Investigation Conference of University of Porto (IJUP), Porto, 2023.
    Published
  15. Afonso, Luís; Costa, Joana; Correia, Mafalda; Tomasino Maria Paola ; Valente, Raul; et al.; Catarina Magalhães. "Environmental DNA as a cetacean monitoring tool in the Northern Coast of Continental Portugal". Paper presented in Young Investigation Conference of University of Porto (IJUP) 2023, 2023.
  16. Margo Paris; Dmytro Maslov; Correia, Ana M.; Oliveira-Rodrigues, Cláudia; Valente, Raul; et al.. "Combining acoustic and visual cetacean monitoring in Northern Portugal". Paper presented in 34th Annual Conference of the European Cetacean Society, 2023.
  17. Marieta Mihova; Joana Araújo; Valente, Raul; Oliveira-Rodrigues, Cláudia; Luis Afonso; Ágatha Gil; Sousa-Pinto, Isabel; Correia, Ana M.. "First Photo-ID catalogue of gregarious oceanic dolphins in the Northern coast of Continental Portugal: Delphinus delphis and Tursiops truncatus". Paper presented in 34th Annual Conference of the European Cetacean Society, 2023.
  18. Beatriz Silva; Alves, Filipe; Ana Dinis; Rita Ferreira; Correia, Ana M.; Valente, Raul; Ágatha Gil; et al.. "Blow microbiota of free-ranging short-finned pilot whales: Comparison of 16S rRNA primers for studies of blow prokaryotic communities". Paper presented in 34th Annual Conference of the European Cetacean Society, 2023.
  19. Oliveira-Rodrigues, Cláudia; Correia, Ana M.; Valente, Raul; Ágatha Gil; Luis Afonso; Marieta Mihova; Sousa-Pinto, Isabel. "Distribution and habitat use of common dolphins (Delphinus delphis) in the Northern coast of Continental Portugal". Paper presented in 34th Annual Conference of the European Cetacean Society, 2023.
  20. Valente, Raul; Hui Kang; Shuai Sun; Rute R da Fonseca; Correia, Ana M.; Ágatha Gil; et al.. "The last piece of the puzzle: a population genomics study in Globicephala macrorhynchus". Paper presented in 34th Annual Conference of the European Cetacean Society, 2023.
  21. C. Castro, L. Filipe; Valente, Raul; Bernardo Pinto; et al.; Ruivo, Raquel. "Phenotypes Lost: Evolution by Loss and the adaptation of Cetacea to aquatic environments". Paper presented in 34th Annual Conference of the European Cetacean Society, 2023.
  22. Afonso, Luís; Costa, Joana; Correia, Mafalda; Tomasino Maria Paola ; Valente, Raul; et al.; Catarina Magalhães. "Environmental DNA as a cetacean monitoring tool in the Northern Coast of Continental Portugal". Paper presented in 34th Annual Conference of the European Cetacean Society, 2023.
  23. Ágatha Gil; Correia, Ana M.; Valente, Raul; Oliveira-Rodrigues, Cláudia; Luis Afonso; et al.. "Opportunistic data: use it or lose it?". Paper presented in 34th Annual Conference of the European Cetacean Society, 2023.
  24. SILVA, NÁDIA; Valente, Raul; Rui Pinto; Miguel Cordeiro; Ruivo, Raquel; C. Castro, L. Filipe. "The hunger hormone in Cetacea: a remarkable story of duplication and loss". Paper presented in Blue Think Conference, 2023.
  25. Afonso L.; Costa J.; Correia, Ana; Tomasino, M.P.; Lopes E.; Valente, Raul; GIL, Á.; et al. "Environmental DNA: A Novel Cetacean Monitoring Technique in the Northern Coast of Continental Portugal". Paper presented in Blue Think Conference 2022, Matosinhos, 2023.
    Published
  26. SILVA, NÁDIA; Valente, Raul; Ruivo, Raquel; C. Castro, L. Filipe. "The Ghrelin Gene in Sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus): a mutational validation assessment.". Paper presented in Young Investigation Conference of University of Porto (IJUP) 2023, 2023.
  27. Bernardo Pinto; Valente, Raul; Salvador-Caramelo, Filipe; Raquel Ruivo; C. Castro, L. Filipe. "Convergent Gene Decay of Skin specific Gene Modules in the Pangolin Ancestor". Paper presented in Young Sistematists’ Forum 2022, 2022.
  28. Diogo Oliveira; Valente, Raul; Daniela Soares; Susana Barbosa; Miguel Santos; C. Castro, L. Filipe; Raquel Ruivo. "Massive gene loss and the making of xenobiotic-induced responses in cetacea". Paper presented in Blue Think Conference 2022, 2022.
  29. Beatriz Santos-Silva; Alves, Filipe; Ana Dinis; Rita Ferreira; Correia, Ana M. (D516-4861-D279); Valente, Raul; Ágatha Gil; et al.. "Investigation of respiratory prokaryotic communities of free-ranging short-finned pilot whales using non-invasive sampling". Paper presented in Blue Think Conference 2022, 2022.
  30. Valente, Raul; Bernardo Pinto; Salvador-Caramelo, Filipe; Andre M. Machado; Alves, Filipe; Sousa-Pinto, Isabel; Miguel Cordeiro; Raquel Ruivo; C. Castro, L. Filipe. "Modelling Mammalian behavioural traits: Inactivation of several Neuropeptides and Receptors in Cetacea and other mammals". Paper presented in Blue Think Conference 2022, 2022.
  31. Filipe Alves; Mieke Weyn; Rita Borges Ferreira; Annalisa Sambolino; Ana Mafalda Tomás Correia; AGATHA GIL; Raul Fonseca Valente; et al.. "Habitat-Specific Use by Short-Finned Pilot Whales in Macaronesia Revealed Through Satellite-Linked Biologgers". Paper presented in 4th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, Florida, 2022.
    Accepted
  32. AGATHA GIL; Ana Mafalda Tomás Correia; Raul Fonseca Valente; Cláudia Sofia Oliveira Rodrigues; Cabecinha, Edna; Isabel Sousa PInto; Pierce, Graham. "Recent spatial and temporal shifts on cetacean distribution in the Portuguese Continental Economic Exclusive Zone.". Paper presented in 4th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, Florida, 2022.
    Accepted
  33. Cláudia Sofia Oliveira Rodrigues; AGATHA GIL; Raul Fonseca Valente; Isabel Sousa PInto; Ana Mafalda Tomás Correia. "Optimization of a cetacean occurrence dataset: controlling methods for data bias, verification, and validation.". Paper presented in 24th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, Florida, 2022.
    Accepted
  34. Maria Paola Tomasino; Filipe Alves; Ana Dinis; Rita Borges Ferreira; Ana Mafalda Tomás Correia; Raul Fonseca Valente; AGATHA GIL; et al.. "Dive into the blow microbiome of free-ranging short-finned pilot whales: protocol optimization and preliminary results.". Paper presented in 24th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, Florida, 2022.
    Accepted
  35. Raul Fonseca Valente; Luís Quádrio Alves; Nabais, Matilde; Filipe Alves; Isabel Sousa PInto; Raquel Ruivo; Filipe Castro. "Setting the rhythm: how gene loss events shaped marine mammal circadian rhythmicity". Paper presented in 24th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, Florida, 2022.
  36. C. Castro, L. Filipe; Andre M. Machado; Diogo Oliveira; Valente, Raul; et al.. "The Snail, the Shark and the Whale: From Evolution to Endocrine Disruption". Paper presented in Euro Evo Devo Meeting 2022, 2022.
  37. Bernardo Pinto; Valente, Raul; Raquel Ruivo; C. Castro, L. Filipe. "Gene erosion of Sebum-producing genes in Pangolins". Paper presented in Young Investigation Conference of University of Porto (IJUP), 2022.
  38. Ana Mafalda Tomás Correia; Raul Fonseca Valente; AGATHA GIL; Cláudia Sofia Oliveira Rodrigues; Isabel Sousa PInto. "Unusual presence of Risso's dolphin (Grampus griseus) in a coastal area of the Northern Portugal.". Paper presented in 33th Annual Conference of the European Cetacean Society, Ashdod, 2022.
    Accepted
  39. Annalisa Sambolino; Rita Borges Ferreira; Raul Fonseca Valente; AGATHA GIL; Ana Mafalda Tomás Correia; Rosso, Massimiliano; Isabel Sousa PInto; et al.. "Fatty acids composition in blubber tissue of two odontocete species (Tursiops truncatus and Globicephala macrorhynchus) in NE Atlantic.". Paper presented in 33th Annual Conference of the European Cetacean Society, Ashdod, 2022.
    Accepted
  40. Valente, Raul; Luís Quádrio Alves; Matilde Nabais; Alves, Filipe; Sousa-Pinto, Isabel; Raquel Ruivo; C. Castro, L. Filipe. "Differential Cetacea Circadian Rhythmicity is associated with the molecular erosion of Cortistatin". Paper presented in Blue Think Conference (BTC - CIIMAR), 2020, 2020.
    10.1101/2020.05.11.087833
  41. Cláudia Oliveira-Rodrigues; Ágatha Gil; Valente, Raul; I Sousa Pinto; Correia, Mafalda. "Optimization of a cetacean occurrence dataset: controlling methods for data bias, verification, and validation". Paper presented in Blue Think Conference (BTC - CIIMAR), 2020, 2020.
  42. Valente, Raul; Correia, Ana M.; GIL, Á.; González, Laura G.; Sousa-Pinto, Isabel. "Where and when are you going? Unravelling distribution patterns of baleen whales through a bibliographic review.". Paper presented in WMMC / ECS Conference, Barcelona, 2019, 2019.
  43. GIL, Á.; Correia, Ana M.; Valente, Raul; Sousa-Pinto, Isabel. "Spatio-temporal distribution and habitat preferences of cetaceans in the Continental Economic Exclusive Zone of Portugal.". Paper presented in WMMC / ECS Conference, Barcelona, 2019, 2019.
    Published
  44. Correia, Ana M.; Guedes, D.S.; GIL, Á.; Valente, Raul; Sousa-Pinto, Isabel. "Predicting cetacean distribution in the eastern north Atlantic (Iberian Peninsula and African coasts and Macaronesia) to support marine management.". Paper presented in WMMC / ECS Conference, Barcelona, 2019, 2019.
    Published
  45. Sambolino, Annalisa; Góis, A.; Ferreira, R.; Valente, Raul; et al.; Ferreira, Rita; Gil, Ágatha; et al. "Dietary preferences of Tursiops truncatus and Globicephala macrorhynchus in Madeira Archipelago (NE Atlantic) inferred from fatty acids of biopsy samples.". Paper presented in WMMC / ECS Conference, Barcelona, 2019, 2019.
    Published
  46. Dromby, M.; Dias, E.; Ferreira, R.; Baptista, V.; Correia, Ana M.; Gil, Á. (CE1B-CE75-B8E5); Tejerina, R.; et al. "Using RNA/DNA ratios and carbon/nitrogen stable isotopes to assess the nutritional condition and trophic ecology of two cetacean species in an oceanic habitat". Paper presented in WMMC / ECS Conference, Barcelona, 2019, 2019.
    Published
  47. Valente, Raul; Correia, Ana M.; GIL, Á.; González García, Laura; Sousa-Pinto, Isabel. "Understanding Migratory Routes in the Macaronesia - Assessing Range of Physiographic Variables for Baleen Whales.". Paper presented in 31st Edition of Annual Conference of European Cetacean Society, 2017.
    Published
  48. GIL, Á.; Correia, Ana M. (D516-4861-D279); Valente, Raul; Sousa-Pinto, Isabel. "Citizen science CETUS Program: an efficient tool for monitoring cetacean occurrence and spatial distribution in Macaronesia offshore waters". Paper presented in 31st Annual Conference of the European Cetacean Society, Middelfart, 2017, 2017.
    Published
  49. Correia, Ana M.; GIL, Á.; Valente, Raul; Rosso, Massimiliano; Pierce, Graham; Sousa-Pinto, Isabel. "Five-year spatial and temporal distribution of cetaceans in the Macaronesian waters - Analyzing habitat preferences in the area". Paper presented in 31st Annual Conference of the European Cetacean Society, Middelfart, 2017, 2017.
    Published
  50. Valente, Raul; Correia, Ana M.; González García, Laura; Gil, Ágatha; Sousa-Pinto, Isabel. "Blue and Humpback whales: unraveling migratory routes through a spatio-temporal analysis.". Paper presented in 2nd Edition of Campus de Mar International Science Conference., Vila Real, 2016.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Raul Valente; Nara de Oliveira-Ferreira; Rita Ferreira; Ana M. Correia; Bárbara M.R. Manhães; Ágatha Gil; Annalisa Sambolino; et al. "Beyond the threshold - different accumulation of organochlorine compounds in common dolphins (Delphinus delphis) inhabiting continental and insular ecosystems in the Northeast Atlantic". Environmental Pollution (2024): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2024.125316.
    10.1016/j.envpol.2024.125316
  2. Beatriz Santos; Luís Afonso; Filipe Alves; Ana Dinis; Rita Ferreira; Ana M. Correia; Raul Valente; et al. "Hidden in the blow - a matrix to characterise cetaceans’ respiratory microbiome: short-finned pilot whale as case study". Metabarcoding and Metagenomics (2024): https://doi.org/10.3897/mbmg.8.121060.
    10.3897/mbmg.8.121060
  3. Correia, Ana; Marieta Mihova; GIL, Á.; Oliveira-Rodrigues, Cláudia; Luís Afonso; Valente, Raul; Rosso, Massimiliano; Sousa-Pinto, I; Pierce, Graham. "Cetaceans of north-western continental Africa (Morocco to Liberia): diversity and distribution". Frontiers in Marine Science (2024): https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2024.1427334.
    Submitted • 10.3389/FMARS.2024.1427334
  4. Afonso, Luis; Costa, Joana; Correia, Ana Mafalda; Valente, Raul; Lopes, Eva; Tomasino, Maria Paola; Gil, Agatha; et al. "Environmental DNA as a complementary tool for biodiversity monitoring: A multi-technique and multi-trophic approach to investigate cetacean distribution and feeding ecology". Plos One 19 10 (2024): e0300992. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0300992.
    10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0300992
  5. Valente, Raul; Cordeiro, Miguel; Pinto, Bernardo; Machado, Andre; Alves, Filipe; Sousa Pinto, Isabel; Raquel, Ruivo; Castro, L. Filipe C.. "Alterations of Pleiotropic Neuropeptide-Receptor gene couples in Cetacea". BMC Biology 22 186 (2024): https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-024-01984-0.
    10.1101/2024.02.03.578746
  6. Bernardo Pinto; Valente, Raul; Salvador-Caramelo, Filipe; Raquel Ruivo; C. Castro, L. Filipe. "Decay of Skin-Specific Gene Modules in Pangolins". Journal of Molecular Evolution (2023): https://doi.org/10.1007/s00239-023-10118-z.
    10.1007/s00239-023-10118-z
  7. Henry D. Kunerth; Joaquim T. Tapisso; Raul Valente; Maria da Luz Mathias; Paulo C. Alves; Jeremy B. Searle; Rodrigo Vega; Joana Paupério. "Characterising Mitochondrial Capture in an Iberian Shrew". Genes (2022): https://doi.org/10.3390/genes13122228.
    10.3390/genes13122228
  8. Cláudia Oliveira-Rodrigues; Ana M. Correia; Raul Valente; Ágatha Gil; Miguel Gandra; Marcos Liberal; Massimiliano Rosso; Graham Pierce; Isabel Sousa-Pinto. "Assessing data bias in visual surveys from a cetacean monitoring programme". Scientific Data (2022): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01803-7.
    10.1038/s41597-022-01803-7
  9. Valente, Raul; Alves, Filipe; Sousa-Pinto, Isabel; Ruivo, Raquel; Castro, L. Filipe C.. "Functional or Vestigial? The Genomics of the Pineal Gland in Xenarthra". Journal of Molecular Evolution 89 8 (2021): 565-575. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00239-021-10025-1.
    Published • 10.1007/s00239-021-10025-1
  10. Luís Q. Alves; Raquel Ruivo; Raul Valente; Miguel M. Fonseca; André M. Machado; Stephanie Plön; Nuno Monteiro; et al. "A drastic shift in the energetic landscape of toothed whale sperm cells". Current Biology (2021): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.05.062.
    10.1016/j.cub.2021.05.062
  11. Correia, Ana M.; Sousa-Guedes, Diana; Gil, Ágatha; Valente, Raul; Rosso, Massimiliano; Sousa-Pinto, Isabel; Sillero, Neftalí; Pierce, Graham J.. "Predicting Cetacean Distributions in the Eastern North Atlantic to Support Marine Management". Frontiers in Marine Science 8 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.643569.
    10.3389/fmars.2021.643569
  12. Valente, Raul; Alves, Luís Q.; Nabais, Matilde; Alves, Filipe; Sousa-Pinto, Isabel; Ruivo, Raquel; Castro, L. Filipe C.. "Convergent Cortistatin losses parallel modifications in circadian rhythmicity and energy homeostasis in Cetacea and other mammalian lineages". Genomics 113 1 (2021): 1064-1070. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ygeno.2020.11.002.
    10.1016/j.ygeno.2020.11.002
  13. Correia, Ana Mafalda; Gil, Ágatha; Valente, Raul Fonseca; Rosso, Massimiliano; Sousa-Pinto, Isabel; Pierce, Graham John. "Distribution of cetacean species at a large scale - Connecting continents with the Macaronesian archipelagos in the eastern North Atlantic". Diversity and Distributions 26 10 (2020): 1234-1247. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13127.
    10.1111/ddi.13127
  14. Alves, F.; Dromby, M.; Baptista, V.; Ferreira, R.; Correia, A. M.; Weyn, M.; Valente, R.; et al. "Ecophysiological traits of highly mobile large marine predators inferred from nucleic acid derived indices". Scientific Reports 10 1 (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-61769-7.
    10.1038/s41598-020-61769-7
  15. Correia, Mafalda; Gandra, Miguel; Liberal, Marcos; Valente, Raul; Ágatha Gil; Massimiliano Rosso; Graham Pierce; Sousa-Pinto, Isabel. "A dataset of cetacean occurrences in the Eastern North Atlantic". Scientific Data 6 177 (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0187-2.
    10.1038/s41597-019-0187-2
  16. Correia, Ana M.; Gil, Ágatha; Valente, Raul; Rosso, Massimiliano; Pierce, Graham; Sousa-Pinto, Isabel. "Distribution and habitat modelling of common dolphins (Delphinus delphis) in the Eastern North Atlantic". Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 99 6 (2019): 1443-1457. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315419000249.
    10.1017/S0025315419000249
  17. Valente, Raul; Correia, Ana M.; Gil, Ágatha; González García, Laura; Sousa-Pinto, Isabel. "Baleen whales in Macaronesia: occurrence patterns revealed through a bibliographic review". Mammal Review (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mam.12148.
    Published • 10.1111/mam.12148
Preprint
  1. Santos, Beatriz; Afonso, Luís; Alves, Filipe; Dinis, Ana; Ferreira, Rita; Correia, Ana; Valente, Raul; et al. "Hidden in the blow - a matrix to characterise cetaceans' respiratory microbiome: Short-finned pilot whale as model species". 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e121514.
    10.3897/arphapreprints.e121514
  2. Afonso, Luís; Joana Costa; Correia, Mafalda; Valente, Raul; Eva Lopes; Maria Paola Tomasino; Ágatha Gil; et al. "Environmental DNA as a complementary tool for biodiversity monitoring: A multi-technique and multi-trophic approach to investigate cetacean distribution and feeding ecology". 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2024.03.11.584480.
    10.1101/2024.03.11.584480
  3. Valente, Raul; Cordeiro, Miguel; Bernardo Pinto; Andre M. Machado; Alves, Filipe; Sousa-Pinto, Isabel; Ruivo, Raquel; C. Castro, L. Filipe. "Alterations of Pleiotropic Neuropeptide-Receptor gene couples in Cetacea". 2024. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.03.578746.
  4. Pinto, Bernardo; Valente, Raul; Caramelo, Filipe; Ruivo, Raquel; Castro, L. Filipe C.. "Convergent Decay of Skin-specific Gene Modules in Pangolins". 2023. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.12.08.519613.
    10.1101/2022.12.08.519613
  5. Henry D. Kunerth; Joaquim T. Tapisso; Raul Valente; Maria da Luz Mathias; Paulo C. Alves; Jeremy B. Searle; Rodrigo Vega; Joana Paupério. "Characterizing Mitochondrial Capture in an Iberian Shrew". 2022. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202210.0187.v1.
    10.20944/preprints202210.0187.v1
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "Delving into the Depths: Unraveling Cetacean's Evolution through Gene Loss and Population Genomics". PhD, Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, 2024.
  2. "Looking for the migratory whales: Routes of the baleen whales in the Macaronesia". Master, Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, 2017.

Other

Dataset
  1. Ana Mafalda Tomás Correia; Cláudia Sofia Oliveira Rodrigues; Gandra, Miguel; Liberal, Marcos; Raul Fonseca Valente; AGATHA GIL; Rosso, Massimiliano; Pierce, Graham; Isabel Sousa PInto. CETUS: Cetacean monitoring surveys in the Eastern North Atlantic..
    https://doi.org/10.14284/547
Activities

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2024/09/15 - Current “When less is more”: from to duplication to loss in the evolution of mammals
Co-supervisor
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
2024/09/15 - Current Identification of risk zones for marine megafauna bycatch in the East Central Atlantic
Supervisor
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2023/09/15 - Current Deciphering “Moby-Dick”: comparative genomics of Physeteridae and Kogiidae and the role of gene loss in adaptation
Co-supervisor
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
2023/09/15 - 2024/06/23 From Land to Water: The Impact of Gene Loss in Cetacean Evolution
Co-supervisor
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2024 - 2024 From genome to conservation: DHDH in Cetacea
Supervisor
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
2023/01/20 - 2023/05/08 A mutational validation assessment of GHRL in Sperm Whale (Physeter macrocephalus) and ATP1A4 in Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)
Co-supervisor
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
2022/10/01 - 2023/05/08 Distribuição do golfinho-comum (Delphinus delphis) no norte de Portugal - análises preliminares
Supervisor
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2024/11/23 - 2024/11/23 Ciência Viva Activity (Semana da Ciência e Tecnologia): Monitorização de Cetáceos na Foz do rio Douro (2024/11/23 - 2024/11/23)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
2024/10/01 - 2024/10/02 Atlantic Whale Deal (Interreg Atlantic Project) Meeting (2024/10/01 - 2024/10/02) (2024/10/01 - 2024/10/02)
Meeting (Co-organisor)
 Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
2024/04/03 - 2024/04/03 EMPHATIC (Biodiversa+ Project) Kickoff meeting (2024/04/03 - 2024/04/03) (2024/04/03 - 2024/04/03)
Meeting (Co-organisor)
 Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
2022/05/02 - 2022/05/04 CetAMBICion Technical Workshop (Workpackage 2) (2022/05/02 - 2022/05/04) (2022/05/02 - 2022/05/04)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2024/04/10 - 2024/04/12 35th Annual Conference of the European Cetacean Society. Catania, Italy
Conference
2023/09 - 2023/09 Blue Think Conference: Share Science, Spread Knowledge
Conference
 Blue Think Conference (BTC - CIIMAR), 2023
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
2023/04/16 - 2023/04/20 34th Annual Conference of the European Cetacean Society. O'Grove, Spain
Conference
2023/04/17 - 2023/04/17 34th ECS Workshop: Acoustic analysis in R.
Workshop
 34th Annual Conference of the European Cetacean Society
2022/09 - 2022/09 Blue Think Conference: Share Science, Spread Knowledge
Conference
 Blue Think Conference (BTC - CIIMAR), 2022
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
2022/08/01 - 2022/08/08 24th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals. West Palm Beach, EUA.
Conference
2021/10/18 - 2021/10/22 2ND EDITION SEASCAPE GENOMICS (Physalia Courses)
Workshop
2020/10/19 - 2020/10/22 Low coverage WGS (Physalia Courses)
Workshop
2020/09/17 - 2020/09/17 Blue Think Conference: Share Science, Spread Knowledge
Conference
 Blue Think Conference (BTC - CIIMAR), 2020
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
2020/02/03 - 2020/02/04 Introducción a la teledetección y aplicaciones medioambientales del programa europeo Copernicus. Calidad de aguas continentales
Workshop
 Workshop - Introducción a la teledetección y aplicaciones medioambientales del programa europeo Copernicus. Calidad de aguas continentales
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
2019/12/09 - 2019/12/12 WMMC / ECS Conference
Conference
 WMMC / ECS Conference, Barcelona, 2019
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
2019/11/15 - 2019/11/15 Encontro Mamíferos Marinhos 2019 (EMMA 2019)
Meeting
 Encontro Mamíferos Marinhos 2019 (EMMA 2019)
Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, Portugal
2018/02/19 - 2018/03/02 Course on statistics and programming on R for biological sciences. Porto, Portugal
Workshop
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
2017/06/15 - 2017/08/07 Member of CETASMUS program internship at CIMA Research Foundation
Other
 CETASMUS program
2017/04/29 - 2017/05/03 Volunteer in the 31st Annual Conference of the European Cetacean Society (2017)
Conference
 31st Annual Conference of the European Cetacean Society
2017/04/29 - 2017/05/03 31st European Cetacean Society Conference
Conference
 31st European Cetacean Society Conference
Aarhus Universitet, Denmark
2017/04/29 - 2017/04/29 29th European Cetacean Society Conference - Student Workshop Passive acoustic monitoring and introduction to PAMGuard
Workshop
 ECS Student Workshop - Passive acoustic monitoring and introduction to PAMGuard
Aarhus Universitet, Denmark
2017/04/25 - 2017/04/26 Basics of underwater acoustics and cetaceans
Workshop
 Workshop - Basics of underwater acoustics and cetaceans
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
2016/11 - 2016/11 2nd Edition of Campus de Mar International Science Conference
Conference
 2nd Edition of Campus de Mar International Science Conference.
Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2024/11/11 Impactos e Medidas de Conservação para o Boto-Comum – Analisando a ocorrência de Boto Ibérico na Costa Norte de Portugal Maria Carolina Ribeiro Pinto Duarte (Master)
2023/05/08 Distribuição do golfinho-comum (Delphinus delphis) no norte de Portugal - análises preliminares
Supervisor
 João Teixeira (Other)
2020/09/09 Cetáceos na Foz do Rio Douro. Uma abordagem à diversidade de espécies e às condições meteorológicas para monitorização.
(Thesis) Arguer
 Luís Afonso (Other)

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2024/09 - 2024/09 Blue Think Conference 2024

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2012 - Current CETUS Intensive Course on Marine Mammal Monitoring. Summer course (Outros)
2024/07/04 - 2024/07/05 NEBUP Workshop "Cetáceos de Portugal: Métodos de Monitorização e Identificação"
2022/04/12 - 2022/04/12 XXIV edição do ENEB (Encontro Nacional de Estudantes de Biologia). Workshop "CETUS: Programa de Monitorização de Cetáceos na Macaronésia" Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2021/07/28 - 2021/07/30 NEBUP Workshop "Curso de Iniciação à Monitorização e Identificação de Espécies de Cetáceos do norte de Portugal" Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2021/04/09 - 2021/04/09 NEBUA Workshop: "CETUS: Programa de Monitorização de Cetáceos na Macaronésia"

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2021/08/29 "Afinal, as preguiças não produzem a hormona do sono" Público newspaper; News report on the article "Functional or Vestigial? The Genomics of the Pineal Gland in Xenarthra" published in Journal of Molecular Evolution (DOI: 10.1007/s00239-021-10025-1). Público
2021 "É sobretudo gordura que os espermatozóides dos golfinhos usam para nadar"; Público newspaper; News report on the article "A drastic shift in the energetic landscape of toothed whale sperm cells" published in Current Biology (DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.05.062). Público
2021 "Sabia que os espermatozoides dos golfinhos usam a gordura para nadar?"; National Geographic Portugal; News report on the article "A drastic shift in the energetic landscape of toothed whale sperm cells" published in Current Biology (DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.05.062). National Geographic Portugal

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2024/08 - Current Plos One
2024/05 - Current Marine Ecology Progress Series
2024 - 2024 PeerJ
2023 - 2023 Frontiers in Marine Science

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2021 - 2022 When less is more: the untold stories in Cetacea genomes Beatriz Felipe
2021 - 2022 Gene erosion of Sebum-producing genes in Pangolins Bernardo Pinto
2020 - 2021 Detoxification system/ PXR and CAR lost susceptibility of Cetacea Daniela Soares

Scientific expedition

Activity description Institution / Organization
2023/07 - Current Scientific expedition to the Vigo and Vasco da Gama seamounts in the Eastern North Atlantic. Organisation and participation of the expedition that includes monitoring of the offshore marine ecosystem (cetaceans, oceanography, acoustics).
2016/08 - Current CETUS Project. Cetacean Monitoring Programme in Macaronesia. CIIMAR, Porto, Portugal. Marine Mammal Observer on sea-surveys on-board commercial cargo ships in long-transect routes in Macaronesia during summer
2021/06 - 2023/09 ATLANTIDA Project. NORTE 2020 Project - FCUP, Porto, Portugal. Fieldwork for cetacean monitoring and sample collection during summer campaigns, for the duration of the project.
2017/06/17 - 2017/08/07 CETASMUS Internship: Marine Mammal Observer in the Ligurian Sea. CIMA Foundation, Savona, Italy. Field work as a Marine Mammal Observer in a sailing vessel.
Distinctions

Other distinction

2022 ICNF License to collect biological samples