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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 Peer-review
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
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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
  1. Carvalho, Inês; Peixoto, Diogo; Robledo, Diego; Ramos-Pinto, Lourenço; Gonçalves, José Fernando; Machado, Marina; Tafalla, Carolina; Costas, Benjamin. Corresponding author: Carvalho, Inês. "Immunomodulatory effects of high dietary methionine on European seabass skin immune response against Tenacibaculum maritimum". Paper presented in XXI International Symposium on Fish Nutrition and Feeding, 2024.
  2. Vaz, Mariana; Carvalho, Inês; Schoninger, Felipe; Silva-Brito, Francisca; Espregueira Themudo, Gonçalo; Robledo, Diego; Tafalla, Carolina; et al. "Immunomodulatory effect of dietary methionine on rainbow trout following viral haemorrhagic septicaemia virus (VHSV) infection". Paper presented in XXI International Symposium on Fish Nutrition and Feeding, 2024.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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
  1. Diogo Peixoto; Inês Carvalho; André Cunha; Paulo Santos; Lourenço Ramos-Pinto; Marina Machado; Rita Azeredo; Benjamín Costas. "Synergistic Effects of Dietary Tryptophan and Dip Vaccination in the Immune Response of European Seabass Juveniles". International Journal of Molecular Sciences (2024): https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms252212200.
    10.3390/ijms252212200
  2. Peixoto, Diogo; Carvalho, Inês; Machado, Marina; Aragão, Cláudia; Costas, Benjamín; Azeredo, Rita. "Dietary tryptophan intervention counteracts stress-induced transcriptional changes in a teleost fish HPI axis during inflammation". Scientific Reports 14 1 (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-57761-0.
    10.1038/s41598-024-57761-0
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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)
2024/05/28 Outcomes of a short-term dietary tryptophan intervention upon vaccination in a teleost fish model XXI International Symposium on Fish Nutrition and Feeding
ISFNF 2024 Local Organizing Committee (Puerto Vallarta, Mexico)
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