Ana Sofia Teixeira
FELLOW
GROWING LIFE
Project
Supervisor
Funding Source
Programa Regional do Norte 2021-2027 [NORTE2030]
Start date (month/year)
14/10/2025
Duration (month)
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Mariana Sousa
Project
Supervisor
Funding Source
Programa Regional do Norte 2021-2027 [NORTE2030]
Start date (month/year)
15/11/2025
Duration (month)
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Jorge Moutinho
Doctoral Program
PDBMA
Thesis title
Beyond species monitoring: developing and exploring metabarcoding-based genetic and phylogenetic diversity metrics for coastal marine invertebrates
Supervisor
Filipe Costa, Sofia Duarte & Rutger A. Vos (Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Netherlands)
Funding Source
FCT
Start date (month/year)
01/10/2025
Duration (month)
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Carolina Duarte
PhD STUDENT
GROWING LIFE
Doctoral Program
PDBMA
Thesis title
Evaluating the potential of soil food web complexity to enhance maize crop performance and soil health
Supervisors
Funding Source
FCT
Start date (month/year)
01/04/2025
Duration (month)
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Gonçalo Marques
Doctoral Program
Doctorate in Biology
Thesis title
Exploring the microbial terroir of renowned wine regions of Portugal, Spain, Austria and Denmark to develop eco-friendly biocontrol formulations
Supervisor
Funding Source
FCT
Start date (month/year)
01/01/2025
Duration (month)
–
Hugo Ricardo Afonso
Doctoral Program
Doctorate in Biology
Thesis title
Molecular mechanisms that control flower development in Quercus species of the Portuguese forest
Supervisor
Manuela Costa, Carlos Vila-Viçosa e Herlander Azevedo (CIBIO-FCUP)
Funding Source
FCT
Start date (month/year)
01/01/2025
Duration (month)
–
Mariana Silva
PhD Student
GROWING LIFE
GROWING LIFE
Doctoral Program
PhD in Biology
Thesis title
Strategies for improving chestnut tree mycorrhization: enhancing the relation plant-fungi-helper bacteria
Supervisor
Teresa Lino Neto, Margarida Fernandes (CMEMS-UMinho) & Andreia Afonso (Deifil Technology Ltd.)
Funding Source
FCT
Start date (month/year)
01/01/2026
Duration (month)
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Viviana Martins
Background
Viviana Martins earned her PhD in Plant Biology in 2014, by University of Minho, funded by FCT (mixed grant SFRH/BD/64587/2009), with periods abroad in University of California Davis (USA), and in CBBC (Tunisia). VM started her post-doc in 2014, in IBMC (i3S) of University of Porto, as grantee of two research projects, and was then awarded a FCT post-doc grant (SFRH/BPD/107905/2015) from late 2015 to 2018. In 2019, she was hired as Post-doctoral Junior Researcher in CBMA, where she currently affiliated.
Research Interests
Viviana Martins research lines are centered on three main research topics: 1) optimization of vineyard mineral supplements for improving grape berry and wine quality (2015 to present); 2) exploitation and preservation of the microbial terroir towards the production of wines with high typicity (2021 to present); 3) optimization of the use of native grape berry microbial strains as biocontrol agents for sustainable agriculture (2022 to present).
Keywords
agricultural biotechnology, grape berry quality, metabolome plasticity, microbial fingerprint, stress response, viticulture, wine aroma
Ongoing research projects
Ongoing PhD supervisions
Pedro Ferreira
Doctoral Program
PhD in Biology
Thesis title
Sustainable RNA solutions to control cork oak pathogens
Supervisor
Teresa Lino Neto, Francisco Carvalho (Laboratório da Paisagem), Jonatan Niño (University of Valladolid, Spain)
Funding Source
FCT
Start date (month/year)
01/04/2025
Duration (month)
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Rui Carvalho
Doctoral Program
PDBMA
Thesis title
Impacts of land-use on soil ecosystem functions and carry-over effects through the soil-water nexus to inland water bodies
Supervisor
Sofia Costa & Cláudia Pascoal & Carlos Guerra (i-Div Alemanha)
Funding Source
FCT
Start date (month/year)
01/02/2024
Duration (month)
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