Sara Bento

Sara Bento is conducting a Ph.D. in Biology by the University of Lisbon starting in 2022 within the Conservation in Socio-Ecological Systems - CSES. She is conducting the project Temperature effects and the role of gut microbiota in nutrient acquisition by aquatic ectotherms, under the supervision of Rui Rebelo (CE3C-FIB), Bruno Carreira (CE3C-FIB) and Richard Svanbäck (Uppsala University). Sara Bento Ph.D. project aims are: to study temperature and nutrient (C:N:P) interactions on individual fitness components (e.g., survival and life-history traits); to evaluate the adaptive value of temperature-induced dietary shifts; to quantify the contribution of the associated pathways (preference and assimilation) using stable isotopes analysis; to investigate the role of gut microbiota using metagenomics (16S); and to examine impacts in nature using both techniques.