Speaker
Maria Teresa Bispo
Global Health and Tropical Medicine (IHMT/UNL), Portugal
Biography :
Maria Teresa Bispo is a PhD student in Biomedical Sciences at IHMT-NOVA, specialising in Parasitology. She graduated in Biomedicine (2017) from the Federal University of Mato Grosso, Brazil, where she researched immune responses to Strongyloides venezuelensis. She completed a Master’s in Tropical Parasitic Diseases (2019) at the University of Valencia, focusing on the distribution of the freshwater snail Planorbarius metidjensis. With experience in clinical diagnostics (2020–2022) and postgraduate training in Clinical Analysis (2021), she currently investigates snail-borne trematodes in Portugal under Project Alqueva, integrating molecular, ecological, and One Health approaches.
