Inês Pereira graduated in Biochemistry in 2019 by the University of Porto, and obtained her MSc degree in Health Sciences in 2022 by the University of Minho. After finishing her BSc degree, Inês was enrolled in an Erasmus+ internship at the Institute Pasteur in Paris (France), within the project “Hepatic ILC development and response to high fat diet” supervised by Dr. Rachel Golub. During her MSc thesis, her research focused on studying the impact of hyperglycemia in chick lung branching morphogenesis, under the supervision of Dr. Rute Moura at the Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), University of Minho. In 2023, Inês joined Dr. Agostinho Carvalho and Dr. Cristina Cunha’s research group as a research fellow at ICVS, where she is interested in studying the host genetic and immunometabolic signatures at the basis of susceptibility to invasive fungal infections.