Ines joined the Allen Institute in August of 2024 as a Scientist I in the Neurobiology of Action team. Ines earned a bachelor’s degree in Applied Biology in University of Minho and a master’s in Cellular and Molecular Biology in University of Coimbra. For her master's thesis, she investigated whether new protein synthesis occurs in the dendrites during long-term potentiation in hippocampal organotypic slices, combining molecular techniques such as plasmid cloning with cellular approaches including 2-photon imaging and uncaging. Ines earned her PhD in Neuroscience with Rui Costa, between the Champalimaud Foundation and Columbia University, where she revealed that neurons in the striatum specify and control actions at fine motor resolution, which lays a foundation to understand movement disorders like Huntington’s disease and dystonia. In her current position at the Allen Institute, she is studying how specification of ongoing fine motor actions propagates from the striatum to the muscles, resulting in specific actions.