A new Marie Curie Fellow will enter as a new member into the team of the EU Marie Curie Chair. Dr. Tânia Nobre  won a Marie Curie Career Integration Grant (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-CIG). She is a Portuguese scientist who earned merits abroad. She once received a Marie Curie fellowship to work at the University of Wageningen, The Netherlands, and takes now the offered opportunity to develop her research interests with a new focus linked to the competences at the EU Marie Curie Chair. The Chair runs since 2005 at the University Évora. By this action, the experienced senior scientist will return back to her home country and region in Portugal. The title of her research project is 'Understanding Symbiotic Diversity: a candidate gene approach '.