Curriculum Vitae
Gianmaria Califano
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Gianmaria Califano
Citation names
- Califano, Gianmaria
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 5B13-85E1-8549
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-1868-3738
Email addresses
- gcalifano@ciencias.ulisboa.pt (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portuguese | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Proficiency (C2) | Upper intermediate (B2) |
| English | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Upper intermediate (B2) |
| Italian (Mother tongue) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
|---|---|---|
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2015/07/20 - 2022/01/26
Concluded
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Faculty of Chemistry and Earth Sciences (Doctor of Philosophy)
Major in Molecular Biology
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena Institut für Geowissenschaften, Germany
"Inter-kingdom interactions shapes macroalga Ulva holobiont: studies on algal growth and morphogenesis promoting factors (phytohormones
and thallusin) and algal associated microbial community" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Cum Lauda |
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2009/09/10 - 2011/09/23
Concluded
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Marine Biology and Conservation (Mestrado)
Major in Marine Biology and Ecology
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
"Seagrass and Seaweed competition for nitrogen uptake" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Distinction |
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2005/09/10 - 2008/12/18
Concluded
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Biologia delle Produzioni marine (Bachelor)
Major in Marine Biology
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy
"Variabilità di alcuni descrittori di Posidonia oceanica a diverse scale spaziali." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation
Science
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/10/03 - Current | Postdoc (Research) | FCiênciasID Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências, Portugal |
| Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Biossistemas e Ciências Integrativas, Portugal | ||
| 2011/11/01 - 2015/07/10 | Contracted Researcher (Research) | Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal |
| Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/11/02 - Current | MiDiVine (Innovative Approaches Promoting Functional Microbial Diversity for a Sustainable Grapevine Health and Productivity
in Vineyard Systems of Mediterranean Areas)
Post-doc
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Biossistemas e Ciências Integrativas, Portugal |
ERA-LEARN
Ongoing
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| 2015/06/16 - 2018/12/14 | Algal Microbiome: Friends or Foes (ALFF)
MSCA- ITN-2014-ETN - 642575
PhD Student Fellow
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EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Concluded
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Contract
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024/02/01 - 2025/01/31 | Wine Waste Wisdom: Shaping Innovative Antimicrobial Polymers from Wine Industry Byproducts
P0.9A
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
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Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Biossistemas e Ciências Integrativas
Ongoing
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| 2022/11/01 - 2024/03/01 | Assessment of melatonin as a priming agent against fruit decay due to fungal infections in table grapes
Internal-Project
Principal investigator
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Biossistemas e Ciências Integrativas
Ongoing
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| 2023/01/10 - 2024/01/09 | Microdrygrape. Seeking functional microbiome by assessing impact of water availability in grapevine health, physiological
plasticity, and associated soil microbial communities
2632FG
Post-doc
Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências
Ongoing
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| 2011/10/10 - 2014/11/30 | Waterborne (hydrophilic) Seaweed metabolites as a green solution for Antimicrobial Therapy in Aquaculture (SATA)
PTDC/MAR/112792/2009
Research Fellow
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
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Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT
Concluded
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Other
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023/04/15 - Current | Fruit tree Crop REsponses to Water deficit and decision support Systems applications (FruitCREWS)
COST Action CA21142
Post-doc
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Biossistemas e Ciências Integrativas, Portugal
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European Union
Ongoing
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| 2015/06/15 - 2019/03/22 | Cost Action. Advancing knowledge on seaweed growth and development (Phycomorph)
Cost Action - 096/14
Researcher
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| 2013/10/07 - 2013/11/20 | Effects of elevated CO2 from volcanic vents on the trophic structure of seagrass meadows
SZN#2760/96
Researcher
Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn Napoli, Italy
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy |
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
| Book chapter |
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| Journal article |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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|---|---|---|
| 2024/07/09 | Drought affects vineyard soil microbiome: approach to select micro-organisms adapted to drought. | Open Conference on Grapevine Physiology and Biotechnology
Instituto de Ciencias de la Vid y del Vino (Logroño, Spain)
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| 2023/04/28 | Microbiome, a resource for viticulture. | Frutos e afins com Ciências
Faculdade de Ciência da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2023/04/27 | Soil Microbiome, A Resource for Viticulture. Outreach event organized from Members of Faculty of Science (Universidade de Lisboa) to promote scientific dissemination and create a meeting point between stakeholders of different sectors . | Frutos e afins com Ciências |
| 2018/03/21 | The bacterial-derived thallusin molecule is responsible for changes in morphogenesis in the green alga Ulva mutabilis. | International Conference on Microbial Communication for Young Scientists (MiCom)
Jena School for Microbial Communication, FSU Jena (Jena, Germany)
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| 2017/09/19 | Interactions between Ulva and bacteria: Discovering metabolic pathways under the morphogenetic factor thallusin. | 58th Conference of the Czech Phycological Society, Ostrava, Czech Republic.
(Ostrava, Czech Republic)
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Supervision
| Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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|---|---|---|
| 2022/11/01 - 2023/09/15 | Master Thesis for the Master in Microbiology course at the Instituto Técnico de Lisboa. Title: "Effects of abiotic factors
on soil microbiome of Vineyards in a global warming-sensitive region using Next Generation Molecular Techniques."
Co-supervisor
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Microbiologia (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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| 2017/06/18 - 2018/02/13 | Tema: Screening of axenic and xenic Ulva mutabilis tissues and algal associated bacteria for the presence of phytohormones
using solid-phase extractions and UHPLC-MS. The purified phytohormones standards were further tested in bioassays to test
their activity in the algal growth.
Co-supervisor
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Friedrich-Shiller-University Jena, Germany
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| 2016/12/20 - 2017/10/27 | Investigations of phytohormones production of the macroalga Ulva mutabilis using LC-ESI-MS.
The master thesis focused on the identification and quantification of phytohormones in the green macroalgae Ulva mutabilis
and in its associated bacteria under xenic and axenic conditions in order to understand their role in the morphogenesis of
Ulva.
Co-supervisor
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Analitical Chemistry (Master)
Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena Chemisch Geowissenschaftliche Fakultät, Germany
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Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023/04/28 - 2023/04/28 | Frutos e Afins com Ciências.
Collaboration in the organization of the outreach event dedicated to scientific dissemination of research on crops, fruits
and plants to general public (students included) and create aggregation moments to strengthen interactions between University
and private companies, which had the chance and space to show their work/products/services. (2023/04/28 - 2023/04/28)
Other (Other)
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Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal |
| 2017/09/11 - 2017/09/15 | Organization and supervision of international COST Action workshop "Crossing the kingdoms: macroalgae - bacteria interactions
promoting algal growth and development". The workshop covered experimental strategies, metabolites extraction for endo- and
exo-metabolomics using GC-MS or LC-MS, and data analysis to obtain bio markers. (2017/09/11 - 2017/09/15)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
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Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena Chemisch Geowissenschaftliche Fakultät, Germany |
| 2016/09/19 - 2016/09/23 | Organization and students supervision of international Marie Curie ITN ALFF workshop "Deciphering symbiotic interactions with
metabolomics", FSU Jena, Germany. (2016/09/19 - 2016/09/23)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
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Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena Chemisch Geowissenschaftliche Fakultät, Germany |
Course / Discipline taught
| Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023/10/06 - 2024/01/23 | Estudo Orientado em Biologia Celular e Biotecnologia. Students integrate a research project to experience what is to be part of a research team and how to proceed through a research project. | Estudo Orientado em Biologia Celular e Biotecnologia | Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal |
| 2023/02/16 - 2023/06/26 | Estudo Orientado em Biologia Celular e Biotecnologia. Students integrate a research project to experience what is to be part of a research team and how to proceed through a research project. | Estudo Orientado em Biologia Celular e Biotecnologia (Licenciatura) | Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal |
| 2020/04/19 - 2020/04/19 | Two lectures in the Course Units: Microbiomes, and Microbiomes and Metagenomics. Show the case of microbial ecology study of bacterial and archaeal community in the planktonic form and associated to macroalgal tissues grown under aquaculture conditions. Taught the analytical workflow for metabarcoding studies: from Illumina raw reads to publishable graphs with statistical tests to answer study questions and set new hypothesis. | Microbiomes and Metagenomics (Mestrado) | Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal |
| 2016/09/15 - 2017/02/10 | Analytical techniques in Chemistry: practical class on GC and GC-MS | (Bachelor) | Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany |
| 2015/09/15 - 2016/01/23 | Analytical techniques in Chemistry: practical class on gel electrophoresis | Analytical techniques in Chemistry (Bachelor) | Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany |
Mentoring / Tutoring
| Topic | Student name | |
|---|---|---|
| 2015/11/08 - 2016/02/10 | Bachelor thesis project: Studying the thallusin effects on the physiology of Ulva mutabilis | Maximilian Walter |
Scientific expedition
| Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2015/06/19 - 2015/06/23 | Ocean Sampling Day is a project to gather ocean data from all over the world in the same day over several years. I participated in the planning and performing of the sampling of water samples from two location of the Algarve coast (inside and outside the Ria Formosa Lagoon) in order to study microbial dark matter and global Nitrogen cycling. | Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal Universidade do Algarve - Campus de Gambelas, Portugal |
| 2014/06/18 - 2014/06/23 | Ocean Sampling Day. I participated in the planning and performing of the sampling of water samples from two location of the Algarve coast (inside and outside the Ria Formosa Lagoon) in order to study microbial dark matter and global Nitrogen cycling. | Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal Universidade do Algarve - Campus de Gambelas, Portugal |