Tânia Aires (4318-9E2C-32B9)

Curriculum Vitae

Tânia Aires

I finished my PhD in September 2012 (CCMAR, Algarve University). One week after finishing my PhD I travelled to Rhodes Island (USA) where I got a postdoc fellowship to investigate the climate-driven impacts on the formation and persistence of macroalgal blooms for one year in Professor Carol Thornber lab in a collaboration between the University of Rhodes Island (URI) and Salve Regina University (SRU). After that one year, I was invited to join as Adjunct Professor of Introductory Ecology (BIO 262) which I had the chance to lecturer for one semester (until February 2014). In February 2014 I was back in Portugal to start working again in CCMAR. In the first 2,5 years I filled out research technician positions although assuming postdoc functions and carrying different projects on. In 2016 I was invited by Prof. Gerard Muyzer (University of Amsterdam, IBED, Department of Aquatic Microbiology- with whom I have been collaborating) to spend 3 months learning several microbiology related bioinformatic tools with his team in top bioinformatics facilities. Since 2017 I am a FCT postdoc fellow in the Marine Microbial Ecology & Biotechnology group at CCMAR, developing my proposal, until present (this period included a 9-month career break for high-risk pregnancy and maternity leaves in 2018). My research interest lay on the interactions between marine macrophytes hosts (mainly seaweeds and seagrasses) and their associated bacteria. Through the holobiont study I want to understand how associated bacteria can bring advantage to the host by possibly buffering rapid environmental/habitat changes through a more rapid adaptive response. These interactions are studied in the context of marine invasions by exploring how the synergies between the host and associated bacteria promote the adaptation of the host to the new environment/habitat and its capacity to outcompete native organisms. These findings are extrapolated to the current ongoing climate change to better understand and predict how marine macrophytes will cope with these drastic environmental shifts. During the past years, I have been part of several projects in which I am the researcher responsible for every microbial ecology/holobiont/metagenomics task (see "Projects" tab). As a result of my work, I have established a vast national and international network which granted me with invitations to participate in different projects as an external collaborator. In the last years, due to the similarity between the informatic tools, I have also been involved in eDNA research projects in CCMAR and developping new tools in our Institute. I was, then, invited to be part of new projects, recently approved, and I am the researcher responsible for the eDNA tasks (see the "Projects" tab). I have authored/co-authored 27 scientific publications including 1 book chapter, 1 thesis dissertation, 3 conference papers and 22 scientific papers published in peer-reviewed International Journals (plus 1 under-Review) with over 460 citations (H-index = 14). I have contributed to training the next generation of scientists, supervising 5 BSc students and, 6 MSc from different Universities. I have participated in 2 Ph.D. Committees and I have performed reviews of papers for 13 SCI-indexed journals and acted as peer reviewer of projects for GS-STAR Research and Innovation Grants, DFG and CIVIS3i.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Tânia Aires

Citation names

Aires, Tânia

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 4318-9E2C-32B9
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1964-6819

Addresses

Center of Marine Sciences (CCMAR) in the University of Algarve . CCMAR, Edf.7, Campus de Gambelas, 8005-139, Faro, Faro, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1964-6819 (Professional)
https://www.ccmar.ualg.pt/users/taires (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Marine Biology
Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Molecular Biology
Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Microbiology

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening
Portuguese	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
English	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
French	Beginner (A1)	Intermediate (B1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)
Spanish; Castilian	Beginner (A1)	Intermediate (B1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2007/07/01 - 2012/09/14 Concluded	Biological Sciences (Doutoramento) Major in Molecular Ecology Universidade do Algarve Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal "Biotic interactions and the success of invasions: bacterial communities in invasive versus native species of algae (Caulerpa sp.) and seagrasses (Posidonia sp.) " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Muito Bom com Distinção e Louvor (Approved with Honors)
2004/06/11 Concluded	Biologia (Licenciatura) Universidade de Évora, Portugal "Contributo para o estudo dos vectores da Borreliose de Lyme em Portugal" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	15 valores

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2017/08/01 - Current	Postdoc (Research)	Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal

2014/02/01 - 2017/06/30	Postdoc (Research)	Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal

2016/10/01 - 2016/12/31	Visiting Researcher (Research)	Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands

2012/10/01 - 2014/01/31	Postdoc (Research)	University of Rhode Island Department of Biological Sciences, United States

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2013/09/01 - 2014/01/31	Lecturer (University Teacher)	University of Rhode Island Department of Biological Sciences, United States
	University of Rhodes Island, United States

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2007/06/01 - 2012/09/14	PhD student	Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal

2006/01/01 - 2007/05/31	Research Technician	Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal

2004/10/01 - 2005/10/31	Research Technician	Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal

2003/01/01 - 2004/06/11	Ungraduated student	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2024 - 2026	iCulture: A digital bio-platform and co-culture bioprocess to prospect and utilize macroalgae responsibly and sustainably. 101082010-2 Researcher	Ongoing
2022/01/01 - 2024/12/31	Impact of climate warming in the coastal upwelling system and primary production of Portugal: a study linking classical and emergent proxies (PTDC/CTA-CLI/2884/2021) PTDC/CTA-CLI/2884/2021 Researcher Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2022/01/01 - 2024/12/31	BlueForests - Boosting Blue Forests Education and Capacity Building EEA.BG.CALL5.002.2020 Researcher Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal	EEA Grants Ongoing
2022 - 2024	RESTORESEAS: Marine Forests of animals, plants and algae: nature-based tools to protect and restore biodiversity BiodivERsA3-2021: BiodivRestore-253 Researcher	Ongoing
2014 - 2016	INVASIVES- Invasive seaweeds in rising temperatures: impacts and risk assessments SEAS-ERA/0001/2012 Research Fellow Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2012 - 2013	Climate-driven impacts on the formation and persistence of macroalgal blooms: Bringing Ulva bloom biology into the genomics era 2012 STAC grant Post-doc Fellow University of Rhode Island Department of Biological Sciences, United States	National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology Concluded
2007 - 2012	IBISA - The success of invasive species: exploring the joint role of biotic interactions and of founder effect in Caulerpa species PTDC/MAR/64749/2006 PhD Student Fellow Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2006 - 2007	NETWORK– Genetic Networks and Evolution: from individuals to populations POCI/MAR/57342/2004 Research Technician Fellow Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2006 - 2007	DIVSTAB - Neutral and non-neutral genes: population diversity and stability POCI/MAR/60179/2004 Other Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2004 - 2005	Experimental evolution and the genetic basis of adaptation: analysis of candidate genes during reverse evolution POCTI/BSE/48228/2002 Research Technician Fellow Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2021/01/01 - 2025/12/31	Centro de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental 10.54499/LA/P/0101/2020 Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2021/01/01 - 2025/12/31	Centre for Marine and Environmental Research LA/P/0101/2020 Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2017/01/01 - 2020/11/30	Functional Variability and Dynamics of Responses of Marine Forests to Global Change - MARFOR BIODIVERSA/0004/2015 Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31	Centre of Marine Sciences UID/Multi/04326/2019 Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31	CCMAR Base funding UIDB/Multi/04326/2019 Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2014 - 2015	SEAPROLIF - Diversity and functioning of coastal marine biomes under siege: implications of Seaweed Proliferations across three oceans NETBIOME/0001/2011 Post-doc Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2011/01/01 - 2012/12/31	Strategic Project - LA 15 - 2011-2012 PEst-C/MAR/LA0015/2011 Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Other

	Designation	Funders
2022 - 2025	PRR - PACTO BIOECONOMIA AZUL - VERTICAL ALGAS PRR Researcher	Ongoing

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	Aires, Tânia; Muyzer, Gerard; Serrão, Ester A.; Engelen, Aschwin H.. "Unraveling seaweeds bacteriomes - From field site to computer screen". In Protocols for Macroalgae Research, edited by Bénédicte Charrier; Thomas Wichard; C R K Reddy, 95-113. Boca Raton, United States: CRC Press, 2018. Published
Conference abstract	Martins, Márcio; Rui Orlando Pimenta Santos; Carmen Barrena de los Santos; Abrantes, Fatima; Magalhaes, Vitor; Aires, Tânia; Engelen, Aschwin H.; et al. Corresponding author: Martins, Márcio. "Carbon stocks, burial rates and environmental DNA in seagrass sediments at the Banc d'Arguin, Mauritania". Paper presented in World Seagrass Conference 2022, Annopolis, 2022. Published Aires, Tânia; Serebryakova, Alexandra; Ester A Serrao; Engelen, Aschwin H.. "Seasonal variation of bacterial communities associated with the invasive brown seaweed Sargassum muticum". Paper presented in 11th Int. Phycological Congress, Szczecin, 2017. Published Aires, Tânia; Ester A Serrao; Engelen, Aschwin H.. "The effects of grazing on the microbiome of an invasive brown seaweed (Sargassum muticum)". Szczecin, 2017. Published Engelen, Aschwin H.; Aires, Tânia; Catarina Cúcio; Muyzer, Gerard. "Microbiomes of macrophytes in the marine realm across species, tissues, latitudes and environmental conditions". Paper presented in MaCuMBA conference, Berlin, 2016. Published Engelen, Aschwin H.; Aires, Tânia; Ester A Serrao. "Revealing the functional potential of seaweed and mesoherbivore-associated microbiomes.". Paper presented in 22nd International Seaweed Symposium, Copenhagen, 2016. Published
Conference paper	Aires, Tânia; Engelen, Aschwin H.; Serrão, Ester A.. "Differentiation in bacterial communities associated to the red seaweed genus Asparagopsis, in the Western Atlantic, and their potential drivers". Paper presented in Sixth European Phycological Congress (EPC6), London, 2015. Published • 10.1080/09670262.2015.1069489 Engelen, Aschwin H.; Klaeui, A; Aires, Tânia; Serrão, Ester A.. "The Microbiome of a seaweed invader across its introduced European range". Paper presented in Sixth European Phycological Congress (EPC6), London, 2015. Aires, Tânia; Thornber, Carol; Swanson, JD. "Differential gene regulation patterns, during bloom and non-bloom time periods, of Ulva rigida in Narragansett Bay (Rhode Island, USA)". Paper presented in 10th International Phycological Congress, Orlando, FL, 2013. Published
Conference poster	Aires, Tânia; Lorena Cojoc; Mengfei Yuan; Asier Indart; Barreto, Luis M.; Ester A Serrao; Aschwin H Engelen. "Kelp microbiomes benefits to the test Bacterial isolation, characterization, and an application test to increase kelp stress resilience under global change conditions.". Paper presented in 8th Congress of the International Society for Applied Phycology - ISAP 2024, 2024. van Duijnhoven, Hannah J.; João Silva; Aires, Tânia; Mike Lenstra; Sabine Weidlich; Muyzer, Gerard; Aschwin H Engelen. Corresponding author: van Duijnhoven, Hannah J.. "The use of probiotics to stimulate the success of seagrass restoration". Paper presented in 2nd Microbiome PT Summit, 2023. Lorena Cojoc; Mengfei Yuan; Asier Indart; Luís Barreto; Aires, Tânia; Martins, Neusa; Ester A Serrao; Aschwin H Engelen. Corresponding author: Aschwin H Engelen. "Kelp microbiomes benefits to the test: bacteria isolation, characterization, and tested for influence on kelp resilience to global change stress conditions.". Paper presented in 2nd Microbiome PT Summit, 2023. Martins, M; Herrero-Fernández, A; de los Santos, Carmen B.; Aires, Tânia; Abrantes, F; Serrão, EA; Santos, R. "DNA metabarcoding to determine organic carbon sources: a case study for natural and restored seagrass meadows". Paper presented in ASLO 2023 Aquatic Sciences Meeting, 2023. Ángela Herrero-Fernández; de los Santos, Carmen B.; Martins, Márcio; Aires, Tânia; Abrantes, Fatima; Ester A Serrao; Rui Orlando Pimenta Santos. "Blue carbon and nitrogen sequestration in restored seagrasses meadows increases over time but has not reached natural levels after 10 years". Paper presented in ECSA 59 - Using the best scientific knowledge for the sustainable management of estuaries and coastal seas, 2022. João Faria; Aires, Tânia; Gustavo Martins; Engelen, Aschwin H.. "Host-mediated microbiome at a marine shallowwater CO2 seep location in Azores (NE Atlantic)". Paper presented in 18th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology, 2022. Aires, Tânia; Muyzer, Gerard; Serrão, Ester A.; Engelen, Aschwin H.. "The effects of grazing on the microbiome of an invasive brown seaweed (Sargassum muticum)". Paper presented in 11th International Phycological Congress (IPC11), 2017. Aires, Tânia; Marbà, Núria; Serrão, Ester A.; Duarte, Carlos M.; Arnaud-Haond, Sophie. "Biotic interactions and the success of invasive species: the case of the bacterial flora of Caulerpa taxifolia". Paper presented in TIBE- Trends in Biodiversity and Evolution, 2010. Aires, Tânia; Marbà, Núria; Serrão, Ester A.; Duarte, Carlos M.; Arnaud-Haond, Sophie. "Biotic interactions and the success of invasive species: the case of the bacterial flora of Caulerpa taxifolia". Paper presented in DIVERSITAS 2009- An International Program of Biodiversity Science, 2009. Aires, Tânia; Brites, Daniela; Teotonio, Henrique. "The population genetics of laboratory adapted populations of Drosophila melanogaster". Paper presented in 10th Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB), 2005.
Journal article	Pinto, P.I.S.; Najafpour, B.; Lima, P.; Machado, P.; Aires, T.; Engelen, A.; Tsironi, T.; Anjos, L.; Power, D.M.. "Quantitative PCR assays as a monitoring tool for bacterial genera in fresh fish fillets". Food Bioscience (2024): 104928. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fbio.2024.104928. 10.1016/j.fbio.2024.104928 Aires, Tânia. "Impact of persistently high sea surface temperatures on the rhizobiomes of Zostera marina in a Baltic Sea benthocosms". Global Change Biology (2024): In press van Duijnhoven, Hannah J.; Nina Dombrowski; Peter Kuperus; Aires, Tânia; Márcio André Guerreiro Coelho; João Silva; Muyzer, Gerard; Engelen, Aschwin H.. Corresponding author: van Duijnhoven, Hannah J.. "Draft genome of the marine bacterium Alteromonas gracilis strain J4 isolated from the green coenocytic alga Caulerpa proliferaDraft genome of the marine bacterium Alteromonas gracilis strain J4 isolated from the green coenocytic alga Caulerpa prolifera". Microbiology Resource Announcements (2024): Published Martins, Márcio; Abecasis, David; Abrantes, Fatima; Aires, Tânia; Khallahi Brahim; Sidina Ebaye; Joao Encarnaçao; et al. "Sedimentary Chronostratigraphy and eDNA Analysis Revealed Banc DArguin (Mauritania) as a Blue Carbon Hotspot for the Last Centuries". Science of Total Environment (2023): Accepted Aires, Tânia; Anita Kläui; Engelen, Aschwin H.. Corresponding author: Aires, Tânia. "Regional microbiome differentiation of the invasive Sargassum muticum (Fucales, Phaeophyceae) follows the generalist host hypothesis across the North East Atlantic". European Journal of Phycology (2022): Published Díaz-Abad, Lucía; Bacco-Mannina, Natassia; Madeira, Fernando Miguel; Neiva, João; Aires, Tania; Serrao, Ester A.; Regalla, Aissa; Patrício, Ana R.; Frade, Pedro R.. "eDNA metabarcoding for diet analyses of green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas)". Marine Biology 169 1 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00227-021-04002-x. Published • 10.1007/s00227-021-04002-x Glasl, Bettina; Haskell, Jasmine B.; Aires, Tania; Serrão, Ester A.; Bourne, David G.; Webster, Nicole S.; Frade, Pedro R.. "Microbial Surface Biofilm Responds to the Growth-Reproduction-Senescence Cycle of the Dominant Coral Reef Macroalgae Sargassum spp.". Life 11 11 (2021): 1199. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/life11111199. Published • 10.3390/life11111199 Aires, Tania; Stuij, Tamara M.; Muyzer, Gerard; Serrão, Ester A.; Engelen, Aschwin H.. "Characterization and Comparison of Bacterial Communities of an Invasive and Two Native Caribbean Seagrass Species Sheds Light on the Possible Influence of the Microbiome on Invasive Mechanisms". Frontiers in Microbiology 12 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.653998. Published • 10.3389/fmicb.2021.653998 Aires, Tânia; Muyzer, Gerard; Serrão, Ester A.; Engelen, Aschwin H.. "Seaweed Loads Cause Stronger Bacterial Community Shifts in Coastal Lagoon Sediments Than Nutrient Loads". Frontiers in Microbiology 9 (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2018.03283. Open access • Published • 10.3389/fmicb.2018.03283 Serebryakova, Alexandra; Aires, Tânia; Viard, Frédérique; Serrão, Ester A.; Engelen, Aschwin H.. "Summer shifts of bacterial communities associated with the invasive brown seaweed Sargassum muticum are location and tissue dependent". PLOS ONE 13 12 (2018): e0206734. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0206734. Open access • Published • 10.1371/journal.pone.0206734 Engelen, Aschwin H.; Aires, Tânia; Vermeij, Mark J. A.; Herndl, Gerhard J.; Serrão, Ester A.; Frade, Pedro R.. "Host Differentiation and Compartmentalization of Microbial Communities in the Azooxanthellate Cupcorals Tubastrea coccinea and Rhizopsammia goesi in the Caribbean". Frontiers in Marine Science 5 (2018): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2018.00391. Open access • Published • 10.3389/fmars.2018.00391 Aires, Tânia; Serebryakova, Alexandra; Viard, Frédérique; Serrão, Ester A.; Engelen, Aschwin H.. "Acidification increases abundances of Vibrionales and Planctomycetia associated to a seaweed-grazer system: potential consequences for disease and prey digestion efficiency". PeerJ 6 (2018): e4377. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4377. Open access • Published • 10.7717/peerj.4377 Neiva, João; Paulino, Cristina; Nielsen, Mette M.; Krause-Jensen, Dorte; Saunders, Gary W.; Assis, Jorge; Bárbara, Ignacio; et al. "Glacial vicariance drives phylogeographic diversification in the amphi-boreal kelp Saccharina latissima". Scientific Reports 8 1 (2018): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-19620-7. Open access • Published • 10.1038/s41598-018-19620-7 Arnaud-Haond, S.; Aires, Tânia; Candeias, R.; Teixeira, S. J. L.; Duarte, C. M.; Valero, M.; Serrão, E. A.. "Entangled fates of holobiont genomes during invasion: nested bacterial and host diversities in Caulerpa taxifolia". Molecular Ecology 26 8 (2017): 2379-2391. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mec.14030. Open access • Published • 10.1111/mec.14030 Greff, Stéphane; Aires, Tânia; Serrão, Ester A.; Engelen, Aschwin H.; Thomas, Olivier P.; Pérez, Thierry. "The interaction between the proliferating macroalga Asparagopsis taxiformis and the coral Astroides calycularis induces changes in microbiome and metabolomic fingerprints". Scientific Reports 7 1 (2017): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep42625. Open access • Published • 10.1038/srep42625 Aires, Tânia; Serrão, Ester A.; Engelen, Aschwin H.. "Host and Environmental Specificity in Bacterial Communities Associated to Two Highly Invasive Marine Species (Genus Asparagopsis)". Frontiers in Microbiology 7 (2016): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2016.00559. Open access • Published • 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00559 Vieira, Christophe; Engelen, Aschwin H.; Guentas, Linda; Aires, Tânia; Houlbreque, Fanny; Gaubert, Julie; Serrão, Ester A.; De Clerck, Olivier; Payri, Claude E.. "Species Specificity of Bacteria Associated to the Brown Seaweeds Lobophora (Dictyotales, Phaeophyceae) and Their Potential for Induction of Rapid Coral Bleaching in Acropora muricata". Frontiers in Microbiology 7 (2016): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2016.00316. Open access • Published • 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00316 Paulino, Cristina; Neiva, João; Coelho, Nelson C.; Aires, Tânia; Marbà, Núria; Krause-Jensen, Dorte; Serrão, Ester A.. "Characterization of 12 polymorphic microsatellite markers in the sugar kelp Saccharina latissima". Journal of Applied Phycology 28 5 (2016): 3071-3074. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10811-016-0811-x. Open access • Published • 10.1007/s10811-016-0811-x Aires, Tânia; Moalic, Yann; Serrao, Ester A.; Arnaud-Haond, Sophie. "Hologenome theory supported by cooccurrence networks of species-specific bacterial communities in siphonous algae (Caulerpa)". FEMS Microbiology Ecology 91 7 (2015): fiv067. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiv067. Open access • Published • 10.1093/femsec/fiv067 Aires, Tânia; Serrão, Ester A.; Kendrick, Gary; Duarte, Carlos M.; Arnaud-Haond, Sophie. "Invasion Is a Community Affair: Clandestine Followers in the Bacterial Community Associated to Green Algae, Caulerpa racemosa, Track the Invasion Source". PLoS ONE 8 7 (2013): e68429. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0068429. Open access • Published • 10.1371/journal.pone.0068429 Aires, Tânia; Marbà, Núria; Serrao, Ester A.; Duarte, Carlos M.; Arnaud-Haond, Sophie. "Selective elimination of chloroplastidial DNA for metagenomics of bacteria associated with the green alga Caulerpa taxifolia (Bryopsidophyceae)". Journal of Phycology 48 2 (2012): 483-490. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1529-8817.2012.01124.x. Open access • Published • 10.1111/j.1529-8817.2012.01124.x Massa, Sónia I.; Pearson, Gareth A.; Aires, Tânia; Kube, Michael; Olsen, Jeanine L.; Reinhardt, Richard; Serrão, Ester A.; Arnaud-Haond, Sophie. "Expressed sequence tags from heat-shocked seagrass Zostera noltii (Hornemann) from its southern distribution range". Marine Genomics 4 3 (2011): 181-188. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.margen.2011.04.003. Published • 10.1016/j.margen.2011.04.003 Aires, Tânia; Marbà, N; Cunha, RL; Kendrick, GA; Walker, DI; Serrão, EA; Duarte, CM; Arnaud-Haond, S. "Evolutionary history of the seagrass genus Posidonia". Marine Ecology Progress Series 421 (2011): 117-130. http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/meps08879. Published • 10.3354/meps08879 Baptista, Susana; Quaresma, Ana; Aires, Tânia; Kurtenbach, Klaus; Santos-Reis, Margarida; Nicholson, Matthew; Collares-Pereira, Margarida. "Lyme borreliosis spirochetes in questing ticks from mainland Portugal". International Journal of Medical Microbiology Supplements 293 37 (2004): 109-116. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1433-1128(04)80016-0. Published • 10.1016/s1433-1128(04)80016-0

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2024/05/08	Perspectives on seaweed microbiomes in aquaculture/seaweed farming and as biotech resource	Synergies - Harnessing Blue and Green Biotech Waves for a Sustainable Tomorrow iSEA Project (Lisbon, Portugal)
2023/12/12	Unlocking opportunities in the seaweed industry through seaweed microbiome exploration	AlgaEurope 2023 EABA - European Algae Biomass Association (Prague, Czech Republic)
2023/05	Into the culturable bacteriome of corals from southern Portugal	8th International Symposium on Deep-Sea Corals (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
2021/04	Native vs invasive seagrasses microbiomes and its possible influence on the invasion process	2021 MIT Microbiome Symposium
2021/01/22	Biogeography of the seagrass Halodule wrightii and Caulerpa seaweeds and their microbiomes	ASSEMBLE plus conference
2021	Microbiome of the green model seaweed genus Ulva in southern Portugal	Aslo virtual meeting
2020/12/18	Native versus invasive seagrass microbiomes in the tropics	CCMAR Symposium (2nd Edition) CCMAR (Faro, Portugal)
2017/09/11	Algal bacteriome characterization using high throughput sequencing	COST Action workshop- Crossing the kingdoms: Macroalgae-Bacteria Interactions Jena University (Jena, Germany)
2017/09/11	The microbiome of a seaweed invader across its introduced European range	COST Action workshop- Crossing the kingdoms: Macroalgae-Bacteria Interactions Jena University (Jena, Germany)
2017/06/06	Insights in marine macrophyte associated microbiomes.	ILC Metagenomics seminar (Cantanhede, Portugal)
2016/12/12	Seagrass microbiomes	EuroMarinera foresight workshop ‘Bridging environmental and ecological data with integrated ‘omics to understand and predict future seagrass ecosystems under global / climate change EuroMarinera (Odense, Denmark)
2016/10/16	Seagrass microbiome shifts under experimental eutrophication and algal blooms	International Seagrass Biology Workshop (Nant Gwrtheyrn, United Kingdom)
2016/07/03	Halophila stipulacea microbiomes from Curaçao	EuroMarinera foresight workshop on the invasive seagrass Halophila stipulacea EuroMarinera (Eilat, Israel)
2016/06/27	Microbiomes of macrophytes in the marine realm across species, tissues, latitudes and environmental conditions	MaCuMBA conference MaCuMBA project (Berlin, Germany)
2016/06/26	Marine Canopies in a Changing Environment: projecting the distribution of species of Cystoseira under alternative climatic scenarios	11th International Temperate Reefs Symposium University of Pisa (Pisa, Italy)
2016/06/19	Revealing the functional potential of seaweed and mesoherbivore-associated microbiomes	22nd International Seaweed Symposium The International Seaweed Association (Copenhagen, Denmark)
2016/02/01	Effects of ocean acidification on the microbiome of an invasive brown seaweed and the gutmicrobiome of a native isopod consumer	MARES Conference University of Algarve, CCMAR (Olhão, Portugal)
2015/08/23	The Microbiome of a Seaweed Invader Across its Introduced European Range	Sixth European Phycological Congress (EPC6) The British Phycological Society (London, United Kingdom)
2015/08/23	Differentiation in Bacterial Communities Associated to the Red seaweed Genus Asparagopsis in the Northeastern Atlantic and their Potential Drivers	Sixth European Phycological Congress (EPC6) The British Phycological Society (London, United Kingdom)
2015/06/22	Co-occurrence Network of Bacterial Communities Reveals Species-Specific Patterns of Modularity Inside Siphonous Algae of the genus Caulerpa in the Mediterranean Sea	Conférences Jacques Monod CNRS (Roscoff, France)
2014/04/25	Elucidation of LhcSR Gene Expression in Macroalga, Ulva rigida and Ulva compressa	53rd Annual Northeast Algal Society Symposium Northeast Algal Society (Newport, RI, United States)
2014/03/21	LhcSR Gene Expression Analysis in Macroalga, Ulva rigida and Ulva compressa	5th Annual SRyou Student Exposition Salve Regina University (Newport, RI, United States)
2014/03/08	Expression Analysis of the LhcSR Gene under Stress Conditions in Macroalga, Ulva rigida and Ulva compresa	5th Annual SRyou Student Exposition University of New England (Biddeford, MA, United States)
2013/08/04	Differential Gene Regulation Patterns, during Bloom and Non-Bloom Time Periods, of Ulva rigida in Narragansett Bay (Rhode Island, USA)	10th International Phycological Congress International Phycological Society (Orlando, FL, United States)
2013/04/19	Biotic interactions and the success of invasive species: the case of the bacterial flora of Caulerpa taxifolia	NEAS- 52st Annual Northeast Algal Society Symposium Northeast Algal Society (Mystic, CT, United States)
2013/03/01	Invasion is a community affair: clandestine followers in the bacterial community associated to the alga Caulerpa racemosa track the invasion source	Biological & Environmental Sciences Seminar Series Department of Biological & Environmental Sciences, University of Rhode Island (Kingston, RI, United States)
2004/06/02	Borreliose de Lyme em Portugal: Estudo dos vectores, agentes e áreas de risco. Aplicação dos SIG na saúde pública	VIII Meeting of SIG Users (Oeiras, Portugal)
2003/12/29	Lyme Borreliosis in Portugal: an emerging tick-borne infection	National Congress of Microbiology (Tomar, Portugal)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2023 - 2027	Harnessing Microbiome Insights for Enhanced Seeweed Cultivation Supervisor	Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2023/11 - 2024/08	Microbiome Heritage in offspring of Cold-Water Corals Supervisor	Universiteit Gent, Belgium
2023 - 2023	The genome of Sulfitobacter pseudonitzschiae isolated from the kelp Laminaria ochroleuca Co-supervisor	Marine Biology Masters Internship (Master) Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2022/02/01 - 2022/08/31	Characterization and Comparison of Bacterial Communities of Native Caribbean Stony Corals Co-supervisor of Roanna Nadine Silveira	Marine Environment and Resources (Master) Université de Liège, Belgium
2021/12/01 - 2022/07/01	Kelp microbiomes benefits to the test: bacterial isolation, characterization, and an application test to increase kelp stress resilience under global change conditions. Supervisor of Lorena Cristina Cojoc	IMBRSea (Master) Universiteit Gent, Belgium
2020/10 - 2021/02	Bacterial community associated to a Grazer-Seaweed system - Seaweed identity and CO2 level's influence on the seaweed-herbivore associated microbiome Supervisor of Caroline Lau	Erasmus (Scientific initiation) Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf Botanisches Institut, Germany
2019/12/01 - 2020/12/11	Taxonomic and functional microbial dynamics of Sargassum sp. surface biofilms and their response to the coral reef environment Co-supervisor of Jasmine Brooke Haskell	Master in Marine and Coastal Systems (Master) Universidade do Algarve - Campus de Gambelas, Portugal
2017/08 - 2018/02	Distinct microbiomes in three tropical seagrasses around the island of Curaçao: Halophila stipulacea, Halodule wrightii, Thalassia filiforme Co-supervisor of Tamara Stuij	Marine Sciences (Master) Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands
2015/01 - 2015/06	Characterization of the Microbiome of an Invasive Marine Brown Alga Co-supervisor of Anita Klaeui	EMBC - International Msc in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation (Master) Universiteit Gent, Belgium
2013/01 - 2014/01	Uncovering the Functional Genetics of Macroalgal Ulva Blooms using Transcriptome Analysis Co-supervisor of Shennel Gelin	Biology (Degree) Salve Regina University, United States
2012/10 - 2013/12	Gene Expression Patterns in Different Stages of Ulva sp (Chlorophyta) Blooms Accessed by Real Time PCR Co-supervisor of Noe Mercado	Biology (Degree) Salve Regina University, United States
2012/10 - 2013/09	Ulva rigida bloom formation in Narragansett Bay Co-supervisor of Amy Battocletti	Marine biology and conservation biology (Degree) University of Rhode Island, United States

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2022/09/26 - 2022/09/29	Oxford Nanopore Workshop Workshop	Nanopore Workshop - RESTORSEAS Universiteit Gent, Belgium
2018 - 2018	Ocean Sampling Day - OSD is a worldwide research campaign where marine biologists around the globe participate in sampling surface waters of the world's coastal areas. Other	Ocean Sampling Day (OSD)
2017/09/13 - 2017/09/15	A Training School that introduces selected tools in Analytical Chemistry (e.g., metabolomics, isotope labeling, etc.) for deciphering seaweed-microbial interactions. Mainly students and early stage researchers participate in a hand-to-hand laboratory course. Other	COST Action: FA1406, Training School in Analytical Chemistry, “Chemistry of macroalgae: Exploring the chemical nature of seaweed-microbial interactions”
2017/09/11 - 2017/09/12	The main focus of this Workshop is on the cross-kingdom interactions between macroalgae and bacteria. It covers various aspects of chemical ecology, evolutionary ecology, developmental biology, symbiosis and analytical tools Current topics are presented by invited speakers, early stage researchers and students. Workshop	Workshop of the COST Action FA 1406: “Macroalgae-bacteria interactions promoting algal growth and development”
2016/09/22 - 2016/09/23	A workshop divided into 2 full day sessions, gently introducing to the R language, using RStudio as the development platform. Covers some basic graphical functions and elementary descriptive statistics. The whole workshop is hands-on oriented. Workshop	R for absolute beginners Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
2016/09/13 - 2016/09/16	A summer school on bioinformatics intended for MSc/PhD students and early career postdocs with molecular biology background. Expert lectures on cutting-edge topics and participant presentations ensure high knowledge gain and scientific exchange. This Summer school doesn't teach how to program but introduces the existing tools out there to process NGS data and to infer phylogenies. Workshop	Black Forest Summer School 2016
2009/01/09 - 2009/01/30	The Workshop on Molecular Evolution consists of a series of lectures, demonstrations and computer laboratories that cover theoretical and conceptual aspects of molecular evolution with a strong emphasis on data analysis. The Workshop has two focus areas: molecular phylogenetics and population genetics. A majority of the schedule is dedicated to hands-on learning activities designed by faculty and the workshop team. Workshop	Workshop on Molecular Evolution, Europe

Jury of academic degree

	Topic Role	Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization
2023/11/14	Understanding selectivity on the prokaryotic microbiome in Larger Benthic Foraminifera (Thesis) Main arguer	Laura Del Rio-Hortega Balsalobre (Master) Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2019/12/02	Coupling shifts in the composition of coral tissue- and mucus associated microbial communities to changes in coral host physiology and environmental fluctuations (Thesis) Main arguer	Giulia Manso Marchioro (Master) Universidade do Algarve - Campus de Gambelas, Portugal
2019/09/20	Genetic and ecological exploration of the algal microbiome (Thesis) Main arguer	Kathryn Morrissey (PhD) Universiteit Gent, Belgium

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2013/09/01 - 2014/01/31	Introductory Ecology (BIO 262)	Biology (Bachelor (1st cycle))	University of Rhode Island College of the Environment and Life Sciences, United States

Evaluation committee

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization	Funding entity
2023/01/23 - 2023/02/28	Invited Evaluator/Reviewer for the CIVIS3i Alliance Programme for International, Interdisciplinary, Intersectoral Research and Training for Experienced Researchers Evaluator	Aix-Marseille Université, France	EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions
2022/07 - 2022/07	Reviewer for the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), evaluating a proposal for the Strategic Research Grant Proposals - Addressing environmental challenges: NERC highlighttopics 2022 - Understanding Microbial Community Dynamics Across Space and Time Evaluator		Natural Environment Research Council
2022/03 - 2022/04	Reviewer for the German Research Foundation (DFG), evaluating a proposal for the joint German and French project submitted in response to the joint call ANR-DFG 2022 NLE between the DFG and the French National Research Agency . Evaluator	German Research Foundation (DFG), Germany	German Research Foundation (DFG)
2019/10 - 2019/11	Revision and evaluation of projects on global seaweed industry allowing applicants to establish collaborations and to bring in relevant private and third sector partners, including small and medium enterprises (SMEs), non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and other not-for-profit organisations. The GS-STAR Research and Innovation Grants will provide funding from £5k up to a maximum of £50k to applicants from the UK and DAC-list countries. Evaluator	The Scottish Association for Marine Science, United Kingdom	GCRF GlobalSeaweedSTAR

Journal scientific committee

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2022 - Current	Ecology and Evolution	Wiley
2021 - 2022	Science of the Total Environment	Science Direct
2019/09/24 - 2021/03/02	Ecological Indicators (1470-160X)	Elsevier
2021 - 2021	BMC Microbiology (1471-2180)
2019/08 - 2020/09	Biological Invasions (1573-1464)	Springer-Verlag
2020/01 - 2020/02	Frontiers in Microbiology (1664-302X)	Frontiers Media SA
2020 - 2020	FEMS Microbiology Ecology (1574-6941)
2019/06 - 2019/07	Environmental Microbiology Reports (1758-2229)	Wiley (Blackwell Publishing)
2016/08/23 - 2018/03/27	Scientific Reports (2045-2322)	Springer Nature
2018/03/05 - 2018/03/09	Environmental Microbiology (1462-2920)	Wiley (Blackwell Publishing)
2017/03/17 - 2017/04/04	Molecular Ecology (1365-294X)	Wiley (Blackwell Publishing)
2016/11/21 - 2016/12/08	Limnology and Oceanography (0024-3590)	Wiley (Blackwell Publishing)
2016/05/03 - 2016/05/24	PeerJ (2167-8359)	PeerJ
2016/02/19 - 2016/03/08	Journal of Applied Phycology (1573-5176)	Springer-Verlag
2015/07/30 - 2015/09/28	Journal of Marine Biology (1687-949X)	Hindawi Limited

Mentoring / Tutoring

	Topic	Student name
2022/10/01 - 2023/02/02	Lab Methods	Ariadni Vafeiadou
2021/06 - 2021/09	Ciência Viva Summer School - Ciência Viva no Laboratório - Criar Futuro 2021 - Let's isolate and sequence bacteria of seaweeds, seagrasses or corals: find some that help to keep their host happy & healthy	Leonor

Other jury / evaluation

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2022/08 - 2022/09	Reviewer for the IMBRSea Master program	Universiteit Gent, Belgium
2022/08 - 2022/08	Reviewer for the Graduate School for Production Ecology & Resource Conservation (PE&RC) of Wageningen University	Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands

Distinctions

Other distinction

2017	Fellowship to the COST Action: FA1406, Workshop in Macroalgae-bacteria interactions promoting algal growth and development and Training School in Analytical Chemistry
2017	Postdoctoral Fellowship SFRH/BPD/116774/2016 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2016	Fellowship to the Summer School in Functional Genomics and Transcriptomics (Black Forest, Germany) European Cooperation in Science and Technology, Belgium
2006	PhD Fellowship SFRH/BD/30043/2006 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal