By-Catch: A Chemical Universe to be Explored

• Grant number: 11/23159-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: September 01, 2012
• End date: April 01, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Chemistry - Organic Chemistry
• Principal Investigator: Wagner Vilegas
• Grantee: Marcelo Marucci Pereira Tangerina
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biociências (IB-CLP). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus Experimental do Litoral Paulista. São Vicente , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 14/08787-2 - By-catch fauna: a chemical universe to be explored, BE.EP.DR

Abstract

The waste of resources from biodiversity is huge in Brazil and worldwide.The wide variety of marine organisms (algae, mollusks, sponges, corals, etc.) that are caught together with fish and shrimp is completely ignored as a source of new molecules. Due to the low value, the fishermen despise them, because they are not marketable as food. The shrimp fishery is one of the most striking to the marine ecosystems: the use of systems of seabed trawling causes the destruction of all the region where it is employed, capturing up to 21kg of by-catch/ kg of shrimp. Several substances found in marine organisms are widely applied in many areas to improve the quality life of humanity, including the area of food, power generation and medicine. Given this situation, this project aims to study the chemical species of the by-catch shrimp fishery on the coast of São Paulo, in order to obtain molecules of potential economic interest, which can increase the value of wasted material.

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

TANGERINA, MARCELO M. P.; CORREA, HEBELIN; HALTLI, BRAD; VILEGAS, WAGNER; KERR, RUSSELL G.. Bioprospecting from cultivable bacterial communities of marine sediment and invertebrates from the underexplored Ubatuba region of Brazil. Archives of Microbiology, v. 199, n. 1, p. 155-169, JAN 2017. (11/23159-0, 12/19419-9)

PEREIRA TANGERINA, MARCELO MARUCCI; CESARIO, JULIA PIZARRO; RAGGI PEREIRA, GERSON RODRIGUES; COSTA, TANIA MARCIA; VALENTI, WAGNER COTRONI; VILEGAS, WAGNER. Chemical Profile of the Sulphated Saponins from the Starfish Luidia senegalensis Collected as by-Catch Fauna in Brazilian Coast. NATURAL PRODUCTS AND BIOPROSPECTING, v. 8, n. 2, p. 83-89, APR 2018. (12/19419-9, 11/23159-0)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

TANGERINA, Marcelo Marucci Pereira. By-catch: a chemical universe to be explored. 2016. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Instituto de Química. Araraquara Araraquara.