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Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde (CCBS) (Institutional affiliation for the last research proposal) Birthplace: Portugal
Graduated in Applied Biology from the University of Minho, Portugal (2001) and PhD in Ecology from the University of Namur, Belgium (2006). Post-doctorate at the Instituto de Ciències del Mar (CSIC) in Barcelona (Spain), and at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Natal (RN). He is currently Adjunct Professor in the Department of Hydrobiology of the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), accredited in the Postgraduate Program in Ecology and Natural Resources (PPGERN) at UFSCar and in the Postgraduate Program in Ecology of Continental Aquatic Environments of the State University of Maringá (UEM). Responsible for the Laboratory of Biodiversity and Microbial Processes (LBPM), he develops research in the ecology of aquatic systems, with special emphasis on the biotic interactions, structure and function of planktonic communities in all trophic web compartments (viruses, bacteria, phytoplankton, zooplankton ) in all kinds of aquatic environments. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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We propose a collaboration between the Universidade Federal de São Carlos and Universidad de Antioquia, bringing together the expertise of researchers and students of the two Institutions to promote the generation and compilation of a large microbiome database from many aquatic ecosystems across South-America. This will allow to elucidate large-scale patterns of South American aquatic mic…
This project represents a collaboration bringing together the complementary skills of three aquatic researchers working in distinct disciplines: Hugo Sarmento (FAPESP PI) microbial ecology; Dan Perkins (DP, prospective visitor) food web ecology and Victor Saito (FAPESP Co-I) community ecology. The application was initiated during a British Council - FAPESC funded workshop (RLWK8-10592) "C…
Mixotrophic algae have phagocytic capability to ingest bacteria and are a critica I component in microbial food webs. The aim of this project is to develop techniques for quantifying mixotrophic organisms and estimating bacterivory rates in situ using flow cytometry. (AU)
The Institutional application of research resources was approved at the extra meeting of the Center of Biological and Health Council (CoC/CCBS) held on 07.19.2016. After extensive discussion, the CoC/CCBS approved the proposed plan, and also agreed on its application to FAPESP. The coordination and management of this Allocation Plan was awarded to Professor Hugo Miguel Preto de Morais Sar…
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Water quality is the most important factor that ensures public health. The purpose of water treatment plants is to provide a safe supply of drinking water to the population, ensuring the absence and limiting the growth of any organism that may be associated with pathogenicity. Regardless of the means of disinfection, it is common to find bacteria during the treatment and distribution of w…
Biogeographical patterns have been widely studied for over two centuries. However, investigating such patterns as well as testing ecological theories for microbial communities was methodologically impossible until very recently. These questions only became accountable when modern molecular and bioinformatic tools were developed, thereby allowing the characterization of microbiomes directl…
Heterotrophic bacteria are main decomposers of the organic matter in aquatic environments, through the assimilation of dissolved organic carbon (DOC), converting it into particulate organic carbon. Bacterial production (BP) and bacterial respiration (BR) are essential processes in the carbon cycle in aquatic ecosystems, the first being the process of recovery of energy released in the pla…
In recent years, the study of the microbial component of biosphere biodiversity has had huge advances, particularly with the emergence of next generation sequencing techniques. A critical step in this process is the DNA extraction method. The standardization of methods used to access the biodiversity of microorganisms was proposed by the Earth Microbiome Project (EMP), however, these meth…
Marine microbes stand for a great part of the global biodiversity and play key roles in the oceans. However, investigating their diversity and ecology has been extremely challenging due to sampling and methodological constraints. Current molecular and bioinformatic tools together with recent large-scale oceanographic cruises (e.g. Tara Oceans and Malaspina) have helped the scientific comm…
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