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José Ricardo Paula, PhD StudentI’m a PhD student at Rui Rosa Lab, under supervision of Rui Rosa (University of Lisbon, Portugal) and Alexandra Grutter (The Unversity of Queensland, Australia). I’m passionate about cooperation (mutualisms) mainly in marine ecosystems. I use the cleaner wrasse Labroides dimidiatus to unravel how the environment can modulate the behavioural and neuroendocrine mechanisms of these complex cooperative interactions. The main aim of my research is to use an integrative approach (combining ecology, physiology, immunology, neuroendocrinology and behavioural ecology) to study how these mutualisms cope with future scenarios of ocean warming and acidification. I conduct my experiments using both lab and field based methods at Laboratório Marítimo da Guia and Lizard Island Research Station, respectively.
Cleaning mutualisms are crucial ecological components of coral reefs, key to marine biodiversity and abundance in these ecosystems. Such mutualisms represent one of the most complex interspecific interactions between different species which involve a cleaner fish, which eat ectoparasites, dead tissue and mucous from client partners. So far my studies are the first step to understand how future climate change might disrupt these crucial and complex interactions. Interests and Expertise: Behavioural Ecology, Neuroendocrinology, Ecology, Physiology, Scientific Diving
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Academic Qualifications |
2013. M.Sc. in Conservation Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal
2011. Licenciatura in Biology - Evolutionary and Developmental Biology branch, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal. |
Awards and Grants |
2014. UNESCO – IOC: Travel Grant Award
2015. Vitor Almada: Best Oral presentation Award 2016. 4th International Symposium on the Ocean in a High-CO2 World: Travel Grant Award |
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João P. M. Messias, José R. Paula, Alexandra S. Grutter, Redouan Bshary, Marta C. Soares: Dopamine disruption increases negotiation for cooperative interactions in a fish. Scientific Reports 02/2016; 6:20817.
DOI:10.1038/srep20817 Vanessa M. Lopes, Filipa Faleiro, Miguel Baptista, Marta S. Pimentel, José R. Paula, Ana Couto, Narcisa Bandarra, Patrícia Anacleto, António Marques, Rui Rosa: Amino and fatty acid dynamics of octopus (Octopus vulgaris) early life stages under ocean warming. Journal of Thermal Biology 11/2015; 55. DOI:10.1016/j.jtherbio.2015.11.006 MR Payne, Manuel Barange, WWL Cheung, Brian R. MacKenzie, HP Batchelder, Xochitl Cormon, TD Eddy, JA Fernandes, Anne B. Hollowed, MC Jones, JS Link, Philipp Neubauer, Ivonne Ortiz, AM Queiros, José R. Paula: Uncertainties in projecting climate change impacts in marine ecosystems. ICES Journal of Marine Science 07/2015; OI:10.1093/icesjms/fsv231 Ewa Kulczykowska, Sónia C. Cardoso, Magdalena Gozdowska, Gonçalo I. André, José R. Paula, Marek Ślebioda, Rui F. Oliveira, Marta C. Soares: Brain levels of nonapeptides in four labrid fish species with different levels of mutualistic behavior. General and Comparative Endocrinology 06/2015; 222:99-105. Sónia C Cardoso, Alexandra S Grutter, José R Paula, Gonçalo I André, João P Messias, Magdalena Gozdowska, Ewa Kulczykowska, Marta C Soares: Forebrain neuropeptide regulation of pair association and behavior in cooperating cleaner fish. Physiology & Behavior 03/2015; 145. DOI:10.1016/j.physbeh.2015.03.024 José R. Paula, João P. Messias, Alexandra S. Grutter, Redouan Bshary, Marta C. Soares: The role of serotonin in the modulation of cooperative behavior. Behavioral Ecology 03/2015; 26(4). DOI:10.1093/beheco/arv039 Filipa Faleiro, Miguel Baptista, Catarina Santos, Maria L Aurélio, Marta Pimentel, Maria Rita Pegado, José Ricardo Paula, Ricardo Calado, Tiago Repolho, Rui Rosa: Seahorses under a changing ocean: the impact of warming and acidification on the behaviour and physiology of a poor-swimming bony-armoured fish. Conservation Physiology 01/2015; 3(1):1-77. DOI:10.1093/conphys/cov009 Marta C Soares, Gonçalo I André, José R. Paula: Preliminary notes on brain weight variation across labrid fish species with different levels of cooperative behaviour. Current Zoology 01/2015; 61(2):274-280. DOI:10.13140/2.1.1330.3845 Rui Rosa, Miguel Baptista, Vanessa M Lopes, Maria Rita Pegado, Jose Ricardo Paula, Katja Trübenbach, Miguel Costa Leal, Ricardo Calado, Tiago Repolho: Early-life exposure to climate change impairs tropical shark survival. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 10/2014; 281(1793-1793):0-6. DOI:10.1098/rspb.2014.1738 Scientific American (2015) - "Serotonin-Deprived Cleaner Fish Are Socially Withdrawn"
SPE Newsletter (2015) - "Premiado no Congresso SPE 2015" |
