| Miguel Guerreiro, PhD Student
Miguel Guerreiro is currently with the RRLab doing his PhD thesis. He studied Marine Ecology (Msc, 2012) and also Bioinformatics & Computational Biology (Msc, 2017) which he finished in Vienna (Austria) and there worked as the Microbial Oceanography lab's bioinformatician. With the Deep sea ecology group in GEOMAR (Kiel, Germany) and RRLab (MARE), he is developing his PhD in Marine Ecology, with the aim of understanding and modelling the carbon pool and contribution to the biological pump that Cephalopods (squids, octopus and co.) are responsible for. In other words, he is trying to describe the role of Cephalopods as a carbon sink, as they are important animals in the Ocean - both as prey (Seabirds and Marine Mammals) and predator - contributing into a bigger living carbon pool in the Ocean (and less in the atmosphere), and most importantly, their life strategy of "live fast die young", makes their populations very abundant and flexible to their surroundings, and so, when they spawn and die, huge amounts of them sink into the bottom of the ocean (further increasing the carbon sink effect) where they become a feast to the seabed dwellers which "entrap" this carbon for thousands of years. Interests and Expertise: Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Stable Isotopes, Deep-Sea, Zoogeochemistry, Biogeography |
Academic Qualifications |
2017. M. Sc. in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal
2012. M. Sc. in Marine Ecology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal 2010. Undergraduate degree of Environmental Biology, with a focus on Marine Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal |
Awards and Grants |
2011 - Travel and Accommodation grant for the course “SIBAE Training School on Stable Isotopes and Sampling Issues” COST Action ES0806 SIBAE, financed by COST and European Science Foundation (ESF) (750 euros)
2011 - Mobility grant for early career polar scientists from the bank “Caixa Geral de Depositos” (800 euros; Jose Xavier as supervisor) 2007 - Winner of the Portuguese international polar year committee contest “Latitude 60!”. |
Publications |
6. Rosa, R., Lopes, V. M.,Guerreiro, M., Bolstad, K., Xavier, J. C. (2017) Biology and ecology of the worldslargest invertebrate, the colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni): a short review. Polar Biology.DOI:10.1007/s00300-017-2104-5
5. Rosa, R., Paula, J. R., Sampaio, E., Pimentel, M., Lopes, A. R., Baptista, M.,Guerreiro, M., Santos, C. ,Campos, D., Almeida-Val, V., Calado, R., Diniz, M., Repolho, T. (2016) Neuro-oxidative damage and aerobicpotential loss of sharks under elevated CO2 and warming. Marine Biology 163:60.DOI:10.1007/s00227-016-2898-74 4. Rosa, R., Pimentel, M., Galan, J. G., Baptista, M., Lopes, V. M., Couto, A., Guerreiro, M., Sampaio, E., Castro, J., Santos, C., Calado, R., Repolho, T. (2016) Deficit in digestive capabilities of bamboo shark earlystages under climate change. Marine Biology 163:60. DOI: 10.1007/s00227-016-2840-z 3. Guerreiro, M., Phillips, R. A., Cherel, Y., Ceia, F. R., Alvito, P., Rosa, R., Xavier, J. C. (2015) Habitat andtrophic ecology of Southern Ocean cephalopods from stable isotope analyses. Marine Ecological Progressseries 530: 119134. DOI: 10.3354/meps11266 2. Alvito, P .M., Rosa, R., Phillips, R. A., Cherel, Y., Ceia, F., Guerreiro, M., Seco, J., Baeta, A., Vieira, R. P., Xavier, J. C. (2014).Cephalopods in the diet of nonbreeding black-browed and grey-headed albatrosses from South Georgia. Polar Biology. DOI: 10.1007/s00300-014-1626-3 1. Xavier, J. C., Barbosa, A. , Agusti, S., Alonso-Sez, L., Alvito, P., Ameneiro, J., ávila, C., Baeta, A., Canário,J., Carmona, R., Catry, P., Ceia, F., Clark, M. S., Cristobo, F. J., Cruz, B., Duarte, C. M., Figuerola, B., Gili, J., Gonçalves, A. R., Gordillo, F. J. L., Granadeiro, J. P., Guerreiro, M., Isla, E., Jiḿenez, C., Lopez-González, P. J., Loureno, S., Marques, J. C., Moreira, E., Mota, A. M., Nogueira, M., Nunez-Pons, L.,Orejas, C., Paiva, V. H., Palanques, A., Pearson, G. A., Pedros-Alio, C., Canteroá. L. P., Power, D. M., Ramos, J. A., Rossi, S., Seco, J., Sane, E., Serrao, E. A., Taboada, S., Tavares, S., Teixido, N., Vaque, D.,Valente, T., Vázquez, E., Vieira, R. P., Vinegla, B. (2013). Polar marine biology science in Portugal and Spain: Recent advances and future perspectives. Journal of Sea Research 83: 9-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.seares.2013.05.013 |