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I have been working on molecular biology since the beginning, starting to work with plants (Arabidopsis thaliana) focusing on energetic stress pathways. After, I started to learn about microbiology, applying molecular biology on it. Throughout this path, I learnt about basic molecular biology software. Over the last years, I have been applying my experience about molecular biology on the fisheries research, studying marine fish and zooplankton communities’ biodiversity and their relationship through molecular techniques (e.g., metabarcoding) and bioinformatic analysis. Fish population structure is also another research scope though DNA fragment analysis. No seu currículo Ciência Vitae os termos mais frequentes na contextualização da produção científica, tecnológica e artístico-cultural são: "Plantas"; "Vias metabólicas; "Stress energético"; "Alterações climáticas; "Agricultura; "Sustentabilidade; "Genes"; "Resistência"; "Antibióticos"; "Microrganismos; "Ambiente; "Saúde pública; "Biologia molecular; "PCR"; "Patógenos"; "Peixes"; "Sustentabilidade"; "Biologia molecular"; "Recursos"; "Sustentabilidade; "Alterações climáticas"; "Stocks pesqueiros"; "Ecologia"; "Gestão de recursos"; "Sustentabilidade" ; "Stocks pesqueiros" ; "Biologia molecular" ; "Impactos" ; "Alterações climáticas" ; "Ecologia" ; "SnRK1" ; "Gibberellin signalling"; "Absidic acid signalling"; "Plant development"; "SnRK1"; "Absidic acid signalling"; "Plant development"; "Marine natural compounds"; "Red algae"; "Antitumor activity"; "Antimicrobian activity"; "Pathogens"; "Fishes"; "Aquaculture"; "Fish health"; "Good practises"; "Immunostimulant", "Gene expression", "Meagre"; "SnRK1.1", "gibberellins", "DELLA, "NDF4", "Phosphorylation"; "Enterobacteriaceae", "ESBL", "CTX-M", "TEM", "Betalactamases", "Antimicrobial resistance"; "SnRK1" "Beta1 subunit", "Arabidopsis", "Energy stress"; "Microbial contamination", "PCR", "Microalgae", "Chlorella", "Algae culture"; "DELLA proteins" "Plant growth" "Gibberellins"; .
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Marco Aurélio Dias Simões

Citation names

  • Simões, Marco

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
1D1C-C217-F68A
ORCID iD
0000-0001-7995-7304

Addresses

  • MARE IPLeiria - CETEMARES, Centro de I&D, Formação e Divulgação do Conhecimento Marítimo. Av. Porto de Pesca, 2520–641, Peniche, Peniche, Portugal (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Agrarian Sciences - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries - Fishery
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Marine Biology
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Microbiology
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Molecular Biology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Portuguese Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2)
Education
Degree Classification
2021/02/01 - 2025
Ongoing
 Biologia (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Environmental DNA (eDNA) optimization and application to assist fisheries resources management and Genetic population structure study of the Iberian Sardina pilchardus" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2023/07/09 - 2023/07/21
Concluded
 AZSS 2023 - Azores Summer School in Marine Island (Palaeo)Biogeography - 2nd edition (Outros)
Universidade dos Açores, Portugal
2023/07/04 - 2023/07/05
Concluded
 Meta Microbial: Metagenomic and bioinformatic insights into microbial communities (Outros)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2023/05 - 2023/05
Concluded
 Molecular Bioinformatics (Outros)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
 19
2022/04/05 - 2022/04/20
Concluded
 Statistics and data analysis in R - Gades Solutions (18 hours) (Outros)
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Turismo e Tecnologia do Mar de Peniche, Portugal

Instituto Politécnico de Leiria MARE, Portugal
2013/09/10 - 2015/12/18
Concluded
 Biotecnologia dos Recursos Marinhos (Mestrado integrado)
Major in Biologia molecular
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Turismo e Tecnologia do Mar de Peniche, Portugal
"CROSSTALK BETWEEN ENERGY AND GIBBERELLIN SIGNALING PATHWAYS – A MOLECULAR APPROACH" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 19
2010/09/14 - 2013/07/12
Concluded
 Biologia Marinha e Biotecnologia (Licenciatura)
Major in Biotecnologia - Biologia molecular
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Turismo e Tecnologia do Mar de Peniche, Portugal
"Estudo da interação entre as fosfatases TOPP e FyPP com SnRK1.1 de Arabidopsis thaliana" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021/02/01 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
2017/03/01 - Current Researcher (Research) Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Portugal
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/09 - 2025/02 Invited Assistant (Polytechnic Teacher) Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Turismo e Tecnologia do Mar de Peniche, Portugal
2023/02 - 2023/07 Invited Assistant (Polytechnic Teacher) Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Turismo e Tecnologia do Mar de Peniche, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2020/01/14 - 2021/01/31 e-Fishing – New molecular tools to support fisheries management
MAR20-01-77P3-FEAMP-000006
Research Fellow
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Portugal
Concluded
2019/07/06 - 2020/01/07 Be4AQUAHEALTH – National survey of aquaculture fish diseases: a bet on prevention
MAR-02.05.01-FEAMP-0013
Research Fellow
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Portugal
Ongoing
2017/03/01 - 2019/06/30 INTSIN – Integration of carbon and hormone signaling in plants
PTDC/BIA-PLA/7143/2014
Research Fellow
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2024/08 - Current eDNA hindsight – High-resolution temporal monitoring of marine fish communities using environ-mental DNA
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Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria MARE, Portugal
Ongoing
2018/03/10 - 2018/07/30 Red2Discovery – Sphaerococcus coronopifolius and Asparagopsis armata macroalgae as targets for marine drug discovery
PTDC/MAR-BIO/6149/2014
Researcher
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2014/09/04 - 2015/07/30 SnRK1 regulation and cross-talk with the ABA pathway (PTDC/BIA-PLA/3937/2012)
PTDC/BIA-PLA/3937/2012
Researcher
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Simões, Marco; Sónia Cotrim Marques; Maranhão, Paulo; Maria Jorge Campos. "Metagenomic-Based Analysis Providing a Complementary Data Method for Plankton Ecological Studies". In Zooplankton Challenges in a Changing World, 1-320. Boca Raton, Portugal: Luis R. Vieira, Fernando Manuel Raposo Morgado, 2025.
    Published • 10.1201/9781032662275-8
Conference poster
  1. Passos, Ricardo; Pires, Pedro; Simões, Marco; Ferreira, Inês; Gomes, Ema; do Carmo, Beatriz; Dias, Luís. "Gracilaria gracillis as a functional feed addictive for gilthead seabream". Paper presented in Aquaimprove 2019 – 4th workshop, November 29, Porto, Portugal, 2019.
  2. Pire, Pedro; Passos, Ricardo; Ferreira, Inês; Simões, Marco; Santos, Paulo; Machado, Marina; Costas, Benjamin; Baptista, Teresa. "Differential immune responses in gilthead seabream and meagre juveniles infected with Photobacterium damselae SUBSP. piscicida". Paper presented in Aquaculture Europe 2019, Berlin, Germany, 2019.
  3. Pires, Pedro; Simões, Marco; Passos, Ricardo; Ferreira, Inês; Barata, M; Pousão-Ferreira, Paulo; Soares, F; Marques, C; Baptista, Teresa. "Effect of a commercial immunostimulant on the immune performance and immune-related gene expression of meagre (Argyrosomus regius) juveniles". Paper presented in 19th International Conference on Diseases of Fish and Shellfish, September 2019, Porto, 2019.
  4. C Vaz, Daniela; Sousa, Raquel; Simões, Marco; Rodrigues, Américo. "RGA & GAI: On the characterization of two DELLA plant growth repressor proteins". Paper presented in 10th International Congress on Structural Biology, 2018.
    10.4172/0974-276X-C3-119
  5. Lopes, Claúdia; Simões, Marco; Costa, Cátia; Ricardo, Patrícia; Rodrigues, Américo. "Early detection of microbial contamination in microalgae cultures". Paper presented in IMMR'18 | International Meeting on Marine Research 2018, 2018.
    10.3389/conf.FMARS.2018.06.00044
  6. Ribeiro, Joana; Simões, Marco; Lopes, Claúdia; Costa, Cátia; Baena-González, Elena; Rodrigues, Américo. "SnRK1 beta1 subunit protein interactors". Paper presented in European Biotechnology Congress, 2018, 2018.
    10.1016/j.jbiotec.2018.06.276
  7. Costa, Cátia; Simões, Marco; Ribeiro, Joana; Fernandes, Joana; Lopes, Claúdia; Rodrigues, Américo; Campos, Maria. "Presence of BlaCTX-M and BlaTEM among environmental Enterobacteriaceae isolated from the São Domingos River, Peniche, Portugal". Paper presented in IMMR | International Meeting on Marine Research 2016, 2016.
    10.3389/conf.FMARS.2016.04.00073
Journal article
  1. Marco Simões; Cátia Costa; Maria da Luz Calado; Nuno Vasco-Rodrigues; Maria Jorge Campos; Sérgio Miguel Leandro; Agostinho Antunes. "Unveiling the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve of the Berlengas Archipelago in Portugal as a Hotspot of Fish Species Using eDNA Metabarcoding and the Collaboration of Fishing Crews". Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (2025): https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse13010060.
    10.3390/jmse13010060
  2. Marco Simões; Sónia Cotrim Marques; Cátia Costa; Maria da Luz Calado; Jorge Lobo-Arteaga; Cátia Bartilotti; Maria Jorge Campos; Sérgio Miguel Leandro; Agostinho Antunes. "The Advantages of Combining Morphological and Molecular Methods to Characterise Zooplankton Communities: A Case Study of the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve of the Berlengas Archipelago, Portugal". Oceans (2024): https://doi.org/10.3390/oceans5040046.
    10.3390/oceans5040046
  3. Costa C.; Guilherme Duarte Ferreira; Marco Simões; Joana L. Silva; Maria Campos. "Real-Time PCR Protocol for Detection and Quantification of Three Pathogenic Members of the Vibrionaceae Family". Microorganisms (2022): https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/10/10/2060.
    10.3390/microorganisms10102060
  4. Mariana Vaz; Damiana Pires; Pedro Pires; Marco Simões; Pombo, A.; Paulo Santos; Beatriz do Carmo; et al. "Early Immune Modulation in European Seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax) Juveniles in Response to Betanodavirus Infection". Fishes (2022): https://www.mdpi.com/2410-3888/7/2/63.
    10.3390/fishes7020063
  5. Christian Valdez; Cátia Costa; Marco Simões; Carla C. C. R. de Carvalho; Teresa Baptista; Maria Campos. "Detection of mcr-1 Gene in Undefined Vibrio Species Isolated from Clams". Microorganisms (2022): https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/10/2/394.
    10.3390/microorganisms10020394
  6. Paulo Santos; Diogo Peixoto; Inês Ferreira; Ricardo Passos; Pedro Pires; Marco Simões; Pedro Pousão-Ferreira; Teresa Baptista; Benjamín Costas. "Short-Term Immune Responses of Gilthead Seabream (Sparus aurata) Juveniles against Photobacterium damselae subsp. piscicida". International Journal of Molecular Sciences (2022): https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/23/3/1561.
    10.3390/ijms23031561
  7. Joana Silva; Celso Alves; Susete Pinteus; Patrícia Susano; Marco Simões; Miguel Guedes; Alice Martins; et al. "Disclosing the potential of eleganolone for Parkinson’s disease therapeutics: Neuroprotective and anti-inflammatory activities". Pharmacological Research (2021): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phrs.2021.105589.
    10.1016/j.phrs.2021.105589
  8. Joana Silva; Celso Alves; Alice Martins; Patrícia Susano; Marco Simões; Miguel Guedes; Stephanie Rehfeldt; et al. "Loliolide, a New Therapeutic Option for Neurological Diseases? In Vitro Neuroprotective and Anti-Inflammatory Activities of a Monoterpenoid Lactone Isolated from Codium tomentosum". International Journal of Molecular Sciences (2021): https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/22/4/1888.
    10.3390/ijms22041888
  9. Passos, Ricardo; Correia, Ana Patrícia; Ferreira, Inês; Pires, Pedro; Pires, Damiana; Gomes, Emma; do Carmo, Beatriz; et al. "Effect on health status and pathogen resistance of gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata) fed with diets supplemented with Gracilaria gracilis". Aquaculture 531 (2021): 735888. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2020.735888.
    Accepted • 10.1016/j.aquaculture.2020.735888
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Simões, Marco. "Crosstalk between energy and gibberellin signaling pathways: a molecular approach". Master, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/1676.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/09/22 Complementarity of morphological and molecular tools in zooplankton monitoring at the Berlengas Biosphere Reserve, Portugal ICYMARE 2023 - International Conference for YOUNG Marine Researchers
(OldenBurg, Germany)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2023/09 - 2024/12 Genomic analysis and study of the antibiotic resistance profile of microorganisms associated with macroplastic biofilms found in Peniche
Co-supervisor
 Biologia Molecular e Genética (Master)
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2019/03/14 - 2019/06/20 DNA Ambiental: Uma Alternativa Não Invasiva e Inovadora de Biomonitorização
Co-supervisor
 Biologia Marinha e Biotecnologia (Degree)
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Turismo e Tecnologia do Mar de Peniche, Portugal
2019/04/08 - 2019/06/14 Identificação de espécies do género Chlorella utilizando ferramentas moleculares
Co-supervisor
 Biologia Marinha e Biotecnologia (Degree)
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Turismo e Tecnologia do Mar de Peniche, Portugal
2018/04/09 - 2018/06/15 Papel das giberelinas na resposta ao stress em plantas: construção de um vetor repórter para a via de sinalização das giberelinas
Co-supervisor
 Biologia Marinha e Biotecnologia (Degree)
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Turismo e Tecnologia do Mar de Peniche, Portugal