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Sara Daniela Azevedo Costa, Graduated in Biology in 2011 (University of Porto), Master’s in Applied Ecology and currently a PhD student at Aveiro University, in Biology and Ecology of Global Changes developing the project: Resilience of natural populations of amphibians living under a changing world: the role played by its skin microbiome. With great interest in herpetology in general and a solid background in field work. Her expertise is focused on understanding the effects of environmental changes, as metal contamination and freshwater salinisation, on amphibian populations: survival, food intake, growth, behaviour and physiology. Other competences are focused on the amphibian skin microbiome characterization and their function against pathogenic agents, the use of ecotoxicology to assess the role of the environment perturbations on the amphibian/ pathogen dynamic.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Sara Daniela Azevedo Costa

Citation names

  • Costa, Sara
  • Costa, S.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
151A-FA7A-4831
ORCID iD
0000-0003-3504-1972
Researcher Id
Q-1688-2019

Email addresses

  • sdcosta@ua.pt (Professional)

Addresses

  • Departamento de Biologia da Universidade de Aveiro. Campus de Santiago, , 3810-193 , Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Microbiology
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Molecular Biology
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Ecology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Intermediate (B1) Upper intermediate (B2)
Spanish; Castilian Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
Education
Degree Classification
2015 - 2021
Ongoing
 Biologia e Ecologia das Alterações Globais (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Biologia, Portugal

Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Portugal
"Resilience of natural populations of amphibians living under a changing world: the role played by its skin microbiome" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2019/05/06 - 2019/05/10
Concluded
 Laboratory Aquatic Animal Science (CAL-AQUA) (Outros)
Major in Especialização em Education and training of persons working with laboratory animals (Functions a), c) and d) according to “Artigo 31 do Decreto-Lei 113/2013”). DGAV certified.
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
 Approved
2011 - 2013
Concluded
 Ecologia Aplicada (Mestrado)
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Biologia, Portugal
"Diversity of the cutaneous bacterial community in the Perez frog" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2011
Concluded
 Biologia (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
"Phylogeographical patterns of Eumeces algeriensis (reptilia: SCINCIDAE) and Trogonophis wiegmanni (reptilia: AMPHISBAENIDAE) in North Africa. /Podarcis sicula as another study case." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021/07/15 - Current Bolseiro de Investigação (BI/DBIO/6891/2021) Umweltbundesamt, Germany
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Biologia, Portugal
2019/11/01 - 2021/04/30 Research fellow (BI/CESAM/0055_2019/UID/AMB/50017/2019), as a Vertebrate technician (Amphibian and ZebraFish Facility) Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2011/02/01 - 2012/01/01 PEEC - Program of Extra-Curricular Internship: "Effects of climate change and water acidification on the morphology and behavior of the green crab Carcinus maenas (Crustacea: Portunidae)" Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
2009/09/01 - 2010/09/01 Internship and Integration into Research Grant (BII/CIBIO/INTBIO/2009) Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2015/09 - 2019/09 Resilience of natural populations of amphibians living under a changing world: the role played by its skin microbiome
PD/BD/113605/2015
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal

Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Biologia, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2014/06 - 2015/08 GENEROSI: CONtaminant-driven GENEtic ERosion: consequences on the viability of Amphibia populations
PTDC/BIA-BIC/3488/2012
Research Fellow
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Biologia, Portugal

Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2010/09/01 - 2012/09 Study of phylogeographic patterns of selected herpetofauna in the Mediterranean Basin
(BII/CIBIO/INTBIO/2009)
Integration into Research Grant Fellow
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal

Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2010/09 - 2012/09 Study of phylogeographic patterns of selected herpetofauna in the Mediterranean Basin
(BII/CIBIO/INTBIO/2009)
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Contract

Designation Funders
2018 - 2021 GOGOFROG- Alternative methods to animal experimentation for amphibian risk assessment: cell lines and spermatozoa
POCI-01-0145-FEDER-030718
Team member
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing

Other

Designation Funders
2021/07/15 - Current Designing a strategy based on toxicity evaluation to improve pesticide risk assessment for terrestial amphibians
3719 65 412 2 / Z 1.5-93 401/0065
Research Fellow
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain

Umweltbundesamt, Germany

Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Biologia, Portugal
Umweltbundesamt
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Journal article
  1. Sara Costa; Isabel Lopes. "Saprolegniosis in Amphibians: An Integrated Overview of a Fluffy Killer Disease". Journal of Fungi 8 5 (2022): 537-537. https://doi.org/10.3390/jof8050537.
    10.3390/jof8050537
  2. Costa, Sara; Lopes, Isabel. Corresponding author: Costa, Sara. "Saprolegniosis in amphibians: an integrated overview of a fluffy killer disease". Journal of Fungi (2022):
    Under revision
  3. Fasola, Emanuele; Biaggini, Marta; Ortiz-Santaliestra, Manuel E.; Costa, Sara; Santos, Bárbara; Lopes, Isabel; Corti, Claudia. "Assessing Stress Response in Lizards from Agroecosystems with Different Management Practices". Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 108 2 (2021): 196-203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00128-021-03404-3.
    Published • 10.1007/s00128-021-03404-3
  4. Antonieta Gabriel; Sara Costa; Isabel Henriques; Isabel Lopes. "Effects of Long-Term Exposure to Increased Salinity on the Amphibian Skin Bacterium Erwinia toletana". Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology (2021): https://doi.org/10.1007/s00244-021-00845-z.
    10.1007/s00244-021-00845-z
  5. Costa, Sara. "Diversity of cutaneous microbiome of Pelophylax perezi populations inhabiting different environments". Science of The Total Environment (2016):
    10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.07.230
  6. Costa, Sara. "Genetic variability and relationships within the skinks Eumeces algeriensis and Eumeces schneideri using mitochondrial markers". African Journal of Herpetology (2012):
    DOI:10.1080/21564574.2011.583284
Magazine article
  1. Costa, Sara; Lopes, Isabel. "Ecotoxicological Studies as a Tool on Amphibians’ Disease Risk Assessment 2", FrogLog, 2017, https://www.amphibians.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/FL119_high.pdf.
  2. Costa, Sara; Fasola, Emanuele; Santos, Bárbara; Moutinho, Ariana; Faria da Costa, Nuno; Lopes, Isabel. "Ecotoxicological studies as a tool on amphibians’ disease risk assessment", FrogLog, 2015, https://www.amphibians.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/FrogLog114-high.pdf.
Newsletter article
  1. Valdeón, Aitor; Perera-Leg, Anna; Costa, Sara; Leão Sampaio, Filipa; Carretero, Miguel A.. "Evidencia de una introducción de Podarcis sicula desde Italia a España asociada a una importación de olivos (Olea europaea)", Boletín de la Asociación Herpetológica Española, 2010, http://www.herpetologica.org/BAHE/BAHE21_%5B150%5D_32_Cons08.pdf.
Online resource
  1. Costa, Sara; Lopes, Isabel; Proença, Diogo Neves; Ribeiro, Rui; Paula Vasconcelos Morais (F313-B890-9B46). Can environmental factors influence amphibian’s skin bacterial shield?. 2017. https://atlasofscience.org/can-environmental-factors-influence-amphibians-skin-bacterial-shield/.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2018/02/02 Amphibians in a Changing wold. Wold Wetlands Day Workshop
Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2016/10/05 Interactions of environmental stressors with the amphibian pathogenic agent Saprolegnia australis. Iberian Congress of Herpetology
Universidade de Lleida (Lleida, Spain)
2015/09/25 An ecotoxicological approach to assess interactions of environmental contamination with pathogenic agents. Workshop on Contaminant-driven genetic erosion in the skin microbiome of frogs
Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2015/06/02 Amphibians, microbes & Co
Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Universitá di Firenze (Florença, Italy)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2016/06/06 - 2016/06/10 1st Course on Amphibian Husbandry and Conservation, with Amphibian Ark Organization. https://amphibianhc.wordpress.com/. (2016/06/06 - 2016/06/10) Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Biologia, Portugal
2014/09/30 - 2014/10/04 13th Iberian Congress of Herpetology (2014/09/30 - 2014/10/04)
Congress
 Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Biologia, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2015 Seed grant for the project: "Ecotoxicological Studies as a Tool on Amphibians’ Disease Risk Assessment".
IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (ASG), Switzerland

Amphibian Survival Alliance (ASA), United Kingdom