Personal identification

Full name

Alexandre Miguel Cavaco Rodrigues

Citation names

• Alexandre M. C. Rodrigues
• Alexandre Miguel Cavaco Rodrigues
• Alexandre Rodrigues

Author identifiers

Ciência ID

4314-93A1-6D5B

ORCID iD

0000-0003-2525-1386

Google Scholar ID

pUW9tnwAAAAJ

Email addresses

• alexandre.rodrigues@necton.pt (Professional)

Addresses

• Belamandil S/N, 8700-152, Olhão, Olhão, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandre-rodrigues-80b3ba38/ (Social media)

Knowledge fields

• Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Cell Biology

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)

	Degree	Classification
2007/02/01 - 2013/02/22 Concluded	Ciências Biomédicas (Doutoramento) Major in Especialidade: Ciências Morfológicas Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal "Research into Dedifferentiation during Epimorphic Regeneration in Xenopus and Zebrafish" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Summa Cum Laude
2001/09/01 - 2006/07/19 Concluded	Biologia microbiana e genética (Licenciatura) Major in Biologia Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal	16

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2015/08 - 2016/02	Postdoc (Research)	Universidade do Algarve Centro de Investigação em Biomedicina, Portugal
	Universidade do Algarve Centro de Investigação em Biomedicina, Portugal
2014/02 - 2014/12	Research Assistant (Research)	Institut de Recerca Biomèdica, Spain
	Institut de Recerca Biomèdica, Spain
2012/11 - 2013/06	Research Assistant (Research)	Centre de Regulació Genòmica, Spain
	Centre de Regulació Genòmica, Spain

Other Careers

	Category Host institution	Employer
2017/06 - Current	Técnico Superior (Técnico Superior)	Necton - Companhia Portuguesa de Culturas Marinhas, S.A., Portugal
	Necton - Companhia Portuguesa de Culturas Marinhas, S.A., Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2016/09 - 2018/01	Explicador	Academia Six-Up, Portugal

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2024/06/01 - 2031/05/31	RESTORESEAGRASS - Large-scale conservation and restoration of critically threatened seagrass habitat on Atlantic infralittoral sand and coastal lagoons LIFE23-NAT-PT-RESTORESEAGRASS/101148241 Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) Necton - Companhia Portuguesa de Culturas Marinhas, S.A., Portugal	European Commission Ongoing
2025/01/01 - 2027/12/31	INOVACEL - Sustentabilidade e inovação na aquacultura celular: Uma abordagem circular com microalgas 17404 Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) Necton - Companhia Portuguesa de Culturas Marinhas, S.A., Portugal	Portugal 2030 Ongoing
2025/01/01 - 2027/12/31	SHELLBLOOM – Desenvolvimento de novas dietas de microalgas para valorização de bivalves ao longo da cadeia de valor 17410 Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) Necton - Companhia Portuguesa de Culturas Marinhas, S.A., Portugal	Portugal 2030 Ongoing
2024/10/01 - 2027/09/30	COSEC - Biogenic CO2 capture into Sustainable Energy Carriers: A novel photosynthetic and hydrogenotrophic CO2 fixation combined with waste nutrient upcycling for production of carbon negative energy carriers 101172850 Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) Necton - Companhia Portuguesa de Culturas Marinhas, S.A., Portugal	European Commission Ongoing
2024/09/01 - 2027/08/31	AQUA4ALL - Microalgas para biorremediação de efluentes de sistemas de recirculação de aquacultura e desenvolvimento de produtos de valor acrescentado 14423 Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) Necton - Companhia Portuguesa de Culturas Marinhas, S.A., Portugal	Portugal 2030 Ongoing
2022/07/01 - 2026/06/30	REALM - Reusing Effluents from Agriculture to unLock the potential of Microalgae 101060991 Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) Necton - Companhia Portuguesa de Culturas Marinhas, S.A., Portugal	European Commission Ongoing
2021/06/01 - 2026/03/31	ALGAE4IBD –FROM NATURE TO BEDSIDE- ALGAE BASED BIO COMPOUND FOR PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF INFLAMMATION, PAIN AND IBD 101000501 Post-doc Necton - Companhia Portuguesa de Culturas Marinhas, S.A., Portugal	European Commission Ongoing
2023/01/01 - 2025/12/31	Blue Bioeconomy Pact - Algae Vertical C644915664-00000026 Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) Necton - Companhia Portuguesa de Culturas Marinhas, S.A., Portugal	NextGenerationEU Plano de Recuperação e Resiliência (PRR) Ongoing
2019/10 - 2023/12/31	PROFUTURE - Microalgae Protein Ingredients for the Food and Feed of the Future Grant agreement ID: 862980 Post-doc Necton - Companhia Portuguesa de Culturas Marinhas, S.A., Portugal	Horizon 2020 Concluded
2019/04 - 2023/10/31	SIMBA - Sustainable Innovation of Microbiome Applications in Food System Grant agreement ID: 818431 Post-doc Necton - Companhia Portuguesa de Culturas Marinhas, S.A., Portugal	Horizon 2020 Concluded
2020/11/01 - 2023/07/31	ALGACYCLE - Valorisation of greenhouse effluents with microalgae: Sustainable aquafeeds and biostimulants from drain water EEA.BG.CALL1.032.2019 Post-doc Necton - Companhia Portuguesa de Culturas Marinhas, S.A., Portugal	EEA Grants Concluded
2021/03 - 2023/06/30	ALGAVALOR - MicroALGAs: produção integrada e VALORização da biomassa e das suas diversas aplicações ALG-01-0247-FEDER-035234 Post-doc Fellow Necton - Companhia Portuguesa de Culturas Marinhas, S.A., Portugal	Portugal 2020 Concluded
2021/01 - 2023/06/30	MARemPÓ - A água de salmoura como fonte sustentável de compostos para o desenvolvimento de produtos comerciais para aquacultura POCI-ALG-01-0247-FEDER-047200 Post-doc Necton - Companhia Portuguesa de Culturas Marinhas, S.A., Portugal	Portugal 2020 Concluded
2020/12/01 - 2023/06/30	ALLARVAE - "Novas formulações de microalgas para larvicultura marinha" ALG-01-0247-FEDER-069971 Post-doc Necton - Companhia Portuguesa de Culturas Marinhas, S.A., Portugal	Portugal 2020 Concluded
2020/01/01 - 2023/06/30	Zebrabloom - Desenvolvimento de produtos comerciais formulados com microalgas para o enriquecimento de presas vivas de peixe-zebra ALG-01-0247-FEDER-039896 Post-doc Necton - Companhia Portuguesa de Culturas Marinhas, S.A., Portugal	Portugal 2020 Concluded
2019/04 - 2021/11	Magnificent - Microalgae As a Green source for Nutritional Ingredients for Food/Feed and Ingredients for Cosmetics by cost-Effective New Technologies Grant agreement ID: 745754 Post-doc Necton - Companhia Portuguesa de Culturas Marinhas, S.A., Portugal	Horizon 2020 Concluded
2015/08 - 2016/02	Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells Chronobiology: evaluating the crosstalk between the embryonic and circadian clocks. PTDC/BIM-MED/1063/2012 Research Fellow Universidade do Algarve Algarve Biomedical Center, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Publications

Conference poster

Cardoso, MH; Inês Filipe; Mafalda Trovão dos Santos; Espírito Santo, Gonçalo; Fratelli, Camilly; Coelho, Natacha; Filomena Freitas; Alexandre Miguel Cavaco Rodrigues. "Sustainable Cultivation of Spirulina in Agricultural Drainwaters: Bioremediation Potential and Biomass Applications". Paper presented in International Conference of Algae Biotechnology, 2025. Costa, Inês; Rua, Tiago; Várzea, Bruno; Maia, Inês B.; Lagiotis, Georgios; Karapetsi, Lefkothea; Pratsinakis, Emmanouil D.; et al. "Exploring the biostimulant potential of microalgae fractions for a greener agriculture". Paper presented in 1st International Congress on Algae Biotechnology, 2025. Fratelli, Camilly; Coelho, Natacha; Alexandre Miguel Cavaco Rodrigues; Cardoso, MH; Correia, Nádia; Navalho, João. "Spirulina cultivated in agricultural drainwaters - is it safe to eat?". Paper presented in Algaeurope, 2024. Varela, João; Santos, Tamára; ROSSETTO, VERONICA; José, Mélissa; Navalho, João; Coelho, Natacha; Alexandre Rodrigues; et al. "A call to arms: the urgent need for novel bioinformatic tools for correctly identifying eukaryotic grazers and parasites in microalgae cultures". Paper presented in Algaeurope 2024, 2024. Costa, Inês; Rua, Tiago; Várzea, Bruno; Maia, Inês B.; Alexandre M. C. Rodrigues; del Valle-Inclán, Yago; Vitorino, Rafael; et al. "From agricultural drainwater to value-added products: a microalgal biorefinery approach". Paper presented in Algaeurope 2024, 2024. Pais, Rita; Conde, Tiago A.; Gomes, Ana; Urbatzka, Ralph; Pereira, Hugo; Rodrigues, Alexandre; Domingues, Pedro; Domingues, Maria Rosário; Melo, Tânia. "Exploring the lipid extract of Dunaliella salina as a source of fats with bioactive potential for functional food ingredients". Paper presented in International Society of Applied Phycology, 2024. Cardoso, MH; Pedro Pereira; Inês Guerra; Gonçalo Espírito Santo; Nadia Correia; Cátia Torres; Monya M Costa; et al. "Upcycling retail food waste into Chlorella vulgaris growth medium". Paper presented in Algaeurope, 2023. Navalho, João; Maia, Inês B.; Pereira, Hugo; Schulze, Peter; Carneiro, Mariana; Rodrigues, Alexandre. Corresponding author: Navalho, João. "Development of a cloud-based automatization system for bioremediation of drainwater using microalgae". Paper presented in AlgaEurope 2022, 2022. Rodrigues, Alexandre; Schmid, Benjamin; Domingues, N.; del Valle-Inclán, Yago; Navalho, Sofia; Schulze, Peter; Van de Walle, S.; et al. Corresponding author: Rodrigues, Alexandre. "Sustainable solutions for the industrial production of microalgae biomass". Paper presented in AlgaEurope 2022, 2022. Maia, Inês B.; Schulze, Peter; Rodrigues, Alexandre; Konucu, Merve; Kato, Hidehiko; Navalho, João; Pereira, Hugo; Varela, João. Corresponding author: Maia, Inês B.. "Scenedesmus sp. and Koliella antarctica and their potential in fish feed replacement upon HPH-induced cell disruption". Paper presented in AlgaEurope 2022, 2022. Pinto, Bruno; Carneiro, Mariana; Maia, Inês B.; Pereira, Hugo; Rodrigues, Alexandre; Varela, João; Navalho, João. "Improving microalgae production and circularity in raceway ponds". Paper presented in AlgaEurope 2022, 2022. Pinheiro, Filipa; Gil Martins; Tamára Filipa Costa Santos; Hugo Galvão Caiano Pereira; Patricia Alexandra Cavaleiro Diogo; Alexandre Rodrigues; João Navalho; Varela, João; Gavaia, Paulo. "Nutritional effects of rotifers fed with microalgae blend on the growth and development of zebrafish". Paper presented in Algaeurope, 2021. Castro, Daniela; Gil Martins; Tamára Santos; Patrícia Diogo; Inês Beatriz Castro Maia; Alexandre Rodrigues; Victoria del Pinho; et al. Corresponding author: Gavaia, P. "Rotifers encapsulated with microalgae as a new strategy to improve male Zebrafish reproductive performance". Paper presented in 5th Aquaculture Research Workshop, 2020. T. Castro, Daniela; Martins, Gil; Santos, Tamára; Diogo, Patricia; Tarasco, Marco; Rodrigues, Alexandre; del Pino, Vitória; et al. "Male broodstock fed rotifers encapsulated with different microalgae: gamete quality and transgenerational osteological alterations". Paper presented in 11th European Zebrafish Meeting, 2020.

Journal article

Inês Guerra; Cátia Torres; Helena Cardoso; Hugo Pereira; Mafalda Trovão; Alexandre Miguel Cavaco Rodrigues; João Varela. "Impact of seasons on industrial cultivation of Limnospira platensis (Spirulina): A year-round case study on biomass, phycocyanin, and protein productivity in Portugal". Algal Research (2025): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.algal.2025.104335. 10.1016/j.algal.2025.104335 Sónia S. Ferreira; Renato B. Pereira; Diana Bordalo; Helena Barbosa; Nicole Ferreira; Alexandra Correia; Paula Ferreira; et al. "Salt pan brine water sulphated polysaccharides retrieved at pilot scale: ability to stimulate in vitro human macrophages and salmon head kidney cells". International Journal of Biological Macromolecules (2025): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2025.144506. 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2025.144506 Ana S.P. Moreira; Helena R. Rocha; Susana Aveiro; Andreia S. Ferreira; Kayane Oliveira; Alexandra Conde; Marta Coelho; et al. "Unlocking biochemical profile of Chaetoceros calcitrans, Cylindrotheca fusiformis, and Nannofrustulum shiloi (Bacillariophyta) for nutritional and added-value applications". Algal Research 89 (2025): 104080-104080. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.algal.2025.104080. 10.1016/j.algal.2025.104080 Maslin Osathanunkul; Suebsuya Thanaporn; Lefkothea Karapetsi; Georgia Maria Nteve; Emmanouil Pratsinakis; Eleni Stefanidou; Giorgos Lagiotis; et al. "Diversity of Bioactive Compounds in Microalgae: Key Classes and Functional Applications". Marine Drugs (2025): https://www.mdpi.com/1660-3397/23/6/222. 10.3390/md23060222 Marie-Christin Baune; Edwin Januschewski; Maresa Bussa; Simon Van De Walle; Imma Gifuni; Alexandre Miguel Cavaco Rodrigues; Maria Helena Cardoso; et al. "Innovative vs. classical methods for drying heterotrophic Chlorella vulgaris: Impact on the nutritional properties, safety, sustainability and costs". Algal Research (2025): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.algal.2025.103913. 10.1016/j.algal.2025.103913 Tiago Conde; Diana Lopes; Marisa Pinho; Tânia Melo; Natacha Coelho; Alexandre Miguel Cavaco Rodrigues; Hugo Pereira; Pedro Domingues; Rosário Domingues. "Unraveling the lipidome of Pavlova gyrans, a natural reservoir of bioactive lipids for biotechnological applications". Journal of Applied Phycology (2025): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10811-024-03420-w. 10.1007/s10811-024-03420-w Rita Pais; Tiago Conde; Bruna B. Neves; Marisa Pinho; Marta Coelho; Hugo Pereira; Alexandre M. C. Rodrigues; et al. "Bioactive Lipids in Dunaliella salina: Implications for Functional Foods and Health". Foods (2024): https://doi.org/10.3390/foods13203321. 10.3390/foods13203321 Salli Pääkkönen; Ilkka Pölönen; Anna-Maria Raita-Hakola; Mariana Carneiro; Helena Cardoso; Dinis Mauricio; Alexandre Miguel Cavaco Rodrigues; Pauliina Salmi. "Non-invasive monitoring of microalgae cultivations using hyperspectral imager". Journal of Applied Phycology (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10811-024-03256-4. 10.1007/s10811-024-03256-4 Simon Van De Walle; Imma Gifuni; Bert Coleman; Marie-Christin Baune; Alexandre Miguel Cavaco Rodrigues; Helena Cardoso; fabio fanari; Koenraad Muylaert; Geert Van Royen. "Innovative vs classical methods for drying heterotrophic Chlorella vulgaris: Impact on protein quality and sensory properties". Food Research International (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foodres.2024.114142. 10.1016/j.foodres.2024.114142 Benjamin Schmid; Sofia Navalho; Peter S. C. Schulze; Simon Van De Walle; Geert Van Royen; Lisa Maylin Schüler; Inês Beatriz Maia; et al. "Drying Microalgae Using an Industrial Solar Dryer: A Biomass Quality Assessment". Foods (2022): https://www.mdpi.com/2304-8158/11/13/1873. 10.3390/foods11131873 "Fucoxanthin production from Tisochrysis lutea and Phaeodactylum tricornutum at industrial scale". Algal Research 56 (2021): 102322-102322. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.algal.2021.102322. 10.1016/j.algal.2021.102322 Marti M; Montserrat N; Pardo C; Mulero L; Miquel-Serra L; Rodrigues AM; Andrés Vaquero J; et al. "M-cadherin-mediated intercellular interactions activate satellite cell division.". (2013): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/24046443. 10.1242/jcs.123562 Christen B; Rodrigues AM; Monasterio MB; Roig CF; Izpisua Belmonte JC. "Transient downregulation of Bmp signalling induces extra limbs in vertebrates.". (2012): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/22675213. 10.1242/dev.078774 Rodrigues AM; Christen B; Martí M; Izpisúa Belmonte JC. "Skeletal muscle regeneration in Xenopus tadpoles and zebrafish larvae.". (2012): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/22369050. 10.1186/1471-213X-12-9 Montserrat N; Bahima EG; Batlle L; Häfner S; Rodrigues AM; González F; Izpisúa Belmonte JC. "Generation of pig iPS cells: a model for cell therapy.". (2011): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/21088946. 10.1007/s12265-010-9233-3