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Francisco Daniel de Oliveira Pascoal holds a Master of Science degree in Microbiology from Instituto Superior Técnico, and a Bachelor degree in Cell and Molecular Biology from Faculty of Science and Technology from NOVA University of Lisbon. Francisco is currently finishing is PhD in Biology from Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto. Francisco Pascoal has expertise on the analysis of microbiome DNA sequencing data, metagenomics, bioinformatics, machine learning and the rare biosphere.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Francisco Daniel de Oliveira Pascoal
Date of birth
1996/09/20
Gender
Male

Citation names

  • Pascoal, Francisco

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
8B1E-8CB5-C47C
ORCID iD
0000-0003-2315-358X

Email addresses

  • up202010522@g.uporto.pt (Professional)
  • fpascoal1996@gmail.com (Personal)

Websites

  • pascoalf.wordpress.com (Personal)

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Microbiology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Education
Degree Classification
2020/09 - 2025/03/30
Ongoing
 Biologia (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Novel Insights into the Ecology of the Microbial Rare Biosphere using Microbiome DNA Sequencing and Machine Learning" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2017/09 - 2019/11/26
Concluded
 Microbiologia (Mestrado)
Major in Microbiologia
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
"Tackling the diversity of the marine microbial rare biosphere: methodological chalenges and ecological insights" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 16,65
2014/09 - 2017/07/05
Concluded
 Biologia Celular e Molecular (Licenciatura)
Major in Biologia Celular e Molecular
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
 15.03
2016/07/25 - 2016/07/29
Concluded
 SummerScience@ITQB NOVA (Outros)
Major in microbiologia
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
 19
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2025/02/21 - Current Contracted Researcher (Research) Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
2020/02/01 - 2025/01/31 Researcher (Research) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
(...)
2019/06/01 - 2020/01/15 Researcher (Research) Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
2019/09 - 2019/11 Research Trainee (Research) Dalhousie University - Faculty of Computer Science, Canada
Dalhousie University - Faculty of Computer Science, Canada
2014/06/30 - 2014/07/06 Research Trainee (Research) Ciência Viva, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Química, Portugal
2013/07 - 2013/07 Research Trainee (Research) Ciência Viva, Portugal
Universidade de Évora Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas, Portugal
2012/07/15 - 2012/07/31 Research Trainee (Research) Ciência Viva, Portugal
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2021/02/01 - 2025/01/31 Deciphering the roles of the prokaryotic rare biosphere in the Arctic Ocean under climate change
2020.04453.BD
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2019/03/01 - 2020/12 NITROLIMIT - Life at the edge: define the boundaries of the Nitrogen Cycle in the Extreme Antarctic Terrestrial Environments
PTDC/CTA-AMB/30997/2017
Research Fellow
Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental da Madeira, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing

Contract

Designation Funders
2021/07/01 - Current CONNECT2OCEANS - Connecting Atlantic and Arctic Oceans to Decipher Climate Change Impact on Plankton Microbiome Functions.
PTDC/CTA-AMB/4946/2020
PhD Student Fellow
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2021/07/01 - Current Mercury Biogeochemistry, Fate and Impact in Permafrost Thaw Ecosystems
PTDC/CTA-AMB/4744/2020
PhD Student Fellow
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Other

Designation Funders
2023/03/12 - 2026/03/11 Nitrogen Microbiome in the Changing Arctic
2022.02983.PTDC
10.54499/2022.02983.PTDC
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Desporto, Portugal

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Conference poster
  1. Pascoal, Francisco; Costa, Rodrigo; Branco, Paula; Torgo, Luis; Assmy, Philipp; Magalhães, Catarina. "Construction of a long-term dataset of prokaryotic diversity from two transects of the MOSJ program". Paper presented in XV Conferência Portuguesa de Ciências Polares, 2023.
  2. Pascoal, Francisco; Branco, Paula; Costa, Rodrigo; Magalhães, Catarina. "Unsupervised learning based definition of the microbial rare biosphere". Paper presented in BTC - Blue Think Conference, 2023.
  3. Pascoal, Francisco; Costa, Rodrigo; Torgo, Luis; Duarte, Pedro; Assmy, Philipp; Magalhães, Catarina. "Full-length 16S rRNA gene sequencing combined with GTDB database improved the description of microbial communities from marine polar environments". Paper presented in BAGECO - Bacterial Genomics and Ecology, 2023.
  4. Pascoal, Francisco; Costa, Rodrigo; Magalhãe, Catarina. "The types of prokaryotic rarity in the Arctic ocean". Paper presented in Arctic Science Summit Week, 2021.
  5. Pascoal, Francisco; Costa, Rodrigo; Magalhães, Catarina. "The prokaryotic rare biosphere is sensible to environmental heterogeinity in the Arctic ocean". Paper presented in Portuguese Polar Sciences Conference, 2020.
  6. Pascoal, Francisco; Magalhães, Catarina; Costa, Rodrigo. "Thinking microbial rarity". Paper presented in Halifax Mini Symposium on marine microbiology, 2019.
Journal article
  1. Pascoal, Francisco; Duarte, Pedro; Assmy, Philipp; Costa, Rodrigo; Magalhães, Catarina. "Full-length 16S rRNA gene sequencing combined with adequate database selection improves the description of Arctic marine prokaryotic communities". Annals of Microbiology 74 1 (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13213-024-01767-6.
    10.1186/s13213-024-01767-6
  2. Francisco Pascoal; Maria Paola Tomasino; Roberta Piredda; Grazia Marina Quero; Luís Torgo; Julie Poulain; Pierre E Galand; et al. "Inter-comparison of marine microbiome sampling protocols". ISME Communications (2023): https://doi.org/10.1038/s43705-023-00278-w.
    10.1038/s43705-023-00278-w
  3. Carneiro, João; Pascoal, Francisco; Semedo, Miguel; Pratas, Diogo; Tomasino, Maria Paola; Rego, Adriana; Carvalho, Maria de Fátima; Mucha, Ana Paula; Magalhães, Catarina. "Mapping human pathogens in wastewater using a metatranscriptomic approach". Environmental Research 231 (2023): 116040. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2023.116040.
    10.1016/j.envres.2023.116040
  4. Pascoal, Francisco; Areosa, Inês; Torgo, Luís; Branco, Paula; Baptista, Mafalda S.; Lee, Charles K.; Cary, S. Craig; Magalhães, Catarina. "The spatial distribution and biogeochemical drivers of nitrogen cycle genes in an Antarctic desert". Frontiers in Microbiology 13 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.927129.
    10.3389/fmicb.2022.927129
  5. Francisco Pascoal; Rodrigo Costa; Philipp Assmy; Pedro Duarte; Catarina Magalhães. "Exploration of the Types of Rarity in the Arctic Ocean from the Perspective of Multiple Methodologies". Microbial Ecology (2021): https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-021-01821-9.
    10.1007/s00248-021-01821-9
  6. Pascoal, Francisco; Costa, Rodrigo; Magalhães, Catarina. "The microbial rare biosphere: current concepts, methods and ecological principles". FEMS Microbiology Ecology (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiaa227.
    10.1093/femsec/fiaa227
  7. Pascoal, Francisco; Magalhães, Catarina; Costa, Rodrigo. "The Link Between the Ecology of the Prokaryotic Rare Biosphere and Its Biotechnological Potential". Frontiers in Microbiology 11 (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.00231.
    10.3389/fmicb.2020.00231
  8. Rego, Adriana; Sousa, António G. G.; Santos, João P.; Pascoal, Francisco; Canário, João; Leão, Pedro N.; Magalhães, Catarina. "Diversity of Bacterial Biosynthetic Genes in Maritime Antarctica". Microorganisms 8 2 (2020): 279. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms8020279.
    10.3390/microorganisms8020279
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Pascoal, Francisco. "Tackling the diversity of the marine microbial rare biosphere: methodological chalenges and ecological insights". Master, Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, 2019.
Website
  1. Pascoal, Francisco; Branco, Paula; Luís Torgo; Costa, Rodrigo; Magalhães, Catarina. Corresponding author: Pascoal, Francisco. ulrb - Unsupervised Learning based Definition of the Microbial Rare Biosphere. 2024. https://pascoalf.github.io/ulrb/.

Other

Dataset
  1. Pascoal, Francisco; Magalhães, Catarina. Arctic microbiome along Svalbard Cross Shelf transects (2017-2020 Campaign)..
Software
  1. Pascoal, Francisco; Paula Branco; Luís Torgo; Costa, Rodrigo; Catarina Magalhães. "ulrb - Unsupervised Learning based Definition of the Microbial Rare Biosphere". 0.1.5. Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental. R. 2024.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/10/25 Impact of Temperature on the diversity of rare prokaryotes in the Arctic Ocean XVI Conferência Portuguesa de Ciências Polares
Universidade da Beira Interior (Almeida, Portugal)
2024/09/10 Identification of rare microorganisms employing unsupervised machine learning. BTC - Blue Think Conference
Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental da Universidade do Porto (Matosinhos, Portugal)
2022/11/18 The spatial distribution and biogeochemical drivers of nitrogen cycle genes in an Antarctic desert XIV Conferência Portuguesa de Ciências Polares
Universidade do Algarve (Faro, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2023/07/04 - 2033/07/05 Instructor at the Workshop "Meta_Microbial". (2023/07/04 - 2023/07/05)
Workshop (Other)
 Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental da Madeira, Portugal
2024/09/04 - 2024/09/06 Instructor at the Workshop "Meta_Microbial", second edition (2024). (2024/09/04 - 2024/09/06)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental da Madeira, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2021/11/26 - 2021/11/27 XIII Portuguese Polar Sciences Conference (2021/11/26 - 2021/11/27)
Conference (Other)

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2024/02/07 - 2024/02/14 Annals of Microbiology BMC
2021 - 2022 ISME Communications ( 2730-6151) Nature Publishing groups
2020/04/21 - 2021 Scientific Reports (2045-2322) Nature Publishing groups
2020 - 2020 Environmental Microbiology (1462-2920) Wiley

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2017/07/01 - 2018/06 Associação Nacional de Estudantes de Biologia. Presidente da Direção
2016/07/01 - 2017/06/30 Associação Nacional de Estudantes de Biologia. Vice Presidente da Direção
2015/09/01 - 2016/06/30 Associação Nacional de Estudantes de Biologia Delegado representativo dos estudantes de Biologia Celular e Molecular da FCT-NOVA

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2022/11/01 - 2023/06/30 Capacitação e Sucesso Escolar Leonardo Vasconcelos
2022/11/01 - 2023/06/30 Capacitação e Sucesso Escolar Rodrigo Carvalho
Distinctions

Award

2024 Best Oral Presentation at Global Changes and Ecosystem Services BTC
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal