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Biologist from the Federal University of Maranhão (Brazil), with a master’s and Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of São Paulo. Served as a Research Assistant in the Kelp Genetics Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (USA) under the supervision of Professor Dr. Filipe Alberto from 2022 to 2024. Currently, he is a Junior Researcher at the Marine Science Center of the University of Algarve in Faro, Portugal. His expertise lies in the molecular ecophysiology of photosynthetic eukaryotes, particularly brown, red, and green algae, as well as vascular plants. His main areas of interest include genomics, biological rhythms, photomorphogenesis, photosynthesis, redox mechanisms, CO2 fixation, and nitrogen assimilation.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Cicero Alves-Lima

Citation names

  • Alves-Lima, Cicero

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
901B-CB61-F80F
ORCID iD
0000-0002-3873-4347

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
French Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2013/03/05 - 2018/04/06
Concluded
Ciências BIológicas (Bioquímica) (Doktor (PhD))
Major in Bioquimica
Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
"Relógio circadiano em eucariotos fotossintetizantes (Archaeplastida) e adaptação ao estresse" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2010/02/28 - 2013/12/05
Concluded
Ciências Biológicas (Bioquimica) (Master)
Major in Bioquimica
Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
"RITMOS CIRCADIANOS EM RHODOPHYTA: OSCILAÇÃO DE PAR METROS FOTOSSINTÉTICOS E ADAPTAÇÕES METODOLÓGICAS PARA ENSAIO DA NITRATO REDUTASE. " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2005/03/05 - 2010/01/08
Concluded
Ciências Biológicas (Bachelor)
Universidade Federal do Maranhão, Brazil
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2024/01/08 - Current Contracted Researcher (Research) Universidade do Algarve Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
2022/08/04 - 2024/01/07 Research Assistant (Research) University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, United States
2019/08/01 - 2022/07/31 Postdoc (Research) Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution
Employer
2021/01 - 2024/01 Organic Unit Director Baguassu Institute, Brazil
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2013/09/01 - 2017/12/31 Study on the interactions between the biological clock and desiccation in photosynthetic eukaryotes.
PhD Student Fellow
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil
Concluded
2016/12/28 - 2017/08/27 Interaction between abiotic factors and the biological clock: induction of seasonal growth in algae.
PhD Student Fellow
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil
Concluded
2011/03/01 - 2012/05/31 Characterization of enzymatic activity and gene expression analysis of the enzyme Nitrate Reductase in the macroalga Gracilaria birdiae (Gracilariales, Rhodophyta) during the light/dark cycle
Master Student Fellow
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2024/05/01 - Current Enhancing local preparedness for Sargassum arrivals in the Amazon and Mexican Caribbean through monitoring and the blue economy
Researcher
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Ongoing
2024/01/04 - Current Pacto Bioeconomia Azul - Transversal Biobancos (WP 9),
C644915664-00000026
Post-doc
Universidade do Algarve Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
European Commission

Governo da República Portuguesa
Ongoing
2022/08 - 2024/01/03 Macroalgae Research Inspiring Novel Energy Resources
Post-doc
US Department of Energy, United States

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, United States
US Department of Energy
Ongoing
2019/08/01 - 2022/07/31 Biodiversidade e prospecção de algas de águas tropicais e da Antártica marítima
Post-doc Fellow
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract
  1. Alves-Lima, Cicero; Bouget, FY. "nvestigation of the circadian clock function in the induction of seasonal algal growth through a genetic approach in Ostreococcus". Paper presented in 6th Congress of the International Society for Applied Phycology, Nantes, 2017.
Journal article
  1. PA Horta, P Horta, Paulo Antunes Horta; Marina N. Sissini; Alessandra Fonseca; Alexander Turra; Ana Claudia Rodrigues; Leonardo Rorig; José Bonomi-Barufi; et al. "Marine Forests Forever—A Necessary Multilateral Program for a Fair Future". Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems (2025): http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aqc.70037.
    10.1002/aqc.70037
  2. Duran, Afonso José Felício Peres; Lyra, Gabriela Pitolli; Campos Filho, Luiz Eduardo; Bueno, Cristiane; Rossignolo, João Adriano; Alves-Lima, Cicero; Fiorelli, Juliano. "The Use of Sargasso Seaweed as Lignocellulosic Material for Particleboards: Technical Viability and Life Cycle Assessment". Buildings 14 5 (2024): 1403. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/buildings14051403.
    10.3390/buildings14051403
  3. Luiza Araujo-Motta; Cicero Alves-Lima; Leonardo Zambotti-Vilella; pio colepicolo. "Metabolome of Cadmium Stressed Gracilaria caudata (Rhodophyta)". Phycology 3 2 (2023): 255-269. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/phycology3020016.
    10.3390/phycology3020016
  4. L. Felipe Benites; Cícero Alves-Lima. "Viruses of Rhodophyta: lack of cultures and genomic resources pose a threat to the growing red algal aquaculture industry". Applied Phycology 3 1 (2022): 285-299. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/26388081.2022.2059701.
    10.1080/26388081.2022.2059701
  5. Natalia Nakamura-Gouvea; Cicero Alves-Lima; Luiz Felipe Benites; Cintia Iha; Vinicius Maracaja-Coutinho; Victor Aliaga-Tobar; Marcella Araujo Amaral Carneiro; et al. "Insights into agar and secondary metabolite pathways from the genome of the red alga Gracilaria domingensis (Rhodophyta, Gracilariales)". Journal of Phycology 58 3 (2022): 406-423. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpy.13238.
    10.1111/jpy.13238
  6. Luíza Lane de Barros Dantas; Felipe Marcelo Almeida-Jesus; Natalia Oliveira de Lima; Cícero Alves-Lima; Milton Yutaka Nishiyama-Jr; Monalisa Sampaio Carneiro; Glaucia Mendes Souza; Carlos Takeshi Hotta. "Rhythms of Transcription in Field-Grown Sugarcane Are Highly Organ Specific". Scientific Reports (2019): https://doi.org/10.1101/607002.
    Open access • 10.1101/607002
  7. Cicero Alves-Lima; André Reis Azevedo Teixeira; Carlos Takeshi Hotta; Pio Colepicolo. "A cheap and sensitive method for imaging Gracilaria (Rhodophyta, Gracilariales) growth". Journal of Applied Phycology 31 2 (2019): 885-892. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10811-018-1608-x.
    10.1007/s10811-018-1608-x
  8. Marina Nasri Sissini; Maria Beatriz Barbosa de Barros Barreto; Maria Teresa Menezes Széchy; Marcos Bouças de Lucena; Mariana Cabral Oliveira; Jim Gower; Gang Liu; et al. "The floating Sargassum (Phaeophyceae) of the South Atlantic Ocean – likely scenarios". Phycologia 56 3 (2017): 321-328. https://doi.org/10.2216%2F16-92.1.
    10.2216/16-92.1
  9. Cicero Alves-Lima; Natale Cavaçana; Gustavo Antonio Teixeira Chaves; Natalia Oliveira de Lima; Eliezer Stefanello; Pio Colepicolo; Carlos Takeshi Hotta. "Reference genes for transcript quantification in Gracilaria tenuistipitata under drought stress". Journal of Applied Phycology 29 2 (2016): 731-740. https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs10811-016-0896-2.
    10.1007/s10811-016-0896-2
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/07/03 The CCMAR Biobank Encontro Ciencia 2024
Ciencia Viva (Porto, Portugal)
2017/12/01 Measurement of Gracilaria species growth by imaging: An easy, cheap and sensitive approach VI WORKSHOP REDEALGAS: BIOTECNOLOGIA E SUSTENTABILIDADE
RedeAlgas (Arraial do Cabo, Brazil)
2017/12/01 Atualização e perspectivas em genômica de algas vermelhas VI WORKSHOP REDEALGAS: BIOTECNOLOGIA E SUSTENTABILIDADE
RedeAlgas (Arraial do Cabo, Brazil)
2017/11/08 Interação entre relógio biológico e deficiencia hídrica em eucariotos fotossintetizantes Seminários dos pós-graduandos e pós-doutorandos
Instituto de Química - USP (São Paulo, Brazil)
2016/11/03 Reference genes for RT-qPCR in Gracilaria tenuistipitata under drought stress 9th Tripartite Meeting: Chemistry, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology for Wellness
Unviersidade de São Paulo (Maresias, Brazil)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role
Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2024/05/02 - 2027/05/01 Monitoring stranded macroalgae on the N-NE coast of Brazil using satellites and models.
Co-supervisor
Remote Sensing (Master)
Fundação de Apoio da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
2024/05/01 - 2024/07/01 Cultivation and isolation of Laminaria ochroleuca gametophytes and sporophytes.
Supervisor
Marine Biotechnology (Master)
Universidade do Algarve Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal

La Rochelle Université, France
2016/12/15 - 2022/01/26 O genoma da alga vermelha Gracilaria domingensis (Rhodophyta, Gracilariales)
Co-supervisor
Bioinformatica (Master)
Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
2018/03/09 - 2021/10/21 Efeito do cádmio (Cd2+) no metaboloma e fisiologia de macroalgas vermelhas Brasileiras
Co-supervisor
Bioquímica (Master)
Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
2018/01 - 2018/07 Efeitos da acidificação sobre a fisiologia de Gracilaria tenuistipitata: relações entre fotossíntese e anidrase carbônica
Supervisor
Ciências Biológicas (Scientific initiation)
Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
2015/01/04 - 2015/05/01 Métodos em fisiologia molecular de algas vermelhas
Co-supervisor
Biologia (Scientific initiation)
Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2013/01/07 - 2013/01/18 The Summer Course in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, offered by the Department of Biochemistry at the Institute of Chemistry, University of São Paulo, is an 80-hour course taught in Portuguese for 30 undergraduate students from across Latin America, selected by lottery. Held during the summer break, the course includes morning lectures and afternoon lab activities, where students rotate through 4 of 8 available labs. The course is free and has been organized by Dr. Bayardo Torres and graduate students since 2007. (2013/01/07 - 2013/01/18)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
Universidade de São Paulo Instituto de Química, Brazil

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role
Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2024/11/27 Mapping blue shark (Prionace glauca) distribution: Assessing fishing pressures in the Eastern Tropical Pacific
(Thesis) Arguer
Ángela Patricia Palomino Gaviria (Master)
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2021/08 CRESCIMENTO E BIORREMEDIAÇÃO DA MACROALGA GRACILARIA CAUDATA EM EFLUENTES DE CARCINICULTURA, PISCICULTURA E VON STOSCH NO SISTEMA DE BIOFLOCOS
(Thesis) Arguer
Gabriel Augusto Moreno e Colini Luz (Other)
Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho, Brazil
2020/01 EFICIÊNCIA DE MACRÓFITAS NO TRATAMENTO DA ÁGUA RESIDUAL NA PISCICULTURA
(Thesis) Arguer
PAULO GUILHERME NALDI MINOZZI (Other)
Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho, Brazil

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2013/08/06 - 2013/12/12 Bioquimica Ciências Biológicas (Bachelor) Universidade de São Paulo Instituto de Química, Brazil

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2022 - Current Modo VIagem - Território Antártico (Antarctic Teritorry) Território Antártico mostra o espetáculo da natureza, a ciência a serviço da vida e o trabalho, e as dificuldades, de pesquisadores brasileiros no ambiente mais inóspito da Terra.

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2017/06/08 - Current Journal of Applied Phycology Elsevier
2017/06 - Current Algal Research Elsevier

Scientific expedition

Activity description Institution / Organization
2021/05 - Current Expedition to the amazon forest coast line to evaluate the beach casting of Sargassum in Brazil Ambassades et consulats français à l'étranger, France
2018/11/15 - 2018/12/20 I developed experiments on board Almirante Maximiano Oceanographic Polar Vessel and sampled subtidal marine seaweed in the Antartic peninsula Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
2011/11/15 - 2011/12/20 I developed experiments on board Almirante Maximiano Oceanographic Polar Vessel and sampled subtidal marine seaweed in the Antartic peninsula Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Distinctions

Other distinction

2019 Startup Grant
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa e ao Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico do Maranhão, Brazil
2013 PhD Fellowship
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil
2011 Master's Fellowship
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil