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Ana Margarida Amaral (Portuguese, 47 years old, PhD 2009 in usc.es). Reasercher acting as Liaison Officer and Technological Core Facility manager at CCMAR (CTS). Infrastructure access responsible in several transnational Access European projects, namely AQUAEXCEL3.0, AGROSERV, ISIDORe (Integrated Services for Infectious Disease Outbreak Research), EMBRC.PT (European Marine Biological Resource Centre), a distributed research infrastructure that aims to provide services to support both fundamental and applied research based on marine bioresources and marine ecosystems for users from academia, industry, technology and additional sectors. Infrastruture access manager in upcoming 2024 European ProjectsAQUARIUS, IRISCC, AQUASERV. Liaise with industry, Academia and Research Institutions at embric.ugent.be, sharebiotech.net, aquaexcel2020.eu, EMBRC.PT (regional/international companies of aquaculture, marine biotechnology and environment). CCMAR Liaison officer involved in laboratory licensing (as biohazard, radio hazard, animal experimentation), health and safety implementation, legal aspects and licenses related to the provision of marine organisms from wild and Nagoya protocol. Scientific consultancy in marine sciences namely environmental assessment and impacts, aquaculture development, bivalve production, biology and nature-tourism linkage and solve industry very specific problems. Combine skills and current interest in quality control management, science transfer and management, especially building bridges between the potential offered by science and the needs of society, industry and government.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Ana Margarida Araújo Amaral

Citation names

  • Amaral, Ana
  • Amaral, A.M.
  • Amaral, A.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
F61F-CD31-2466

Email addresses

  • amamaral@ualg.pt (Professional)

Telephones

Telephone
  • 289800051 (Professional)

Addresses

  • CCMAR. Universidade do Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, edif 7, 8005-139, Faro, Faro, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Marine Biology
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Ecology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
French Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2002 - 2009
Concluded
 Biologia Marinha e Aquacultura (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
"Gestión de la acuicultura de la almeja fina, R. decussatus (Linnaeus, 1758) en la laguna Ria Formosa (sur de Portugal): efectos sobre el ecossistema y la fisiología de la espécie." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Sobresaliente Cum Laude
1995 - 1999
Concluded
 Biologia Marinha e Pescas (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Algarve - Campus de Gambelas, Portugal
" Fisiologia energética da amêijoa boa (Ruditapes decussatus)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2012/12/01 - Current Auxiliary Researcher (Research) Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
2011/11/01 - 2012/11/30 Auxiliary Researcher (Research) Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
2007/04/19 - 2011/09/30 Research Assistant (Research) Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
2004/04/19 - 2007/04/18 Research Assistant (Research) Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
1999/01/01 - 2002/01/01 Research Assistant (Research) Universidade do Algarve - Campus de Gambelas, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2005/05 - 2007/12 nutritional condition of fish larvae in major protected marine areas of the South Portugal (Ria Formosa and Estuário do Guadiana)
grant.Provided by PTCRIS: 59200
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Contract

Designation Funders
2024/04/01 - 2031/03/31 AQUASERV - RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES FOR SUSTAINABLE AQUACULTURE, FISHERIES AND THE BLUE ECONOMY
101131121
Infrastruture manager under TNA WP activities
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
 Horizon 2020
Ongoing
2024/04/01 - 2028/09/30 IRISCC - Integrated Research Infrastructure Services for Climate Change risks
Grant agreement ID: 101131261
Infrastruture manager under TNA WP activities
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
Ongoing
2024/03/01 - 2028/02/29 Aquarius- Aqua Research Infrastructure Services for the health and protection of our unique, oceans, seas and freshwater ecosystems
Grant agreement ID: 101130915
Infrastruture manager under TNA WP activities
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
Ongoing
2022/09/01 - 2027/08/31 AGROSERV - Integrated SERvices supporting a sustainable AGROecological transition
Grant agreement ID: 101058020
Infrastruture manager under TNA WP activities
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
Ongoing
2021/01/01 - 2025/12/31 Centre for Marine and Environmental Research
LA/P/0101/2020
10.54499/LA/P/0101/2020
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2020/11/01 - 2025/10/31 AQUAculture infrastructures for EXCELlence in EUropean fish research 3.0
871108
10.3030/871108
Infrastructure manager under TNA WP activities
European Commission
Ongoing
2017/10/01 - 2022/09/30 ASSEMBLE Plus Association of European Marine Biological Laboratories Expanded
Grant agreement ID: 730984
Infrastruture manager under TNA WP activities
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
Concluded
2021/05 - 2022/06 MarTECH Algarve - TRANSFERÊNCIA DO CONHECIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO NO SETOR DO MAR
Project ALG-05-3559-FSE-000020
Researcher
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
Concluded
2017/05/01 - 2021/09/30 European Marine Biological Resource Centre Portugal
PINFRA/22121/2016 ALG-01-0145-FEDER-022121
Researcher
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Comissão de Coordenação e Desenvolvimento Regional do Algarve
Concluded
2015/10 - 2020/09 AQUAculture infrastructures for EXCELlence in European fish research towards 2020
652831
Infrastruture manager under TNA WP activities
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
Concluded
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 Centre of Marine Sciences
UID/Multi/04326/2019
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 CCMAR Base funding
UIDB/Multi/04326/2019
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2015/06/01 - 2019/05/31 EMBRIC European Marine Biological Research Infrastructure Cluster to promote the Blue Bioeconomy
654008
Researcher
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
Concluded
2015/10 - 2016/09 pp2EMBRC – Second preparatory phase of the European Marine Biological Resource Centre
689173
Technical development
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
Concluded
2010/01 - 2013/06 SHAREBIOTECH- SHARING LIFE SCIENCE INFRASTRUCTURES AND SKILLS TO BENEFIT THE ATLANTIC AREA BIOTECHNOLOGY SECTOR
2009-1/127
Researcher
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract
  1. Range, Pedro; Chícharo, Maria Alexandra; Piló, David; Ben-Hamadou, Radhouane; Eloíse Sá; Amaral, Ana; Chícharo, Luís. "Effects of seawater acidification by CO2 on RNA/DNA ratios of bivalves in a coastal lagoon environment". Paper presented in Third International Symposium on the Ocean in a High CO2 world, Monterey, 2012.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Bruzos, Alicia L.; Santamarina, Martín; García-Souto, Daniel; Díaz, Seila; Rocha, Sara; Zamora, Jorge; Lee, Yunah; et al. "Somatic evolution of marine transmissible leukemias in the common cockle, Cerastoderma edule". Nature Cancer 4 11 (2023): 1575-1591. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s43018-023-00641-9.
    10.1038/s43018-023-00641-9
  2. Clark, Melody S.; Thorne, Michael A. S.; Amaral, Ana; Vieira, Florbela; Batista, Frederico M.; Reis, Joao; Power, Deborah M.. "Identification of molecular and physiological responses to chronic environmental challenge in an invasive species: the Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas". Ecology and Evolution 3 10 (2013): 3283-3297.
    10.1002/ece3.719
  3. Philippart, Catharina J. M.; Amaral, Ana; Asmus, Ragnhild; van Bleijswijk, Judith; Bremner, Julie; Buchholz, Fred; Cabanellas-Reboredo, Miguel; et al. "Spatial synchronies in the seasonal occurrence of larvae of oysters (Crassostrea gigas) and mussels (Mytilus edulis/galloprovincialis) in European coastal waters". Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science 108 (2012): 52-63.
    10.1016/j.ecss.2012.05.014
  4. Chícharo, M.A.; Amaral, A.; Faria, A.; Morais, P.; Mendes, C.; Piló, D.; Ben-Hamadou, R.; Chícharo, L.. "Are tidal lagoons ecologically relevant to larval recruitment of small pelagic fish? An approach using nutritional condition and growth rate". Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 112 (2012): 265-279. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84866928796&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.ecss.2012.07.033
  5. Chícharo, L.; Ben-Hamadou, R.; Amaral, A.; Range, P.; Mateus, C.; Piló, D.; Marques, R.; Morais, P.; Chícharo, M.A.. "International Centre for Coastal Ecohydrology - Applying the ecohydrology approach for the sustainable functioning of coastal ecosystems". IAHS-AISH Publication 338 (2010): 163-165. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-79551536285&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  6. Chícharo, L.; Hamadou, R.; Amaral, A.; Range, P.; Mateus, C.; Piló, D.; Marques, R.; Morais, P.; Chícharo, M.. "Application and demonstration of the ecohydrology approach for the sustainable functioning of the guadiana estuary (South Portugal)". Ecohydrology and Hydrobiology 9 1 (2009): 55-71. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-77749292158&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.2478/v10104-009-0039-3
  7. Chícharo, L.; Faria, A.; Morais, P.; Amaral, A.; Mendes, C.; Chícharo, M.A.. "How to sample larval fish for taxonomical and ecophysiological studies in shallower temperate coastal ecosystems?". Cahiers de Biologie Marine 50 4 (2009): 311-318. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-77649287049&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  8. Chícharo, M.A.; Chícharo, L.; Amaral, A.; Condinho, S.; Gaspar, M.. "Chronic effects of dredging-induced stress on the clam (Spisula solida): Nucleic acid and lipid composition". Fisheries Research 63 3 (2003): 447-452. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0037810422&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/S0165-7836(03)00077-8
  9. Chicharo, MA; Amaral, A; Condinho, S; Alves, F; Regala, J; Gaspar, M; Chicharo, L. "Adenylic-derived indices and reburying time as indicators of the effects of dredging-induced stress on the clam Spisula solida". Marine Biology 142 6 (2003): 1113-1117.
    10.1007/s00227-003-1037-4
  10. Chícharo, L.M.Z.; Chícharo, M.A.; Alves, F.; Amaral, A.; Pereira, A.; Regala, J.. "Diel variation of the RNA/DNA ratios in Crassostrea angulata (Lamarck) and Ruditapes decussatus (Linnaeus 1758) (Mollusca: Bivalvia)". Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 259 1 (2001): 121-129. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0035972067&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/S0022-0981(01)00229-5
  11. Pampanin, DM; Amaral, AM; Chicharo, MA; Marin, MG. "EFFECT OF ANOXIA ON DNA, RNA AND PROTEIN CONTENTS IN THE VENUS CLAM CHAMELEA GALLINA". ITALIAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 50 1/2 (2001): 59-60.

Other

Other output
  1. Effect of sex on ratios and concentrations of DNA and RNA in three marine species. The aim of the present study was to quantify differences in RNA:DNA ratios between male and female fish Pomatoschistus microps, crustaceans Crangon crangon, and bivalves Ruditapes decussatus. RNA:DNA ratios were greater in females than in males, especially because of a greater RNA content per unit dry weight in females. Sexual dimorphism in addition to physiological and behavioural differences bet. 2007. Teodosio, Maria; Araújo Amaral, Ana Margarida; Morais, Pedro; Chicharo, Luis. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/12121.
    10.3354/meps332241
Distinctions

Award

2005 Concurso de Ideias de Negócios