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Sónia Cruz is Assistant Researcher at The University of Aveiro and the coordinator of the Marine Biotechnology and Aquaculture research group at CESAM (Centre for Marine and Environmental Studies). She specialized in algae eco-physiology during her PhD at the University of Sheffield (UK), in close collaboration with the University of Leipzig (Germany). In 2010, she started a postdoctoral research position at the University of Cambridge (UK), developing microbial biophotovoltaic cells exploiting the ability of cyanobacteria and microalgae to convert light energy into electrical current. Since 2011, Sónia Cruz dedicated to research on a unique algae-animal association: kleptoplasty in sea slugs. Currently, she mainly develops research on (i) algae eco-physiology, including applied photobiology in algae biomass production, frequently in collaboration with SMEs companies, and on (ii) functional kleptoplasts (“stolen” algal chloroplasts) inside animal cells.
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Identificação

Identificação pessoal

Nome completo
Sónia Cruz

Nomes de citação

  • Cruz, Sónia

Identificadores de autor

Ciência ID
1612-17D6-C438
ORCID iD
0000-0003-4775-8161
Researcher Id
F-6165-2011
Scopus Author Id
23034034300

Telefones

Telefone
  • (+351) 234247092 (Profissional)

Moradas

  • Departamento de Biologia, Universidade de Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193, Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal (Profissional)

Websites

  • www.cesam.ua.pt/soniacruz (Profissional)

Domínios de atuação

  • Ciências Naturais - Ciências Biológicas
  • Ciências Naturais - Ciências Biológicas - Fitologia
  • Ciências Naturais - Ciências Biológicas - Biologia Marinha

Idiomas

Idioma Conversação Leitura Escrita Compreensão Peer-review
Português (Idioma materno)
Inglês Utilizador proficiente (C2) Utilizador proficiente (C2) Utilizador proficiente (C2) Utilizador proficiente (C2) Utilizador proficiente (C2)
Formação
Grau Classificação
2010/05
Concluído
 Plant Sciences (Doctor of Philosophy)
The University of Sheffield, Reino Unido
"Photosynthetic energy dissipation and chlororespiration in diatoms" (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)
2004/10
Concluído
 Licenciatura em Biologia (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Biologia, Portugal
 16/20
Percurso profissional

Ciência

2015/06 - Atual Investigador Auxiliar (carreira) (Investigação)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2014/10 - 2015/05 Investigador visitante (Investigação)
Københavns Universitet Marinbiologisk Sektion, Dinamarca
2011/04 - 2015/05 Pós-doutorado (Investigação)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2010/01 - 2011/03 Pós-doutorado (Investigação)
University of Cambridge, Reino Unido
Projetos

Bolsa

Designação Financiadores
2018 - 2021/06 CtLight - Effects of light on the photobiology and growth of the commercially valuable macroalga Codium tomentosum
PTDC/BIA-FBT/30979/2017
Investigador responsável
Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2018 - 2021/06 Omics4Algae - Lipidomic tools for chemical phenotyping, traceability and valorisation of seaweeds from aquaculture as a sustainable source of high added-value compounds
POCI-01-0145-FEDER-030962
Investigador
Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2018 - 2021/05 TraSeafood - Tracing the Geographic Origin of Seafood as a Pathway Towards the Smart Valorization of Endogenous Marine Resources
PTDC/BIA-BMA/29491/2017
Investigador
Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2016 - 2020/02 HULK - Functional Chloroplasts inside Animal Cells: Cracking the Puzzle
PTDC/BIA-ANM/4622/2014
Investigador responsável
Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2012 - 2014/11 PHOTOSYMBIOXIS - Physiological and Behavioural Photoprotective Processes against Oxidative Stress in Marine Photosynthetic Symbioses
grant.322349
Investigador responsável
Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal
 European Commission
Produções

Publicações

Artigo em revista
  1. Rey, Felisa; Melo, Tânia; Cartaxana, P (8819-9D4D-4C85); Calado, Ricardo; Domingues, Pedro; Cruz, Sónia; Domingues, M Rosário M. 2020. "Coping with starvation: contrasting lipidomic dynamics in the cells of two sacoglossan sea slugs incorporating stolen plastids from the same macroalgae". Integrative and Comparative Biology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icb/icaa019.
    Publicado • 10.1093/icb/icaa019
  2. Felisa Rey; Paulo Cartaxana; Tânia Melo; Ricardo Calado; Rui Pereira; Helena Abreu; Pedro Domingues; Sónia Cruz; M. Rosário Domingues. 2020. "Domesticated Populations of Codium tomentosum Display Lipid Extracts with Lower Seasonal Shifts than Conspecifics from the Wild—Relevance for Biotechnological Applications of this Green Seaweed". Marine Drugs 18 (4): 188-188. https://doi.org/10.3390/md18040188.
    10.3390/md18040188
  3. Paulo Cartaxana; Luca Morelli; Bruno Jesus; Gonçalo Calado; Ricardo Calado; Sónia Cruz. 2019. "The photon menace: kleptoplast protection in the photosynthetic sea slug Elysia timida". The Journal of Experimental Biology 222 (12): jeb202580-jeb202580. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.202580.
    Publicado • 10.1242/jeb.202580
  4. Cartaxana, P.; Rey, F.; Ribeiro, M.; Moreira, A.S.P.; Rosário, M.; Domingues, M.; Calado, R.; Cruz, S.. 2019. "Nutritional state determines reproductive investment in the mixotrophic sea slug Elysia viridis". Marine Ecology Progress Series 611: 167-177. https://www.int-res.com/abstracts/meps/v611/p167-177/.
    10.3354/meps12866
  5. Dionísio, Gisela; Faleiro, Filipa; Bispo, Regina; Lopes, Ana Rita; Cruz, Sónia; Paula, José Ricardo; Repolho, Tiago; Calado, Ricardo; Rosa, Rui. 2018. "Distinct Bleaching Resilience of Photosynthetic Plastid-Bearing Mollusks Under Thermal Stress and High CO2 Conditions". Frontiers in Physiology 9. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2018.01675/full.
    10.3389/fphys.2018.01675
  6. Paulo Cartaxana; Luca Morelli; Carla Quintaneiro; Gonçalo Calado; Ricardo Calado; Sónia Cruz. 2018. "Kleptoplast photoacclimation state modulates the photobehaviour of the solar-powered sea slugElysia viridis". The Journal of Experimental Biology: jeb.180463-jeb.180463. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.180463.
    10.1242/jeb.180463
  7. Jorge Marques da Silva; Sónia Cruz; Paulo Cartaxana. 2017. "Inorganic carbon availability in benthic diatom communities: photosynthesis and migration". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 372 (1728): 20160398-20160398. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2016.0398.
    10.1098/rstb.2016.0398
  8. Cartaxana P; Trampe E; Kühl M; Cruz S. 2017. "Kleptoplast photosynthesis is nutritionally relevant in the sea slug Elysia viridis.". Scientific Reports. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-08002-0.
    10.1038/s41598-017-08002-0
  9. Christa, G.; Cruz, S.; Jahns, P.; de Vries, J.; Cartaxana, P.; Esteves, A.C.; Serôdio, J.; Gould, S.B.. 2017. "Photoprotection in a monophyletic branch of chlorophyte algae is independent of energy-dependent quenching (qE)". New Phytologist 214 (3): 1132-1144. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85011665166&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/nph.14435
  10. Rey, F.; Da Costa, E.; Campos, A.M.; Cartaxana, P.; MacIel, E.; Domingues, P.; Domingues, M.R.M.; Calado, R.; Cruz, S.. 2017. "Kleptoplasty does not promote major shifts in the lipidome of macroalgal chloroplasts sequestered by the sacoglossan sea slug Elysia viridis". Scientific Reports 7 (1). https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-12008-z.
    10.1038/s41598-017-12008-z
  11. Cartaxana, P.; Ribeiro, L.; Goessling, J.W.; Cruz, S.; Kühl, M.. 2016. "Light and O2 microenvironments in two contrasting diatom-dominated coastal sediments". Marine Ecology Progress Series 545: 35-47. https://int-res.com/abstracts/meps/v545/p35-47/.
    10.3354/meps11630
  12. Cartaxana, P.; Cruz, S.; Gameiro, C.; Kühl, M.. 2016. "Regulation of intertidal microphytobenthos photosynthesis over a diel emersion period is strongly affected by diatom migration patterns". Frontiers in Microbiology 7 (JUN). https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2016.00872/full.
    10.3389/fmicb.2016.00872
  13. Cartaxana, P.; Vieira, S.; Ribeiro, L.; Rocha, R.J.M.; Cruz, S.; Calado, R.; Da Silva, J.M.. 2015. "Effects of elevated temperature and CO2 on intertidal microphytobenthos". BMC Ecology 15 (1). https://bmcecol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12898-015-0043-y.
    10.1186/s12898-015-0043-y
  14. Cruz, S.; Cartaxana, P.; Newcomer, R.; Dionísio, G.; Calado, R.; Serôdio, J.; Pelletreau, K.N.; Rumpho, M.E.. 2015. "Photoprotection in sequestered plastids of sea slugs and respective algal sources". Scientific Reports 5. https://www.nature.com/articles/srep07904.
    10.1038/srep07904
  15. Cruz, S.; Calado, R.; Serôdio, J.; Jesus, B.; Cartaxana, P.. 2014. "Pigment profile in the photosynthetic sea slug Elysia viridis (Montagu, 1804)". Journal of Molluscan Studies 80 (5): 475-481. https://academic.oup.com/mollus/article/80/5/475/1035589.
    10.1093/mollus/eyu021
  16. Serôdio, J.; Cruz, S.; Cartaxana, P.; Calado, R.. 2014. "Photophysiology of kleptoplasts: Photosynthetic use of light by chloroplasts living in animal cells". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 369 (1640). https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rstb.2013.0242.
    10.1098/rstb.2013.0242
  17. Dionísio, G.; Rosa, R.; Leal, M.C.; Cruz, S.; Brandão, C.; Calado, G.; SerÔdio, J.; Calado, R.. 2013. "Beauties and beasts: A portrait of sea slugs aquaculture". Aquaculture 408-409: 1-14. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0044848613002524.
    10.1016/j.aquaculture.2013.04.033
  18. Cruz, S.; Calado, R.; Serôdio, J.; Cartaxana, P.. 2013. "Crawling leaves: Photosynthesis in sacoglossan sea slugs". Journal of Experimental Botany 64 (13): 3999-4009. https://academic.oup.com/jxb/article/64/13/3999/436339.
    10.1093/jxb/ert197
  19. Cartaxana, P.; Domingues, N.; Cruz, S.; Jesus, B.; Laviale, M.; Serôdio, J.; Da Silva, J.M.. 2013. "Photoinhibition in benthic diatom assemblages under light stress". Aquatic Microbial Ecology 70 (1): 87-92. https://www.int-res.com/abstracts/ame/v70/n1/p87-92/.
    10.3354/ame01648
  20. Cruz, S.; Dionísio, G.; Rosa, R.; Calado, R.; Serôdio, J.. 2012. "Anesthetizing solar-powered sea slugs for photobiological studies". Biological Bulletin 223 (3): 328-336. https://www.academia.edu/3381608/Anesthetizing_solar-powered_sea_slugs_for_photobiological_studies.
  21. Bombelli, P.; McCormick, A.; Bradley, R.; Yunus, K.; Philips, J.; Anderson, X.; Cruz, S.; et al. 2011. "Harnessing solar energy by bio-photovoltaic (BPV) devices.". Communications in agricultural and applied biological sciences 76 (2): 89-91. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-79955681681&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  22. Bombelli, P.; Bradley, R.W.; Scott, A.M.; Philips, A.J.; McCormick, A.J.; Cruz, S.M.; Anderson, A.; et al. 2011. "Quantitative analysis of the factors limiting solar power transduction by Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 in biological photovoltaic devices". Energy and Environmental Science 4 (11): 4690-4698. https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2011/ee/c1ee02531g#!divAbstract.
    10.1039/c1ee02531g
  23. Cruz, S.; Goss, R.; Wilhelm, C.; Leegood, R.; Horton, P.; Jakob, T.. 2011. "Impact of chlororespiration on non-photochemical quenching of chlorophyll fluorescence and on the regulation of the diadinoxanthin cycle in the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana". Journal of Experimental Botany 62 (2): 509-519. https://academic.oup.com/jxb/article/62/2/509/587943.
    10.1093/jxb/erq284
  24. Cruz, S.; Serôdio, J.. 2008. "Relationship of rapid light curves of variable fluorescence to photoacclimation and non-photochemical quenching in a benthic diatom". Aquatic Botany 88 (3): 256-264. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0304377007001726.
    10.1016/j.aquabot.2007.11.001
  25. Serôdio, J.; Vieira, S.; Cruz, S.. 2008. "Photosynthetic activity, photoprotection and photoinhibition in intertidal microphytobenthos as studied in situ using variable chlorophyll fluorescence". Continental Shelf Research 28 (10-11): 1363-1375. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-44449133209&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.csr.2008.03.019
  26. Serôdio, J.; Vieira, S.; Cruz, S.; Coelho, H.. 2006. "Rapid light-response curves of chlorophyll fluorescence in microalgae: Relationship to steady-state light curves and non-photochemical quenching in benthic diatom-dominated assemblages". Photosynthesis Research 90 (1): 29-43. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11120-006-9105-5.
    10.1007/s11120-006-9105-5
  27. Serôdio, J.; Coelho, H.; Vieira, S.; Cruz, S.. 2006. "Microphytobenthos vertical migratory photoresponse as characterised by light-response curves of surface biomass". Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 68 (3-4): 547-556. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0272771406000977.
    10.1016/j.ecss.2006.03.005
  28. Serôdio, J.; Vieira, S.; Cruz, S.; Barroso, F.. 2005. "Short-term variability in the photosynthetic activity of microphytobenthos as detected by measuring rapid light curves using variable fluorescence". Marine Biology 146 (5): 903-914. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-17444419745&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s00227-004-1504-6
  29. Serôdio, J.; Cruz, S.; Vieira, S.; Brotas, V.. 2005. "Non-photochemical quenching of chlorophyll fluorescence and operation of the xanthophyll cycle in estuarine microphytobenthos". Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 326 (2): 157-169. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-27844505208&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.jembe.2005.05.011
Atividades

Apresentação oral de trabalho

Título da apresentação Nome do evento
Anfitrião (Local do evento)
2019/09/12 Lipidomics of solar-power animals: a tool to unravel the process of kleptoplasty 20th Iberian Symposium on Marine Biology Studies (SIEBM XX), 9 -12 September 2019
University of Minho, Portugal (Braga, Portugal)
2019/08/16 Kleptoplasts of the solar-powered sea slug Elysia crispata collected at different depths display similar pigment and fatty acid profiles World Congress of Malacology
California Academy of Sciences (Pacific Grove, California, Estados Unidos)
2018 Kleptoplast photoacclimation state modulates the photobehaviour of the solar-powered sea slug Elysia viridis Society for Experimental Biology annual meeting, SEB 2018
(Florence, Itália)
2018 Chloroplasts sequestered by the sacoglossan sea slug Elysia viridis preserve original lipidome of plastid membranes 31st Congress of the New European Society for Comparative Physiology & Biochemistry: ESPB - 2018
(Porto, Portugal)
2018 Cloroplastos funcionais dentro de células de Sacoglossos: o projecto HULK Portuguese Congress on Malacology, CPM 2018
(Funchal, Portugal)
2017 Studying kleptoplasty in animal cells using chlorophyll a fluorescence AQUAFLUO - Chlorophyll Fluorescence in Aquatic Sciences Meeting 2017
(Sidney, Austrália)
2014 Photosynthetic animals – a natural blueprint for synthetic organelles Biology of plastids - Towards a blueprint for synthetic organelles
(Pultusk, Polónia)
2014 Photosynthetic sea slugs and Global climate change: the role of kleptoplastic animals in a changing world Estuarine & Coastal Sciences Association Meeting - ECSA54
(Sesimbra, Portugal)
2013 Photoprotection mechanisms in sacoglossan sea slugs World Congress of Malacology
(Ponta Delgada, Portugal)
2013 Culturing sea slugs: why they matter? World Congress of Malacology
(Ponta Delgada, Portugal)
2010 Chlamydomonas reinhardtii to generate electrical current: insight into the cell wall and cell membranes proteomics 14th International conference on the Cell and Molecular Biology of Chlamydomonas
(Norton, Estados Unidos)
2005 Xanthophyll cycle and non-photochemical quenching of chlorophyll fluorescence in estuarine microalgae as a response to light stress Plankton symposium III
(Figueira da Foz, Portugal)

Orientação

Título / Tema
Papel desempenhado 		Curso (Tipo)
Instituição / Organização
2019 - Atual La luz de la Ecología de Elysia crispata (Mollusca: Sacoglossa): Espectro, intensidad, ritmos circadianos y evasion de depredadores
Coorientador de Xochitl Guadalupe Vital Arriaga
 Ciencias Biológicas (Doutoramento)
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México
2017 - Atual Ecological impacts of biological mortality and environmental factors on hypersaline microbial mats
Orientador de Dr. Cátia Carreira
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2018 - 2019 Photoacclimation and photoprotection strategies in siphonous green algae of the order Bryopsidales (Codium tomentosum and Bryopsis plumosa)
Coorientador de Chiara Giossi
 Biologia Marina (Mestrado)
Università degli Studi di Bologna Scuola di Scienze, Itália
2018 - 2019 Effects of light on the photobiology and growth of the commercially valuable macroalgae Codium tomentosum
Coorientador de Rúben Filipe Nascimento Marques
 Biologia Marinha (Mestrado)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2017 - 2019 Decoding the functions of chloroplasts in the metabolism of sacoglossan sea slugs
Coorientador de Dr. Felisa Rey Eiras
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2016 - 2018 Functional chloroplasts inside animal cells: cracking the puzzle
Orientador de Dr. Paulo Cartaxana
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2016 - 2017 Functional chloroplasts inside animal cells: exploring the photoprotective mechanisms
Orientador de Luca Morelli
 Biotecnologie vegetali e microbiche (Mestrado)
Università degli Studi di Pisa Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie Alimentari e Agro-ambientali, Itália
2016 - 2017 Effects of food availability and irradiance on photosynthesis and reproductive investment in the sea slug Elysia viridis
Orientador de Mariana Isabel Teixeira Ribeiro
 Biologia Marinha (Mestrado)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Júri de grau académico

Tema
Tipo de participação 		Nome do candidato (Tipo de grau)
Instituição / Organização
2017 Effects of food availability and irradiance on photosynthesis and reproductive investment in the sea slug Elysia viridis
Orientador
 Mariana Isabel Teixeira Ribeiro (Mestrado)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2013 Copping with Extreme Dehydration: A Physiological, Biochemical and Molecular Study on the Aquatic Bryophyte Fontinalis antipyretica
Vogal
 Ricardo Filipe Duarte da Cruz Carvalho (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Curso / Disciplina lecionado

Disciplina Curso (Tipo) Instituição / Organização
2013 - 2013 Fast chlorophyll a fluorescence transient analysis (OJIP) PAM Fluorometry (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares)) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2012 - 2012 Kleptoplasty: plastid acquisition in sea slugs BioPlant workshop and advanced course (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares)) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2011 - 2011 Fast chlorophyll a fluorescence transient analysis (OJIP) Optical techniques for the in vivo study of photosynthesis (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares)) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2010 - 2010 Physiology of Organisms Biology (Licence) University of Cambridge Department of Plant Sciences, Reino Unido
2006 - 2008 Practical Skills in Biology I and II Biology (Licence) The University of Sheffield Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, Reino Unido

Membro de comissão

Descrição da atividade
Tipo de participação 		Instituição / Organização
2019/04 - Atual Member of the Department of Biology Council
Membro
 Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Biologia, Portugal
2017/09 - Atual Coordinator of the research group Marine Biotechnology and Aquaculture
Coordenador
 Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal
Distinções

Prémio

2008 Scurfield Memory Bursary award
The University of Sheffield, Reino Unido
2007 Excellence Exchange Scheme award
The University of Sheffield, Reino Unido