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I am a Principal Researcher (tenured) at the University of Aveiro: Research Unit CESAM - Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies / Department of Biology / ECOMARE - Laboratory for Innovation and Sustainability of Marine Biological Resources. Throughout my training, I worked at the University of Bergen (Norway) as an undergrad Erasmus Student, at the University of Sheffield (UK) and at the University of Leipzig (Germany) for my PhD thesis work, and at the University of Cambridge (UK) and later at the University of Copenhagen (Denmark) for two distinct PostDoctoral works. I continue to work collaboratively at the national and international levels, as I believe networking and exchanging ideas are the best ways to advance science. Since 2011, I have been passionate about the incredible chloroplast-bearing sea slugs, for which I was awarded an ERC Starting Grant in 2021. I coordinate/have coordinated 2 European projects (ERC-2020-STG; FP7-Marie Curie-CIG) and 3 national projects (2 R&D projects; 1 IF-Exploratory), totalling over 2.7M, and I am/was a team member in a few more projects. My main interests in research are to understand (i) algae ecophysiology, for optimisation of growth and biomass valorisation; (ii) how algal chloroplasts function inside animal cells; and (iii) the development of Isotopic Ratio Analysis (EA-IRMS for bulk tissues and GC-MS-IRMS for compound specific analysis) for understanding metabolic patways in symbiotic associations, as well as ecological trophic levels inteactions.
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Identificação

Identificação pessoal

Nome completo
Sónia Marisa Gonçalves da 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) 234247182 Ext.: 22786 (Profissional)

Moradas

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

Websites

  • https://www.cesam-la.pt/soniacruz/ (Profissional)
  • https://mplab-kleptoslug.com (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

Categoria Profissional
Instituição de acolhimento		 Empregador
2021/05/01 - Atual Investigador principal (carreira) (Investigação) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal
2021/03/01 - 2021/04/30 Investigador Auxiliar (carreira) (Investigação) Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal
Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal
2020/09/01 - 2021/02/28 Investigador (Investigação) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal
2015/06/01 - 2020/05/31 Investigador Auxiliar (carreira) (Investigação) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal
2014/10 - 2015/05 Investigador visitante (Investigação) Københavns Universitet Marinbiologisk Sektion, Dinamarca
2011/04 - 2015/05 Pós-doutorado (Investigação) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal
2010/01 - 2011/03 Pós-doutorado (Investigação) University of Cambridge, Reino Unido
University of Cambridge Department of Plant Sciences, Reino Unido
Projetos

Bolsa

Designação Financiadores
2021/05 - 2026/04 KleptoSlug - Kleptoplasty: The sea slug that got away with stolen chloroplasts
ERC-2020-STG/949880
Investigador responsável
Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal
 European Research Council
Em curso
2018/07 - 2022/07 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
Concluído
2018/07 - 2020/09 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
Concluído
2018/06 - 2020/09 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
Concluído
2015/06/01 - 2020/05/31 Molecular and Photochemical insights on the retention of functional chloroplasts by metazoan cells
IF/00899/2014/CP1222/CT0010
Investigador responsável
Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluído
2016/06 - 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
Concluído
2012/12 - 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
Concluído

Projeto

Designação Financiadores
2025/02/01 - 2026/07/31 TraceAlgae - Traceability of edible macroalgae using Compound-Specific Isotope Analysis
2023.13373.PEX
10.54499/2023.13373.PEX
Investigador
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Em curso
2021/01/01 - 2025/12/31 Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies
LA/P/0094/2020
10.54499/LA/P/0094/2020
Investigador
Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal

Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

FCiênciasID Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Em curso

Outro

Designação Financiadores
2019/01 - 2019/12 Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar
154761UID
168231UID
UID/AMB/50017/2019
Investigador
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluído
Produções

Publicações

Artigo em boletim informativo
  1. Calado, Ricardo; Rey, Felisa; Domingues, M. Rosário; Cartaxana, Paulo; Cruz, Sónia; Luisa Marques; João Pedro; Lillebø, Ana Isabel. Autor correspondente: Calado, Ricardo. "Cultivo de espécies extrativas de água salgada para aplicação em soluções IMTA: poliquetas, anfípodes, ascídias, macroalgas e plantas halófilas", Boletín REDEALGAE, 2023, www.redealgae.eu.
Artigo em revista
  1. Xochitl G. Vital; Sónia Cruz; Nuno Simões; Paulo Cartaxana; Maite Mascaró. "The photoacclimation state of stolen chloroplasts affects the light preferences in the photosynthetic sea slug Elysia crispata". Journal of Experimental Biology (2026): https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.251281.
    10.1242/jeb.251281
  2. Paulo Cartaxana; Diana Lopes; Vesa Havurinne; Maria I. Silva; Ricardo Calado; Sónia Cruz. "Laboratory Rearing of the Photosynthetic Sea Slug Elysia crispata (Gastropoda, Sacoglossa): Implications for the Study of Kleptoplasty and Species Conservation". Biology (2026): https://doi.org/10.3390/biology15020168.
    10.3390/biology15020168
  3. Martins, Patrícia; Cartaxana, Paulo; Cruz, Sónia. "Microbiome characterization of the sea slugs Elysia viridis and Placida dendritica: insights into potential roles in kleptoplasty". BMC Microbiology 26 1 (2026): https://doi.org/10.1186/s12866-025-04573-5.
    Acesso aberto • Publicado • 10.1186/s12866-025-04573-5
  4. Rita Magalhães; Dalila Mil-Homens; Sónia Cruz; Manuela Oliveira. "Marine Antimicrobial Peptides: Emerging Strategies Against Multidrug-Resistant and Biofilm-Forming Bacteria". Antibiotics (2025): https://doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics14080808.
    10.3390/antibiotics14080808
  5. Vesa Havurinne; Axelle Rivoallan; Heta Mattila; Esa Tyystjärvi; Paulo Cartaxana; Sónia Cruz. "Loss of state transitions in Bryopsidales macroalgae and kleptoplastic sea slugs (Gastropoda, Sacoglossa)". Communications Biology (2025): https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-08305-3.
    10.1038/s42003-025-08305-3
  6. Diana Lopes; Paulo Cartaxana; Sónia S. Ferreira; Maria Inês Silva; Margarida Nunes; Joana Barata; Cláudia Nunes; Sónia Cruz. "Mucopolysaccharides secreted by the sea slug Elysia crispata incorporate carbon via kleptoplast photosynthesis". Frontiers in Marine Science 12 (2025): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2025.1580478.
    10.3389/fmars.2025.1580478
  7. Felisa Rey; Xochitl Guadalupe Vital; Sónia Cruz; Tânia Melo; Diana Lopes; Ricardo Calado; Nuno Simões; Maite Mascaró; Maria Rosário Domingues. "Habitat shapes the lipidome of the tropical photosynthetic sea slug Elysia crispata". Marine Life Science & Technology (2025): https://doi.org/10.1007/s42995-025-00281-1.
    10.1007/s42995-025-00281-1
  8. Diana Lopes; Eva Cunha; Tiago Conde; Anthony Moreira; Sónia Cruz; Pedro Domingues; Manuela Oliveira; Paulo Cartaxana. "Antimicrobial, Antioxidant and Anti-Inflammatory Activities of the Mucus of the Tropical Sea Slug Elysia crispata". Molecules (2024): https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules29194593.
    10.3390/molecules29194593
  9. Luca Morelli; Paulo Cartaxana; Sónia Cruz. "Food shaped photosynthesis: Photophysiology of the sea slug Elysia viridis fed with two alternative chloroplast donors". Open Research Europe 3 (2024): 107-107. http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.16162.2.
    10.12688/openreseurope.16162.2
  10. Morelli, Luca; Havurinne, Vesa; Madeira, Diana; Martins, Patrícia; Cartaxana, Paulo; Cruz, Sónia. "Photoprotective mechanisms in <i>Elysia</i> species hosting <i>Acetabularia</i> chloroplasts shed light on host-donor compatibility in photosynthetic sea slugs". Physiologia Plantarum 176 2 (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ppl.14273.
    Acesso aberto • Publicado • 10.1111/ppl.14273
  11. Lopes, Diana; Aveiro, Susana S.; Cruz, Sónia; Cartaxana, Paulo; Domingues, Pedro. "Proteomic analysis of the mucus of the photosynthetic sea slug Elysia crispata". Journal of Proteomics 294 (2024): 105087. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jprot.2024.105087.
    Acesso aberto • Publicado • 10.1016/j.jprot.2024.105087
  12. Xochitl G. Vital; Nuno Simões; Sónia Cruz; Maite Mascaró. "Photosynthetic animals and where to find them: abundance and size of a solar-powered sea slug in different light conditions". Marine Biology (2023): https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-023-04301-5.
    10.1007/s00227-023-04301-5
  13. Felisa Rey; Paulo Cartaxana; Sónia Cruz; Tânia Melo; M. Rosário Domingues. "Revealing the polar lipidome, pigment profiles, and antioxidant activity of the giant unicellular green alga, Acetabularia acetabulum". Journal of Phycology (2023): https://doi.org/10.1111/jpy.13367.
    10.1111/jpy.13367
  14. Paulo Cartaxana; Luca Morelli; Elena Cassin; Vesa Havurinne; Miguel Cabral; Sónia Cruz. "Prey species and abundance affect growth and photosynthetic performance of the polyphagous sea slug Elysia crispata". Royal Society Open Science (2023): https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.230810.
    10.1098/rsos.230810
  15. Luca Morelli; Paulo Cartaxana; Sónia Cruz. "Food shaped photosynthesis: Photophysiology of the sea slug Elysia viridis fed with two alternative chloroplast donors". Open Research Europe (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.16162.1.
    10.12688/openreseurope.16162.1
  16. Ana C. R. Resende; Rui Pereira; Cláudia Nunes; Sónia Cruz; Ricardo Calado; Paulo Cartaxana. "Photosynthetic Pigment and Carbohydrate Profiling of Fucus vesiculosus from an Iberian Coastal Lagoon". Plants (2023): https://doi.org/10.3390/plants12061324.
    10.3390/plants12061324
  17. Felisa Rey; Paulo Cartaxana; Susana Aveiro; Michael Greenacre; Tânia Melo; Pedro Domingues; M. Rosário Domingues; Sónia Cruz. "Light modulates the lipidome of the photosynthetic sea slug Elysia timida". Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids (2023): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbalip.2022.159249.
    10.1016/j.bbalip.2022.159249
  18. Margarida Travesso; Madalena Missionário; Sónia Cruz; Ricardo Calado; Diana Madeira. "Combined effect of marine heatwaves and light intensity on the cellular stress response and photophysiology of the leather coral Sarcophyton cf. glaucum". Science of The Total Environment (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.160460.
    10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.160460
  19. Sónia Cruz; Paulo Cartaxana. "Kleptoplasty: Getting away with stolen chloroplasts". PLOS Biology (2022): https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001857.
    10.1371/journal.pbio.3001857
  20. Diana Lopes; Sónia Cruz; Patrícia Martins; Sónia Ferreira; Cláudia Nunes; Pedro Domingues; Paulo Cartaxana. "Sea Slug Mucus Production Is Supported by Photosynthesis of Stolen Chloroplasts". Biology (2022): https://doi.org/10.3390/biology11081207.
    10.3390/biology11081207
  21. Ricardo Calado; Renato Mamede; Sónia Cruz; Miguel C. Leal. "Updated Trends on the Biodiscovery of New Marine Natural Products from Invertebrates". Marine Drugs 20 6 (2022): 389-389. https://doi.org/10.3390/md20060389.
    10.3390/md20060389
  22. Rúben Marques; Anthony Moreira; Sónia Cruz; Ricardo Calado; Paulo Cartaxana. "Controlling Light to Optimize Growth and Added Value of the Green Macroalga Codium tomentosum". Frontiers in Marine Science (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.906332.
    10.3389/fmars.2022.906332
  23. Paulo Cartaxana; Diana Lopes; Begoña Martinez; Patrícia Martins; Sónia Cruz. "Aposymbiotic Specimen of the Photosynthetic Sea Slug Elysia crispata". Diversity 14 5 (2022): 313-313. https://doi.org/10.3390/d14050313.
    10.3390/d14050313
  24. Xochitl Guadalupe Vital; Felisa Rey; Paulo Cartaxana; Sónia Cruz; Maria Rosário Domingues; Ricardo Calado; Nuno Simões. "Pigment and Fatty Acid Heterogeneity in the Sea Slug Elysia crispata Is Not Shaped by Habitat Depth". Animals (2021): https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11113157.
    10.3390/ani11113157
  25. Cartaxana, Paulo; Rey, Felisa; LeKieffre, Charlotte; Lopes, Diana; Hubas, Cédric; Spangenberg, Jorge E.; Escrig, Stéphane; et al. "Photosynthesis from stolen chloroplasts can support sea slug reproductive fitness". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 288 1959 (2021): 20211779. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.1779.
    Acesso aberto • 10.1098/rspb.2021.1779
  26. Giossi, Chiara E.; Cruz, Sónia; Rey, Felisa; Marques, Rúben; Melo, Tânia; Domingues, Maria do Rosário; Cartaxana, Paulo. "Light Induced Changes in Pigment and Lipid Profiles of Bryopsidales Algae". Frontiers in Marine Science 8 745083 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.745083.
    Publicado • 10.3389/fmars.2021.745083
  27. Moreira, Anthony; Cruz, Sónia; Marques, Rúben; Cartaxana, Paulo. "The underexplored potential of green macroalgae in aquaculture". Reviews in Aquaculture 14 1 (2021): 5-26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/raq.12580.
    Publicado • 10.1111/raq.12580
  28. Paulo Cartaxana; Sónia Cruz. "On the art of stealing chloroplasts". eLife (2020): https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.64057.
    10.7554/eLife.64057
  29. Cátia Carreira; Christian Lønborg; Michael Kühl; Ana I Lillebø; Ruth-Anne Sandaa; Laura Villanueva; Sónia Cruz. "Fungi and viruses as important players in microbial mats". FEMS Microbiology Ecology (2020): https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiaa187.
    10.1093/femsec/fiaa187
  30. Marques, Rúben; Cruz, Sónia; Calado, Ricardo; Lillebø, Ana; Abreu, Helena; Pereira, Rui; Pitarma, Bárbara; da Silva, Jorge Marques; Cartaxana, Paulo. "Effects of photoperiod and light spectra on growth and pigment composition of the green macroalga Codium tomentosum". Journal of Applied Phycology 33 1 (2020): 471-480. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10811-020-02289-9.
    10.1007/s10811-020-02289-9
  31. Chiara Giossi; Paulo Cartaxana; Sonia Cruz. "Photoprotective Role of Neoxanthin in Plants and Algae". Molecules (2020): https://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/25/20/4617.
    10.3390/molecules25204617
  32. Cruz, Sónia; LeKieffre, Charlotte; Cartaxana, Paulo; Hubas, Cédric; Thiney, Najet; Jakobsen, Sofie; Escrig, Stéphane; et al. "Functional kleptoplasts intermediate incorporation of carbon and nitrogen in cells of the Sacoglossa sea slug Elysia viridis". Scientific Reports 10 1 (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-66909-7.
    Acesso aberto • 10.1038/s41598-020-66909-7
  33. Rey, Felisa; Melo, Tânia; Cartaxana, P (8819-9D4D-4C85); Calado, Ricardo; Domingues, Pedro; Cruz, Sónia; Domingues, M Rosário M. "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 (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icb/icaa019.
    Publicado • 10.1093/icb/icaa019
  34. Felisa Rey; Paulo Cartaxana; Tânia Melo; Ricardo Calado; Rui Pereira; Helena Abreu; Pedro Domingues; Sónia Cruz; M. Rosário Domingues. "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 (2020): 188-188. https://doi.org/10.3390/md18040188.
    10.3390/md18040188
  35. Paulo Cartaxana; Luca Morelli; Bruno Jesus; Gonçalo Calado; Ricardo Calado; Sónia Cruz. "The photon menace: kleptoplast protection in the photosynthetic sea slug Elysia timida". The Journal of Experimental Biology 222 12 (2019): jeb202580-jeb202580. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.202580.
    Publicado • 10.1242/jeb.202580
  36. Cartaxana, P.; Rey, F.; Ribeiro, M.; Moreira, A.S.P.; Rosário, M.; Domingues, M.; Calado, R.; Cruz, S.. "Nutritional state determines reproductive investment in the mixotrophic sea slug Elysia viridis". Marine Ecology Progress Series 611 (2019): 167-177. https://www.int-res.com/abstracts/meps/v611/p167-177/.
    10.3354/meps12866
  37. Dionísio, Gisela; Faleiro, Filipa; Bispo, Regina; Lopes, Ana Rita; Cruz, Sónia; Paula, José Ricardo; Repolho, Tiago; Calado, Ricardo; Rosa, Rui. "Distinct Bleaching Resilience of Photosynthetic Plastid-Bearing Mollusks Under Thermal Stress and High CO2 Conditions". Frontiers in Physiology 9 (2018): https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2018.01675/full.
    10.3389/fphys.2018.01675
  38. Paulo Cartaxana; Luca Morelli; Carla Quintaneiro; Gonçalo Calado; Ricardo Calado; Sónia Cruz. "Kleptoplast photoacclimation state modulates the photobehaviour of the solar-powered sea slugElysia viridis". The Journal of Experimental Biology (2018): jeb.180463-jeb.180463. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.180463.
    10.1242/jeb.180463
  39. Jorge Marques da Silva; Sónia Cruz; Paulo Cartaxana. "Inorganic carbon availability in benthic diatom communities: photosynthesis and migration". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 372 1728 (2017): 20160398-20160398. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2016.0398.
    10.1098/rstb.2016.0398
  40. Cartaxana P; Trampe E; Kühl M; Cruz S. "Kleptoplast photosynthesis is nutritionally relevant in the sea slug Elysia viridis.". Scientific Reports (2017): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-08002-0.
    10.1038/s41598-017-08002-0
  41. Christa, G.; Cruz, S.; Jahns, P.; de Vries, J.; Cartaxana, P.; Esteves, A.C.; Serôdio, J.; Gould, S.B.. "Photoprotection in a monophyletic branch of chlorophyte algae is independent of energy-dependent quenching (qE)". New Phytologist 214 3 (2017): 1132-1144. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85011665166&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/nph.14435
  42. Rey, F.; Da Costa, E.; Campos, A.M.; Cartaxana, P.; MacIel, E.; Domingues, P.; Domingues, M.R.M.; Calado, R.; Cruz, S.. "Kleptoplasty does not promote major shifts in the lipidome of macroalgal chloroplasts sequestered by the sacoglossan sea slug Elysia viridis". Scientific Reports 7 1 (2017): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-12008-z.
    10.1038/s41598-017-12008-z
  43. Cartaxana, P.; Ribeiro, L.; Goessling, J.W.; Cruz, S.; Kühl, M.. "Light and O2 microenvironments in two contrasting diatom-dominated coastal sediments". Marine Ecology Progress Series 545 (2016): 35-47. https://int-res.com/abstracts/meps/v545/p35-47/.
    10.3354/meps11630
  44. Cartaxana, P.; Cruz, S.; Gameiro, C.; Kühl, M.. "Regulation of intertidal microphytobenthos photosynthesis over a diel emersion period is strongly affected by diatom migration patterns". Frontiers in Microbiology 7 JUN (2016): https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2016.00872/full.
    10.3389/fmicb.2016.00872
  45. Cartaxana, P.; Vieira, S.; Ribeiro, L.; Rocha, R.J.M.; Cruz, S.; Calado, R.; Da Silva, J.M.. "Effects of elevated temperature and CO2 on intertidal microphytobenthos". BMC Ecology 15 1 (2015): https://bmcecol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12898-015-0043-y.
    10.1186/s12898-015-0043-y
  46. Cruz, S.; Cartaxana, P.; Newcomer, R.; Dionísio, G.; Calado, R.; Serôdio, J.; Pelletreau, K.N.; Rumpho, M.E.. "Photoprotection in sequestered plastids of sea slugs and respective algal sources". Scientific Reports 5 (2015): https://www.nature.com/articles/srep07904.
    10.1038/srep07904
  47. Cruz, S.; Calado, R.; Serôdio, J.; Jesus, B.; Cartaxana, P.. "Pigment profile in the photosynthetic sea slug Elysia viridis (Montagu, 1804)". Journal of Molluscan Studies 80 5 (2014): 475-481. https://academic.oup.com/mollus/article/80/5/475/1035589.
    10.1093/mollus/eyu021
  48. Serôdio, J.; Cruz, S.; Cartaxana, P.; Calado, R.. "Photophysiology of kleptoplasts: Photosynthetic use of light by chloroplasts living in animal cells". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 369 1640 (2014): https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rstb.2013.0242.
    10.1098/rstb.2013.0242
  49. Dionísio, G.; Rosa, R.; Leal, M.C.; Cruz, S.; Brandão, C.; Calado, G.; SerÔdio, J.; Calado, R.. "Beauties and beasts: A portrait of sea slugs aquaculture". Aquaculture 408-409 (2013): 1-14. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0044848613002524.
    10.1016/j.aquaculture.2013.04.033
  50. Cruz, S.; Calado, R.; Serôdio, J.; Cartaxana, P.. "Crawling leaves: Photosynthesis in sacoglossan sea slugs". Journal of Experimental Botany 64 13 (2013): 3999-4009. https://academic.oup.com/jxb/article/64/13/3999/436339.
    10.1093/jxb/ert197
  51. Cartaxana, P.; Domingues, N.; Cruz, S.; Jesus, B.; Laviale, M.; Serôdio, J.; Da Silva, J.M.. "Photoinhibition in benthic diatom assemblages under light stress". Aquatic Microbial Ecology 70 1 (2013): 87-92. https://www.int-res.com/abstracts/ame/v70/n1/p87-92/.
    10.3354/ame01648
  52. Cruz, S.; Dionísio, G.; Rosa, R.; Calado, R.; Serôdio, J.. "Anesthetizing solar-powered sea slugs for photobiological studies". Biological Bulletin 223 3 (2012): 328-336. https://www.academia.edu/3381608/Anesthetizing_solar-powered_sea_slugs_for_photobiological_studies.
  53. Bombelli, P.; Bradley, R.W.; Scott, A.M.; Philips, A.J.; McCormick, A.J.; Cruz, S.M.; Anderson, A.; et al. "Quantitative analysis of the factors limiting solar power transduction by Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 in biological photovoltaic devices". Energy and Environmental Science 4 11 (2011): 4690-4698. https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2011/ee/c1ee02531g#!divAbstract.
    10.1039/c1ee02531g
  54. Cruz, S.; Goss, R.; Wilhelm, C.; Leegood, R.; Horton, P.; Jakob, T.. "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 (2011): 509-519. https://academic.oup.com/jxb/article/62/2/509/587943.
    10.1093/jxb/erq284
  55. Cruz, S.; Serôdio, J.. "Relationship of rapid light curves of variable fluorescence to photoacclimation and non-photochemical quenching in a benthic diatom". Aquatic Botany 88 3 (2008): 256-264. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0304377007001726.
    10.1016/j.aquabot.2007.11.001
  56. Serôdio, J.; Vieira, S.; Cruz, S.. "Photosynthetic activity, photoprotection and photoinhibition in intertidal microphytobenthos as studied in situ using variable chlorophyll fluorescence". Continental Shelf Research 28 10-11 (2008): 1363-1375. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-44449133209&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.csr.2008.03.019
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    10.1007/s11120-006-9105-5
  58. Serôdio, J.; Coelho, H.; Vieira, S.; Cruz, S.. "Microphytobenthos vertical migratory photoresponse as characterised by light-response curves of surface biomass". Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 68 3-4 (2006): 547-556. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0272771406000977.
    10.1016/j.ecss.2006.03.005
  59. Serôdio, J.; Vieira, S.; Cruz, S.; Barroso, F.. "Short-term variability in the photosynthetic activity of microphytobenthos as detected by measuring rapid light curves using variable fluorescence". Marine Biology 146 5 (2005): 903-914. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-17444419745&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
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    10.1016/j.jembe.2005.05.011
Poster em conferência
  1. São Miguel, Raquel; Sousa, Isabel; Johannes W. Goessling; Cruz, Sónia; Moreira, Anthony. Autor correspondente: Moreira, Anthony. "Obtaining and functionalizing three-dimensional hollow diatom frustules from cultivated biomass: A new technological platform for drug delivery applications". Trabalho apresentado em 15th European Diatom Meeting, 2024.
  2. Cardoso, Vera; Sarreira, Rita; Fernandes, Pedro; Moreira, Anthony; Cruz, Sónia; Martin Lopez-Garcia; Johannes W. Goessling. Autor correspondente: Johannes W. Goessling. "Control of Photonic Crystal Morphologies in a Diatom: Opportunities and Limitations". Trabalho apresentado em IV International Meeting of the Portuguese Society of Genetics, 2023.
  3. Paya, Carlos; Pereira, João; Morelli, Luca; Rey, Felisa; Cartaxana, Paulo; Cruz, Sónia. "Kleptoplast maintenance in Sacoglossan Sea slugs: Lipidomic approach". Trabalho apresentado em Encontro de Ciência 2023, 2023.
  4. Morelli, Luca; Martins, Patrícia; Paya, CE; Cassin, Elena; Cartaxana, P; Cruz, Sónia. Autor correspondente: Morelli, Luca. "Functional algal chloroplasts in animal cells: the story of stolen functionalities". Trabalho apresentado em Meeting of Plant Molecular Biology (RBMP), 2022.
  5. Marques, R.; Moreira, Anthony; Cruz, Sónia; Cartaxana, P. "The underexplored potential of green macroalgae aquaculture – the case of Codium tomentosum". Trabalho apresentado em One Health Day – Emerging Diseases, 2020.
  6. Rey, Felisa; da Costa, Elisabete ; Cartaxana, Paulo; Maciel, Elisabete; Lopes, Diana; Domingue, Pedro; Cruz, Sónia; Calado, Ricardo; Domingues, Rosário. "Codium tomentosum: a functional food from the sea". Trabalho apresentado em 16th Euro Fed Lipid Congress and Expo 2018, Belfast, UK, 2018.
  7. Rey, Felisa; da Costa, Elisabete ; Cartaxana, Paulo; Maciel, Elisabete; Domingues, Rosário; Calado, Ricardo; Cruz, Sónia. "Gas phase fragmentation confirms plastidial glycolipids in photosynthetic animals". Trabalho apresentado em 9th Meeting of the Analytical Chemistry Division, Porto, Portugal 26-27 March 2018, 2018.
Pré-impressão
  1. Felisa Rey; Luca Morelli; Paulo Cartaxana; Tania Melo; Pedro Domingues; Rosário Domingues; Sonia Cruz. "Preservation and remodelling of chloroplast lipids in photosynthetic sea slug host cells". 2025. https://doi.org/10.64898/2025.12.18.695117.
    10.64898/2025.12.18.695117
  2. Vesa Havurinne; Heta Mattila; Carolina Esteves; Paulo Cartaxana; Sónia Cruz. "Provision of phosphates by the host supports kleptoplast functionality in photosynthetic sea slugs". 2025. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.10.30.685612.
    10.1101/2025.10.30.685612
  3. Heta Mattila; Vesa Havurinne; Paulo Cartaxana; Sónia Cruz. "Siphonous green macroalgae with contrasting capacities for the energy-dependent quenching, qE, rely on different photoprotective mechanisms". 2025. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.08.23.671893.
    10.1101/2025.08.23.671893
  4. Vesa Havurinne; Axelle Rivoallan; Heta Mattila; Esa Tyystjärvi; Paulo Cartaxana; Sónia Cruz. "Evolution and theft: loss of state transitions in Bryopsidales macroalgae and photosynthetic sea slugs". 2024. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.11.617842.
    10.1101/2024.10.11.617842
  5. Luca Morelli; Vesa Havurinne; Diana Madeira; Patrícia Martins; Paulo Cartaxana; Sónia Cruz. "Photoprotective mechanisms inElysiaspecies hostingAcetabulariachloroplasts shed light on host-donor compatibility in photosynthetic sea slugs". 2024. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.02.578635.
    10.1101/2024.02.02.578635
Resumo em conferência
  1. Cardoso, Vera; Pedro Fernandes; Sarreira, Rita; Moreira, Anthony; Cruz, Sónia; Martin Lopez-Garcia; Johannes W. Goessling. Autor correspondente: Johannes W. Goessling. "Sexual reproduction limits the use of clonal lines to control phenotypic variation of Coscinodiscus granii frustule morphologies for photonic applications". Trabalho apresentado em European Diatom Meeting, Lake Ohrid, 2024.
    Aceite para publicação
  2. Anthony Moreira; Raquel S. Miguel; Isabel Sousa; Cruz, Sónia; Johannes W. Goessling. Autor correspondente: Anthony Moreira. "Nanoplanktonic diatom frustules as microencapsulation devices for drug delivery applications in aquaculture". Trabalho apresentado em European Diatom Meeting, Lake Ohrid, 2024.
    Aceite para publicação
  3. G. Dionísio; S. Cruz; J. Serôdio; R. Calado; R. Rosa. "Ocean acidification promotes cellular burst on photosynthetic (kleptoplastic) sea slugs". 2015.
    10.1017/s143192761401383x
Atividades

Apresentação oral de trabalho

Título da apresentação Nome do evento
Anfitrião (Local do evento)
2020/11/20 Contrasting lipidomic response under starvation conditions of two sympatric sacoglossan sea slug species Lipid in the Ocean, 2nd edition
(Aveiro, Portugal)
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
2022/01/01 - Atual Lipidomic characterization and benefits of kleptoplasty in the Sacoglossa sea slugs Elysia crispata and Elysia viridis
Orientador de Carlos Enrique Paya
 Doctoral Program in Biochemistry (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2020/10 - 2025/07/23 Mucus of the sea slug Elysia crispata: contribution of kleptoplasts photosynthesis, biochemical characterization and applications
Coorientador de Diana Domingues Lopes
 Bioquímica (Doutoramento) (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal
2022/09 - 2023/12 The role of lipids in chloroplasts maintenance inside animal cells
Coorientador de João Duarte Pereira
 Master in Applied Marine Biology (Mestrado)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2021/10 - 2023/12 Photophysiology of potential chloroplast macroalgal donors to the sea slug Elysia viridis and its kleptoplasts
Orientador de Ana Margarida Marques Fernandes
 Master in Applied Biology (Mestrado)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2019 - 2023 La luz en la ecología poblacional y conductual de Elysia crispata (Mollusca: Sacoglossa): preferencia en diferentes espectros e intensidades.
Coorientador de Xochitl Guadalupe Vital Arriaga
 Ciencias Biológicas (Doutoramento)
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México
2017 - 2021/02 Ecological impacts of biological mortality and environmental factors on hypersaline microbial mats
Orientador de Dr. Cátia Carreira
 Fellow researcher (Outra)
Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal
2018 - 2019 Photoacclimation and photoprotection strategies in siphonous green algae of the order Bryopsidales (Codium tomentosum and Bryopsis plumosa)
Orientador 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
 Fellow Researcher (Outra)
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
2024/05/06 Thesis title: Multiscale study of the host control on its symbiotic microalgae
Arguente
 Andrea CATACORA GRUNDY (Doutoramento)
Université Grenoble Alpes, França
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
2021/04 - Atual Member of the Executive Board
Membro
 BlueBio Alliance, Portugal
2019/04 - 2023/02 Member of the Department of Biology Council
Membro
 Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Biologia, Portugal
2017/09 - 2020/05 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