Tina Keller-Costa
PBA: Pacto da Bioeconomia Azul / Blue Bioeconomy Pact (C632741873-00467082)
European Union (NextGenerationEU) and PRR funded project. Role: Team Member. 1.51M EUR. https://inovamar.pt/en/blue-bioeconomy-pact
ChiCoBionts: Harnessing the catalyst power of host-microbe interactions: a quest for novel chitinases from octocoral symbionts (EXPL/BIA-MIC/0286/2021) Role: PI http://doi.org/10.54499/EXPL/BIA-MIC/0286/2021
SymbioReactor: Sustainable production of bioactive metabolites from microbial symbionts of marine sponges and corals.’ (FA_05_2017_032) Direção-Geral de Política do Mar (DGMP) – Fundo Azul-funded research project, area: Blue Biotechnology. Role: Co-PI. 178,000 EUR.
MicroMetaMobil: Harnessing the power of the metamobilome: using marine sponges as models to uncover novel biotechnological appliances from symbiotic communities. (PTDC/MARBIO/1547/2014) FCT-funded research project. Role: Team member. 200,000 EUR. https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.4681803
Illuminating the metabolism of foundational and elusive microbial symbionts in benthic ecosystems: a cultivation-independent quest for Hahellaceae (Gammaproteobacteria, Oceanospirillales) genomes. (EXPL/MAR-EST/1664/2013) FCT-funded research project. Role: Team member. 50,000 EUR. https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.3534734
da Silva, D.M.G., Pedrosa, F.R., Taipa, M.Â., Costa R. & Keller-Costa, T. (2023). Widespread occurrence of chitinase-encoding genes suggests the Endozoicomonadaceae family as a key player in chitin processing in the marine benthos. ISME Communications 3, 109. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43705-023-00316-7
Almeida, J.F., Marques, M., Oliveira, V., Egas, C., Mil-Homens, D., Viana, R., Cleary, D., Huang, Y.M., Fialho, A.M., Teixeira, M.C., Gomes, N.C.M., Costa, R. & Keller-Costa, T. (2023). Marine sponge and octocoral-associated bacteria show versatile secondary metabolite biosynthesis capacities and antimicrobial activities against human pathogens. Marine Drugs 21(1): 34. https://doi.org/10.3390/md21010034 Selected as “Editor’s Choice”.
Keller-Costa, T., Toscan, R., Kozma, L., Silva, S.G., Gonçalves, J., Lago-Lestón, A., Kyprides, N.C., Nunes da Rocha, U., & Costa, R. (2022). Metagenomics-resolved genomics provides insights into chitin turnover, metabolic specialization, and niche partitioning in the octocoral microbiome. Microbiome 10, 151. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-022-01343-7
Peixoto, R., Voolstra, C.V., Sweet, M., Duarte, C.M., Carvalho, S., Villela, H., Lunshof, J.E., Walter, J., Woodhams, D.C., Walke, J.B., Gram, L., Roik, A., Hentschel, U., Thurber, R.V., Daisley, B., Ushijima, B., Daffonchio, D., Costa, R., Keller-Costa, T., Bowman, J., Rosado, A.S., Reid, G., Mason, C., Thomas, T. and Berg, G. (2022). Harnessing the microbiome to prevent global biodiversity loss. Nature Microbiology 7, 1726-1735 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-022-01173-1
Keller-Costa, T., Lago-Lestón, A., Saraiva, J.P., Toscan, R., Silva, S.G., Gonçalves, J., Cox, C.J., Kyrpides, N., Nunes da Rocha, U. & Costa, R. (2021). Metagenomic insights into the taxonomy, function and dysbiosis of prokaryotic communities in octocorals. Microbiome 9, 72 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40168-021-01031-y
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