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Mónica J.B. Amorim

Principal Researcher (Research Career) with habilitation

Author Name : Amorim, M.J.B.

Researcher ID: G-8590-2011
ORCID: 0000-0001-8137-3295
Ciencia ID: E611-B553-6F0C
Department: Biology
Research Group: Stress Biology (SB)
ISI Web of KnowledgeSM search factor: AU=(Amorim MJB or Amorim MJ or Amorim MJD) AND AD=(Aveiro or Coimbra);

Research interests

Principal:
Ecotoxicology: Several years were devoted to the development of an active research programme in ecotoxicology, mostly terrestrial, in field and laboratory, addressing a series of both fundamental and pre-normative research questions. In the area of soil ecotoxicology research activities include the development of the avoidance behaviour test, genomic tools and use of multi-species tests; refinement of existing protocols and development of new bioassays to assess soil contamination. Additionally, has developed and implemented in E. albidus a behavioural test - avoidance test - having shown its high ecological relevance.

Specialization:
Ecotoxicogenomics: Extensive progresses have taken place since 2006, such as the development and the enrichment of a new microarray [1], developed for the first time for an Enchytraeid (E. albidus)[2], and is now an Agilent custom platform. At present E. crypticus was subject of a massive parallel sequencing (454-pyrosequencing) and a high gradient Nimblegen microarray is validated. [2] http://bioinformatics.ua.pt/enchybase/
Nanotoxicology: Collaborating with both national and international experts in the area. Developments in soil nanotoxicology, which are far less studied than in water media, present particular challenges. Investigation is progressing (3 publications 2011) and rapidly moving.

Other skills/activities:
Standardisation of new guidelines, and joining ring tests that precede it, such as the Bioacumulation in Oligochaetes, Collembolan Reproduction test (addition of a new test species) or the Evaluation of a biotest battery for the ecotoxicological characterisation of waste and waste eluates. Promoted and optimized the development of novel avoidance behaviour tests for Enchytraeids, having initially produced 3 papers that kicked research in this topic with other species.

[1] A microarray is a multichannel lab chip. It is a solid matrix (usually a glass slide or a thin silicone celular film) that tests high amounts of biological material in high-throughput. Also called a gene chip.

Academic degrees

2019: Habilitation in Biology, University of Aveiro (May 2019)
2000-2004: PhD in Biology, University of Aveiro, Portugal, (November 2004).
1997-2000: Master in Ecology, University of Coimbra, Portugal, (November 2000).
1993-1997: Degree in Biology, scientific branch, University of Coimbra, Portugal, (September 1997).

Scientific activities

2019-Present: Principal Researcher at the Department of Biology (dbio) and Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM)
2017-2018: Principal Researcher (Financed by FCT Program IF) at CESAM (Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies), Department of Biology, University of Aveiro, Portugal.
2006-2016: Assistant Researcher at CESAM (Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies), Department of Biology, University of Aveiro, Portugal.
2005-2006: Assistant Invited Professor (50%), Department of Biology, University of Aveiro, Portugal.
2004-2006: Post-Doctoral fellow at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, (supervisor: Prof. Wim De Coen), developing the project "Molecular Tools for Avoidance Behaviour Assessment in Terrestrial Toxicology".

Experience:
- Project scientific leader and managing;
- Daily supervision of PhD students;
- Organization of meetings, courses, workshops and seminars;

Please visit the Enchytraeid library database at: http://bioinformatics.ua.pt/enchybase/

Others

Positions, Advisory boards & evaluation panels:

President of SETAC Europe 2014-2015. http://globe.setac.org/2014/ju.....ident.html

Vice-president of SETAC (Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry) Europe in May 2013 (Annual SETAC meeting in Glasgow, UK).

Elected member of the SETAC (Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry) Council in May 2012 during the Annual SETAC meeting in Berlin, May. The mandate is for 3 years.

Elected member of the SETAC (Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry) Council in May 2009 during the Annual SETAC meeting in Goteborg, May. The mandate is for 3 years.
Member of the following committees within the SETAC Council: Education, Awards, Science.

Chair of the Global Soil Advisory Group (GSAG) of SETAC (2009-2013).

Editorial positions:
Guest Editor in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, special issue “Environmental Fate and Effect of Nanoparticles and Nanomaterials”. (Open access, 5-Year Impact Factor: 2.197 (2012)). http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph/special_issues

Editorial board of the on-line journal CAPTAR ciência e ambiente para todos: associated editor

Publications

McLaughlin, M.J., Lofts, S., Warne, M.St.J., Amorim, M.J.B., Fairbrother, A., Lanno, R., Hendershot, W., Schlekat, C.E., Ma, Y., Paton, G.I. (2010) Derivation of ecologically-based soil standards for trace elements. In: Soil Quality Standards for Trace Elements: Derivation, Implementation, and Interpretation. . Taylor & Francis. . 9781439830239. See more

Novais, S.C., Soares, A.M.V.M., Amorim, M.J.B. (2010) Enchytraeus albidus (Oligochaeta) exposed to several toxicants: Effects on survival, reproduction and avoidance behaviour. In: Biological responses to chemical contaminants: from molecular to community level. Interdisciplinary studies on environmental Chemistry. (EDS.), Tokyo. Terrapub. 3 . 978-4-88704-152-3. See more

Amorim, M.J.B., Kuperman, R., Römbke, J. (2009) Enchytraeid reproduction tests. . In: Ecotoxicological characterisation of wastes: Results and experiences of an international ring test. Springer Publ. . . 978-0-387-88958-0. See more

Amorim, M.J., Römbke, J., Soares, A.M.V.M. (2002) Testes de evitamento em enquitraídeos (Enchytraeus albidus): estudo do efeito de Benomyl, Carbendazim e vários tipos de solo. . In: Ecotoxicologia e Remoção de Poluentes. Estudos na Península Ibérica. Lisboa. Instituto Piaget. . ISBN 972-771-620-2. See more

Castro-Ferreira M.P. (em curso) Molecular tools to assess environmental stress in soil organisms. PhD Thesis. . See more

Patrício Silva, A. L. (2015) Impact of natural and/or chemical stressors on the freeze-tolerant and euryhaline enchytraeid, Enchytraeus albidus. PhD Thesis. . See more

Gomes S.I.L. (2013) Effect assessment of nanoparticles toxicity in the terrestrial compartment. PhD Thesis. . See more

Menezes-Oliveira V.B. (2013) SOIL FUNCTION AND BIODIVERSITY – REGIONAL VARIATIONS AND CLIMATE CHANGES. PhD Thesis. . See more

Gomes S.I.L. (2013) Effect assessment of nanoparticles toxicity in the terrestrial compartment. PhD Thesis. . See more

Novais S.C. (2011) From genes to population: effects of toxicants on Enchytraeus albidus. PhD Thesis. . See more

André Amorim M.J.B. (2004) Effects of various soil properties on ecotoxicological testing. PhD Thesis. . See more

Amorim, M.J.B. (2000) Chronic and Toxicokinetic Behaviour of Lindane (g-HCH) in the Enchytraeid Enchytraeus albidus. MSc Thesis. . See more

Projects

BEAUTY: Big gEnome wide Applications for an ecotoxicology soil model – a knowledge base to Unravel mechanisms (nanopesTY_cides) See more

NanoinformaTIX - Development and Implementation of a Sustainable Modelling Platform for NanoInformatics See more

NANORIGO - Establishing a Nanotechnology Risk Governance Framework See more

UNRAvEL – Understanding the Mechanisms of Toxicity of NanomateRials – EnvironmentaL impact Assessment See more

BIORIMA - BIOmaterial RIsk MAnagement See more

NM-OREO: using a NM-(bio)molecule cOrona approach to undeRstand the mEchanisms of tOxicity - a systems biology environment impact study See more

Bio-CHIP - Using a nano titanium library to assess effects on a gene library of Enchytraeus crypticus: building a cheap bio-CHIP See more

SUN- SUstainable Nanotecnologies See more

Bias-to-soil - Biomass ash: Characteristics in relation to its origin, treatment and application to soil. See more

NANOkA - NANO Particles: standardization of methods for environmental risk Assessment See more

CLIMAFUN-CLImate Changes and Potencial Impact on Soil FUNctional Ecology See more

FUBIA: Soil Function-Biodiversity relationship And regional variation See more

Implementation of a Nacional Facility for DNA Microarrays: Phase II. See more

CAPTAR-Science and Environment for All See more

DisrupTox - Edaphic Endocrine Disruption Assessment Tool Box See more

AGROMIX- Mixture Toxicity evaluation in agricultural soils See more

Scientific Supervision

Project grant (Main Supervisor): Beatriz Casal de Sousa (CESAM member)

PhD (Main Supervisor): Sekerani Benedito Chidiamassamba (CESAM member)

Master (Main Supervisor): Eva Lima Castro Oliveira (ex-CESAM member)

Master (Main Supervisor): Clara Howcroft Ferreira (not a CESAM member)

Master (Main Supervisor): Susana Isabel Lopes Gomes (CESAM member)

Master (Main Supervisor): Cecília Pereira (not a CESAM member)

Master (Main Supervisor): Pedro Daniel Lopes Carmo (ex-CESAM member)

Master (Main Supervisor): Fátima Santos (not a CESAM member)

Master (Main Supervisor): Micael Gonçalves (not a CESAM member)

Master (Co-supervisor): Vanessa Bezerra de Menezes Oliveira (ex-CESAM member)

project researcher (Main Supervisor): Bruno Miguel Machado Guimarães (CESAM member)

Voluntariado (Main Supervisor): Ana Beatriz Neves (not a CESAM member)

pesquisa (Main Supervisor): Cláudia Peixoto (not a CESAM member)

Projeto de licenciatura (Main Supervisor): Susana Isabel Lopes Gomes (CESAM member)

Projeto de Licenciatura (Main Supervisor): Nuno Miguel Araújo da Cunha (not a CESAM member)

Projeto de Licenciatura (Main Supervisor): Eva Margarida Fernandes Garcia (not a CESAM member)

Projeto de Licenciatura (Main Supervisor): Cecília Manuela Silva Pereira (not a CESAM member)

Researcher (Main Supervisor): Rita Carina Saraiva Silva Bicho Alves (CESAM member)

Estágio Profissionalizante (Main Supervisor): Cecília Manuela Silva Pereira (not a CESAM member)

Projeto de Licenciatura (Main Supervisor): Pedro Alexandre Lima Cardoso Leal (not a CESAM member)

Projeto de Licenciatura (Main Supervisor): Anabela Cristovão Tavares (ex-CESAM member)

Projeto de Licenciatura (Main Supervisor): Clara Howcroft Ferreira (not a CESAM member)

Projeto de Licenciatura (Main Supervisor): Carmén Elias (not a CESAM member)

bolseiro de investigação (Main Supervisor): Joana Machado (not a CESAM member)

Pesquisa (Main Supervisor): Joana Margarida Santos Costa (not a CESAM member)

Pesquisa (Main Supervisor): David Amado Branco Paulo Ferreira (not a CESAM member)

Pesquisa (Main Supervisor): Ana Beatriz Pires das Neves (not a CESAM member)

project fellow (Main Supervisor): Luis André Lima da Gama Mendes (not a CESAM member)

Pesquisa (Main Supervisor): Tânia da Silva Ribeiro (not a CESAM member)

projeto (Main Supervisor): Marina Sofia Cruz Garcia (not a CESAM member)

Estágio (Main Supervisor): Cláudia Sofia Moreira Peixoto (not a CESAM member)

Pesquisa (Main Supervisor): Cláudia Sofia Moreira Peixoto (not a CESAM member)

Pesquisa (Main Supervisor): Catarina Pinho Pereira (not a CESAM member)

projeto (Main Supervisor): Rita Carina Saraiva Silva Bicho Alves (CESAM member)

Pesquisa (Main Supervisor): Micael Gonçalves (not a CESAM member)

Pesquisa (Main Supervisor): Fátima Santos (not a CESAM member)

ERASMUS (Main Supervisor): Jana Vasickova (not a CESAM member)

FCT project (Main Supervisor): (not a CESAM member)

Voluntariado (Main Supervisor): Ana Rita Santos (not a CESAM member)

Projeto de Licenciatura (Co-supervisor): Carlos Pinheiro (not a CESAM member)

Projeto de Licenciatura (Co-supervisor): Sara Calçada Novais (ex-CESAM member)

Projeto de Licenciatura (Co-supervisor): Jailson Lima (not a CESAM member)

PhD (Main Supervisor): Maria João Xavier Ribeiro (ex-CESAM member)

PhD (Main Supervisor): Fatima da Conceição Ferreira dos Santos (CESAM member)

PhD (Main Supervisor): Luís André Lima da Gama Mendes (ex-CESAM member)

PhD (Main Supervisor): Bruno Miguel Machado Guimarães (CESAM member)

PhD (Main Supervisor): Anna Ammendola (ex-CESAM member)

PhD (Main Supervisor): Sara Calçada Novais (ex-CESAM member)

PhD (Main Supervisor): Susana Isabel Lopes Gomes (CESAM member)

PhD (Main Supervisor): Ana Luísa Patrício Silva (CESAM member)

PhD (Main Supervisor): Fatima da Conceição Ferreira dos Santos (CESAM member)

PhD (Main Supervisor): Natália Pegoraro Rodrigues (ex-CESAM member)

PhD (Main Supervisor): Rita Carina Saraiva Silva Bicho Alves (CESAM member)

PhD (Co-supervisor): Vanessa Bezerra de Menezes Oliveira (ex-CESAM member)

PhD (Co-supervisor): Marta P. Castro-Ferreira (ex-CESAM member)

Post-doc (Main Supervisor): Ana Maria Ferreira Capitão (CESAM member)

Post-doc (Main Supervisor): Vera Lúcia de Almeida Maria (CESAM member)

Post-doc (Main Supervisor): Daniel Giesen (ex-CESAM member)

Post-doc (Main Supervisor): Joana Silveira Soares (ex-CESAM member)

Post-doc (Main Supervisor): Karine Lopes Marques (ex-CESAM member)

Post-doc (Main Supervisor): Paula da Silva Tourinho (ex-CESAM member)

Post-doc (Main Supervisor): Sara Calçada Novais (ex-CESAM member)

Post-doc (Main Supervisor): Susana Isabel Lopes Gomes (CESAM member)

Post-doc (Main Supervisor): Bruno Miguel Machado Guimarães (CESAM member)

Post-doc (Co-supervisor): Luís André Lima da Gama Mendes (ex-CESAM member)

Enchytraeids database

Please visit the Enchytraeid library database at: http://bioinformatics.ua.pt/enchybase/

HIGHLIGHT

Investigadora da Universidade de Aveiro eleita vice-presidente da SETAC Europa em 2013. Mónica Amorim, investigadora no Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar (CESAM) e no Departamento de Biologia (DBio) da Universidade de Aveiro, foi eleita vice-presidente da Society of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology (SETAC) para a Europa. Mónica Amorim tomará posse em Glasgow, durante o Congresso Anual da SETAC Europe, que decorre entre os dias 12 a 16 de maio de 2013.

Book chapter: Amorim, M.J.B., Kuperman, R., Römbke, J. (2009) Enchytraeid reproduction tests. In: Ecotoxicological characterisation of wastes: Results and experiences of an international ring test. Moser, H., Becker, R. Römbke, J. . (eds) Springer Publ. . (1). 400pp The ecotoxicological characterization of waste is part of their assessment as hazardous or non-hazardous according to the European Waste List. Despite its transfer into national law in the waste list ordinance 2001 no methodological recommendations have been provided to cover the hazard criterion (H14 "ecotoxicity") which was taken over from the legislation on dangerous substances. Based on the recommendations of CEN guideline 14735 (2005), an international ring test was organised by BAM, FH Giessen-Friedberg and ECT GmbH. The background, organisation, methods, results and recommendations are compiled in this book. An overview on the experiences made as well as a comparison of the ring test results with literature data published so far/ In total, 67 laboratories from 15 countries participated in the ring test. The legal background and its organisation is given. The tests were performed with three representative waste types: an ash from an incineration plant mainly contaminated with heavy metals, a soil containing high concentrations of organic contaminants (PAHs) and a preserved wood waste contaminated with copper and other heavy metals. Sample preparation (e.g. inter alia dried, sieved and homogenised including the preparation of eluates) and sample distribution as well as their chemical characterization are given along with information on the statistical evaluation of the data and results of reference tests performed with all test systems. More information: http://www.springer.com/enviro.....

NEWS

Soil Quality Standards for Trace Elements: Derivation, Implementation, and Interpretation

2019: HIGHLIGHTS: Mónica Amorim distinguished in the book “Women in Science”

(Jornal Online da UA, 8 Março 2019).

http://uaonline.ua.pt/pub/detail.asp?c=57487

I AM BIOLOGIST

"“I am fascinated by nature. Its forms and colours intrigue and encourage me to comprehend more and more about this fundament for human life. The study of the human impact in the environment through the genes is a journey in which I discover one of the key elements of this system, it is like an enlightening trail that enables me to seize the beginning of the story. It is by diving into the deepness of the environment that I try to protect this precious world", march 8th 2019, book release “Women in Science”, Knowledge Pavilion, Lisboa.

http://www.cienciaviva.pt/mulh.....asp?id=852

“The Ciência Viva pays tribute to the Portuguese female scientist, which represent 45 per cent of the total number of researchers in our country and whose notable work has been fundamental for the progress that took place in science and technology at the national level in the last decades” explains Rosalia Vargas, president of Ciência Viva.

http://www.cienciaviva.pt/mulh...../index.asp

Diário de Aveiro, Mónica Amorim preside à SETAC-Europa, (Edição de: Terça, Junho 10, 2014)

Mónica Amorim, investigadora no Departamento de Biologia (DBio) e no Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar (CESAM), da Universidade de Aveiro (UA), tomou posse, no passado dia 14 de Maio, como presidente da SETAC (Society of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology) para a Europa.

Esta investigadora é já a segunda cientista do DBio-UA a tomar posse como presidente desta sociedade, o que deixa claro o prestígio internacional do grupo de investigação em ecotoxicologia do DBio, coordenado por Amadeu Soares. Mónica Amorim é membro da SETAC desde 1998, e pertence à direcção europeia desde 2009.

http://www.diarioaveiro.pt/noticias/monica-amorim-preside-setac-europa

Soil Quality Standards for Trace Elements: Derivation, Implementation, and Interpretation
Editor(s): Graham Merrington, WCA Environment, Oxfordshire, UK; Ilse Schoeters, Rio Tinto Minerals, Gent, Belgium

This book includes a chapter with the authorship of the CESAM researcher Mónica Amorim:

Derivation of Ecologically Based Soil Standards for Trace Elements, M.J. McLaughlin, S. Lofts, M. St.J. Warne, M.J.B. Amorim, A. Fairbrother, R. Lanno, W. Hendershot, C.E. Schlekat, Y. Ma, and G.I. Paton

This chapter covers several issues:

Introduction
Soil Factors Affecting Effective Dose
Conceptual Model of the Soil-Organism System
Implications for Setting Soil Quality Standards
Models of TE Uptake and Toxicity to Soil Organisms
Mechanistic Models
Empirical Toxicity Models
Direct Measurement of TE
Consideration of Modifying Soil Factors in Soil Quality Standards
Effects of Spiking Soils with Soluble TE Salts on Soil Solution Chemistry and Toxicity Measurements
Minimizing Spiking-Induced Artifacts in the Laboratory
Correction Factors for Existing Toxicity Data
Recommended "Best Practice" TE Dosing in Laboratory Ecotoxicity Experiments
Biotic Factors Affecting Organism Response to TE Dose
Conclusions
References

2019: Investigadora do DBio e CESAM integra dois novos projetos europeus na área das nanotecnologias

(Jornal Online da UA e CESAM news).

http://uaonline.ua.pt/pub/detail.asp?lg=pt&c=56940

Researcher of CESAM joins two new European projects in the area of nanotechnologies

http://www.cesam.ua.pt/?menu=3965&language=eng&tabela=post

2018: Mónica Amorim galardoada como SETAC FELLOW 2018

(Jornal Online da UA).

http://uaonline.ua.pt/pub/detail.asp?c=56306&lg=pt

(CESAM NEWS)

http://www.cesam.ua.pt/index.php?menu=3762&tabela=post&language=eng

2018: Trabalho da UA sobre nanomateriais de dióxido de titânio na revista Nanoscale (Jornal Online da UA).http://uaonline.ua.pt/pub/detail.asp?lg=pt&c=56173

(CESAM NEWS) http://www.cesam.ua.pt/?menu=3684&language=eng&tabela=post

2017: Artigo publicado por investigadora da UA em revista de elevado impacto: Nanomateriais e Microplásticos no Ambiente - alerta sobre necessidade de novos métodos de avaliação (Jornal Online da UA). http://uaonline.ua.pt/detail.asp?c=51948

2017: Investigadora do DBio e CESAM integra projeto europeu em bio(nano)materiais

https://uaonline.ua.pt/pub/detail.asp?c=51069

2016: Investigadora da UA participou em reunião da European Chemicals Agency

http://uaonline.ua.pt/pub/detail.asp?c=46267&lg=pt

2016: Researcher of the month: Universidade de Aveiro.

http://www.ua.pt/research/page/21170

2015: Investigadora da Universidade de Aveiro presidente da SETAC Europa em 2015. SETAC: uma das Sociedades de Ecotoxicologia com maior expressão mundial. http://uaonline.ua.pt/pub/detail.asp?c=42768&lg=pt

2014: Diário de Aveiro, Mónica Amorim preside à SETAC-Europa, (Edição de: Terça, Junho 10, 2014). http://www.diarioaveiro.pt/noticias/monica-amorim-preside-setac-europa

2013: Investigadora do dbio e CESAM integra projeto europeu em nanotecnologias

http://uaonline.ua.pt/pub/detail.asp?c=35370

2013: Investigadora da Universidade de Aveiro eleita vice-presidente da SETAC Europa. https://uaonline.ua.pt/pub/detail.asp?c=33653

PROJECTS - previous

7) 2007/2008: Participação no Projecto "Evaluating Environmental Exposure of selected plants and terrestrial organisms to veterinary pharmaceuticals used as food additives in the poultry industry.", em colaboração com Alan Colodey, Environment Canada, PESC (Pacific Environmental Science Centre) e Jacqueline Sitwell, Heath Canada, NSACB (New Substances Assessment and Control Bureau) e HECSB (Healthy Environments and Consumer Safety Branch). Financiamento: $24,000 (CA$).

8) 2006 / 2007. Participação no teste de calibração interlaboratorial "Evaluation of a bio test battery for the ecotoxicological characterisation of waste and waste eluates by an interlaboratory test" organisado pela Dra. Heidrun Moser (German Federal Environmental Agency (UBA. Entidade financiadora: Federal Environmental Agency, Berlin (Umweltbundesamt, UBA).

9) 2006. Participação no projecto "Recursos hídricos da albufeira do Alqueva no âmbito da política europeia de desenvolvimento sustentável: uma abordagem interdisciplinar na avaliação da qualidade da água." Programa POCI 2010 - Medida VI.2 Mobilização Regional para o Desenvolvimento Científico, Tecnológico e Inovação; Acção VI 2.1 - Projectos Regionais Mobilizadores do desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico da Inovação.

10) 2005/2007. Complementary research Project proposal to the EU 6th FP Project NOMIRACLE
Referência do projecto: 010.6/A020/2005
Entidade Financiadora: Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
Duração: 36 meses (início a 1/01/2005)
Título do projecto (em inglês): "RISKOGENE - Risk assessment of combined effects of natural stressors and chemicals in soil and aquatic invertebrates - an ecotoxicogenomics approach"
Instituição Proponente: Universidade de Aveiro (UA), Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193Aveiro
Unidade de Investigação: Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar (CESAM/UA) Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193Aveiro

11) 2005 / 2007. Participação no teste de calibração interlaboratorial "Ring test of the Test Method - Bioaccumulation: Soil Test Using Terrestrial Oligochaetes" coordenado pelos Dr. Philipp Egeler, Dr. Thomas Moser e Dr. Jörg Römbke, da ECT Oekotoxikologie GmbH, Flörsheim, Alemanha. Entidade financiadora: Federal Environmental Agency, Berlin (Umweltbundesamt, UBA).

12) February 2005. Participação no teste de calibração interlaboratorial "Ring-Test in collembolans", coordenado pelos Dr. J Janeck J. Scott-Fordsmand e Dr. Paul Henning Krogh, na DMU, NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE, Silkeborg, Dinamarca. Participam 26 laboratórios (de 15 países). Este ring-test tem em vista a adição da espécie Folsomia fimetaria, ao protocolo OCDE existente para Colêmbolos, actualmente com a espécie partenogenética F. candida.

13) 01/Dezembro de 2000 - 30/Novembro de 2004. Participação no projecto: POCTI/MGS/34782/2000: Ecotoxicity and Ecological Risk Assessment of
Agrochemicals in Soils - ERAS. Entidade financiadora: Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia.

14) Novembro de 1997 - Outubro de 2000. Participação no projecto: "The use of terrestrial model ecosystems (TMEs) to assess environmental risks in ecosystems", na Universidade de Coimbra. Entidade financiadora: Comission of the European Comunities - Programa Ambiente, contrato nº ENV4-CT97-0470; Instituição Líder: ECT Oekotoxikologie GmbH; Outras instituições: Faculty of Biology, Free University of Amsterdam; Instituto do Ambiente e Vida, Univ. de Coimbra; School of Biological Sciences, University College of North Wales.

15) Outubro de 1996 - Setembro de 1997. Participação no projecto "Organization and Performance of an International Ring-Test for the Validation of the Enchytraeid Reproduction Test" na Universidade de Coimbra, coordenado pelo Dr. J. Römbke e Dr. Th. Moser, tendo realizado, em Portugal (Coimbra), a parte experimental da investigação: ensaios ecotoxicológicos agudos e crónicos em Enchytraeus albidus, face aos pesticidas Carbendazim e 4-Nitrophenol. Entidade financiadora: European Comission; Instituições participantes: Oekotoxikologie GmbH; Instituto do Ambiente e Vida, Universidade de Coimbra; outros 10 laboratórios Europeus.

16) Fevereiro de 1996 - Fevereiro de 1999. Participação no projecto "Ecotoxicidade e Biodisponibilidade de Agroquímicos em Sistemas Terrestres", na Universidade de Coimbra, coordenado pelo Prof. Dr. Amadeu Soares do Instituto Ambiente e Vida - Universidade de Coimbra, financiado pela JNICT. Entidade: JNICT - Programa Base de Investigação Científica e Tecnológica 1995, contracto nº PBIC/AGR/2305/95.

JUROR IN ACADEMIC EXAMS

PhD
2010:Invited to be main examinator of the PhD thesis of Miguel João Gonçalves dos Santos, intitulada "Avaliação ecotoxicológica de misturas de pesticidas", 10th March 2010, University of Aveiro, Portugal.
2009: Invited to be main examinator of the PhD thesis of Marco Filipe Loureiro Lemos, intituled "Disrupção endócrina no isópode terrestre Porcelio scaber", 17th June 2009, University of Aveiro, Portugal.
2006: Invited to be examinator of the PhD thesis of Sónia Alexandra Paiva dos Santos, intituled "Acção de predadores sobre a cochonilha-negra, Saissetia oleae (Oliv.) no olival transmontano", 25^th September 2007, Aveiro, Portugal.

Masters
2009: Invited to be main examinator of the MsC thesis of Luís Gabriel da Silva Luís, intituled "Efeitos agudos do naftaleno no camarão Palaemon serratus: mortalidade, resposta de biomarcadores e comportamento", Masters in Biology of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, 17^th December 2009.
2009: Invited to be main examinator of the MsC thesis of Rhaul de Oliveira, intitulada "O peixe-zebra como uma ferramenta para avaliação de ecotoxicidade", Masters in Toxicology of the Departament of Biology, Aveiro, Portugal, 24^th July 2009.
2009: Invited to be main examinator of the MsC thesis of Tullus Ullus Bergman Filho, intituled "O uso de biomarcadores em peixes de um estuário poluído, SP, Brasil", Masters in Toxicology of the Departament of Biology, Aveiro, Portugal, 24^th July 2009.
2006: Invited to be main examinator of the MsC thesis of Sónia Cristina de Jesus Chelinho Master, intituled "Selection of Mediterranean Reference Soils for Ecotoxicological Testing", 13^th July 2006, Coimbra, Portugal.

Presentations in congresses: INVITED ORAL

1. Amorim, M.J.B. (2018). ““Environmental hazards of nanomaterials: potential and challenges of integrating omics” INVITED SPEAKER. MISTRA Environmental Nanosafety, 13-15 November 2018, Gotenburg, Sweeden.

2. Amorim, M.J.B. (2018). ““Hazards of nanomaterials in the environment: towards a systems toxicology approach” INVITED SPEAKER. 8º CICTA (Congreso Iberoamericano de Contaminación y Toxicología Ambiental), 11-13 July 2018, Madrid, Spain.

3. Amorim, M.J.B. (2018). “Ecotoxicity of nanomaterials: lessons learned and future perspective”. INVITED SPEAKER. 2º Latin American Congress of Clinical and Laboratorial Toxicology, 4-6 June, 2018, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre/RS, Brazil.

4. Amorim, M.J.B. (2018). Toxicogenomics: from the tool to the knowledge and towards systems toxicology. INVITED SPEAKER. Stress Biology Seminars (The EcotoxicogenomicsLab), 4 April 2018, University of Aveiro, Department of Biology, Portugal.

5. Amorim, M.J.B. (2017). INVITED LECTURE. Aula da disciplina “Biologia do RNA”, (topic: transcriptomics), 8th November 2017, University of Aveiro, Portugal.

6. Amorim, M.J.B. (2017). Novel tools and advances of genomics to integrate risk assessment. INVITED SPEAKER. “CESAM research at a glance - Sustainable environmental CESAM research”, 4 July 2017, University of Aveiro, Portugal.

7. Amorim, M.J.B. (2017). Does long term low impact stress cause population extension? INVITED SPEAKER. SETAC Europe 27^th Annual Meeting, 7-11 May 2017, Brussels, Belgium.

8. Amorim, M.J.B. (2016). Effects assessement of engineered nanoparticles: current insight and the way foward. INVITED SPEAKER. II Workshop on Environmental Nanotechnology, 7-9 December, 2016, Auditorium of UNESP, Campus Sorocaba, Estado de S. Paulo, Brazil.

9. Amorim, M.J.B. (2016). Bioassays and tools for soil quality assessment. INVITED SPEAKER. Workshop “Contribuições do CESAM para o Uso Inteligente das Funções do Solo”, 10 May 2016, University of Aveiro, Portugal.

10. Amorim, M.J.B. (2015). Towards the understanding of systems, integrating high-throughput gene expression, cellular and organism effects – AOPs of nanomaterials in terrestrial invertebrates. INVITED SPEAKER. 3^rd Mini-Conference on Nanotoxicology: Systems Biology in Nanosafety Research, 9-10 November, 2015, Nobel Forum, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweeden.

11. Amorim, M.J.B. (2015) Aiming for a sustainable environment - challenges for novel (nano)materials via integration of high-throughput tools. INVITED SPEAKER. 10th Iberian and 7th Iberoamerican Congress on Environmental Contamination and Toxicology (CICTA 2015), 14-17 July 2015, Vila Real, Portugal.

12. Amorim, M.J.B. (2015) Aiming for a sustainable environment - integration of high-throughput tools to tackle challenges of novel (nano)materials. INVITED LECTURE. 16^th March, University of Masaryk, RECETOX, Brno, Czeck Republik.

13. Amorim, M.J.B. (2014) Toxicogenomics and Nanotoxicology. INVITED LECTURER at the post-graduation course: “Ecotoxicology and environmental risk assessment”, 6th May 2014, in Braga, Portugal.

14. Amorim, M.J.B. (2013)Challenges for effect assessment in animals: integration of (novel) tools. INVITED SPEAKER. nanoSESSS (SETAC Special Science Symposium), 2-3 October 2013, Brussels, Belgium.

15. Amorim, M.J.B. (2013) SOIL ECOTOXICOLOGY – From retrospective standard methods to prospective innovative tools – challenges for effect assessment and integration. INVITED SPEAKER. Bioassay 2013 - Bioindication in the Ecological Assessment of Soils and Related Habitats, 4-6 February 2013, Moscow, Russia.

16. Amorim, M.J.B. (2009). Ecotoxicologia e Biologia do Stress. INVITED SPEAKER. V dia de Biologia Marinha e Biotecnologia, 19 de Maio, Peniche, Portugal.

17. Amorim, M.J.B., Howcroft, C. F., Gravato, C., Guilhermino, L., De Coen, W., Römbke, J. & Soares, A.M.V.M. (2007) Use of different tools for effect assessment in Enchytraeus albidus (Oligochaeta): Newly developed microarray, stress biomarkers and traditional toxicity tests.INVITED SPEAKER. 28th Annual Meeting of SETAC North America, 11-15 November, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.A..

18. Amorim, M.J.B. (2007). Ecotoxicogenómica: A genómica como instrumento na avaliação de efeitos ecotoxicológicos. (INVITED SPEAKER) XI ENEB, 31 Março - 2 Abril, Aveiro, Portugal.

19. Amorim, M.J.B. (2004) Foi convidada a apresentar uma exposição oral sobre o tema “A problemática dos Resíduos no Ambiente” (INVITED SPEAKER) referente às VI Jornadas Ambientais, englobadas na IV Semana das Ciências Agrárias, realizada de 29 de Março a 2 de Abril de 2004, no Instituto Superior Politécnico de Bragança. Apresentação intitulada “Ecotoxicologia - Testes de avaliação de risco ambiental”.