Doutor em Ciencias Marcos Yoshinaga

Marcos Yukio Yoshinaga
(Last update: 06/18/2008)

EDUCATION
•B.Sc. degree on Biological Sciences at the Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil (2001)
•PhD in Biological Oceanography at the Oceanographic Institute of the University of São Paulo (IOUSP), Brazil (2002-2007)

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Link the microbial ecology to organic chemistry on problems in the marine environment, with emphasis on the role of microbial communities mediating the cycles of carbon and nitrogen in the water column and sediments.

CURRENT RESEARCH
Employing a combination of molecular and stable carbon isotopic information from environmental carbon pools (e.g. total organic carbon, volatile fatty acids, intact membrane lipids) my current research is aimed at investigate the microbial carbon cycling in shallow subsurface sediments.

FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS

•São Paulo State Research Foundation (FAPESP) Master Scholarship (2002-2004).
•National Research Council (CNPq, Brazil) PhD Scholarship (July 2004-December 2004).
•FAPESP PhD Scholarship (December 2004-present).
•UDEC (Universidad de Concepción)/IOC-UNESCO grant to participate on the course “Cycling of organic matter in the ocean”, October 2004.
•European Association of Organic Geochemistry – EAOG Student Travel Award 2005. “Characterization of lipid biomarkers as a tool to understand an unusual upwelling area off the SE Brazilian coast” to work with Dr. Stuart Wakeham.
•FAPESP special grant to visit the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 2006.
•CAPES (Foundation for the coordination of higher education and graduate training, Brazil) scholarship to visit the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory (University of Maryland) in 2006 to develop the project: “Characterization of bacterioplankton through lipid and genetic analysis, using extinction cultures and in situ incubations”.
•UDEC (Universidad de Concepción)/IOC-UNESCO grant to participate on the course ASI VII - Methane Biogeochemistry and Geophysics, January 2007.
•Agouron Institute and Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education (C-MORE) to participate in the 2007 summer course “Microbial Oceanography: From Genomes to Biomes”, June to August 2007.
•CONICYT (National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research - Chile) Post Doc Fellowship (October 2007).
•Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Post Doc Fellowship 2008.


RESEARCH VISITING
•Skidaway Institute of Oceanography – Laboratory of Biogeochemistry – hosted by Dr. Stuart G. Wakeham (March-June and October-December, 2005).
•Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution – Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry – hosted by Dr. Christopher Reddy (June, 2005).
•Chesapeake Biological Laboratory – University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science – hosted by Dr. Marcelino Suzuki and Dr. Rodger Harvey (October, 2005 and July-October, 2006).
•Scripps Institution of Oceanography – Geosciences Research Group – hosted by Dr. Lihini Aluwihare (February – May, 2006).

RESEARCH SURVEYS
•Oceanographic cruise on board R/V Prof. W. Besnard (May 2001);
•Oceanographic cruise on board R/V Prof. W. Besnard (February 2002);
•Oceanographic cruise on board R/V Prof. W. Besnard (September 2002);
•Oceanographic cruise on board R/V Prof. W. Besnard (February 2003);
•Oceanographic cruise on board R/V Prof. W. Besnard (February 2005);
•Oceanographic cruise on board R/V Knorr (May 2006);
•Oceanographic cruise on board R/V Kilo Moana (July 2007);
•Oceanographic cruise on board R/V Meteor (September to December 2007);
•~20 coastal surveys in the coastal zone (from NE to SE Brazilian coast).

Peer-reviewed papers

•Sumida, P.Y.G.; YOSHINAGA, M.Y.; Madureira, L.A.S. & Hovland, M. 2004. Seabed pockmarks associated with deep-water corals off SE Brazilian continental slope, Santos Basin. Marine Geology 207: 159-167.
•Sumida, P.Y.G.; YOSHINAGA, M.Y.; Ciotti, A.M. & Gaeta, S.A. 2005. Benthic response to upwelling events off the SE Brazilian coast. Marine Ecology Progress Series 291: 35-42.
•YOSHINAGA, M.Y.; Quintana, C.O. & Sumida, P.Y.G. 2006. Sedimentary chlorophyll-a and microbial biomass as indicators of benthic process in coastal and shelf areas of the SE Brazilian coast (Ubatuba, SP). Journal of Coastal Research SI 39: 1098-1101.
•YOSHINAGA, M.Y.; Sumida, P.Y.G. & Wakeham, S.G. 2008. Lipid biomarkers in surface sediments of an unusual coastal upwelling area from the SW Atlantic Ocean. Organic Geochemistry 39: 1385-1399.
•Dyda, R.Y.; Suzuki, M.T.; YOSHINAGA, M.Y. & Harvey, H.R. 2008. The response of in-situ microbial communities to diverse organic matter sources in the Arctic Ocean. Deep-sea research II 56: 1249-1263.
•YOSHINAGA, M.Y. ; Sumida, P.Y.G. ; Silveira, I.C.A. ; Ciotti, Á.M. ; Gaeta, S.A. ; Pacheco, L.F.C.M. ; Koettker, A.G. 2010. Vertical distribution of benthic invertebrate larvae during an upwelling event along a transect off the tropical Brazilian continental margin. Journal of Marine Systems79: 124-133.