André Guimarães Lemos Antunes

Possui doutorado em Bioquímica pela Universidade de Coimbra(2006). Atualmente é Senior Lecturer da Edge Hill University. Tem experiência na área de Microbiologia, com ênfase em Biologia e Fisiologia dos Microorganismos.

Informações coletadas do Lattes em 13/07/2025

Acadêmico

Formação acadêmica

Doutorado em Bioquímica

2001 - 2006

Universidade de Coimbra
Título: Microbiology of the Northern brine-filled pools of the Red Sea
Orientador: Robert Huber; Milton Simões da Costa
Bolsista do(a): .

Idiomas

Bandeira representando o idioma Inglês

Compreende Bem, Fala Bem, Lê Bem, Escreve Bem.

Bandeira representando o idioma Português

Compreende Bem, Fala Bem, Lê Bem, Escreve Bem.

Bandeira representando o idioma Alemão

Compreende Bem, Fala Bem, Lê Razoavelmente, Escreve Razoavelmente.

Áreas de atuação

Grande área: Ciências Biológicas / Área: Microbiologia / Subárea: Biologia e Fisiologia dos Microorganismos.

Grande área: Ciências Biológicas / Área: Microbiologia / Subárea: Biologia e Fisiologia dos Microorganismos/Especialidade: Bacterologia.

Grande área: Ciências Biológicas / Área: Bioquímica / Subárea: Bioquímica dos Microorganismos.

Grande área: Ciências Biológicas / Área: Genética / Subárea: Genética Molecular e de Microorganismos.

Grande área: Ciências Exatas e da Terra / Área: Oceanografia / Subárea: Oceanografia Biológica.

Grande área: Ciências Biológicas / Área: Biotecnologia / Subárea: Biotecnologia Ambiental e Recursos Naturais/Especialidade: Biodiversidade.

Produções bibliográficas

  • ALZUBAIDY, HANIN ; ESSACK, MAGBUBAH ; MALAS, TAREQ B. ; BOKHARI, AMEERAH ; MOTWALLI, OLAA ; KAMANU, FREDERICK KINYUA ; JAMHOR, SUHAIZA AHMAD ; MOKHTAR, NOOR AZLIN ; ANTUNES, ANDRÉ ; SIMÕES, MARTA FILIPA ; ALAM, INTIKHAB ; BOUGOUFFA, SALIM ; LAFI, FERAS F. ; BAJIC, VLADIMIR B. ; ARCHER, JOHN A.C. . Rhizosphere microbiome metagenomics of gray mangroves (Avicennia marina) in the Red Sea. Gene (Amsterdam) , v. 576, p. 626-636, 2016.

  • ANTUNES, ANDRÉ ; STACKEBRANDT, ERKO ; LIMA, NELSON . Fueling the Bio-economy: European Culture Collections and Microbiology Education and Training. Trends in Microbiology (Regular Ed.) , v. 24, p. 77-79, 2016.

  • SALHI, ADIL ; ESSACK, MAGBUBAH ; RADOVANOVIC, ALEKSANDAR ; MARCHAND, BENOIT ; BOUGOUFFA, SALIM ; ANTUNES, ANDRE ; SIMOES, MARTA FILIPA ; LAFI, FERAS F. ; MOTWALLI, OLAA A. ; BOKHARI, AMEERAH ; MALAS, TARIQ ; AMOUDI, SOHA AL ; OTHUM, GHOFRAN ; ALLAM, INTIKHAB ; MINETA, KATSUHIKO ; GAO, XIN ; HOEHNDORF, ROBERT ; C. ARCHER, JOHN A. ; GOJOBORI, TAKASHI ; BAJIC, VLADIMIR B. . DESM: portal for microbial knowledge exploration systems. Nucleic Acids Research , v. 44, p. D624-D633, 2016.

  • GUAN, YUE ; HIKMAWAN, TYAS ; ANTUNES, ANDRÉ ; NGUGI, DAVID ; STINGL, ULRICH . Diversity of methanogens and sulfate-reducing bacteria in the interfaces of five deep-sea anoxic brines of the Red Sea. Research in Microbiology (Paris) , v. 166, p. 688-699, 2015.

  • SIMÕES, MARTA FILIPA ; ANTUNES, ANDRÉ ; OTTONI, CRISTIANE A. ; AMINI, MOHAMMAD SHOAIB ; ALAM, INTIKHAB ; ALZUBAIDY, HANIN ; MOKHTAR, NOOR-AZLIN ; ARCHER, JOHN A.C. ; BAJIC, VLADIMIR B. . Soil and Rhizosphere Associated Fungi in Grey Mangroves (Avicennia marina) from the Red Sea - A Metagenomic Approach. Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics , v. 13, p. 310, 2015.

  • ANTUNES, ANDRÉ ; ALAM, INTIKHAB ; SIMÕES, MARTA FILIPA ; DANIELS, CAMILLE ; FERREIRA, ARI J.S. ; SIAM, RANIA ; EL-DORRY, HAMZA ; BAJIC, VLADIMIR B. . First Insights into the Viral Communities of the Deep-sea Anoxic Brines of the Red Sea. Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics , v. 13, p. 304-309, 2015.

  • OLIVER, P. GRAHAM ; VESTHEIM, HEGE ; ANTUNES, ANDRÉ ; KAARTVEDT, STEIN . Systematics, functional morphology and distribution of a bivalve (Apachecorbula muriatica gen. et sp. nov.) from the rim of the `Valdivia Deep? brine pool in the Red Sea. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom (Print) , v. 95, p. 523-535, 2015.

  • KAMANDA NGUGI, DAVID ; BLOM, JOCHEN ; ALAM, INTIKHAB ; RASHID, MAMOON ; BA-ALAWI, WAIL ; ZHANG, GUISHAN ; HIKMAWAN, TYAS ; GUAN, YUE ; ANTUNES, ANDRE ; SIAM, RANIA ; EL DORRY, HAMZA ; BAJIC, VLADIMIR ; STINGL, ULRICH . Comparative genomics reveals adaptations of a halotolerant thaumarchaeon in the interfaces of brine pools in the Red Sea. The ISME Journal (Print) , v. 9, p. 396-411, 2014.

  • WERNER, JOHANNES ; FERRER, MANUEL ; MICHEL, GURVAN ; MANN, ALEXANDER J. ; HUANG, SIXING ; JUAREZ, SILVIA ; CIORDIA, SERGIO ; ALBAR, JUAN P. ; ALCAIDE, MARÍA ; LA CONO, VIOLETTA ; YAKIMOV, MICHAIL M. ; ANTUNES, ANDRÉ ; TABORDA, MARCO ; DA COSTA, MILTON S. ; HAI, TRAN ; GLÖCKNER, FRANK OLIVER ; GOLYSHINA, OLGA V. ; GOLYSHIN, PETER N. ; TEELING, HANNO . proteogenomics and glycosidase activity measurements identify the first cultivated euryarchaeon from a deep-sea anoxic brine lake as potential polysaccharide degrader. Environmental Microbiology (Print) , v. 16, p. 2525-2537, 2014.

  • ANTUNES, ANDRÉ ; PIESSENS, VEERLE ; LIMA, NELSON . Offer, demand, and needs in training and education: a study focusing on microbial culture collections within the MIRRI Consortium. New Biotechnology (Print) , v. 31, p. S155, 2014.

  • FERREIRA, ARI J. S. ; SIAM, RANIA ; SETUBAL, JOÃO C. ; MOUSTAFA, AHMED ; SAYED, AHMED ; CHAMBERGO, FELIPE S. ; DAWE, ADAM S. ; GHAZY, MOHAMED A. ; SHARAF, HAZEM ; OUF, AMGED ; ALAM, INTIKHAB ; ABDEL-HALEEM, ALYAA M. ; LEHVASLAIHO, HEIKKI ; RAMADAN, EMAN ; ANTUNES, ANDRÉ ; STINGL, ULRICH ; ARCHER, JOHN A. C. ; JANKOVIC, BORIS R. ; SOGIN, MITCHELL ; BAJIC, VLADIMIR B. ; EL-DORRY, HAMZA . Core Microbial Functional Activities in Ocean Environments Revealed by Global Metagenomic Profiling Analyses. Plos One , v. 9, p. e97338, 2014.

  • ALAM, INTIKHAB ; ANTUNES, ANDRÉ ; KAMAU, ALLAN ANTHONY ; BA ALAWI, WAIL ; KALKATAWI, MANAL ; STINGL, ULRICH ; BAJIC, VLADIMIR B. . INDIGO - INtegrated Data Warehouse of MIcrobial GenOmes with Examples from the Red Sea Extremophiles. Plos One , v. 8, p. e82210, 2013.

  • HOLERT, J. ; ALAM, I. ; LARSEN, M. ; ANTUNES, A. ; BAJIC, V. B. ; STINGL, U. ; PHILIPP, B. . Genome Sequence of Pseudomonas sp. Strain Chol1, a Model Organism for the Degradation of Bile Salts and Other Steroid Compounds. Genome Announcements , v. 1, p. e00014-12-e00014-12, 2013.

  • SAGAR, SUNIL ; ESAU, LUKE ; HIKMAWAN, TYAS ; ANTUNES, ANDRE ; HOLTERMANN, KARIE ; STINGL, ULRICH ; BAJIC, VLADIMIR B ; KAUR, MANDEEP . Cytotoxic and apoptotic evaluations of marine bacteria isolated from brine-seawater interface of the Red Sea. BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine (Online) , v. 13, p. 29, 2013.

  • STINGL, ULI ; NGUGI, DAVID KAMANDA ; THOMPSON, LUKE ; ANTUNES, ANDRE ; CAHILL, MATTHEW . Mikrobielle Ökologie des Roten Meeres. BIOspektrum , v. 18, p. 582-584, 2012.

  • SIAM, RANIA ; MUSTAFA, GHADA A. ; SHARAF, HAZEM ; MOUSTAFA, AHMED ; RAMADAN, ADHAM R. ; ANTUNES, ANDRE ; BAJIC, VLADIMIR B. ; STINGL, ULI ; MARSIS, NARDINE G. R. ; COOLEN, MARCO J. L. ; SOGIN, MITCHELL ; FERREIRA, ARI J. S. ; DORRY, HAMZA EL . Unique Prokaryotic Consortia in Geochemically Distinct Sediments from Red Sea Atlantis II and Discovery Deep Brine Pools. Plos One , v. 7, p. e42872, 2012.

  • NGUGI, DAVID KAMANDA ; ANTUNES, ANDRÉ ; BRUNE, ANDREAS ; STINGL, ULRICH . Biogeography of pelagic bacterioplankton across an antagonistic temperature-salinity gradient in the Red Sea. Molecular Ecology (Print) , v. 21, p. 388-405, 2012.

  • ANTUNES, A. ; ALAM, I. ; BAJIC, V. B. ; STINGL, U. . Genome Sequence of Salinisphaera shabanensis, a Gammaproteobacterium from the Harsh, Variable Environment of the Brine-Seawater Interface of the Shaban Deep in the Red Sea. Journal of Bacteriology (Print) , v. 193, p. 4555-4556, 2011.

  • ANTUNES, A. ; ALAM, I. ; BAJIC, V. B. ; STINGL, U. . Genome Sequence of Halorhabdus tiamatea, the First Archaeon Isolated from a Deep-Sea Anoxic Brine Lake. Journal of Bacteriology (Print) , v. 193, p. 4553-4554, 2011.

  • ANTUNES, A. ; ALAM, I. ; EL DORRY, H. ; SIAM, R. ; ROBERTSON, A. ; BAJIC, V. B. ; STINGL, U. . Genome Sequence of Haloplasma contractile, an Unusual Contractile Bacterium from a Deep-Sea Anoxic Brine Lake. Journal of Bacteriology (Print) , v. 193, p. 4551-4552, 2011.

  • ANTUNES, ANDRÉ ; NGUGI, DAVID KAMANDA ; STINGL, ULRICH . Microbiology of the Red Sea (and other) deep-sea anoxic brine lakes. Environmental Microbiology Reports , v. 3, p. 416-433, 2011.

  • TABORDA, MARCO ; ANTUNES, ANDRÉ ; TIAGO, IGOR ; VERÍSSIMO, ANTÓNIO ; NOBRE, M. FERNANDA ; DA COSTA, MILTON S. . Description of Idiomarina insulisalsae sp. nov., isolated from the soil of a sea salt evaporation pond, proposal to transfer the species of the genus Pseudidiomarina to the genus Idiomarina and emended description of the genus Idiomarina. Systematic and Applied Microbiology (Print) , v. 32, p. 371-378, 2009.

  • ANTUNES, A. ; RAINEY, F. A. ; WANNER, G. ; TABORDA, M. ; PATZOLD, J. ; NOBRE, M. F. ; DA COSTA, M. S. ; HUBER, R. . A New Lineage of Halophilic, Wall-Less, Contractile Bacteria from a Brine-Filled Deep of the Red Sea. Journal of Bacteriology (Print) , v. 190, p. 3580-3587, 2008.

  • ANTUNES, A. ; TABORDA, M. ; HUBER, R. ; MOISSL, C. ; NOBRE, M. F. ; DA COSTA, M. S. . Halorhabdus tiamatea sp. nov., a non-pigmented, extremely halophilic archaeon from a deep-sea, hypersaline anoxic basin of the Red Sea, and emended description of the genus Halorhabdus. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology (Print) , v. 58, p. 215-220, 2008.

  • ANTUNES, A. ; FRANCA, L. ; RAINEY, F. A. ; HUBER, R. ; NOBRE, M. F. ; EDWARDS, K. J. ; DA COSTA, M. S. . Marinobacter salsuginis sp. nov., isolated from the brine-seawater interface of the Shaban Deep, Red Sea. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology (Print) , v. 57, p. 1035-1040, 2007.

  • DA, COSTA MILTON S ; RAINEY, FRED A ; SANTOS, HELENA ; ANTUNES, ANDRÉ ; SCHUMANN, PETER ; NOBRE, M FERNANDA ; RAMOS, ANA ; FERREIRA, ANA MARGARIDA . Leuconostoc ficulneum sp. nov., a novel lactic acid bacterium isolated from a ripe fig, and reclassification of Lactobacillus fructosus as Leuconostoc fructosum comb. nov.. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology (Print) , v. 52, p. 647-655, 2002.

Histórico profissional

Endereço profissional

  • Edge Hill University, Edge Hill University. , St. Helens Road, -, 39204 - Ormskirk, - Grã-Bretanha, Telefone: (0044) 169558414

Experiência profissional

2016 - Atual

Edge Hill University

Vínculo: Servidor Público, Enquadramento Funcional: Senior Lecturer