Current supervisions

PhD degree

Giovanna Nascimento D’aquino Destri (2023 – present)

Instituto Oceanográfico, Universidade de São Paulo

– Climate change in Brazilian coral reefs: past, present and future

Gabriela Cristina Mitsuhashi (2023 – present)

Instituto Oceanográfico, Universidade de São Paulo

– The global decline in coral cover and the role of oceanographic, environmental and biological traits on resilience

Master's degree

Luna Mayura da Fonseca Bauer (2023 – present)

Instituto Oceanográfico, Universidade de São Paulo

– Symbiodiniaceae functional diversity

Giulia Buzzacaro Braz (2023 – present)

Instituto Oceanográfico, Universidade de São Paulo

– Sclerochronology to understand the bleaching past in Brazil

Beatriz Martins Corazza (2021 – present)

Instituto Oceanográfico, Universidade de São Paulo

– Bleaching across the South Atlantic in 2021-22

Camila Aya Tanaka Kato (2020 – present)

Instituto Oceanográfico, Universidade de São Paulo

– Parameters for quality assessment of marine ornamental fish egg masses: development of a diagnostic tool for aquaculture

*Co-supervision with Prof. June Dias

Undergraduate

Mariana Ferreira Acipreste (2023 – present)

Instituto Oceanográfico, Universidade de São Paulo

– The history of bleaching and thermal stress at Raja Ampat

Anna Beatriz Dias Oliveira Berrettini (2023 – present)

Instituto Oceanográfico, Universidade de São Paulo

– The diversity of reef organisms at the Royal Charlotte Bank

Júlia Romero Neves (2023 – present)

Instituto Oceanográfico, Universidade de São Paulo

– The storing of photosynthetic product in different organs of giant clams

Luiza Peres de Campos (2021 – present)

Instituto Oceanográfico, Universidade de São Paulo

– The effects of multiple stressors on the photosynthetic efficiency of South Atlantic, Caribbean and Indo-Pacific corals

Arthur Loures Choucair Rodrigues de Oliveira (2021 – present)

Instituto Oceanográfico, Universidade de São Paulo

– The impacts of climate change on the larva-Symbiodiniaceae association

Past supervisions

Master's degree

Thomás Nei Soto Banha (2016-2018)

Instituto Oceanográfico, Universidade de São Paulo

– The effect of multiple bleaching events on the symbiosis between different Symbiodiniaceae clades and the Upside Down Jellyfish, Cassiopea andromeda

*Co-supervision with Prof. Paulo Sumida

Arthur de Albuquerque Tenório (2014-2016)

Instituto Oceanográfico, Universidade de São Paulo

– Shifts between autotrophy and heterotrophy in the reef-building coral Mussismilia hispida: an approach using fatty acid trophic markers

*Co-supervision with Prof. Paulo Sumida

Undergraduate

Kelly Tartas Olaia (2021 – 2022)

Instituto Oceanográfico, Universidade de São Paulo

– The marine aquarium trade’s long road towards sustainability

Giulia Buzzacaro Braz (2021 – 2022)

Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Faculdade Presbiteriana Mackenzie

– The 2019 bleaching episode promoted erosion in a major South Atlantic reef builder

Giovana Aparecida Camargo Damiati (2021 – 2021)

Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho

– Recent turbidity regimens in Southwestern Atlantic coral reefs

Renata Karina Marconi Marcançoli (2020 – 2020)

Instituto Coral Vivo

– The 2019-2020 bleaching episode at the southern Bahia coast

Alana Paranhos da Silva (2019 – 2020)

Instituto Oceanográfico, Universidade de São Paulo

– Trophic response of the reef-building coral Mussismilia harttii to the combination of thermal stress and inorganic pollution

*Co-supervision with Prof. Márcia Bícego

Marcelo de Castro Querido (2019 – 2020)

Instituto Oceanográfico, Universidade de São Paulo

– Response to thermal stress in the acoel-zoochlorella association

Diego Okuma (2017 – 2018)

Instituto Oceanográfico, Universidade de São Paulo

– The reproductive biology of the genus Meiacanthus (Teleostei: Blenniidae)

*Co-supervision with Prof. June Dias

Lucas Lopes Gonçalves (2017 – 2017)

Instituto Oceanográfico, Universidade de São Paulo

– The impact of wild zooplankton on the metamorphosis rate of the ornamental dottyback Pseudochromis sankeyi 

Estela de Almeida Monteiro (2014 – 2017)

Instituto Oceanográfico, Universidade de São Paulo

– The sea slug Berghia stephanieae : the symbiosis with zooxanthellae and practical aspects for aquaculture

Gabriela Cristina Mitsuhashi (2014 – 2015)

Instituto Oceanográfico, Universidade de São Paulo

– Differences in the intron/exon structure of the H+/-ATPase in different Symbiodinium clades

*Co-supervision with Prof. Paulo Sumida