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Gareth A. Pearson
PhD 1990, University of Leeds, UK
InvestigadorAuxiliar, CCMAR, CIMAR - Laboratório Associado (2003 - )

Centro de Ciencias do Mar
Faculdade de Ciencias do Mar e Ambiente (F.C.M.A.)
Universidade do Algarve
Campus de Gambelas
P-8005-139 Faro, Portugal
E-mail: gpearson@ualg.pt

Tel : (351) 289 800 928
Fax: (351) 289 818 353

Attaching settlement substrates under Fucus, Viana (photo by E Serrao)

Main Research Area:

  • The role of abiotic stress and natural selection in driving population divergence in broadly-distributed marine plants and algae.
  • Development of selective markers using genome-wide screens to identify stress-responsive genes, for use in studies of population-specific variation in gene expression.
  • Comparative plastid transcriptomics of fucoid species in response to physical conditions in the intertidal zone.
  • Reproductive ecology and reproductive success of interidal fucoid algae, mating system evolution

Previous positions:

1997 - 2003 Postdoctoral Fellow at Centro de Ciências do Mar, Universidade do Algarve, Portugal.
1994 - 1996 Research Associate, University of Maine, Orono, USA
1991 - 1994 Research Assistant, University of Maine, Orono, USA.

Current projects:

  • Adaptive Population Divergence, and Comparative Population Structure in the Brown Algal Genus Fucus (ADAPT). FCT (POCI/MAR/61105/2004). Feb 2006 – Jan 2009 (coordinator)
  • Neutral and Non-Neutral Genes: Population Diversity and Stability (DIVSTAB). FCT (POCI/MAR/60179/2004) Feb 2006-Jan 2009. (partner)
  • Ecology and evolution of mating systems in fucoid algae (MATING). FCT (POCI/MAR/57499/2004) -Jan 2006-Dec 2008 (partner)
  • The molecular basis for differential stress-tolerance in sympatric, ecologically similar algal species (STRESSREG). FCT (POCTI / BSE / 48317 / 2002). Apr2004-Mar2007. (coordinator)
  • Chloroplast gene expression in intertidal macroalgae” (CHLORGEN). FCT (POCTI / 38863 / BSE / 2001) Sept 2002-Aug 2005 (coordinator)
  • Signals for gamete release by intertidal species with external fertilization” (GAMETE). FCT (POCTI / 39431 / BSE / 2001) Mar 2002-Feb 2005 (partner)
  • Algal introductions to European shores (ALIENS). EU (EVK3-CT2001-00062). Jan 2002-Dec 2005 (partner)
  • Local adaptation and population genetic structure in intertidal algae (GENFUCUS). FCT (POCTI/BSE/35045/99). Dec 2001-Nov 2004. (partner)
  • The Portuguese coast as a biogeographic boundary: consequences for reproductive success, local adaptation and genetic structure of populations living at their distributional limits (BIOPORT). FCT (PDCTM / P / MAR / 5292 / 1999). Feb 2001-Jan 2004. (partner).

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