Research Projects
TOLERANCE – Unravelling common environmental stress tolerance mechanisms in marine echinoderms and fish
2024-2027
Funded by: FDCT - Macao Science and Technology Development Fund and NSFC - National Natural Science Foundation of China
Principal Investigators: David Gonçalves and Libin Zhang
Ongoing
BIOM - The role of the brain-gut microbiota interaction in the regulation of fish behaviour
2024-2027
Funded by: FDCT - Macao Science and Technology Development Fund
Principal Investigator: David Gonçalves
Ongoing
SenSing - Acoustic communication in changing sensory environments: testing adaptive responses with the vocal fish model Danionella translucida
2021-2024
Funded by: FDCT - Macao Science and Technology Development Fund
Principal Investigator: Raquel Vasconcelos
Team member: David Gonçalves
Ongoing
FISHMUC - Bioactive properties of external mucus isolated from coastal fish of Macao and Portugal
2020-2024
Funded by: FDCT - Macao Science and Technology Development Fund and FCT - Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology
Concluded
Comparative study on the functions and mechanisms of action of pheromones in marine echinoderms and fishes in a changing ocean
2020-2024
Funded by: FDCT - Macao Science and Technology Development Fund and NSFC - National Natural Science Foundation of China
Principal Investigators: David Gonçalves and Libin Zhang
Concluded
PlastiFish - Methods, effects and risk analysis of microplastics in fish production
2020-2024
Funded by: FDCT - Macao Science and Technology Development Fund and FCT - Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology
Principal Investigators: David Gonçalves and Sara Cardoso
Concluded
FISHSTRESS - Causes and consequences of the stress response in fish: environmental factors and transgenerational adaptation
2020-2023
Funded by: FDCT - Macao Science and Technology Development Fund
Principal Investigator: David Gonçalves
Concluded
FIGHT - Hormonal, pheromonal and genomic regulation of aggression in a fish model
2017-2020
Funded by: FDCT - Macao Science and Technology Development Fund
Principal Investigator: David Gonçalves
Concluded
DISRUPT - Environmental Endocrine Disruptors: Current Situation in Macao, Neurobehavioral Effects and Bioremediation Strategies
2014-2017
Funded by: FDCT - Macao Science and Technology Development Fund
Principal Investigator: David Gonçalves
Concluded
Behavioral plasticity meets neuroplasticity: brain neurogenesis in the polymorphic fish Salaria pavo
2012-2015
Funded by: FDCT - Macao Science and Technology Development Fund
Principal Investigator: David Gonçalves
Concluded
Neuroendocrine mechanisms of reproductive polyphenisms in the blenny Salaria pavo
2008-2012
Funded by: FCT - Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology
Principal Investigator: David Gonçalves
Concluded
Alternative reproductive tactics in teleost fish: the peacock blenny (Salaria pavo) as a study model
2008-2011
Funded by: FCT - Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology
Principal Investigator: Rui Oliveira
Team member: David Gonçalves
Concluded