Marta Martins

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Email: 
marta.martins@fct.unl.pt
URI: 
MARE - NOVA
Role: 
Researcher
Qualifications: 
PhD
Research domain: 
Coastal Systems and Ocean
Research lines: 
Environmental Risk
Technological Tools for Exploration and Monitoring
ORCID ID: 
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3818-6256
Scopus Author ID: 
http://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=35603849900
Researcher ID: 
http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-5282-2015
ResearchGate: 
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marta_Martins6

Activity summary

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Risk Assessment. Research activity aims at disclosing the toxic interaction effects of mixtures of environmental contaminants (e.g. PAH, EDCs, micro and nanoplastics) on aquatic organisms, to improve the basis of ERA strategies and the environmental sustainability. Employs in vivo and in vitro bioassays with marine fish species and uses multiple-level approach, including ‘omics’ analysis, genotoxicity, cyto- and histopathology, immunoassays and GC-MS analysis.

Highlights

Project PAHMIX (Coordinator) - Mixtures of Environmental Carcinogens: a molecular approach to improve environmental risk assessment strategies. (PTDC/CTA-AMB/29173/2017) Advances on assessing nanotoxicity in marine fish – the pros and cons of combining an ex vivo approach and histopathological analysis in gills. Aquatic Toxicology (2020). 217: 105322.. Co-exposure to environmental carcinogens in vivo induces neoplasia-related hallmarks in low genotoxicity events, even after removal of insult. Scientific Reports (2018). 8: 3649 Risk Assessment of pesticides in estuaries: a review addressing the persistence of an old problem in complex environments. Ecotoxicology (2018). 27(7): 1008-1018 Effects of carcinogenic versus non-carcinogenic AHR-active PAHs and their mixtures: lessons from ecological relevance. Environmental Research (2015). 138: 101-111. Applying quantitative and semi-quantitative histopathology to address the interaction between sediment-bound polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in fish gills. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety (2016). 131:164-71.