Paco Cardenas
Curator at Music and Museums; Museum of Evolution; Zoology
- E-mail:
- paco.cardenas@em.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Villavägen 9
752 36 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Norbyvägen 16
752 36 Uppsala
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Visiting researcher at Department of Pharmaceutical Biosciences; Research; Pharmacognosy
- Visiting address:
- BMC, Husargatan 3
75124 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 591
75124 Uppsala
- ORCID:
- 0000-0003-4045-6718
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Short presentation
I am in charge of the zoology collections at the Museum of Evolution, including the Linnaean historical collection (animal specimens from Linnaeus' collection or time in Uppsala).
My expertise in taxonomy is in sponges (Porifera), especially in the order Tetractinellida, a worldwide group of Demospongiae, particularly present in the deep-sea.
List of new species and new taxa described by me and collaborators (source: Wikispecies).
Biography
- Undergraduate studies in Toulouse (France) and the University of Texas (Austin, TX).
- Masters at the 'Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle', Paris, France.
- PhD in Biology at the University of Bergen, Norway (2006-2010): PhD thesis dowloadable: http://hdl.handle.net/1956/4020
Post-doctoral research:
- Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France (2010-2011)
- Uppsala University, Dept. of Organismal Biology, Uppsala, Sweden (2011-2014)
- Uppsala University, Dept. of Medicinal Chemistry, Uppsala Sweden (2014-2015).
Researcher:
- Uppsala University, Dept. of Medicinal Chemistry, Uppsala Sweden (2015-2020).
- Uppsala University, Dept. of Pharmaceutical Biosciences, Uppsala Sweden (2020-now).
- Docent in Pharmacognosy (Dec. 2020).
Curator of zoology (from Oct. 2022)
Publications
Selection of publications
- Sources of C30 steroid biomarkers in Neoproterozoic-Cambrian rocks and oils (2020)
- First records of Geodia demosponges from the New England seamounts, an opportunity to test the use of DNA mini-barcodes on museum specimens (2019)
- Heck Diversification of Indole-Based Substrates under Aqueous Conditions (2019)
- Buchwald Hartwig diversification of unprotected halotryptophans, halotryptophan containing tripeptides and the natural product barettin in aqueous conditions (2019)
- Fueled by methane (2019)
- A new deep-water Tethya (Porifera, Tethyida, Tethyidae) from the Great Australian Bight and an updated Tethyida phylogeny (2019)
- From marine caves to the deep sea, a new look at Caminella (Demospongiae, Geodiidae) in the Atlanto-Mediterranean region (2018)
- Demosponge steroid biomarker 26-methylstigmastane provides evidence for Neoproterozoic animals (2018)
- Evolution of group I introns in Porifera (2017)
- Who Produces Ianthelline? The Arctic Sponge Stryphnus fortis or its Sponge Epibiont Hexadella dedritifera (2016)
- An unprecedented new genus and family of Tetractinellida (Porifera, Demospongiae) from New Zealand's Colville Ridge, with a new type of mitochondrial group I intron (2016)
- Demosponges from the Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge shed more light on the diversity and biogeography of North Atlantic deep-sea sponges (2015)
- Proposal for a revised classification of the Demospongiae (Porifera) (2015)
- Taxonomy, biogeography and DNA barcodes of Geodia species (Porifera, Demospongiae, Tetractinellida) in the Atlantic boreo-arctic region (2013)
- Sponge Systematics Facing New Challenges (2012)
Recent publications
- From caves to seamounts (2024)
- Screening for antibacterial and cytotoxic activities of Sri Lankan marine sponges through microfractionation (2024)
- Is the North Atlantic Geodia barretti (Porifera, Tetractinellida, Geodiidae) present on the Southwest Indian Ridge? (2023)
- Distribution and diversity of 'Tectomicrobia', a deep-branching uncultivated bacterial lineage harboring rich producers of bioactive metabolites (2023)
- Whole genome sequence of the deep-sea sponge Geodia barretti (Metazoa, Porifera, Demospongiae) (2023)
All publications
Articles
- From caves to seamounts (2024)
- Screening for antibacterial and cytotoxic activities of Sri Lankan marine sponges through microfractionation (2024)
- Is the North Atlantic Geodia barretti (Porifera, Tetractinellida, Geodiidae) present on the Southwest Indian Ridge? (2023)
- Distribution and diversity of 'Tectomicrobia', a deep-branching uncultivated bacterial lineage harboring rich producers of bioactive metabolites (2023)
- Whole genome sequence of the deep-sea sponge Geodia barretti (Metazoa, Porifera, Demospongiae) (2023)
- Long distance dispersal and oceanographic fronts shape the connectivity of the keystone sponge Phakellia ventilabrum in the deep northeast Atlantic (2023)
- Good Practices in Sponge Natural Product Studies (2022)
- Oogenesis and lipid metabolism in the deep-sea sponge Phakellia ventilabrum (Linnaeus, 1767) (2022)
- Aviles Canyon System (2022)
- Oceanographic setting influences the prokaryotic community and metabolome in deep-sea sponges (2022)
- Genetic diversity, gene flow and hybridization in fan-shaped sponges (Phakellia spp.) in the North-East Atlantic deep sea (2022)
- A community perspective on the concept of marine holobionts (2021)
- The effects of sampling and storage conditions on the metabolite profile of the marine sponge Geodia barretti (2021)
- Mitochondrial evolution in the Demospongiae (Porifera) (2021)
- Water masses constrain the distribution of deep-sea sponges in the North Atlantic Ocean and Nordic Seas (2021)
- Systematics of 'lithistid' tetractinellid demosponges from the Tropical Western Atlantic-implications for phylodiversity and bathymetric distribution (2021)
- Barrettides (2021)
- Rock sponges (lithistid Demospongiae) of the Northeast Atlantic seamounts, with description of ten new species (2020)
- Surface Microornamentation of Demosponge Sterraster Spicules, Phylogenetic and Paleontological Implications (2020)
- Poorly known sponges in the Mediterranean with the detection of some taxonomic inconsistencies (2020)
- A community assessment of the demersal fish and benthic invertebrates of the Rosemary Bank Seamount marine protected area (NE Atlantic) (2020)
- Reproductive Biology of Geodia Species (Porifera, Tetractinellida) From Boreo-Arctic North-Atlantic Deep-Sea Sponge Grounds (2020)
- The Molecular Machinery of Gametogenesis in Geodia Demosponges (Porifera) (2020)
- Sources of C30 steroid biomarkers in Neoproterozoic-Cambrian rocks and oils (2020)
- Revisions to the Classification, Nomenclature, and Diversity of Eukaryotes (2019)
- First records of Geodia demosponges from the New England seamounts, an opportunity to test the use of DNA mini-barcodes on museum specimens (2019)
- Molecular study supports the position of the New Zealand endemic genus Lamellomorpha in the family Vulcanellidae (Porifera, Demospongiae, Tetractinellida), with the description of three new species (2019)
- Integrating morphological and molecular taxonomy with the revised concept of Stelligeridae (Porifera (2019)
- Heck Diversification of Indole-Based Substrates under Aqueous Conditions (2019)
- Buchwald Hartwig diversification of unprotected halotryptophans, halotryptophan containing tripeptides and the natural product barettin in aqueous conditions (2019)
- Fueled by methane (2019)
- A new deep-water Tethya (Porifera, Tethyida, Tethyidae) from the Great Australian Bight and an updated Tethyida phylogeny (2019)
- From marine caves to the deep sea, a new look at Caminella (Demospongiae, Geodiidae) in the Atlanto-Mediterranean region (2018)
- Molecular and morphological data from Thoosidae in favour of the creation of a new suborder of Tetractinellida (2018)
- When is an aster not an aster? A new deep-sea Discorhabdella (Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida) with asters, from the Mozambique Channel (2018)
- Demosponge steroid biomarker 26-methylstigmastane provides evidence for Neoproterozoic animals (2018)
- Evolution of group I introns in Porifera (2017)
- Phylogenetic Reassessment of Antarctic Tetillidae (Demospongiae, Tetractinellida) Reveals New Genera and Genetic Similarity among Morphologically Distinct Species (2016)
- Who Produces Ianthelline? The Arctic Sponge Stryphnus fortis or its Sponge Epibiont Hexadella dedritifera (2016)
- A new Hymedesmia (Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida) with large sigmas off western Sweden (2016)
- An unprecedented new genus and family of Tetractinellida (Porifera, Demospongiae) from New Zealand's Colville Ridge, with a new type of mitochondrial group I intron (2016)
- A Crown-Group Demosponge from the Early Cambrian Sirius Passet Biota, North Greenland (2015)
- Demosponges from the Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge shed more light on the diversity and biogeography of North Atlantic deep-sea sponges (2015)
- Diversification and Correlated Trait Evolution in Astrophorid Sponges (Porifera: Demospongiae) (2015)
- Proposal for a revised classification of the Demospongiae (Porifera) (2015)
- Systematics and biodiversity of deep-sea sponges of the Atlanto-Mediterranean region (2015)
- Disrupted spiculogenesis in deep-water Geodiidae (Porifera, Demospongiae) growing in shallow waters (2013)
- Taxonomy, biogeography and DNA barcodes of Geodia species (Porifera, Demospongiae, Tetractinellida) in the Atlantic boreo-arctic region (2013)
- Reconstruction of Family-Level Phylogenetic Relationships within Demospongiae (Porifera) Using Nuclear Encoded Housekeeping Genes (2013)
- Phylogeny and Systematics of Demospongiae in Light of New Small-Subunit Ribosomal DNA (18S) Sequences (2013)
- New 18S rDNA Sequence Data Suggest Exciting New Hypotheses for Internal Relationships of Demospongiae (Phylum Porifera) (2013)
- Relationships between Host Phylogeny, Host Type and Bacterial Community Diversity in Cold-Water Coral Reef Sponges (2013)
- Sponge Systematics Facing New Challenges (2012)
- A review of Norwegian streptaster-bearing Astrophorida (Porifera: Demospongiae: Tetractinellida), new records and a new species (2012)
- Oogenesis and lipid metabolism in the deep-sea sponge Phakellia ventilabrum: a histological, lipidomic and transcriptomic approach
- Swedish marine demosponge fauna (Porifera: Demospongiae) sampled 80 years later
- Sea for yourself: evaluating the ddRADseq Stacks de novo pipeline with a reference genome in the deep-sea sponge Geodia barretti
- Aaptamines from Haliclona and bromopyrroles from Agelas — marine sponge alkaloids with distinct modes of action against bacteria and protozoa
Reports
