Centro de Estudos de Arquitectura e Urbanismo

Giulia Secci graduated with a Biology degree in 2014 and obtained her Master's degree in Marine Biology in 2016, both from the University of Cagliari. In 2018, she was awarded a PhD mixed grant from FCT to carry out her research at CIIMAR (Porto, Portugal) and Karl-Franzens University (Graz, Austria). Her PhD focuses on various aspects of the genetics of the Salmonidae subfamily Thymallinae, requiring the development of both laboratory and bioinformatics skills. The laboratory skills required include the ability to perform and optimize various DNA/RNA extraction procedures, PCR and real-time PCR, and preparation of libraries for NGS. Additionally, data analysis and bioinformatics procedures are necessary, including the analysis of raw data from low-coverage genome sequencing, ddRAD and Sanger sequencing, as well as phylogenetic analyses such as Maximum Likelihood and Bayesian methods, and time calibration analyses. She has also conducted phylogeographic and population structure analyses to recover the evolutionary history of the studied species. Ultimately, she has produced both genomic and transcriptomic resources extremely useful in the study of salmonid species. Over the last six years, she has published ten ISI-indexed publications.

Identificação

Grau: Doutoramento
Categoria: Membro Integrado
Ano de Integração: 2025
Nomes de Citação: Secci, Giulia

Giulia Secci-Petretto
Ciência ID: AC1E-65BC-F6C8
Ciência Vitae ID: AC1E-65BC-F6C8
Orcid ID: 0000-0002-9450-8993
Domínios de Atuação: Ciências Naturais - Ciências Biológicas - Biologia Molecular

Ciências Naturais - Ciências Biológicas - Biologia da Evolução das Espécies

Ciências Naturais - Ciências Biológicas - Biologia de Água Doce

Ciências Exatas - Ciências da Computação e da Informação - Bioinformática
Grupos de Investigação: Morfologias e Dinâmicas do Território (100%)
Dedicação (Investigação): 100%

Formação

2018 09 15 –
2022 09 15

Em curso

Biologia

Doutoramento

"Genetic diversity within Thymallus: from species delimitation to whole genome sequencing"

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

2021 01 25 –
2021 01 29

Concluído

Introduction To Python

Outros

Freie Universität Berlin, Alemanha

2020 05 04 –
2020 05 08

Concluído

Molecular Bioinformatics

Outros

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal

2020 01 22 –
2020 01 22

Concluído

RadCamp 2020 - The Lisbon Edition

Outros

Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Ecologia Evolução e Alterações Ambientais, Portugal

2019 01 28 –
2019 02 01

Concluído

Practical Course in Phylogenetics

Outros

Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Ecologia Evolução e Alterações Ambientais, Portugal

Marine bio-ecology

Laurea Specialistica

"Study of the moray eel Muraena helena (Linnaeus, 1758)(Anguilliformes, Muraenidae) by molecular cytogenetics"

20/20

Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Itália

Biology

Laurea

"Population dynamics of the species Abra alba (Wood, 1802) (Mollusca, Bivalvia) in Santa Gilla's lagoon"

17/20

Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Itália

Percurso Profissional

Ciência

2018 10 15 –
2023 10 21

Investigador

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal ; Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal ; Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Áustria

Outros

2019 10 01 –
2019 10 31

Internship

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Áustria

2017 09 19 –
2018 09 19

Volunteer traineeship at CIIMAR's Aquatic Ecology and Evolution laboratory

Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental

2017 04 18 –
2017 08 31

Volunteer traineeship as biologist with the research team "Coastal Ecosystem and Biodiversity". The tasks included: sampling sea urchin larvae by SCUBA diving for positioning and recovery of the traps

IMC-International Marine Center

2016 05 02 –
2016 08 31

Volunteer traineeship as aquarist

Oceanario de Lisboa

Produções

Artigo em revista

Report on the occurrence of the hydromedusa Odessia maeotica (Ostroumoff, 1896) in the north-eastern Atlantic revealed by citizen science and integrative taxonomy

Aquatic Ecology

Pires, Rita F. T.; Froufe, Elsa; Secci-Petretto, Giulia; dos Santos, Antonina; Rita F. T. Pires; Elsa Froufe; Giulia Secci-Petretto; Antonina dos Santos

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10452-023-10071-5

issn: 1386-2588
issn: 1573-5125
doi: 10.1007/s10452-023-10071-5

First Confirmed Record of the Smalltooth Sand Tiger, Odontapis Ferox, in Galicia (NW Spain)

Thalassas: An International Journal of Marine Sciences, 39, 1: 413-417

Mucientes, Gonzalo; Vilas-Arrondo, Nair; Secci-Petretto, Giulia; Vázquez, Uxía; Pin, Xabier; López, Alfredo; Castro, L. Filipe C.; Froufe, Elsa

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41208-023-00526-9

issn: 0212-5919
issn: 2366-1674
doi: 10.1007/s41208-023-00526-9

Evaluating a species phylogeny using ddRAD SNPs: Cyto-nuclear discordance and introgression in the salmonid genus Thymallus (Salmonidae)

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 178: 107654

Secci-Petretto, Giulia; Englmaier, Gernot K.; Weiss, Steven J.; Antonov, Alexander; Persat, Henri; Denys, Gael P.J.; Schenekar, Tamara; et al

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2022.107654

issn: 1055-7903
doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2022.107654

Global systematic diversity, range distributions, conservation and taxonomic assessments of graylings (Teleostei: Salmonidae; Thymallus spp.)

Organisms Diversity & Evolution

Steven J. Weiss; Duarte V. Gonçalves; Giulia Secci-Petretto; Gernot K. Englmaier; André Gomes-Dos-Santos; Gael P. J. Denys; Henri Persat; et al

https://doi.org/10.1007/s13127-020-00468-7

doi: 10.1007/s13127-020-00468-7

The complete mitochondrial genome of Thymallus thymallus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Actinopterygii, Salmonidae) obtained by long range PCRs and double multiplexing

, 44, 2: 091-094

Giulia Secci-Petretto; Denys G.P.J.; André Gomes-Dos-Santos

https://doi.org/10.26028/cybium/2020-442-001

doi: https://doi.org/10.26028/cybium/2020-442-001

Comparative genetic analysis of grayling (Thymallus spp. Salmonidae) across the paleohydrologically dynamic river drainages of the Altai-Sayan mountain region

Hydrobiologia, 847, 13: 2823-2844

Weiss, Steven; Grimm, Jacqueline; Gonçalves, Duarte V.; Secci-Petretto, Giulia; Englmaier, Gernot K.; Baimukanov, Mirgaliy; Froufe, Elsa

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10750-020-04273-3

issn: 0018-8158
issn: 1573-5117
doi: 10.1007/s10750-020-04273-3

Mesozoic mitogenome rearrangements and freshwater mussel (Bivalvia: Unionoidea) macroevolution

Froufe, Elsa; Bolotov, Ivan N.; Aldridge, David C.; Bogan, Arthur E.; Breton, Sophie; Gan, Han Ming; Kovitvadhi, Uthaiwan; et al

http://hdl.handle.net/10198/20115

handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10198/20115
doi: 10.1038/s41437-019-0242-y
issn: 0018-067X

Convergent inactivation of the skin-specific C-C motif chemokine ligand 27 in mammalian evolution

Immunogenetics, 71, 5-6: 363-372

Lopes-Marques, Mónica; Alves, Luís Q.; Fonseca, Miguel M.; Secci-Petretto, Giulia; Machado, André M.; Ruivo, Raquel; Castro, L. Filipe C.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00251-019-01114-z

issn: 0093-7711
issn: 1432-1211
doi: 10.1007/s00251-019-01114-z

Atividades

Apresentação oral de trabalho

Insight into the grayling’s world: nuclear perspective based on ddRAD-seq

Blue Think Conference

CIIMAR

Assessing genetic diversity within Thymallus trough genomic approaches

Blue Think Conference

CIIMAR

Mitogenome Phylogeny of Thymallus (graylings) - Species delineation

ECI XVI EUROPEAN CONGRESS OF ICHTHYOLOGY