# Miguel Mies

Miguel Mies is a Brazilian academic, oceanographer, and researcher. He is currently a professor at the Oceanographic Institute of the University of São Paulo (IO-USP) and leads the Coral Reefs and Climate Change Laboratory (LARC). He also serves as the research coordinator for the Coral Vivo Project and is the vice president of the Coral Vivo Institute.

## Early life and education

Mies was born in Brazil. He holds a BSc and a PhD in oceanography from the Oceanographic Institute of the University of São Paulo (IO-USP). His PhD dissertation focused on the impact of climate change on the molecular relationship between marine invertebrate larvae and their symbionts. It also provided the first demonstration of coral larvae susceptibility to bleaching.

## Career

Mies holds a professorship at IO-USP and leads the Coral Reefs and Climate Change Laboratory (LARC). He also serves as the Research Coordinator for the Coral Vivo Project and is the vice president of the Coral Vivo Institute. He was involved as the deputy coordinator for GT7 (Recifes) in response to the oil spill on the Brazilian coast.
During his career, Mies has served as a reviewer for more than 30 international scientific journals and was a member of the editorial board for Frontiers in Marine Science, focusing on coral reef research.

## Research

Mies researches subjects such as reef ecology, molecular biology, and genetics of zooxanthellae, larval development of reef organisms, trophic ecology of corals, and the effects of climate change on coral reefs. His research, focused mostly on field and experimental assessments of coral bleaching, spans both global and regional scales. His studies have contributed to the understanding of the unique responses of Brazilian coral reefs to climate change, compared to other reef ecosystems.

## Selected publications

* Mies, Miguel; Francini-Filho, Ronaldo B.; Zilberberg, Carla; Garrido, Amana G.; Longo, Guilherme O.; Laurentino, Eduarda; Güth, Arthur Z.; Sumida, Paulo Y. G.; Banha, Thomás N. S. (March 12, 2020). "South Atlantic Coral Reefs Are Major Global Warming Refugia and Less Susceptible to Bleaching". Frontiers in Marine Science. 7. doi:10.3389/fmars.2020.00514.
* Mies, M.; Güth, A. Z.; Tenório, A. A.; Banha, T. N. S.; Waters, L. G.; Polito, P. S.; Taniguchi, S.; Bícego, M. C.; Sumida, P. Y. G. (September 2018). "In situ shifts of predominance between autotrophic and heterotrophic feeding in the reef-building coral Mussismilia hispida: an approach using fatty acid trophic markers". Coral Reefs. 37 (3): 677–689. Bibcode:2018CorRe..37..677M. doi:10.1007/s00338-018-1692-z.
* Banha, T. N. S.; Capel, K. C. C.; Kitahara, M. V.; Francini-Filho, R. B.; Francini, C. L. B.; Sumida, P. Y. G.; Mies, M. (June 2020). "Low coral mortality during the most intense bleaching event ever recorded in subtropical Southwestern Atlantic reefs". Coral Reefs. 39 (3): 515–521. doi:10.1007/s00338-019-01856-y.
* Mies, M.; Dor, P.; Güth, A. Z.; Sumida, P. Y. G. (2 October 2017). "Production in Giant Clam Aquaculture: Trends and Challenges". Reviews in Fisheries Science & Aquaculture. 25 (4): 286–296. Bibcode:2017RvFSA..25..286M. doi:10.1080/23308249.2017.1285864.
* Mies, Miguel; Sumida, Paulo Y. G.; Rädecker, Nils; Voolstra, Christian R. (March 12, 2017). "Marine Invertebrate Larvae Associated with Symbiodinium: A Mutualism from the Start?". Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 5. doi:10.3389/fevo.2017.00056.
* Mies, M.; Voolstra, C. R.; Castro, C. B.; Pires, D. O.; Calderon, E. N.; Sumida, P. Y. G. (May 12, 2017). "Expression of a symbiosis-specific gene in Symbiodinium type A1 associated with coral, nudibranch and giant clam larvae". Royal Society Open Science. 4 (5): 170253. Bibcode:2017RSOS....470253M. doi:10.1098/rsos.170253. PMC 5451836. PMID 28573035.
* Mies, Miguel; Braga, Felipe; Scozzafave, Marcello Santos; Lemos, Daniel Eduardo Lavanholi de; Sumida, Paulo Yukio Gomes (June 2012). "Early development, survival and growth rates of the giant clam Tridacna crocea (Bivalvia: Tridacnidae)". Brazilian Journal of Oceanography. 60 (2): 127–133. doi:10.1590/S1679-87592012000200003.
* Mies, Miguel (December 2019). "Evolution, diversity, distribution and the endangered future of the giant clam–Symbiodiniaceae association". Coral Reefs. 38 (6): 1067–1084. Bibcode:2019CorRe..38.1067M. doi:10.1007/s00338-019-01857-x.
* Marangoni, Laura Fernandes de Barros; Mies, Miguel; Güth, Arthur Z.; Banha, Thomás N. S.; Inague, Alex; Fonseca, Juliana da Silva; Dalmolin, Camila; Faria, Samuel Coelho; Ferrier-Pagès, Christine; Bianchini, Adalto (October 12, 2019). "Peroxynitrite Generation and Increased Heterotrophic Capacity Are Linked to the Disruption of the Coral–Dinoflagellate Symbiosis in a Scleractinian and Hydrocoral Species". Microorganisms. 7 (10): 426. doi:10.3390/microorganisms7100426. PMC 6843776. PMID 31600926.