Dr. P. (Paula) Dalcin Martins
Assistant Professor in Soil Microbial Regulation of the Biogeochemical Cycles
Faculty of Science
Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics
Area of expertise: climate change microbiology, soil viruses, biogeochemistry
Visiting address
- Science Park 904
Postal address
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Postbus 94240
1090 GE Amsterdam
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Research
I work as Assistant Professor in Soil Microbial Regulation of the Biogeochemical Cycles. My research focuses on the intersection of microbial ecology and biogeochemistry, investigating the following broad research questions:
- How do soil viruses impact greenhouse gas emissions? And to what extent?
- Which soil microorganisms are targeted by these viruses?
- Which viral and microbial taxa impact emissions the most?
- How do virus-microbe interactions change under environmental pressures (i.e. increasing temperatures, changes in soil moisture, agricultural practices)?
These are part of my main project “Unraveling and quantifying the impacts of viruses on greenhouse gas emissions from soils”, funded by a VENI, FICUS and XS.
My main collaborators and mentees are the following:
- I am part of the Plant-Soil Ecology group at UvA together with the PIs Franciska de Vries, Elly Morriën and Albert Carles Brangarí.
- I co-supervise the postdoctoral researcher Annemiek Waajen at UvA together with PIs Ernestina Hauptfeld and Daniel Tamarit Chulia at Utrecht University (UU).
- I co-supervise the MSc student Lorenzo Araujo at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) together with PIs Thomas Hackl at the University of Groningen (RUG) and Ana Paula Frazzon at UFRGS.
- I co-supervise the PhD student Huayu Dong at RUG together with PI Joana Falcão Salles (RUG).
- I co-supervise the PhD student Naomi Bakken at UvA together with PIs Susanne Wilken (UvA), Corina Brussard (NIOZ-UvA), and Thomas Hackl (RUG).
Past lab members:
- 2023-2024 Karla Müller (research assistant)
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Teaching
Course Coordination:
- BSc course Innovative Food Systems (5141INFS6Y)
Annual lecturer in the following courses:
- BSc course Innovative Food Systems (5141INFS6Y)
- BSc course Challenges in Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (5042CIBE3Y)
- BSc Honors course How to Design an Alien (5502HTMA6Y)
- MSc course Microbial Ecology (5224MIEC6Y)
- MSc course Biogeochemical Cycles (5264BCIS6Y)
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Organizational roles
Internal:
- I am co-chair of the Board for Women in the Faculty of Science
- I am a member of the UvA Diversity Sounding Board
- I am part of the Program Committee (Opleidingscommissie) for the Science, Technology & Innovation (ST&I) BSc program
- I coordinate the Plant-Soil-Landscape meetings at ELD
- I am a member of the scientific advisory committee of the IBED Bioinformatician Nina Dombrowiski
External:
- I am a member of the Climate Change Committee of the International Society for Microbial Ecology
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Publications
2025
- Kop, L. F. M., Koch, H., Dalcin Martins, P., Suarez, C., Karačić, S., Persson, F., Wilén, B. M., Hagelia, P., Jetten, M. S. M., & Lücker, S. (2025). High diversity of nitrifying bacteria and archaea in biofilms from a subsea tunnel. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 101(5), Article fiaf032. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiaf032
- Touceda-Suárez, M., Perry, M. A., Frizzo, R., Lotz-McMillen, J. H., Gilmore, R. A., Bennett, S. M., Basso, J. T. R., Donovan, W., Fudyma, J. D., Geonczy, S. E., Gittrich, M., Gogul, G., Hazard, C., Hillary, L. S., Jameson, E., Jiraska, L., Johnson, S. S., Kosmopoulos, J. C., Leleiwi, I., ... Trubl, G. (2025). Meeting report: International soil virus conference 2024. Virus research, 354, 199544. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.virusres.2025.199544
- Wallenius, A. J., Venetz, J., Zygadlowska, O. M., Lenstra, W. K., Van Helmond, N. A. G. M., Dalcin Martins, P., Slomp, C. P., & Jetten, M. S. M. (2025). A ubiquitous and diverse methanogenic community drives microbial methane cycling in eutrophic coastal sediments. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 101(8), Article fiaf075. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiaf075
2024
Dalcin Martins, P., de Monlevad, J. P. R. C., Echeveste Medrano, M. J., Lenstra, W. K., Wallenius, A. J., Hermans, M., Slomp, C. P., Welte, C. U., Jetten, M. S. M., & van Helmond, N. A. G. M. (2024). Sulfide Toxicity as Key Control on Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane in Eutrophic Coastal Sediments. Environmental Science and Technology, 58(26), 11421-11435. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.3c10418 [details]- Karačić, S., Suarez, C., Hagelia, P., Persson, F., Modin, O., Dalcin Martins, P., & Wilén, B.-M. (2024). Microbial acidification by N, S, Fe and Mn oxidation as a key mechanism for deterioration of subsea tunnel sprayed concrete. Scientific Reports, 14, Article 22742. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-73911-w [details]
2023
- Lenstra, W. K., van Helmond, N. A. G. M., Dalcin Martins, P., Wallenius, A. J., Jetten, M. S. M., & Slomp, C. P. (2023). Gene-Based Modeling of Methane Oxidation in Coastal Sediments: Constraints on the Efficiency of the Microbial Methane Filter. Environmental Science and Technology, 57(34), 12557-12932. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.3c02023
- Suarez, C., Hackl, T., Wilen, B.-M., Persson, F., Hagelia, P., Jetten, M. S. M., & Dalcin Martins, P. (2023). Novel and unusual genes for nitrogen and metal cycling in Planctomycetota- and KSB1-affiliated metagenome-assembled genomes reconstructed from a marine subsea tunnel. FEMS Microbiology Letters, 370, Article fnad049. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsle/fnad049 [details]
- Venetz, J., Żygadłowska, O. M., Lenstra, W. K., van Helmond, N. A. G. M., Nuijten, G. H. L., Wallenius, A. J., Dalcin Martins, P., Slomp, C. P., Jetten, M. S. M., & Veraart, A. J. (2023). Versatile methanotrophs form an active methane biofilter in the oxycline of a seasonally stratified coastal basin. Environmental Microbiology, 25(11), 2277-2288. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.16448 [details]
- Żygadłowska, O. M., Venetz, J., Klomp, R., Lenstra, W. K., van Helmond, N. A. G. M., Röckmann, T., Wallenius, A. J., Martins, P. D., Veraart, A. J., Jetten, M. S. M., & Slomp, C. P. (2023). Pathways of methane removal in the sediment and water column of a seasonally anoxic eutrophic marine basin. Frontiers in Marine Science, 10, Article 1085728. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1085728
2022
- Dalcin Martins, P., Echeveste Medrano, M. J., Arshad, A., Kurth, J. M., Ouboter, H. T., Op den Camp, H. J. M., Jetten, M. S. M., & Welte, C. U. (2022). Unraveling Nitrogen, Sulfur, and Carbon Metabolic Pathways and Microbial Community Transcriptional Responses to Substrate Deprivation and Toxicity Stresses in a Bioreactor Mimicking Anoxic Brackish Coastal Sediment Conditions. Frontiers in Microbiology, 13, Article 798906. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.798906
- Suarez, C., Dalcin Martins, P., Jetten, M. S. M., Karačić, S., Wilén, B. M., Modin, O., Hagelia, P., Hermansson, M., & Persson, F. (2022). Metagenomic evidence of a novel family of anammox bacteria in a subsea environment. Environmental Microbiology, 24(5), 2348-2360. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.16006
- Vaksmaa, A., Egger, M., Lüke, C., Martins, P. D., Rosselli, R., Asbun, A. A., & Niemann, H. (2022). Microbial communities on plastic particles in surface waters differ from subsurface waters of the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 182, 113949. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.113949
2021
- Dalcin Martins, P., de Jong, A., Lenstra, W. K., van Helmond, N. A. G. M., Slomp, C. P., Jetten, M. S. M., Welte, C. U., & Rasigraf, O. (2021). Enrichment of novel Verrucomicrobia, Bacteroidetes, and Krumholzibacteria in an oxygen-limited methane- and iron-fed bioreactor inoculated with Bothnian Sea sediments. MicrobiologyOpen, 10(1), e1175. https://doi.org/10.1002/mbo3.1175
- Wallenius, A. J., Dalcin Martins, P., Slomp, C. P., & Jetten, M. S. M. (2021). Anthropogenic and Environmental Constraints on the Microbial Methane Cycle in Coastal Sediments. Frontiers in Microbiology, 12, 631621. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.631621
- Welte, C. U., de Graaf, R., Dalcin Martins, P., Jansen, R. S., Jetten, M. S. M., & Kurth, J. M. (2021). A novel methoxydotrophic metabolism discovered in the hyperthermophilic archaeon Archaeoglobus fulgidus. Environmental Microbiology, 23(7), 4017-4033. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.15546
2019
- Dalcin Martins, P., Frank, J., Mitchell, H., Markillie, L. M., & Wilkins, M. J. (2019). Wetland Sediments Host Diverse Microbial Taxa Capable of Cycling Alcohols. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 85(12). https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.00189-19
2018
- Dalcin Martins, P., Danczak, R. E., Roux, S., Frank, J., Borton, M. A., Wolfe, R. A., Burris, M. N., & Wilkins, M. J. (2018). Viral and metabolic controls on high rates of microbial sulfur and carbon cycling in wetland ecosystems. Microbiome, 6(1), 138. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-018-0522-4
- Grottoli, A. G., Dalcin Martins, P., Wilkins, M. J., Johnston, M. D., Warner, M. E., Cai, W-J., Melman, T. F., Hoadley, K. D., Pettay, D. T., Levas, S., & Schoepf, V. (2018). Coral physiology and microbiome dynamics under combined warming and ocean acidification. PLoS ONE, 13(1), Article e0191156. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0191156
2017
- Arshad, A., Dalcin Martins, P., Frank, J., Jetten, M. S. M., Op den Camp, H. J. M., & Welte, C. U. (2017). Mimicking microbial interactions under nitrate-reducing conditions in an anoxic bioreactor: enrichment of novel Nitrospirae bacteria distantly related to Thermodesulfovibrio. Environmental Microbiology, 19(12), 4965-4977. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.13977
- Berger, S., Frank, J., Dalcin Martins, P., Jetten, M. S. M., & Welte, C. U. (2017). High-Quality Draft Genome Sequence of "Candidatus Methanoperedens sp." Strain BLZ2, a Nitrate-Reducing Anaerobic Methane-Oxidizing Archaeon Enriched in an Anoxic Bioreactor. Genome Announcements, 5(46). https://doi.org/10.1128/genomeA.01159-17
- Dalcin Martins, P., Hoyt, D. W., Bansal, S., Mills, C. T., Tfaily, M., Tangen, B. A., Finocchiaro, R. G., Johnston, M. D., McAdams, B. C., Solensky, M. J., Smith, G. J., Chin, Y-P., & Wilkins, M. J. (2017). Abundant carbon substrates drive extremely high sulfate reduction rates and methane fluxes in Prairie Pothole Wetlands. Global Change Biology, 23(8), 3107-3120. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13633
2015
- Pinto, J. B., Rossatto, F. C. P., Martins, P. D., & Frazzon, A. P. G. (2015). Genetic relationships and virulence factors in Staphylococcus aureus isolated from raw poultry in South Brazil. Annals of Microbiology, 65(4), 1933-1940. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13213-014-1031-8
2014
- Basso, A. P., Martins, P. D., Nachtigall, G., van der Sand, S., de Moura, T. M., & Frazzon, A. P. G. (2014). Antibiotic resistance and enterotoxin genes in staphylococcus sp. Isolates from polluted water in southern Brazil. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias, 86(4), 1813-1820. https://doi.org/10.1590/0001-3765201420130512
- Medeiros, A. W., Pereira, R. I., Oliveira, D. V., Martins, P. D., d'Azevedo, P. A., Van der Sand, S., Frazzon, J., & Frazzon, A. P. G. (2014). Molecular detection of virulence factors among food and clinical Enterococcus faecalis strains in South Brazil. Brazilian Journal of Microbiology, 45(1), 327-332. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1517-83822014005000031
2013
- Marinho, A. R., Martins, P. D., Ditmer, E. M., d'Azevedo, P. A., Frazzon, J., Sand, S. T. V. D., & Frazzon, A. P. G. (2013). Biofilm formation on polystyrene under different temperatures by antibiotic resistant enterococcus faecalis and enterococcus faecium isolated from food. Brazilian Journal of Microbiology, 44(2), 423-426. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1517-83822013005000045
- Martins, P. D., de Almeida, T. T., Basso, A. P., de Moura, T. M., Frazzon, J., Tondo, E. C., & Frazzon, A. P. G. (2013). Coagulase-positive staphylococci isolated from chicken meat: pathogenic potential and vancomycin resistance. Foodborne Pathogens and Disease, 10(9), 771-6. https://doi.org/10.1089/fpd.2013.1492
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Dalcin Martins, P., de Monlevad, J. P. R. C., Echeveste Medrano, M. J., Lenstra, W. K., Wallenius, A. J., Hermans, M., Slomp, C. P., Welte, C. U., Jetten, M. S. M., & van Helmond, N. A. G. M. (2024). Sulfide Toxicity as Key Control on Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane in Eutrophic Coastal Sediments. Environmental Science and Technology, 58(26), 11421-11435.