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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
PAULA MARIA THERIAGA MENDES BERNARDO GONÇALVES

Citation names

  • Gonçalves, Paula

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
0D16-D41B-F798
ORCID iD
0000-0003-2103-1060

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Dutch Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Education
Degree Classification
1995/03/27
Concluded
 Doctorate in Natural Sciences (Doctor of Philosophy)
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
"Functional Analysis of ABF1, a global regulator of gene expression in yeast" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 n/a
1988
Concluded
 Applied Chemistry (Biotechnology specialization) (Licenciatura)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
 17
Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2018/10 - Current Associate Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
1999/03 - 2018/09 Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
1998/03 - 1999/03 Post-doc Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
1995 - 1998 Post-doc Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
1990 - 1995 PhD student Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2022/01/19 - Current Unveiling the signatures of convergent evolution in bee-associated microorganisms: a comparative multi-omics approach
PTDC/BIA-EVL/0604/2021
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
REQUIMTE Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2021/01/01 - 2025/12/31 Institute for Health and Bioeconomy
LA/P/0140/2020
10.54499/LA/P/0140/2020
Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Bioengenharia e Biociências, Portugal

Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal

INESC Microsistemas e Nanotecnologias, Portugal

Rede de Química e Tecnologia Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde, Portugal

Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT, Portugal

Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2021/03 - 2024/02/28 Harnessing comparative genomics to understand the role of horizontal acquired genes in the evolution of yeast metabolism
PTDC/BIA-EVL/1100/2020
Principal investigator
REQUIMTE Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2020/01/01 - 2023/12/31 Applied Molecular Biosciences Unit
UIDB/04378/2020
10.54499/UIDB/04378/2020
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal

Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal

Rede de Química e Tecnologia Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde, Portugal

Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Tecnologias e Agroambiente, Portugal

Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2018/10/01 - 2021/09/30 Genómica de leveduras vínicas - uma exploração das trajectórias de domesticação e da emergência de virulência
PTDC/BIA-MIC/30785/2017
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT, Portugal

Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2018/08/01 - 2021/07/31 Exploring unique metabolic traits of biotechnological interest in fructophilic yeasts
PTDC/BIA-MIC/29529/2017
Principal investigator
REQUIMTE Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 Institute for Research and Innovation in Health Sciences
UID/BIM/04293/2019
LA/P/0070/2020
10.54499/LA/P/0070/2020
Instituto Nacional de Engenharia Biomédica, Portugal

Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas
UID/Multi/04378/2019
154717UID
Rede de Química e Tecnologia Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2012/02/01 - 2015/07/31 Modos de domesticação em microrganismos - o caso de Saccharomyces cerevisiae
PTDC/AGR-ALI/118590/2010
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal

Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT, Portugal

Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2012/10/01 - 2015/01/31 FNA-fermentação não alcóolica
FNA
Principal investigator
REQUIMTE Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal
 Sumol+Compal
Concluded
2011/03/15 - 2014/09/14 Improvement of fructose fermentation by industrial strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae
PTDC/AGR-ALI/112802/2009
PTDC/AGR-ALI/112802/2009
Principal investigator
REQUIMTE Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2011/02/01 - 2014/07/31 Comparative genomics approach to unravelling a new sexual reproduction system in fungi
PTDC/BIA-GEN/112799/2009
Principal investigator
REQUIMTE Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2012/06/01 - 2014/03/01 Tracing domestication in microbes - the case of Saccharomyces cerevisiae
PTDC/AGR-ALI/118590/2010
Researcher
2011/01/01 - 2013/12/31 Strategic Project - UI 457 - 2011-2012
PEst-OE/BIA/UI0457/2011
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2009/01/01 - 2011/01/01 Evolutionary ecology of wild populations of Saccharomyces from the bark of Fagaceae
PTDC/BIA-BDE/71734/2006
Researcher
REQUIMTE Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2008/06/01 - 2010/06/01 Worldwide biogeography of the astaxanthin-producing yeast Phaffia rhodozyma: Mapping populations and host associations
PTDC/BIA-BDE/73566/2006
Researcher
REQUIMTE Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Cancelled
2005/01/06 - 2008/06/30 NILE New improvements for lignocellulosic ethanol
N581OJS7E8;2005-2009
Researcher
2004/04/01 - 2005/09/30 Identification and functional characterization of mating type specific genes in the non-conventional yeast Rhodosporidium
POCTI/BME/44322/2002
POCTI/BME/44322/2002
Principal investigator
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2000/01/01 - 2003/04/01 BIO-HUG Novel bioprocesses for hemicellulose up-grading
QLK3-CT. EU
QLK3-CT. EU
 N/A
1998/01/01 - 2000 “Molecular characterization of maltotriose transport in Saccharomyces cerevisiae”
Praxis/P/BIA/11104/1998
Praxis/P/BIA/11104/1998
Researcher
N/A
Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract
  1. Gonçalves, Carla; Coelho, Marco A.; Salema-Oom, Madalena; Gonçalves, Paula. "Adaptation of yeasts to fructose rich environments: a role for horizontal gene transfer of a fructose transporter". 2015.
Conference poster
  1. Pontes, Ana; Paraíso, Francisca; Limtong, Saivitree; Jindamoragot, Sasiton; Gonçalves, Paula; Sampaio, José Paulo. "The deep pre-domestication ecological roots od the GAL alternative pathway in Saccharomyces cerevisiae". Paper presented in Molecular Mechanisms in Evolution and Ecology, 2022.
  2. Da Cunha, Maria; Serrano Pereira, Inês; Gonçalves, Carla; Gonçalves, Paula; Mota, Luís Jaime. "Phylogenetic and functional analysis of orthologs of CteG, a Chlamydia trachomatis effector protein". Paper presented in Microbiotec'21, 2021.
  3. Cabrita, Alexandra; Gonçalves, Carla; Gonçalves, Luís G.; Leandro, Maria José; Santos, Helena; Gonçalves, Paula. "Redirecting the reducing power in Starmerella bombicola towards production of compounds with industrial interest". Paper presented in Microbiotec21, Congress of Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2021.
  4. Cabrita, Alexandra; David-Palma, Márcia; Coelho, Marco A.; Sampaio, José Paulo; Gonçalves, Paula. "Understanding the Molecular Mechanisms of Homothallism in the order Cystofilobasidiales". Paper presented in XXI Jornadas de Biologia de Leveduras "Professor Nicolau van Uden", 2018.
Journal article
  1. Pontes, Ana; Paraíso, Francisca; Liu, Yu-Ching; Limtong, Savitree; Jindamorakot, Sasitorn; Jespersen, Lene; Gonçalves, Carla; et al. "Tracking alternative versions of the galactose gene network in the genus Saccharomyces and their expansion after domestication". iScience (2024): 108987. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.108987.
    Accepted • 10.1016/j.isci.2024.108987
  2. Carlos A. Rosa; Marc-André Lachance; Savitree Limtong; Ana R. O. Santos; Melissa F. Landell; Andreas K. Gombert; Paula B. Morais; et al. "Yeasts from tropical forests: Biodiversity, ecological interactions, and as sources of bioinnovation". Yeast (2023): https://doi.org/10.1002/yea.3903.
    10.1002/yea.3903
  3. Peris, David; Ubbelohde, Emily J.; Kuang, Meihua Christina; Kominek, Jacek; Langdon, Quinn K.; Adams, Marie; Koshalek, Justin A.; et al. "Macroevolutionary diversity of traits and genomes in the model yeast genus Saccharomyces". Nature Communications 14 1 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36139-2.
    Open access • 10.1038/s41467-023-36139-2
  4. Gonçalves, Paula; Gonçalves, Carla. Corresponding author: Gonçalves, Paula. "Horizontal gene transfer in yeasts". Current Opinion in Genetics & Development 76 (2022): 101950. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gde.2022.101950.
    10.1016/j.gde.2022.101950
  5. Pedras, Bruno M.; Gonçalves, Carla; Figueira, Diogo R.; Simões, Pedro; Gonçalves, Paula; Paiva, Alexandre; Barreiros, Susana; Salema-Oom, Madalena. "White wine grape pomace as a suitable carbon source for lipid and carotenoid production by fructophilic Rhodorotula babjevae". Journal of Applied Microbiology 133 2 (2022): 656-664. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jam.15587.
    10.1111/jam.15587
  6. Carla Gonçalves; Margarida Marques; Paula Gonçalves; Aaron P. Mitchell. "Contrasting Strategies for Sucrose Utilization in a Floral Yeast Clade". mSphere (2022):
    10.1128/msphere.00035-22
  7. Cabrita, Alexandra; David-Palma, Márcia; Brito, Patrícia H.; Heitman, Joseph; Coelho, Marco A.; Gonçalves, Paula. "Multiple Pathways to Homothallism in Closely Related Yeast Lineages in the Basidiomycota". mBio 12 1 (2021):
    10.1128/mbio.03130-20
  8. Márcia David-Palma; Diego Libkind; Patricia H. Brito; Margarida Ribeiro da Silva; Nicolas Bellora; Márcia David-Palma; Joseph Heitman; Paula Gonçalves; José Paulo Sampaio. "The Untapped Australasian Diversity of Astaxanthin-Producing Yeasts with Biotechnological Potential—Phaffia australis sp. nov. and Phaffia tasmanica sp. nov.". Microorganisms (2020):
    10.3390/microorganisms8111651
  9. Gonçalves, Paula. "Towards yeast taxogenomics: lessons from novel species descriptions based on complete genome sequences.". FEMS yeast research (2020): https://doi.org/10.1093/femsyr/foaa042.
    10.1093/femsyr/foaa042
  10. Gonçalves, Paula; Gonçalves, Carla; Brito, Patrícia H.; Sampaio, José Paulo. "The Wickerhamiella/Starmerella clade—A treasure trove for the study of the evolution of yeast metabolism". Yeast 37 4 (2020): 313-320. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/yea.3463.
    10.1002/yea.3463
  11. Gonçalves, Paula. "A New Pathway for Mannitol Metabolism in Yeasts Suggests a Link to the Evolution of Alcoholic Fermentation". Frontiers in Microbiology (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2019.02510.
    10.3389/fmicb.2019.02510
  12. Gonçalves, Paula. "Fermentation innovation through complex hybridization of wild and domesticated yeasts". Nature Ecology & Evolution (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0998-8.
    10.1038/s41559-019-0998-8
  13. Gonçalves, Paula. "Multilayered horizontal operon transfers from bacteria reconstruct a thiamine salvage pathway in yeasts". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1909844116.
    10.1073/pnas.1909844116
  14. Gonçalves, Paula. "A Quasi-Domesticate Relic Hybrid Population of Saccharomyces cerevisiae × S. paradoxus Adapted to Olive Brine.". Frontiers in genetics (2019):
    10.3389/fgene.2019.00449
  15. Barbosa, Raquel; Pontes, Ana; Santos, Renata O; Montandon, Gabriela G; de Ponzzes-Gomes, Camila M; Morais, Paula B; Gonçalves, Paula; Rosa, Carlos A; Sampaio, José Paulo. "Multiple Rounds of Artificial Selection Promote Microbe Secondary Domestication¿The Case of Cachaça Yeasts". Genome Biology and Evolution 10 8 (2018): 1939-1955. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evy132.
    Published • 10.1093/gbe/evy132
  16. Gonçalves C; Wisecaver JH; Kominek J; Oom MS; Leandro MJ; Shen XX; Opulente DA; et al. "Evidence for loss and reacquisition of alcoholic fermentation in a fructophilic yeast lineage.". eLife (2018):
    10.7554/elife.33034
  17. Almeida, Pedro; Barbosa, Raquel; Bensasson, Douda; Goncalves, Paula; Sampaio, Jose Paulo. "Adaptive divergence in wine yeasts and their wild relatives suggests a prominent role for introgressions and rapid evolution at noncoding sites". Molecular Ecology 26 7 (2017): 2167-2182.
    10.1111/mec.14071
  18. Peris, David; Moriarty, Ryan V.; Alexander, William G.; Baker, EmilyClare; Sylvester, Kayla; Sardi, Maria; Langdon, Quinn K.; et al. "Hybridization and adaptive evolution of diverse Saccharomyces species for cellulosic biofuel production". Biotechnology For Biofuels 10 (2017):
    10.1186/s13068-017-0763-7
  19. David-Palma, M.; Sampaio, J. P.; Gonçalves, P.. "Genetic Dissection of Sexual Reproduction in a Primary Homothallic Basidiomycete". PLoS Genet 12 6 (2016): e1006110-e1006110.
    10.1371/journal.pgen.1006110
  20. Barbosa, Raquel; Almeida, Pedro; Safar, Silvana V B; Santos, Renata Oliveira; Morais, Paula B; Nielly-Thibault, Lou; Leducq, Jean-Baptiste; et al. "Evidence of Natural Hybridization in Brazilian Wild Lineages of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.". Genome biology and evolution 8 2 (2016): 317-29.
    10.1093/gbe/evv263
  21. Goncalves, Carla; Coelho, Marco A.; Salema-Oom, Madalena; Goncalves, Paula. "Stepwise Functional Evolution in a Fungal Sugar Transporter Family". Molecular Biology and Evolution 33 2 (2016): 352-366.
    10.1093/molbev/msv220
  22. Bellora, Nicolas; Moline, Martin; David-Palma, Marcia; Coelho, Marco A.; Hittinger, Chris Todd; Sampaio, Jose P.; Goncalves, Paula; Libkind, Diego. "Comparative genomics provides new insights into the diversity, physiology, and sexuality of the only industrially exploited tremellomycete: Phaffia rhodozyma". Bmc Genomics 17 (2016):
    10.1186/s12864-016-3244-7
  23. Goncalves, Margarida; Pontes, Ana; Almeida, Pedro; Barbosa, Raquel; Serra, Marta; Libkind, Diego; Hutzler, Mathias; Goncalves, Paula; Sampaio, Jose Paulo. "Distinct Domestication Trajectories in Top-Fermenting Beer Yeasts and Wine Yeasts". Current Biology 26 20 (2016): 2750-2761.
    10.1016/j.cub.2016.08.040
  24. Almeida, Pedro; Barbosa, Raquel; Zalar, Polona; Imanishi, Yumi; Shimizu, Kiminori; Turchetti, Benedetta; Legras, Jean-Luc; et al. "A population genomics insight into the Mediterranean origins of wine yeast domestication". Molecular Ecology 24 21 (2015): 5412-5427.
    10.1111/mec.13341
  25. Maia, Teresa M.; Lopes, Susana T.; Almeida, Joao M. G. C. F.; Rosa, Luiz H.; Sampaio, Jose Paulo; Goncalves, Paula; Coelho, Marco A.. "Evolution of Mating Systems in Basidiomycetes and the Genetic Architecture Underlying Mating-Type Determination in the Yeast Leucosporidium scottii". Genetics 201 1 (2015): 75-+.
    10.1534/genetics.115.177717
  26. Hittinger, Chris Todd; Rokas, Antonis; Bai, Feng-Yan; Boekhout, Teun; Goncalves, Paula; Jeffries, Thomas W.; Kominek, Jacek; et al. "Genomics and the making of yeast biodiversity". Current Opinion in Genetics & Development 35 (2015): 100-109.
    10.1016/j.gde.2015.10.008
  27. de Garcia, Virginia; Coelho, Marco A.; Maia, Teresa M.; Rosa, Luiz H.; Vaz, Aline Martins; Rosa, Carlos A.; Sampaio, Jose Paulo; et al. "Sex in the cold: taxonomic reorganization of psychrotolerant yeasts in the order Leucosporidiales". Fems Yeast Research 15 4 (2015):
    10.1093/femsyr/fov019
  28. Peris, David; Sylvester, Kayla; Libkind, Diego; Goncalves, Paula; Sampaio, Jose Paulo; Alexander, William G.; Hittinger, Chris Todd. "Population structure and reticulate evolution of Saccharomyces eubayanus and its lager-brewing hybrids". Molecular Ecology 23 8 (2014): 2031-2045.
    10.1111/mec.12702
  29. Almeida, Pedro; Goncalves, Carla; Teixeira, Sara; Libkind, Diego; Bontrager, Martin; Masneuf-Pomarede, Isabelle; Albertin, Warren; et al. "A Gondwanan imprint on global diversity and domestication of wine and cider yeast Saccharomyces uvarum". Nature Communications 5 (2014):
    10.1038/ncomms5044
  30. Coelho, M.A.; Sampaio, J.P.; Gonçalves, P.. "Living and thriving on the skin: Malassezia genomes tell the story". mBio 4 2 (2013):
    10.1128/mBio.00117-13
  31. Coelho, M.A.; Gonçalves, C.; Sampaio, J.P.; Gonçalves, P.. "Extensive Intra-Kingdom Horizontal Gene Transfer Converging on a Fungal Fructose Transporter Gene". PLoS Genetics 9 6 (2013): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84879649208&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1371/journal.pgen.1003587
  32. Anjos, J.; Rodrigues De Sousa, H.; Roca, C.; Cássio, F.; Luttik, M.; Pronk, J.T.; Salema-Oom, M.; Gonçalves, P.. "Fsy1, the sole hexose-proton transporter characterized in Saccharomyces yeasts, exhibits a variable fructose:H+ stoichiometry". Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Biomembranes 1828 2 (2013): 201-207. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84869876564&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.bbamem.2012.08.011
  33. Gomes-Rezende, J.A.; Gomes-Alves, A.G.; Menino, J.F.; Coelho, M.A.; Ludovico, P.; Gonçalves, P.; Sturme, M.H.J.; Rodrigues, F.. "Functionality of the Paracoccidioides Mating a-Pheromone-Receptor System". PLoS ONE 7 10 (2012):
    10.1371/journal.pone.0047033
  34. Libkind, D.; Hittinger, C.T.; Valerio, E.; Gonca¸lves, C.; Dover, J.; Johnston, M.; Gonca¸lves, P.; Sampaio, J.P.. "Microbe domestication and the identification of the wild genetic stock of lager-brewing yeast". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 108 35 (2011): 14539-14544. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-80052293238&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1073/pnas.1105430108
  35. Coelho, M.A.; Gonçalves, P.; Sampaio, J.P.. "Evidence for maintenance of sex determinants but not of sexual stages in red yeasts, a group of early diverged basidiomycetes". BMC Evolutionary Biology 11 1 (2011): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-80052141955&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1186/1471-2148-11-249
  36. Salema-Oom, M.; De Sousa, H.R.; Assunção, M.; Gonçalves, P.; Spencer-Martins, I.. "Derepression of a baker's yeast strain for maltose utilization is associated with severe deregulation of HXT gene expression". Journal of Applied Microbiology 110 1 (2011): 364-374. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-78650105493&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/j.1365-2672.2010.04895.x
  37. Gonçalves, P.; Valério, E.; Correia, C.; de Almeida, J.M.G.C.F.; Sampaio, J.P.. "Evidence for divergent evolution of growth temperature preference in sympatric saccharomyces species". PLoS ONE 6 6 (2011): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-79957959802&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1371/journal.pone.0020739
  38. Coelho, M.A.; Sampaio, J.P.; Gonçalves, P.. "A deviation from the bipolar-tetrapolar mating paradigm in an early diverged basidiomycete". PLoS Genetics 6 8 (2010):
    10.1371/journal.pgen.1001052
  39. Galeote, V.; Novo, M.; Salema-Oom, M.; Brion, C.; Valério, E.; Gonçalves, P.; Dequin, S.. "FSY1, a horizontally transferred gene in the Saccharomyces cerevisiae EC1118 wine yeast strain, encodes a high-affinity fructose/H+ symporter". Microbiology 156 12 (2010): 3754-3761.
    10.1099/mic.0.041673-0
  40. Hittinger, C.T.; Gonçalves, P.; Sampaio, J.P.; Dover, J.; Johnston, M.; Rokas, A.. "Remarkably ancient balanced polymorphisms in a multi-locus gene network". Nature 464 7285 (2010): 54-58.
    10.1038/nature08791
  41. Leandro, M.J.; Fonseca, C.; Gonçalves, P.. "Hexose and pentose transport in ascomycetous yeasts: An overview". FEMS Yeast Research 9 4 (2009): 511-525.
    10.1111/j.1567-1364.2009.00509.x
  42. Coelho, M.A.; Rosa, A.; Rodrigues, N.; Fonseca, Á.; Gonçalves, P.. "Identification of mating type genes in the bipolar basidiomycetous yeast Rhodosporidium toruloides: First insight into the MAT locus structure of the Sporidiobolales". Eukaryotic Cell 7 6 (2008): 1053-1061.
    10.1128/EC.00025-08
  43. Leandro, M.J.; Spencer-Martins, I.; Gonçalves, P.. "The expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae of a glucose/xylose symporter from Candida intermedia is affected by the presence of a glucose/xylose facilitator". Microbiology 154 6 (2008): 1646-1655.
    10.1099/mic.0.2007/015511-0
  44. Sampaio, J.P.; Gonçalves, P.. "Natural populations of Saccharomyces kudriavzevii in Portugal are associated with Oak bark and are sympatric with S. cerevisiae and S. paradoxus". Applied and Environmental Microbiology 74 7 (2008): 2144-2152.
    10.1128/AEM.02396-07
  45. Leandro, M.J.; Gonçalves, P.; Spencer-Martins, I.. "Two glucose/xylose transporter genes from the yeast Candida intermedia: First molecular characterization of a yeast xylose-H+ symporter". Biochemical Journal 395 3 (2006): 543-549.
    10.1042/BJ20051465
  46. Salema-Oom, M.; Pinto, V.V.; Gonçalves, P.; Spencer-Martins, I.. "Maltotriose utilization by industrial Saccharomyces strains: Characterization of a new member of the a-glucoside transporter family". Applied and Environmental Microbiology 71 9 (2005): 5044-5049.
    10.1128/AEM.71.9.5044-5049.2005
  47. Pina, C.; Gonçalves, P.; Prista, C.; Loureiro-Dias, M.C.. "Ffz1, a new transporter specific for fructose from Zygosaccharomyces bailii". Microbiology 150 7 (2004): 2429-2433.
  48. Rodrigues de Sousa, H.; Spencer-Martins, I.; Gonçalves, P.. "Differential regulation by glucose and fructose of a gene encoding a specific fructose/H+ symporter in Saccharomyces sensu stricto yeasts". Yeast 21 6 (2004): 519-530.
    10.1002/yea.1118
  49. Goncalves, P.; De Sousa, H.R.; Spencer-Martins, I.. "FSY1, a novel gene encoding a specific fructose/H+ symporter in the type strain of Saccharomyces carlsbergensis". Journal of Bacteriology 182 19 (2000): 5628-5630.
    10.1128/JB.182.19.5628-5630.2000
  50. Gonçalves, P.; Planta, R.J.. "Starting up yeast glycolysis". Trends in Microbiology 6 8 (1998): 314-319.
    10.1016/S0966-842X(98)01305-5
  51. De Boer, M.; Bebelman, J.-P.; Gonçalves, P.M.; Maat, J.; Van Heerikhuizen, H.; Planta, R.J.. "Regulation of expression of the amino acid transporter gene BAP3 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae". Molecular Microbiology 30 3 (1998): 603-613.
    10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.01094.x
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Preprint
  1. Cabrita, Alexandra; David-Palma, Márcia; Brito, Patrícia H.; Heitman, Joseph; Coelho, Marco A.; Gonçalves, Paula. "Multiple pathways to homothallism in closely related yeast lineages in the Basidiomycota". 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2020.09.30.320192.
    10.1101/2020.09.30.320192

Other

Other output
  1. Evidence for loss and adaptive reacquisition of alcoholic fermentation in an early-derived fructophilic yeast lineage. 2017. Carla Gonçalves; Jennifer H. Wisecaver; Madalena Salema-Oom; Maria José Leandro; Xing-Xing Shen; David Peris; Chris Todd Hittinger; Antonis Rokas; Paula Gonçalves. https://doi.org/10.1101/213686.
    10.1101/213686
Activities

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2022/09/01 - 2022/10/20 Evaluating the impact of horizontally acquired genes on the metabolism of a non-conventional yeast lineage
Co-supervisor of Victoria Helena Navas Gil
 Master in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2017/01/01 - 2021/07/01 The genomics of microbe domestication –testing the hypothesis of multiple and independent domestication events for Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Co-supervisor of Ana Patrícia Teixeira Pontes
Biologia (PhD)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2017/09/01 - 2018/09/30 "The role of mannitol in central the central carbon metabolism of the yeast Starmerella bombicola "
Supervisor of Carolina da Silva Ferreira,
Microbiologia Aplicada (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2017/09/01 - 2018/09/23 “Estudo Evolutivo dos loci MAT e de Mecanismos Moleculares de Reprodução Sexuada na Ordem Cystofilobasidiales”
Supervisor of Alexandra Sofia Rodrigues Cabrita
 Genética Molecular e Biomedicina (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2014/01/01 - 2018/01/01 “Unraveling the molecular basis of the evolution of fructophily in yeasts: a comparative genomics approach”
Supervisor
 Biologia (PhD)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2012/01/01 - 2017/01/01 ”Elucidating the mating system of Phaffia rhodozyma, an astaxanthin-producing yeast with biotechnological potential”,
Supervisor
 Biologia (PhD)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2013/09/01 - 2014/09/23 “Fermentation of fruit juices by the osmotolerant yeast Candida magnoliae”
Co-supervisor of Andreia Sofia Soares de Medeiros,
Biotecnologia (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Química, Portugal
2011/09/01 - 2012/09/30 “Paracocidioides brasiliensis: Study of the sexual cycle”,
Co-supervisor
Universidade do Minho Escola de Medicina, Portugal
2006/01/01 - 2011/01/01 “Molecular mechanisms of sexual development in basidiomycetes: exploring connections with life styles”,
Co-supervisor of Marco António Dias Coelho
 Biologia (PhD)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2003/01/01 - 2008/01/01 “Molecular characterization of glucose/fructose transporters in the yeast Candida intermedia”,
Supervisor of Maria José Travassos Leandro
Distinctions

Other distinction

2023 Plenary lecture 31st ICYGMB International Conference on Yeast Genetics and Molecular Biology, 20-25 Agosto, 2023, Florence, Italy.
2022 Keynote lecture at International Specialised Symposium on Yeasts in Vancouver, July 12-15 2022
2022 Elected Member of the International Comission on Yeasts
2019 Keynote lecture at EMBO Workshop "Comparative Genomics of Eukaryotic microbes: genomes in flux and flux between genomes", S. Felliu de Guixols, 14-19 October 2019
2007 Excellent presentation