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Joana Catarina da Rocha Ferreira. Completed the PhD in Biomedical Sciences in 2022/06/14 by Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, MSc in Bioinformatics in 2016 by Universidade do Minho and BSc in Genetics and Biotechnology in 2014 by Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro Escola de Ciências da Vida e do Ambiente. Is Post Doctoral Fellow in Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência. Published 8 articles in journals. Organized 2 event(s). Participates and/or participated as PhD Student Fellow in 3 project(s). In their professional activities interacted with 95 collaborator(s) co-authorship of scientific papers. In his curriculum Ciência Vitae the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural output are: DNA; Web services; biochemistry; biological tissues; brain; cancer; cellular biophysics; genetics; genomics; medical computing; molecular biophysics; proteins; Genotype-Tissue Expression database; Web tree viewer; cell death; cellular activities; diabetes; human genes; human tissues; metabolite synthesis; mitochondrial DNA; mitochondrial genes; mitochondrial protein; mtDNA genes; neurodegenerative diseases; nuclear DNA; protein encoding genes; protein networks; Biological information theory; Correlation; Databases; Diseases; Genomics; Protein engineering; Proteins; BioTree Viewer; co-expression protein networks; mitochondrial genome; nuclear genome; .
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Joana Catarina da Rocha Ferreira

Citation names

  • Ferreira, Joana C

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
301D-ABA8-ABE0
ORCID iD
0000-0002-9855-4540

Email addresses

  • joana.r.ferreira@gmail.com (Professional)
  • jcferreira@igc.gulbenkian.pt (Professional)

Addresses

  • Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Rua da Quinta Grande 6, 2780-156, Oeiras, Oeiras, Portugal (Professional)

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2017/07/05 - 2022/06/14
Concluded
 PhD in Biomedical Sciences (Doutoramento)
Major in Sem especialidade
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
"Biomedical anthropology high-throughput investigation of natural seletction and susceptibility to diseases in the great mediterranean basin." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2022/01/18 - 2022/04/05
Concluded
 PhD Career Ladder Program_PhD students (1st Edition) (Outros)
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2019/06/13 - 2019/07/12
Concluded
 Training: Study of ancient demographic events using modern and ancient samples (Outros)
Major in Bioinformatics, Genetic Diversity, Population Genetics
Università degli Studi di Pavia Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie L. Spallanzani, Italy
2019/05/07 - 2019/05/09
Concluded
 Genomics, Transcriptomics And Metagenomics Tools And Resources For Biology Research (Outros)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal

European Bioinformatics Institute, United Kingdom
2016
Concluded
 MSc in Bioinformatics (Mestrado)
Major in Área de especialização: Tecnologias da Informação
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
"Genomic and transcriptomic analysis in cancers related with viral infection " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 15 valores
2014
Concluded
 BSc in Genetics and Biotechnology (Licenciatura)
Major in Genetics, Biology
Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro Escola de Ciências da Vida e do Ambiente, Portugal
"Study of genetic diversity in populations of Pinus sylvestris L. from Vinhais and Peneda Gêres using RAPDs markers" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/11/16 - Current Post Doctoral Fellow Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2022/09/15 - 2022/11/15 Post Doctoral Fellow Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich Institut für Molekulare Systembiologie, Switzerland
2022/06/15 - 2022/08/31 Post Doctoral Fellow Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2017/07/05 - 2022/06/14 PhD Student Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2017/01/01 - 2017/06/01 Bioinformatics Research Fellowship Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2015/11/16 - 2016/11/01 Bioinformatics Trainee Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2012/02/06 - 2012/06/29 Trainee Laboratory Technician Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
2010/06/01 - 2010/08/01 Trainee Laboratory Technician Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2020/07/01 - 2022/08/31 Human diversity along the Magalhães circum-navegation space: genetics, history and culture
CIRCNA/CIS/0142/2019
PhD Student Fellow
2020/05/01 - 2020/07/01 Enriching epidemiologic information on SARS-CoV-2 transmission through complete viral sequencing
198_596862267_Research4COVID19
PhD Student Fellow
Concluded
2018/08/01 - 2019/06/30 Biomedical anthropological study in Arabian Peninsula based on high throughput genomics
PTDC/IVC-ANT/2421/2014
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular, Portugal
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference paper
  1. Cavadas, Bruno; Ferreira, Joana; Camacho, Rui; Fonseca, Nuno A; Pereira, Luisa. "QmihR: pipeline for quantification of microbiome in human RNA-seq". 2017.
    10.1007/978-3-319-60816-7_21
  2. Almeida, Joao; Ferreira, Joana; Camacho, Rui; Pereira, Luisa. "Co-expression networks between protein encoding mitochondrial genes and all the remaining genes in human tissues". 2017.
    10.1109/BIBM.2017.8217626
Conference poster
  1. Ferreira, Joana C; Beltrao, Pedro; Bettencourt-Dias, Monica. "Reconstructing the evolution of Microtubule Organising Centres with AlphaFold2 predictions". Paper presented in IGC Symposium – Building Bridges in Biology, 2023.
  2. Branco, C; Ferreira, JC; Currat, M; Arenas, M; Alshamali, F; Pereira, L; Fernandes, V. "Approximate Bayesian Computation modeling of the successful out-of-Africa migration of modern humans". Paper presented in 19th Portugaliæ Genetica - Phenotypic Manifestation of Genetic Heterogeneity, 2022.
  3. Ferreira, JC; Alshamali, F; Cavadas, B; Pereira, L; Fernandes, V. "Characterization of Arabian Peninsula whole exomes: exploring high inbreeding features in the detection of rare variants". Paper presented in 4th PhDay: Break borders and build opportunities, 2021.
  4. Fernandes, Veronica; Ferreira, Joana C.; Alshamali, Farida; Pereira, Luisa. "Genome-wide characterization of Arabians: from aDNA-projected founders, to population structure and adaptation in modern-day populations". Paper presented in Human Evolution - From Fossils to Ancient and Modern Genomes, 2021.
  5. Ferreira, JC; Alshamali, F; Montinaro, F; Cavadas, B; Torroni, A; Pereira, L; Raveane, A; Fernandes, V. "Projecting ancient ancestry in modern-day Arabian genomic diversities to unravel their origins". Paper presented in Human Evolution - From Fossils to Ancient and Modern Genomes, 2021.
  6. Gomes, Sílvia; Cavadas, Bruno; Ferreira, Joana C; Marques, Patrícia Isabel; Monteiro, C.; Sucena, M.; Sousa, C.; et al. "Profiling of lung microbiota discloses differences in adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma". Paper presented in 8th i3S Annual Meeting, 2019.
  7. Ferreira, Joana C; Brandão, Andreia; Cavadas, Bruno; Porto, Graça. "Dating the origins of hemochromatosis with ancient and modern DNA". Paper presented in EMBL Conference: 8th Congress of the International BioIron Society, 2019.
  8. Ferreira, Joana C; Fernandes, Veronica; Alshamali, Farida; Pereira, Luisa. "Creating a database of whole exome sequences in Arabian Peninsula populations". Paper presented in VIII Bioinformatic Open Days, 2019.
  9. Ferreira, Joana C; Veronica Fernandes; Farida Alshamali; Luisa Pereira. "Local and acquired selection of immune, metabolic and pigmentation traits in admixed Arabian populations". Paper presented in 7th i3S Annual Meeting, 2018.
  10. Ferreira, Joana C; Pedro, Nicole; Alshamali, Farida; Fernandes, Veronica; Pereira, Luisa. "Genetic risk in Arabian Peninsula for the diseases of affluence hypertension, type 2 diabetes and obesity". Paper presented in Portuguese Society of Genetics Annual meeting, 2018.
  11. Pedro, Nicole; Ferreira, Joana C; Alshamali, Farida; Pereira, Luisa; Fernandes, Veronica. "Local admixture inference in Arabian and Iranian populations". Paper presented in Portuguese Society of Genetics Annual meeting, 2018.
  12. Ferreira, Joana C; Cavadas, Bruno; Fernandes, Veronica; Porto, Graça; Pereira, Luisa. "Risk of liver cancer in carriers of HFE mutations". Paper presented in 1st PhDay, 2018.
  13. Ferreira, Joana; Cavadas, Bruno; Fernandes, Veronica; Porto, Graça; Pereira, Luisa. "Using public consortia omics databases to address clinical questions: evaluating the risk of carriers of hemochromatosis mutations to develop liver cancer". Paper presented in 7th Bioinformatics Open Days, 2018.
  14. Ferreira, Joana; Cavadas, Bruno; Soares, Pedro; Pereira, Luisa. "Inference of viral infection in human cancer samples from TCGA database". Paper presented in 6th Bioinformatics Open Days, 2017.
  15. Ferreira, Joana; Cavadas, Bruno; Soares, Pedro; Pereira, Luisa. "Viral infections in Cancer – Evaluation in omics datasets". Paper presented in 5th i3S Annual Meeting, 2016.
  16. Fernandes, Claudia; Cipriano, João; Felix, Rafaela; Ferreira, Joana; Carvalho, Ana; Gaspar, Maria João; Lima-Brito, José. "Evaluation of genetic diversity of Pinus sylvestris L. mature stands in Portugal". Paper presented in XXXVII Portuguese Conference on Genetic, 2012.
Journal article
  1. Ferreira, Joana C.; Alshamali, Farida; Pereira, Luisa; Fernandes, Veronica. Corresponding author: Fernandes, Veronica. "Characterization of Arabian Peninsula whole exomes: Contributing to the catalogue of human diversity". iScience (2022): 105336. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.105336.
    Published
  2. Ferreira, Joana C; Alshamali, Farida; Montinaro, Francesco; Cavadas, Bruno; Torroni, Antonio; Pereira, Luisa; Raveane, Alessandro; Fernandes, Veronica. "Projecting Ancient Ancestry in Modern-Day Arabians and Iranians: A Key Role of the Past Exposed Arabo-Persian Gulf on Human Migrations". Genome Biology and Evolution 13 9 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evab194.
    Published • 10.1093/gbe/evab194
  3. Bruno Cavadas; Rui Camacho; Joana C. Ferreira; Rui M. Ferreira; Ceu Figueiredo; Alvis Brazma; Nuno A. Fonseca; Luísa Pereira. "Gastric Microbiome Diversities in Gastric Cancer Patients from Europe and Asia Mimic the Human Population Structure and Are Partly Driven by Microbiome Quantitative Trait Loci". Microorganisms 8 8 (2020): 1196-1196. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms8081196.
    10.3390/microorganisms8081196
  4. Canberk, Sule; Ferreira, Joana C.; Pereira, Luísa; Batista, Rui; Vieira, Andre F.; Soares, Paula; Sobrinho Simões, Manuel; Máximo, Valdemar. "Analyzing the Role of DICER1 Germline Variations in Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma". European Thyroid Journal (2020): 1-8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000509183.
    10.1159/000509183
  5. Rito; Ferreira; Cavadas; Soares; Oliveira; Richards; Duarte; Pereira; Correia-Neves. "Association of Leukotriene A4 Hydrolase with Tuberculosis Susceptibility Using Genomic Data in Portugal". Microorganisms 7 12 (2019): 650. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms7120650.
    Published • 10.3390/microorganisms7120650
  6. Gomes, Sílvia; Cavadas, Bruno; Ferreira, Joana Catarina; Marques, Patrícia Isabel; Monteiro, Catarina; Sucena, Maria; Sousa, Catarina; et al. "Profiling of lung microbiota discloses differences in adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma". Scientific Reports 9 1 (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-49195-w.
    10.1038/s41598-019-49195-w
  7. Fernandes, Veronica; Brucato, Nicolas; Ferreira, Joana C; Cavadas, Bruno; Ricaut, François-Xavier; Alshamali, Farida; Pereira, Luisa. "Genome-Wide Characterization of Arabian Peninsula Populations: Shedding Light on the History of a Fundamental Bridge between Continents". Molecular Biology and Evolution 36 3 (2019): 575-586. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msz005.
    10.1093/molbev/msz005
  8. Oliveira, Marisa; Ferreira, Joana; Fernandes, Veronica; Sakuntabhai, Anavaj; Pereira, Luisa. "Host ancestry and dengue fever: from mapping of candidate genes to prediction of worldwide genetic risk". Future Virology 13 9 (2018): 647-655. https://doi.org/10.2217/fvl-2018-0073.
    10.2217/fvl-2018-0073
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2022/03/03 Exploring new algorithms to combine genomic information from extant populations and ancient specimens XI Bioinformatic Open Days
(Braga, Portugal)
2019/03/31 Charting the genomic jigsaw puzzle of Arabian Peninsula EMBO | EMBL Symposium: Reconstructing the Human Past - Using Ancient and Modern Genomics
(Heidelberg, Germany)
2018/06/15 Charting the genomic jigsaw puzzle of admixture and selection in Arabian Peninsula Anual meeting of Portuguese Society of Genetics
Portuguese Society of Genetics (Porto, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2020/03/02 - 2022/08/31 "Odisseia Genética" is a course where we discover the roots of the participants, a story told by their genes, through the analysis of a chip containing about 1 million genetic markers. (2019/03/09)
Other (Other)
 Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular, Portugal
2016 - 2016 Member of the organization committee of 5th Bioinformatics Open Days in Universidade do Minho (2016)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade do Minho, Portugal