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Completed the Master's Degree in Biodiversity, Genetics and Evolution in 2017 by Universidade do Porto and is currently a PhD student in CIBIO-InBIO (Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos). The main scientific interests are Evolution, Genetics, Metabarcoding, Biodiversity and Ecology.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Ana Isabel Antunes Pereira
Date of birth
1992/07/03
Gender
Female

Citation names

  • Pereira, Ana

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
6B18-EDCA-8AE4
ORCID iD
0000-0001-5328-1668

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1) Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2019 - 2023
Ongoing
 Doutoramento em Biodiversidade, Genética e Evolução (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
2015 - 2017
Concluded
 Master's Degree in Biodiversity, Genetics and Evolution (Mestrado)
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
"A metabarcoding approach to assess the diet of lacertid lizards from the High Atlas Mountains" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2015/02 - 2015/06
Concluded
 Adaptations of lizards in insular environments (Erasmus internship) (Outros)
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Faculty of Biology, Greece
2011 - 2014
Concluded
 First Degree in Biology (Licenciatura)
Major in Biology
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2018/12 - 2019/07 Research Assistant (Research) Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
2017/11 - 2018/04 Research Assistant (Research) Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2018/12 - Current Microbioma - To be or not to be diseased: the effects of microbiome on parasitic infections in farmed seabream and seabass
PTDC/MAR-BIO/0902/2014
Technical development
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract
  1. Canada, Paula; Costas, Benjamin; Xavier, Raquel; Santos, Miguel; Couto, Ana; Cerqueira, Marco; FERNANDEZ-BOO, SERGIO; et al. "CAGED GILTHEAD SEABREAM LIKES BITING THE NETS. SO WHAT?". Paper presented in Aquaculture Europe 2021, Funchal, 2021.
    Accepted
  2. Tomé, Beatriz; Pereira, Ana; Jorge, Fátima; Carretero, Miguel A.; Harris, D. James; Perera, Ana. "Exploring the diversity, distribution and host-specificity of haemogregarine parasites infecting lizards in the Canary Islands". Paper presented in XIX Congreso Español de Herpetología – XV Congreso Luso-Español de Herpetología, Salamanca, 2018.
  3. Damas-Moreira, Isabel; Pereira, Ana; Oliveira, Daniel; Santos, Joana L; Riley, Julia; Harris, D. James; Whiting, Martin. "Learning skills in an invasive lizard". Paper presented in Australasian Evolution Society Conference, 2017.
  4. Perera, Ana; Tomé, Beatriz; Sousa, Amanda; Pereira, Ana; Carretero, Miguel A.; Harris, D. James; Roca, Vicente; Jorge, Fátima. "Paterns of diversification of parasites infecting reptiles in the Canary Islands: Different parasites, same answers?". Paper presented in II International Conference on Island Evolution, Ecology, and Conservation, Terceira Island, 2016.
  5. Pereira, Ana; Perera, Ana; Jorge, Fátima; Harris, D. James. "Variation in parasitaemia levels of blood parasites in reptiles endemic to the Canary Islands". Paper presented in XIII Iberian Congress of Herpetology, Aveiro, 2014.
Conference poster
  1. Barroso, Ricardo Alexandre; Saraiva, Aurélia; Pereira, Ana; Xavier, Raquel. "Apicomplexa parasites of the European pilchard, Sardina pilchardus (Walbaum, 1792) from Portuguese waters". Paper presented in IJUP - Investigação Jovem da Universidade do Porto, 2020.
Journal article
  1. Abderrahim S’Khifa; Ana Pereira; Mohamed Amine Samlali; Tahar Slimani; D. James Harris; Raquel Xavier. "¿Exploring the dietary niche of Atlantolacerta andreanskyi (Lacertidae) using DNA metabarcoding". Herpetozoa (2023): https://doi.org/10.3897/herpetozoa.36.e103198.
    10.3897/herpetozoa.36.e103198
  2. Ana Pereira; Marta C. Soares; Teresa Santos; Ana Poças; Marcos Pérez-Losada; Amy Apprill; Paul C. Sikkel; Raquel Xavier. "Reef Location and Client Diversity Influence the Skin Microbiome of the Caribbean Cleaner Goby Elacatinus evelynae". Microbial Ecology (2023): https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-022-01984-z.
    10.1007/s00248-022-01984-z
  3. Xavier, Raquel; Barroso, Ricardo; Cardoso, João; Cruz, Cristina; Pereira, Ana; Saraiva, Aurélia. "Phylogenetic Affinities and Infection Patterns of Goussia Infecting Sardina pilchardus from the NE Atlantic". Acta Parasitologica (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11686-020-00319-7.
    Published • 10.1007/s11686-020-00319-7
  4. Xavier, Raquel; Pereira, Ana; Pagan, Andres; Hendrick, Gina C.; Nicholson, Matthew D.; Rosado, Daniela; Soares, Marta C.; Pérez-Losada, Marcos; Sikkel, Paul C.. "The effects of environment and ontogeny on the skin microbiome of two Stegastes damselfishes (Pomacentridae) from the eastern Caribbean Sea". Marine Biology 167 7 (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00227-020-03717-7.
    Published • 10.1007/s00227-020-03717-7
  5. Xavier, Raquel; Cardoso, João; Barroso, Ricardo; Nogueira, Sara; Cruz, Cristina; Pereira, Ana; Saraiva, Aurélia. "Effects of Goussia infecting the blue whiting and phylogenetic placement of Goussia infecting marine fish off Northern Portugal". Parasitology Research 119 7 (2020): 2139-2147. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00436-020-06727-y.
    Published • 10.1007/s00436-020-06727-y
  6. Harris, D. James; Perera, Ana. "A metabarcoding approach detects rare blood parasites in fossorial amphisbaenians". North-Western Journal of Zoology 16 1 (2020):
    Published
  7. Canada, Paula; Pereira, Ana; Nogueira, Natacha; Png-Gonzalez, Lydia; Andrade, Carlos; Xavier, Raquel. "Analysis of bacterial microbiome associated with nylon and copper nets in an aquaculture context". Aquaculture 516 (2020): 734540. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2019.734540.
    10.1016/j.aquaculture.2019.734540
  8. Ana Pereira; Raquel Xavier; Ana Perera; Daniele Salvi; D James Harris. "DNA metabarcoding to assess diet partitioning and feeding strategies in generalist vertebrate predators: a case study on three syntopic lacertid lizards from Morocco". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society (2019): https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blz061.
    10.1093/biolinnean/blz061
  9. Tomé, Beatriz; Pereira, Ana; Harris, D. James; Carretero, Miguel A.; Perera, Ana. "A paradise for parasites? Seven new haemogregarine species infecting lizards from the Canary Islands". Parasitology (2019): 1-12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0031182018002160.
    Published • 10.1017/s0031182018002160
  10. Tomé, Beatriz; Pereira, Ana; Jorge, Fátima; Carretero, Miguel A.; Harris, D. James; Perera, Ana. "Along for the ride or missing it altogether: exploring the host specificity and diversity of haemogregarines in the Canary Islands". Parasites & Vectors 11 1 (2018): http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-018-2760-5.
    Published • 10.1186/s13071-018-2760-5
  11. Harris, D. James; Pereira, Ana; Halajian, Ali; Luus-Powell, Wilmien J.; Kunutu, Katlego D.. "Screening for Hepatozoon parasites in gerbils and potential predators in South Africa". Journal of the South African Veterinary Association 88 (2017): http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/jsava.v88i0.1339.
    10.4102/jsava.v88i0.1339
  12. Rosado, Daniela; Harris, D. James; Perera, Ana; Jorge, Fátima; Tomé, Beatriz; Damas-Moreira, Isabel; Tavares, Isabel; et al. "Moroccan herpetofauna distribution updates including a DNA barcoding approach". Herpetozoa 28 3 (2016): 171-178.
    Published
Preprint
  1. Diana S. Vasconcelos; D. James Harris; Isabel Damas-Moreira; Ana Pereira; Raquel Xavier. "What Shapes The Gut Microbiome of Lizards From Different Habitats?". 2022. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1298977/v1.
    10.21203/rs.3.rs-1298977/v1
  2. Rosado D; Pérez-Losada M; Pereira A; Severino R; Xavier R. "Effects of aging on the skin and gill microbiota of farmed seabass and seabream". 2020. http://europepmc.org/abstract/PPR/PPR238989.
    10.21203/rs.3.rs-47924/v2
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Ana Isabel Antunes Pereira. "A metabarcoding approach to assess the diet of lacertid lizards from the High Atlas Mountains". Master, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10216/111453.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2014/10 Variation in parasitaemia levels of blood parasites in reptiles endemic to the Canary Islands XIII Iberian Congress of Herpetology
(Aveiro, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2016/11 - 2016/11 Volunteer in the organization of the Conference Trends in Biodiversity and Evolution (TiBE) (2016/11 - 2016/11)
Conference (Other)
 Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
2016/05 - 2016/05 Volunteer in the organization of the Conference Congenomics (2016/05 - 2016/05)
Conference (Other)
 Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2016/12 - 2016/12 Research Animal Care and Ethics (Online Training Course) - Introduction to Animal Research
Other
Macquarie University Department of Biological Sciences, Australia
2016/09 - 2016/09 Fieldwork expedition to colect reptile samples in Morocco
Other
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
2015/05 - 2015/05 Fieldwork expedition for lizards' sampling in Skyros, Greece
Other
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Faculty of Biology, Greece
2014/05 - 2014/06 Fieldwork expedition to colect reptile samples in Morocco
Other
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
2014/03 - 2014/03 Volunteer in cientific communication in schools within the scope of the project "O CIIMAR na escola"
Other
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal