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Patrício Simões is a Neurobiologist with research interests in the sensory mechanisms underlying animal behavioural diversity. Patricio received is PhD in Zoology in 2103 from the University of Cambridge and is currently a Research Fellow at the School of Life Sciences of the University of Sussex, UK. He has published 8 articles in peer-reviewed journals , with over 140 citations and an h-index of 6. In his professional activities, Patricio interacted with 12 collaborators in co-authorship of scientific papers. Patricio supervised 10 final year projects from students from the University of Brighton and from exchange programmes with Murcia and Rennes Universities. In 2017, Patricio was recipient of the Rising Stars Award from the University of Brighton to seed-corn his research on the flight behaviour of the mosquito .
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Patricio Simoes

Citation names

  • Simões, Patrício

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
AD1D-8E50-FED8
ORCID iD
0000-0001-9485-6448
Google Scholar ID
zx8_BWQAAAAJ

Email addresses

  • P.M.Simoes@sussex.ac.uk (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Behavioural Sciences Biology
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Zoology
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Evolutionary Biology
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Other Biological Topics

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian Upper intermediate (B2) Proficiency (C2) Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
French Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1) Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1) Elementary (A2)
Education
Degree Classification
2008/10/01 - 2013/01/19
Concluded
 Zoology (Doctor of Philosophy)
University of Cambridge Department of Zoology, United Kingdom
"The influence of phase change on learning and memory in desert locusts" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2008
Concluded
 International Neuroscience Doctoral Programme (INDP) (Outros)
Programa Champalimaud de Neurociências, Portugal
2007/04/12
Concluded
 Ethology (Mestrado)
Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada Centro de Investigacao, Portugal
"Cooperation in rats playing an interated Prisoner's dilemma game: influence of a game matrix formed with qualitatively distinct payoffs" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2002/12/02
Concluded
 Biologia (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
"Morfologia e Distribuição dos Orgãos Sensoriais da Clava Antenar de Platypus cylindrus" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020/02/01 - Current Auxiliary Researcher (Research) University of Sussex School of Life Sciences, United Kingdom
2013/08/09 - 2020/01/31 Auxiliary Researcher (Research) University of Brighton - Moulsecoomb Campus, United Kingdom
2006/01/03 - 2006/11/30 Research Assistant (Research) Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2003/11/03 - 2005/12/01 Research Assistant (Research) Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2020/02/01 - Current Synaptic computation in the visual system.
102905
Post-doc Fellow
2015/09/01 - Current Interaction between sensory and supporting cells in the organ of Corti: basis for sensitivity and frequency selectivity of mammalian cochlea
MR/N004299/1
Post-doc Fellow
University of Brighton - Moulsecoomb Campus, United Kingdom
 Medical Research Council
2013/08/07 - 2015/08/31 Exploiting acoustic distortion by mosquitoes to listen on the wing.
RPG-2012-783
Post-doc Fellow
University of Brighton - Moulsecoomb Campus, United Kingdom
 Leverhulme Trust
Concluded
2003/09/01 - 2005/09/01 PHRAME - Development of Improved Pest Risk Analysis for quarantine pests, using pinewood nematode, Bursaphelenchus xylophilus, in Portugal as a model system.
QLK5-CT-2002-00672
Scientific Initiation Fellow
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract
  1. Simoes, Patricio; Jeremy Niven; Swidbert Ott. "Phase-dependent associative learning in desert locusts". Paper presented in Tenth International Congress of Neuroethology, Maryland, 2012.
    Accepted • 10.3389/conf.fnbeh.2012.27.00205
  2. Simões, Patrício Manuel Vieira; Ana Catarina Penas; Maria Antonia Bravo. "SPICULE SHAPE ANALYSES IN THE GENUS BURSAPHELENCHUS FUCHS, 1937: A NUMERICAL TAXONOMY APPROACH". Paper presented in PINE WILT DISEASE: a worldwide threat to forest ecosystems, Lisbon, 2006.
Conference poster
  1. Simões, Patrício ; Robert Ingham; Gabriella Gibson; Ian Russell. "Masking of an auditory behaviour reveals how male mosquitoes use distortion to detect females.". Paper presented in Sensory Transduction in Insects, 2017.
  2. Simões, Patrício ; Swidbert Ott; Jeremy Niven. "Associative Olfactory Learning in Schistocerca gregaria.". Paper presented in 3rd Göttingen Neurobiology Conference, 2011.
Journal article
  1. Nakata, Toshiyuki; Phillips, Nathan; Simões, Patrício; Russell, Ian J.; Cheney, Jorn A.; Walker, Simon M.; Bomphrey, Richard J.. "Aerodynamic imaging by mosquitoes inspires a surface detector for autonomous flying vehicles". Science 368 6491 (2020): 634-637. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aaz9634.
    10.1126/science.aaz9634
  2. Manley, Geoffrey A.; Lukashkin, Andrei; Simoes, Patricio; Burwood, George ; Russell, Ian. "The Mammalian Ear: Physics and the Principles of Evolution". Acoustics Today 14 1 (2018): 8-16. https://acousticstoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/The-Mammalian-Ear-Physics-and-the-Principles-of-Evolution.pdf.
    Open access • Accepted
  3. P. M. V. Simões; R. Ingham; G. Gibson; I. J. Russell. "Masking of an auditory behaviour reveals how male mosquitoes use distortion to detect females". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 285 1871 (2018): 20171862-20171862. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.1862.
    10.1098/rspb.2017.1862
  4. Simões PM; Gibson G; Russell IJ. "Pre-copula acoustic behaviour of males in the malarial mosquitoes Anopheles coluzzii and Anopheles gambiae s.s. does not contribute to reproductive isolation.". (2017): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/28148817.
  5. Simões PM; Ott SR; Niven JE. "Environmental Adaptation, Phenotypic Plasticity, and Associative Learning in Insects: The Desert Locust as a Case Study.". (2016): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/27549202.
  6. Simões PM; Ingham RA; Gibson G; Russell IJ. "A role for acoustic distortion in novel rapid frequency modulation behaviour in free-flying male mosquitoes.". (2016): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/27122548.
    10.1242/jeb.135293
  7. Simões PM; Niven JE; Ott SR. "Phenotypic transformation affects associative learning in the desert locust.". (2013): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/24268415.
    10.1016/j.cub.2013.10.016
  8. Simões PM; Ott SR; Niven JE. "A long-latency aversive learning mechanism enables locusts to avoid odours associated with the consequences of ingesting toxic food.". (2012): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/22539738.
    10.1242/jeb.068106
  9. Simões P; Ott SR; Niven JE. "Associative olfactory learning in the desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria.". (2011): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/21753041.
    10.1242/jeb.055806
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Simoes, Patricio. "The influence of phase change on learning and memory in desert locusts". PhD, University of Cambridge Department of Zoology, 2012. http://idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=44CAM_ALMA21428206950003606&context=L&vid=44CAM_PROD&search_scope=SCOP_CAM_ALL&tab=cam_lib_coll&lang=en_US.
  2. Simões, Patrício Manuel Vieira. "Cooperation in rats playing an interated Prisoner's dilemma game : influence of a game matrix formed with qualitatively distinct payoffs". Master, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.12/955.
  3. Simões, Patrício. "Morfologia e Distribuição dos Orgãos Sensoriais da Clava Antenar de Platypus cylindrus". Degree, Universidade de Évora, 2002.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2006/07/10 Spicule Shape Analysis in the Genus Bursaphelencus Fuchs, 1937: A Numerical Taxonomy Approach PINE WILT DISEASE: a worldwide threat to forest ecosystems
(Lisbon, Portugal)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2019/05/07 - 2020/07/20 The effect of the acoustic swarm environment on behaviour and electrophysiological response of male C. quinquefasciatus mosquitoes
Co-supervisor
Brighton and Sussex Medical School, United Kingdom

University of Brighton - Moulsecoomb Campus, United Kingdom
2018/10/23 - 2019/05/03 Potential Mechanisms of Divergent Selection and Reproductive Isolation in An. gambiae and An. colluzii
Supervisor
University of Brighton, United Kingdom
2018/10/23 - 2019/05/03 Flight parameters of free-flying mosquitoes
Supervisor
University of Brighton, United Kingdom
2018/04/18 - 2018/06/18 Hearing and flight behavior of male mosquitoes in dark conditions.
Supervisor
University of Brighton - Moulsecoomb Campus, United Kingdom

Université de Rennes 1 IUT de Saint-Brieuc, France
2017/09/15 - 2017/12/15 Behavioural observation and experimentation of the male mosquito swarming.
Supervisor
 Erasmus + programme (Other)
University of Brighton - Moulsecoomb Campus, United Kingdom

Universidad de Murcia - Campus de Espinardo, Spain
2017/04/10 - 2017/06/23 Research about acoustic communication and hearing behaviour of mosquitoes during mating.
Supervisor
University of Brighton - Moulsecoomb Campus, United Kingdom

Université de Rennes 1 IUT de Saint-Brieuc, France
2015/10/19 - 2016/05/06 Does temperature have an effect on the mating behaviour and flight pattern of Culex mosquitoes?
Supervisor
 Biology Experimental Project (Other)
University of Brighton, United Kingdom
2015/10/15 - 2016/05/06 Analysis of the RFM behaviour and flight path in free-flying male mosquitoes
Supervisor
 Biology Experimental Project (Other)
University of Brighton, United Kingdom
2014/10/16 - 2015/05/07 The Pre-mating behaviour of free flying Culex quinquefasciatus mosquitoes in the presence of an obstacle.
Supervisor
 Biology Experimental Project (Other)
University of Brighton, United Kingdom
2013/10/20 - 2014/05/05 Male Mosquitoes use wing beat frequency to establish hierarchy of dominance.
Co-supervisor
 Biology Experimental Project (Other)
University of Brighton, United Kingdom

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2016/10/12 - Current VectorBiTE RCN - Vector Behavior in Transmission Ecology Research Coordination Network. Member

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2016/05 - Current Bioresources User Group of the University of Brighton: Internal platform to discuss matters in animal research and to ensure facility users are compliant with UK legislation for Scientific Procedures on animals.
Member
 University of Brighton, United Kingdom

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2015/06/01 - 2015/06/15 Mosquito rearing and implementation of behavioural protocols to capture mosquito free flight at the Structure and Motion Laboratory, RVC. Pro bono, acknowledged. Royal Veterinary College, United Kingdom

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2016/04 - 2017 Evolution of hearing Evolutionary Biology University of Brighton - Moulsecoomb Campus, United Kingdom
2015/10 - 2016/10 Reproductive behaviour and sexual selection in vertebrates Biology of Reproduction University of Brighton - Moulsecoomb Campus, United Kingdom

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2016/10/06 Learning how mosquitoes hear could reap health rewards - Piece about my research on mosquito behaviour at the University of Brighton. The Argus
2014/01/14 And that is how the desert locust lost its memory - Piece about my PhD research on locust behaviour. Science Daily/ Ciência Viva - Agência Nacional para a Cultura Científica e Tecnológica.
2013/12/19 How Locusts learn to be part of a swarm - Piece about my PhD research on locust behaviour. Wired
2013/11/21 Investigador português descobre que gafanhoto muda forma de aprender e recordar - News piece about my PhD research on locust behaviour. SIC Noticias
2013/11/21 Gafanhoto é capaz de mudar forma de aprender e recordar - News piece about my PhD research on locust behaviour. TVI24
Distinctions

Award

2018 Rising Stars
University of Brighton - Moulsecoomb Campus, United Kingdom

Other distinction

2007 PhD grant - SFRH/BD/33278/2007
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal