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Sara Ema Graça da Silva. Concluiu o(a) Mestrado em Biologia Evolutiva e do Desenvolvimento em 2011 pelo(a) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Licenciatura em Biologia, Ramo de Biologia Evolutiva e do Desenvolvimento em 2008 pelo(a) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências. Frequenta o(a) Doutoramento em Biologia e Ecologia das Alterações Globais pelo(a) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências. Publicou 9 artigos em revistas especializadas. Atua na(s) área(s) de Ciências Naturais com ênfase em Ciências Biológicas com ênfase em Biologia. No seu currículo Ciência Vitae os termos mais frequentes na contextualização da produção científica, tecnológica e artístico-cultural são: serviços ecossistemicos; biodiversidade; alterações ambientais; Genética populacional; Genómica populacional; Filogenética; Filogeografia; Biogeografia; Biologia Evolutiva; .
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Sara Ema Graça da Silva
Date of birth
1987/08/27
Gender
Female

Citation names

  • Silva, Sara
  • Sara E. Silva

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
BA1F-0AE1-9A37
ORCID iD
0000-0001-8766-8131
Google Scholar ID
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=z2baQFcAAAAJ&hl=en

Email addresses

  • saraema.silva@gmail.com (Professional)

Addresses

  • cE3c - Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Campo Grande, 1749-016, Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2)
Education
Degree Classification
2016
Ongoing
 Biologia e Ecologia das Alterações Globais (Doutoramento)
Major in Especialidade: Biologia do Genoma e Evolução
Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
""Unravelling patterns of population structure and environmental adaptation in Iberian bumblebees: an ecological genomic approach"" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2011
Concluded
 Mestrado em Biologia Evolutiva e do Desenvolvimento (Mestrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Genetic variation in two littorinid gastropods along the East African coast: comparison with morphological data" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2008
Concluded
 Licenciatura em Biologia, Ramo de Biologia Evolutiva e do Desenvolvimento (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"n/a" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/09/03 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2013/12/16 - 2014/05/15 Researcher (Research) Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
(...)
2013/01/01 - 2013/09/30 Researcher (Research) Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2010/06/21 - 2012/12/31 Researcher (Research) Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
(...)
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2019/09/03 - Current GO SILVPAST: Implementação custo-eficiente de mosaicos silvo-pastoris de carvalho negral
DR2020-1.0.1-FEADER-031879
Research Fellow
PDR 2020 – Programa de Desenvolvimento Rural 2014-2020, Fundo Europeu Agrícola de Desenvolvimento Rural
Ongoing
2018/07/01 - 2021/06/30 Efeitos da eutrofização e clima nos polinizadores e provisão de serviços dos ecossistemas
PTDC/BIA-ECO/28360/2017
Other
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2013/12/16 - 2014/05/15 Monitorização da flora epifitica na zona envolvente à Central de Tratamento de Resíduos Sólidos Urbanos
Monitorização da flora epifitica na zona envolvente à Central de Tratamento de Resíduos Sólidos Urbanos
Research Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
 Valorsul
Concluded
2010/06/21 - 2012/12/31 Adaptive significance and genetic basis of a balanced colour-polymorphism
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/3599-PPCDT/98783/PT
Research Technician Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Centro de Ecologia Evolução e Alterações Ambientais, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Journal article
  1. Sara E Silva; Sofia G Seabra; Luísa G Carvalheiro; Vera L Nunes; Eduardo Marabuto; Raquel Mendes; Ana S B Rodrigues; et al. "Population genomics of Bombus terrestris reveals high but unstructured genetic diversity in a potential glacial refugium". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society (2020): https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blz182.
    10.1093/biolinnean/blz182
  2. Sofia G. Seabra; Sara E. Silva; Vera L. Nunes; Vitor C. Sousa; Joana Martins; Eduardo Marabuto; Ana S. B. Rodrigues; et al. "Genomic signatures of introgression between commercial and native bumblebees, Bombus terrestris , in western Iberian Peninsula—Implications for conservation and trade regulation". Evolutionary Applications 12 4 (2019): 679-691. https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.12732.
    10.1111/eva.12732
  3. Adrià López-Baucells; Ricardo Rocha; Valéria Da Cunha Tavares; Ligiane Martins Moras; Sara Ema Silva; Paulo Estefano Dineli Bobrowiec; Christoph F.J. Meyer. "Molecular, morphological and acoustic identification of Eumops maurus and Eumops hansae (Chiroptera: Molossidae) with new reports from Central Amazonia". Tropical Zoology (2018): 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/03946975.2017.1382284.
    10.1080/03946975.2017.1382284
  4. Ana S. B. Rodrigues; Sara E. Silva; Francisco Pina-Martins; João Loureiro; Mariana Castro; Karim Gharbi; Kevin P. Johnson; et al. "Assessing genotype-phenotype associations in three dorsal colour morphs in the meadow spittlebug Philaenus spumarius (L.) (Hemiptera: Aphrophoridae) using genomic and transcriptomic resources". BMC Genetics 17 1 (2016): https://doi.org/10.1186%2Fs12863-016-0455-5.
    10.1186/s12863-016-0455-5
  5. Sara E. Silva; Diogo N. Silva; Tereza Almeida; CÉsar A. Garcia; OctÁvio S. Paulo; Manuela Sim-sim. "Age estimates of Frullania (Frullaniaceae, Porellales) main lineages: another example of rapid and recent diversification in liverwort evolution". Systematics and Biodiversity 15 2 (2016): 156-165. https://doi.org/10.1080%2F14772000.2016.1217096.
    10.1080/14772000.2016.1217096
  6. SARA E. SILVA; ANA S. B. RODRIGUES; EDUARDO MARABUTO; SELÇUK YURTSEVER; PAULO A. V. BORGES; JOSÉ A. QUARTAU; OCTÁVIO S. PAULO; SOFIA G. SEABRA. "Differential survival and reproduction in colour forms ofPhilaenus spumariusgive new insights to the study of its balanced polymorphism". Ecological Entomology 40 6 (2015): 759-766. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/een.12252.
    10.1111/een.12252
  7. Ana S. B. Rodrigues; Sara E. Silva; Eduardo Marabuto; Diogo N. Silva; Mike R. Wilson; Vinton Thompson; Selçuk Yurtsever; et al. "New Mitochondrial and Nuclear Evidences Support Recent Demographic Expansion and an Atypical Phylogeographic Pattern in the Spittlebug Philaenus spumarius (Hemiptera, Aphrophoridae)". PLoS ONE 9 6 (2014): e98375-e98375. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0098375.
    10.1371/journal.pone.0098375
  8. Silva, S.E.; Silva, I.C.; Madeira, C.; Sallema, R.; Paulo, O.S.; Paula, J.. "Genetic and morphological variation in two littorinid gastropods: Evidence for recent population expansions along the East African coast". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 108 3 (2013): 494-508. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84874014406&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/j.1095-8312.2012.02041.x
  9. Madeira, C.; Alves, M.J.; Mesquita, N.; Silva, S.E.; Paula, J.. "Tracing geographical patterns of population differentiation in a widespread mangrove gastropod: Genetic and geometric morphometrics surveys along the eastern african coast". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 107 3 (2012): 647-663. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84867687813&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/j.1095-8312.2012.01967.x
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2018 Unraveling patterns of population structure in Bombus terrestris from the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa 8th Congress of Apidology
(Gante, Belgium)
2018 Genomic signatures of introgression between commercial and native bumblebees, Bombus terrestris, in the Iberian Peninsula – implications for conservation and trade regulation EurBee 2018 – 8th Congress of Apidology
(Gante, Belgium)
2017 Adaptive significance and genetic basis of the dorsal colour polymorphism of Philaenus spumarius XVI Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology
(Groningen, Netherlands)
2017 The colour polymorphic meadow spittlebug as an ecological model species for the study of genomics of adaptation cE3c 2017 Annual Meeting
Complexo Científico do Campus de Ponta Delgada da Universidade dos Açores (Ponta Delgada, Açores, Portugal)
2016 Using genomics to understand environmental adaptation of Iberian bumblebees and assess the impact of the use of commercial lineages for crop pollination 7th EURBEE Congress of Apidology
(Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
2016 Using genomics to understand environmental adaptation of Iberian bumblebees and assess the impact of the use of commercial lineages for crop pollination Super-B Meeting
(Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
2016 Genomic approaches to assess environmental adaptation and detect signatures of introgression between commercial and native pollinators in the Iberian Peninsula XVII Congresso Ibérico de Entomologia
(Lisboa, Portugal)
2013 Differential survival and reproduction of the colour morphs of the meadow spittlebug, Philaenus spumarius (Hemiptera, Aphrophoridae). 14th International Auchenorrhyncha Congress
(Yangling, Shaanxi, China)
2013 Experimental and genomic approaches in the study of the balanced colour-polymorphism of the meadow spittlebug (Philaenus spumarius) 14º Congresso da Sociedade Europeia para a Biologia Evolutiva
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências (Lisboa, Portugal)
2013 Tracing geographical patterns of population differentiation in a widespread mangrove gastropod: genetic and geometric morphometrics surveys along the eastern African coast Simpósio de Ciências Marinhas
(Lisboa, Portugal)
2011/12/21 Adaptive significance of a multi-allelic balanced colour-polymorphism - Experiments in captivity and population genomics approach. VII Encontro Nacional de Biologia Evolutiva
Museu da Ciência da Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2013/01/01 - 2013/09/30 Membro da organização do "XIV Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology" ocorrido de 19 a 24 de Agosto de 2013 (2013/08/19 - 2013/08/24)
Congress (Other)
 Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2018 - 2018 Poster – Seabra SG, Silva SE, Nunes VL, Sousa VC, Martins J, Marabuto E, Rodrigues ASB, Pina-Martins F, Laurentino TG, Rebelo MT, Paulo OS & Figueiredo E (2018). “Potential negative impacts of commercial bumblebees on native conspecifics - genetic contamination and parasite spillover”. 14th Meeting of the IOBC-WPRS Working Group "Integrated control in protected crops, Mediterranean climate", INIAV, Oeiras, Portugal, (4 – 7 Setembro).
Congress
2016 - 2016 Poster – Cusatis AC, Modesto I, Rodrigues ASB, Silva SE, Modesto I, Marabuto E, Príncepe AS, Branquinho C, Paulo OS (2016). Comparing patterns of genetic diversity between Quercus rotundifolia (Lam.) and Quercus suber (L.). 2nd Annual Meeting: Frontiers in E3, Centro de Ecologia, Evolução e Alterações Ambientais (cE3c), Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, 21-28 de Junho.
Congress
2016 - 2016 Poster – Silva SE, Nunes V, Seabra SG, Marabuto E, Rodrigues ASB, Pina-Martins F, Rebelo MT, Martins J, Figueiredo E, Paulo OS (2015). The buff-tailed bumblebees in Iberian Peninsula: how are populations genetically structured and how do they cope with the introduction of commercial lineages? 2nd Annual Meeting: Frontiers in E3, Centro de Ecologia, Evolução e Alterações Ambientais (cE3c), Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, 21-28 de Junho.
Congress
2016 - 2016 Poster – Cusatis A, Rodrigues ASB, Silva SE, Modesto I, Marabuto E, Príncepe AS, Branquinho C, Paulo OS (2016). Detecting signs of natural selection throughout environmental gradients in holm oak (Quercus rotundifolia). IUFRO Genomics and Forest Tree Genetics Conference, Arcachon, França, 30 de Maio a 3 de Junho.
Congress
2016 - 2016 Curso “Introduction to Ecological Niche Modelling” promovido pelo Centro de Investigação em Ciências Geo-Espaciais (CIGCE), no Observatório Astronómico Prof. Manuel de Barros, Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal, 18 – 22 de Julho.
Workshop
2015 - 2015 Poster – Rodrigues ASB, Silva SE, Pina-Martins F, Seabra SG, Jiggins C, Paulo OS (2015). Assessing genotype-phenotype associations between RADsep loci and three dorsal colour morphs in spittlebug Philaenus spumarius. XI Encontro Nacional de Biologia Evolutiva, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal, 21 de Dezembro.
Congress
2015 - 2015 Poster – Silva SE, Nunes V, Seabra SG, Marabuto E, Rodrigues ASB, Pina-Martins F, Rebelo MT, Martins J, Figueiredo E, Paulo OS (2015). The buff-tailed bumblebees in Iberian Peninsula: how are populations genetically structured and how do they cope with the introduction of commercial lineages? XI Encontro Nacional de Biologia Evolutiva, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal, 21 de Dezembro.
Congress
2015 - 2015 Poster – Silva SE, Nunes V, Seabra SG, Marabuto E, Rodrigues ASB, Pina-Martins F, Rebelo MT, Martins J, Figueiredo E, Paulo OS (2015). Assessing population genetic structure of Bombus terrestris and signatures of introgression between commercial and native bumblebees. Encontro sobre Biodiversidade e Conservação de Invertebrados em Portugal, Seia, Portugal, 12-13 de Dezembro.
Congress
2013 - 2013 Poster - Rodrigues AS, Silva SE, Marabuto E, Silva DN, Silva J, Wilson MR, Thompson V, Yurtsever S, Halkka A, Gharbi K, Blaxter M, Borges PAV, Quartau JA, Jiggins C, Paulo OS, Seabra SG (2013). Phylogeographic structure of the spittlebug Philaenus spumarius (Hemiptera, Aphrophoridae) based on mitochondrial DNA and RAD sequencing. 14º Congresso da Sociedade Europeia para a Biologia Evolutiva, Lisboa, Portugal, 19 - 24 de Agosto.
Congress
2012 - 2012 Poster - Rodrigues AS, Silva SE, Marabuto E, Pina-Martins F, Fino J, Silva J, Gharbi K, Castro M, Loureiro J, Borges PAV, Quartau JA, Jiggins C, Paulo OS, Seabra SG (2012). Genetic basis of colour polymorphism in Philaenus species (Hemiptera, Aphrophoridae). Genomics Special Interest Group, Cambridge, Reino Unido, 26 de Novembro.
Congress
2012 - 2012 Poster - Rodrigues AS, Silva SE, Marabuto E, Silva DN, Borges PAV, Quartau JA, Paulo OS, Seabra SG (2012). Phylogeography and demographic history of the spittlebug Philaenus spumarius (Hemiptera, Aphrophoridae): evidence of recent divergence and post-glacial expansion. XV Congresso Ibérico de Entomologia, Angra do Heroísmo, Ilha Terceira, Açores, Portugal, 1 - 6 de Setembro.
Congress
2012 - 2012 Poster - Seabra SG, Rodrigues AS, Silva SE, Marabuto E, Pina-Martins F, Gharbi K, Blaxter M, Borges PAV, Quartau JA, Jiggins C, Paulo OS (2012). Population genomics and phenotype-genotype association studies using RAD sequencing in the colour-polymorphic Philaenus spumarius (Insecta, Hemiptera). First Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology, Ottawa, Ontario, Canadá, 6 - 10 de Julho.
Congress
2012 - 2012 “Python 101: by biologists, for biologists” promovido pelo Computational Biology and Population Genomics Group (CoBiG²), na Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, 28 de Maio – 1 de Junho.
Workshop
2011 - 2011 Poster - Madeira C, Alves MJ, Mesquita N, Silva SE, Paula J (2011). Local shape variation and large scale genetic structure of the mangrove gastropod Cerithidea decollata along the eastern coast of Africa. WIOMSA Scientific Symposium, Mombasa, Quénia, 24 - 29 de Outubro.
Congress
2010 - 2010 Poster - Silva SE, Silva IC, Paulo OS, Paula J (2010). Genetic and morphological variation of two littorinid gastropods along an East African latitudinal gradient. VI Encontro Nacional de Biologia Evolutiva, Lisboa, Portugal, 22 de Dezembro.
Congress
2010 - 2010 Poster - Silva SE, Silva IC, Paulo OS, Paula J (2010). Genetic and morphological variation of two littorinid gastropods along an East African latitudinal gradient. 2nd Edition of Trends in Biodiversity and Evolution, Vairão, Portugal, 9 - 10 de Dezembro.
Congress
2010 - 2010 Poster - Silva SE, Silva IC, Paulo OS, Paula J (2010). Genetic diversity and differentiation of two littorinid gastropods: comparison with morphological data. XXXV Jornadas Portuguesas da Genética, Braga, Portugal, 31 de Maio - 2 de Junho.
Congress
2010 - 2010 “Pratical Course on Phylogeography” promovido pelo Centro de Biologia Ambiental (CBA) e pelo Computational Biology and Population Genomics Group (CoBiG2), na Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, 25 – 29 de Janeiro.
Workshop

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2013 - 2020 Biological Journal of the Linnean Society (1095-8312) Oxford University Press
2019 - 2019 Journal of Apicultural Research (2078-6913) Informa UK (Taylor & Francis)
2018 - 2018 Biological Invasions (1573-1464) Springer-Verlag
2017 - 2017 African Journal of Marine Science (1814-2338) National Inquiry Services Center (NISC)
2013 - 2013 Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology (1993-5005) Springer-Verlag
2013 - 2013 Hydrobiologia (1573-5117) Springer-Verlag