Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Andreia de Jesus Amaral Gomes Barbosa Fonseca
Citation names
- Amaral, Andreia J.
- Amaral, A
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- E413-A0C2-5C4B
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-0958-5570
Knowledge fields
- Agrarian Sciences - Animal and Dairy Science - Animal and Dairy Science
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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English | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | |
French | Intermediate (B1) | Advanced (C1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | |
Spanish; Castilian | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Intermediate (B1) | Advanced (C1) | |
English | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | |
French | Intermediate (B1) | Advanced (C1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | |
Spanish; Castilian | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Intermediate (B1) | Advanced (C1) | |
Dutch | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2010
Concluded
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Wageningen University- Institute of Animal Science (Doutoramento)
Wageningen Universiteit, Netherlands
"Nucleotide variation and footprints of selection in the porcine and chicken genomes" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Muito Bom (tabela de classificação: suficiente, Bo |
2006
Concluded
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Conservation Biology (Mestrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Study of genetic integrity of Coturnix coturnix Linnaeus, 1758 in Portugal and detection of hybridization with an exotic
species Coturnix japonica Temminck and Schlegel, 1849" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Very good (top score) |
2000
Concluded
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Engenharia Agronómica- Produção Animal (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
"“ Estabilidade e adaptabilidade de clones de videira”" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2020/05/01 - Current | Contracted Researcher (Research) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, Portugal |
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação Interdisciplinar em Sanidade Animal, Portugal | ||
2017/10/24 - 2020/02/28 | Postdoc (Research) | Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação Interdisciplinar em Sanidade Animal, Portugal |
2010/06/01 - 2017/06/15 | Postdoc (Research) | Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Portugal |
2010/06/01 - 2016/06/30 | Postdoc (Research) | Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Biossistemas e Ciências Integrativas, Portugal |
2006/10/01 - 2010/05/28 | Contracted Researcher (Research) | Wageningen Universiteit en Research, Netherlands |
2009/01/02 - 2009/03/31 | Visiting Researcher (Research) | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Facultat de Ciències, Spain |
Teaching in Higher Education
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2022/10/06 - Current | Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade de Évora, Portugal |
Universidade de Évora Escola de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
Designation | Funders | |
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2017 - Current | egoSELF: An Integrative Biology approach to study the molecular basis of inbreeding depression in Eucalyptus globulus
PTDC/AGRFOR/ 0931/2014
Principal investigator
Instituto de Biotecnologia e Bioengenharia, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação Interdisciplinar em Sanidade Animal, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2021/06/01 - 2026/05/31 | GEroNIMO: Genome and Epigenome eNabled breedIng in MOnogastrics
101000236
Principal investigator
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação Interdisciplinar em Sanidade Animal, Portugal
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H2020 Food Security Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry Marine Maritime and Inland Water Research and the Bioeconomy
Ongoing
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2021/01/01 - 2024/01/01 | Clean Smoke - Produtos e Processos de Fumagem Industriais.
LISBOA-01-0247-FEDER-068048
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, Portugal
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Ongoing
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2021/01/01 - 2024/01/01 | Gene2Rumen- New Insights into the variability of ruminal lipid metabolism in lambs.
PTDC/CAL-ZOO/4515/2021
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
2019/09/01 - 2022/09/30 | BOVREG- IDENTIFICATION OF FUNCTIONALLY ACTIVE GENOMIC FEATURES RELEVANT TO PHENOTYPIC DIVERSITY AND PLASTICITY IN CATTLE
815668
Principal investigator
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação Interdisciplinar em Sanidade Animal, Portugal
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EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Science with and for Society
Ongoing
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2016/04/01 - 2020/04/30 | COST ACTION- Functional Annotation of Animal Genomes
Principal investigator
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação Interdisciplinar em Sanidade Animal, Portugal
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EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Science with and for Society
Ongoing
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2017/10/24 - 2020/02/29 | IMAGE- Innovative Management of Genetic Resources
Post-doc Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação Interdisciplinar em Sanidade Animal, Portugal
INRA Centre de Jouy-en-Josas, France |
EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Euratom
Ongoing
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2010/04 - 2014/05 | AIDS & miRNAs
FP7-PEOPLE-2009-RG Proposal No 256595
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European Commission |
Contract
Designation | Funders | |
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2011/04/01 - 2014/03/31 | HIV/AIDS: contribute of naïve CD4 T cell homeostasis
PTDC/SAU-MIC/109786/2009
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2012/03/01 - 2013/08/31 | A novel Rac1/PAK1/BCL-6 pathway to regulate gene expression: genome-wide screening for target genes
PTDC/SAU-GMG/119586/2010
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2010/03/01 - 2013/08/31 | Did you ask for something small The microRNAs power in a Eucalyptus tension world! the microEGo project
PTDC/AGR-GPL/098179/2008
Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica, Portugal
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
Conference paper |
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Journal article |
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Thesis / Dissertation |
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Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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2023/07/04 | Adipose gene expression profiles of four cattle breeds highlight selective pressures and tissue functions. | ISAG 2023
Internacional Society of Animal Genetics (Cape Town, South Africa)
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2023/07/04 | Whole genome sequencing of Landim pigs of Mozambique reveals a close relationship with Angola native pigs and suggests selection for immune response. | ISAG 2023
International Society for Animal Genetics (Cape Town, South Africa)
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2018/11/17 | Broadening the miRNA catalogue in livestock species: a contribution to the functional annotation of animal genomes consortium. | CIISA Congress 2018 “Exploring the boundaries of animal, veterinary and biomedical sciences”,
Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2018/01/14 | Broadening the miRNA Catalogue in Livestock Species | Plant and Animal Genomes XXVI
Plant and Animal Genomes XXVI (San Diego, United States)
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2017/11/24 | Genome-wide screen of intramuscular fat in Alentejano pigs: uncovering the genetic basis of lipogenesis | 4th Fatty Pigs Conference
Universidad Badajoz (Badajoz, Spain)
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2015/03/22 | Detecting footprints of HIV-1 derived sncRNAs in small-RNA-seq data. | 4th Bioinformatics Open Days
Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2014/06/12 | The modulation of the microRnome of human CD4+ T cells by TCR-mediated activation and HIV infection | EMBO Fellows Meeting 2014
EMBO (Heidelberg, Germany)
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2013/06/11 | miR-34c-5p is a novel regulator of naive T-cell activation that impacts HIV replication | 18th annual meeting of the RNA Society
RNA Society (Davos, Switzerland)
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2012/11/05 | Small non-coding RNAs: a possible role in HIV infection. | Next Generation Sequencing- Applications in Genetic and Infectious Diseases
Instituto Nacional Ricardo Jorge (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2010/09/22 | Profiling the effect of cell activation in the microRnome of human naïve CD4+ T-cells. | XXXVI Annual Meeting of SPI (Portuguese Society of Immunology)
Portuguese Society of Immunology (Braga, Portugal)
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2009/11/03 | Massive parallel sequencing reveals footprints of selection in the porcine genome | Jornadas de Bioinformática 2009
Instituto Gulbenkian Ciência (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2008/01/13 | LD In Pigs: Differences Between China And Europe. | Plant & Animal Genome XVI Conference
(San Diego, United States)
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Supervision
Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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2023/09/01 - Current | Genetic characterization and study of adaptation in local cattle breeds of Angola
Supervisor
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Ciências Veterinárias (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, Portugal
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2023/09/01 - Current | Genetic diversity of local goats of Angola and identification of signatures of selection towards resistance to trypanosomiasis
Supervisor of Hermenegildo Chiaia
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Ciências Veterinárias (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, Portugal
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2023/09/01 - Current | Genetic characterisation of local pigs of Angola e its genetic interactions with African wild suids: simpatry – introgression
between species and its implication in pig adaptation
Supervisor
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Ciências Veterinárias (PhD)
Universidade de Évora Instituto de Investigação e Formação Avançada, Portugal
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2021/09/01 - Current | Carbapenem Resistant Enterobacteriaceae transmission in the
community: who is amplifying resistance?
Co-supervisor
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Microbiology (PhD)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal
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2021/09/01 - Current | Sharing more than friendship: dynamics of direct transmission of antimicrobial resistance between human families and
their companion animals during different types of animal infection
Co-supervisor of Juliana Cruz de Oliveira de Menezes
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Ciências Veterinárias (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, Portugal
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2020/09/01 - Current | Myostatin gene mutation occurrence and expression in
Portuguese “Preta” cattle
Co-supervisor
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Veterinarian Sciences (PhD)
Universidade de Évora Escola de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
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2018/09/17 - Current | Evolution of the IsomiR Window tool
Co-supervisor
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Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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2022/09/01 - 2023/12/20 | Whole genome sequencing of Landim pigs of Mozambique to unravel diversity and anscestry
Supervisor
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Animal Science (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
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2022/04/01 - 2023/12/18 | Relation between the occurrence pf the Miostatin mutation nt821 and traits of reproduction and efficiency in males of Preta
caule breed
Supervisor
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Animal Science (Master)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
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2020/09/01 - 2021/12/15 | Lost pigs: searching for the origins of Angola indigenous pigs
Supervisor of Pedro Sá
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Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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2016/09/14 - 2018/02/12 | Identifying the sequence complexity of miRNAs and their functional impact in small-RNA-seq data
Supervisor of Inês Viegas
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Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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2016/09/14 - 2017/11/20 | The IsomiR Window: the interface that bridges the complexity of miRNAs and their functional impact
Co-supervisor of Beatriz Ferreira
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Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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2012/09/01 - 2014/07/14 | Transcriptome profiling of spinal muscular atrophy models using RNA-seq
Supervisor of Francisco Fialho Brito
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Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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Jury of academic degree
Topic Role |
Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization |
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2014/12/22 | Analysis of molecular diversity and cis-regulatory elements in the promoters of lignin genes in Eucalyptus species
(Thesis) Arguer
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Priscila Miriam Santos Pereira (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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Association member
Society Organization name | Role | |
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2017/01/01 - 2030/12/31 | Society for Animal Genetics | Standing Committee- Pig Genetics and Genomic |
Committee member
Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | |
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2023/05/12 - Current | CA22112 - European Network on Livestock Phenomics (EU-LI-PHE) - Member of Management committee
EU-LI-PHE will create a Europe-centred multidisciplinary, interconnected and inclusive community of experts that will enhance
scientific collaboration, catalyse developments, and transfer livestock phenomics concepts and applications to improve the
sustainability and competitiveness of the European livestock production sector.
Member
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Universidade de Évora, Portugal |
2016/04/01 - 2019/12/31 | Portuguese Member of Management Committee of COST ACTION Functional Annotation of Animal Genomes CA15112
Member
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Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação Interdisciplinar em Sanidade Animal, Portugal |
Mentoring / Tutoring
Topic | Student name | |
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2014/05/01 - 2014/09/30 | Characterization of post-transcriptional control of eukaryotic gene expression programs using large-scale transcriptomic approaches | Laura do Soto |
Distinctions
Other distinction
2013 | 2nd Award best poster |
2010 | EMBO Long Term Fellowship Award
Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Lebenswissenschaften Heidelberg GmbH, Germany
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2007 | Team of the year (when I was a member of the WAPS committee) |