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Ana Tavares is postdoctoral researcher at Qatar University, where her research focuses on how man-made structures function as artificial habitats and influence marine species connectivity and genetic diversity. She concluded her PhD In 2024 in Biological Sciences by the University of Algarve during which her thesis significantly improved our understanding of marine connectivity and genetic differentiation in tropical and temperate seagrass species. As a marine molecular ecologist, she investigates marine ecosystem responses and adaptations to environmental changes by combining population genetics, species distribution, and biophysical modelling to understand connectivity and adaptive responses to anthropogenic climate change. Her research has been focused on marine habitat-forming species, particularly macroalgae and seagrasses, using integrative approaches across temporal and spatial scales to reconstruct demographic histories, assess gene flow, and predict future distribution shifts. The outcomes of her research are aligned with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Ana Isabel Tavares

Citation names

  • Tavares, A. I.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
F51B-581B-1F8B
ORCID iD
0000-0003-3710-7269
Google Scholar ID
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2XGimOUAAAAJ&hl=en

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2018 - 2024
Concluded
 Ciências Biológicas (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Algarve Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2013 - 2015
Concluded
 Recursos Biológicos Aquáticos (Mestrado)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2009 - 2013
Concluded
 Biologia (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/09/13 - Current Postdoc (Research) Qatar University, Qatar
2023/02 - 2023/07 Research Assistant (Research) Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
2018/04 - 2018/08 Research Assistant (Research) Universidade do Algarve Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
2016/12 - 2018/03 Research Assistant (Research) Universidade do Algarve Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2014/06/30 - 2014/07/25 Monitor in the activity 'Safari na Liliput dos Animais' (Safari in the Liliput's animals), within the summer courses of the Junior University Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2013/07/01 - 2013/07/27 Monitor in the activity 'Safari na Liliput dos Animais' (Safari in the Liliput's animals), within the summer courses of the Junior University Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2012/07/02 - 2012/07/27 Monitor in the activity 'Safari na Liliput dos Animais' (Safari in the Liliput's animals), within the summer courses of the Junior University Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2011/02/01 - 2011/07/31 Extracurricular internship, entitled "Tardígrados marinhos – preferência do microhabitat na zona intertidal da costa Portuguesa" Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2018/04 - 2018/08 Financiamento Plurianual de Unidade de I&D
UID/Multi/04326/2013
Research Fellow
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2016/12 - 2018/03 Accounting for multiple levels of biodiversity under contemporary climatic change
IF/01413/2014/CP1217/CT0004
Research Fellow
Universidade do Algarve Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2023/09 - Current Assessing the contribution of oil platforms and the impact of decommissioning scenarios to marine biodiversity, productivity and connectivity
NPRP13S-0205-200264
Post-doc Fellow
Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF)
Ongoing
2023/02 - 2023/07 BLUEFORESTING - Climate Resilient Marine Forests for a Sustainable Future
EEA.BG.CALL4.026.2020_PT_0077
Research Technician
Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental da Madeira, Portugal
 EEA Grants
Concluded
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 Centre of Marine Sciences
UID/Multi/04326/2019
Universidade do Algarve Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract
  1. Engelen, Aschwin H.; Tavares, Ana; Zubia, Mayalen; Stuij, Tamara; Le Trocquer, N; Aires, Tânia; Muyzer, Gerard; Serrao, Ester. "Biogeography of the seagrass Halodule wrightii and Caulerpa seaweeds and their microbiome". Paper presented in Assemble+ conference, 2021.
Conference poster
  1. Tavares, A. I.; Sarropoulos, Xenia; AURELLE, Didier; Sartoretto, Stephane; Garrabou, Joaquim; Leveque, Laurent ; Tsigenopoulos, Costas ; et al. "From reference genomes to kmers analyses: genomic resources and first insights into population genomics of six Octocoral species". Paper presented in Ocean3R | Final workshop, 2023., 2023.
  2. Tavares, A. I.; Assis, Jorge; Patrício, Ana Rita; Pearson, Gareth Anthony; Ester A Serrao. "Connectivity patterns among seagrass populations of the western coast of Africa inferred from genetic markers and oceanographic currents suggest a role of grazers in seed dispersal". Paper presented in EVOLMAR 2020 conference, 2020.
Journal article
  1. Ana I Tavares; Jorge Assis; Laura Anderson; Pete Raimondi; Nelson Castilho Coelho; Cristina Paulino; Lydia Ladah; et al. "Past and future climate effects on population structure and diversity of North Pacific surfgrasses". Journal of Biogeography (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14964.
    10.1111/jbi.14964
  2. Ana I. Tavares; Jorge Assis; Patrick D. Larkin; Joel C. Creed; Karine Magalhães; Paulo Horta; Aschwin Engelen; et al. "Long range gene flow beyond predictions from oceanographic transport in a tropical marine foundation species". Scientific Reports 13 1 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-36367-y.
    10.1038/s41598-023-36367-y
  3. "Seagrass Connectivity on the West Coast of Africa Supports the Hypothesis of Grazer-Mediated Seed Dispersal". Frontiers in Marine Science 9 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.809721.
    10.3389/fmars.2022.809721
  4. Tavares, Ana. "Predicted regime shift in the seagrass ecosystem of the Gulf of Arguin driven by climate change". Global Ecology and Conservation 32 (2021): e01890-e01890. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2021.e01890.
    10.1016/j.gecco.2021.e01890
  5. Tavares, Ana. "Hybrid vigour for thermal tolerance in hybrids between the allopatric kelps Laminaria digitata and L. pallida (Laminariales, Phaeophyceae) with contrasting thermal affinities". European Journal of Phycology (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09670262.2019.1613571.
    10.1080/09670262.2019.1613571
  6. Tavares, Ana. "Plastic ingestion in aquatic birds in Portugal". Marine Pollution Bulletin (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2018.11.024.
    10.1016/j.marpolbul.2018.11.024
  7. Tavares, Ana. "Isolation and characterization of nine microsatellite markers for the red alga Corallina officinalis". Molecular Biology Reports (2018): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11033-018-4353-y.
    10.1007/s11033-018-4353-y
  8. Tavares, Ana. "Phylogeography and phylogeny of the genus Acanthonyx (Decapoda, Epialtidae) in the north-east Atlantic and Mediterranean". Zoologica Scripta 46 5 (2017): 571-583. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12232.
    10.1111/zsc.12232
  9. Tavares, Ana. "tcsBU: a tool to extend TCS network layout and visualization". Bioinformatics 32 4 (2016): 627-628. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btv636.
    10.1093/bioinformatics/btv636
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "Contrasting evolutionary histories from the warm Atlantic to the cold Pacific - overlooked seagrass diversity". PhD, Universidade do Algarve, 2024.
  2. "Phylogeography and phylogeny of the morphologically highly-variable genus Acanthonyx Latreille, 1828 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Epialtidae) in the North-east Atlantic and Mediterranean region". Master, Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, 2015.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/10 Reference-free analyses provide insights into the population genomics of six octocorals Biodiversity Genomics Conference 2023
2023/05 Long range gene flow beyond predictions from oceanographic transport in a tropical marine foundation species CIIIMAR NEPTUNE SEMINAR SERIES
CIIMAR (Porto, Portugal)
2022/09 Population genetic structure and connectivity of a marine foundation species (Halodule wrightii) inferred from genetic and biophysical methods ICYMARE 2022 conference
The Bremen Society for Natural Sciences (Germany)
2015/04 Phylogeography and phylogeny of the morphologically highly-variable genus Acanthonyx Latreille, 1828 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Epialtidae) in the North- east Atlantic and Mediterranean region CIBIO seminars
CIBIO – Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources (Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2018 - 2022 CCMAR Scientific Seminars (2018 - 2022)
Seminar (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade do Algarve Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2023/10/30 - 2023/11/03 4TH EDITION RADSEQ DATA ANALSYSIS
Workshop
 Physalia-courses
2022/01 - 2022/01 Workshop designed to guide participants through the full bioinformatic processing of RADSeq data, taking raw data all the way through downstream analysis using ipyrad
Workshop
 1st Lisbon Area RADCamp Workshop
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Ecologia Evolução e Alterações Ambientais, Portugal

Scientific expedition

Activity description Institution / Organization
2019/10 - 2019/11 Assemble plus transnational access programme Mamagen – “Marine macrophyte population genetics”; Grant 4th call Assemble Plus; Grant Agreement No. 8329. Universidade do Algarve Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal

Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut voor Onderzoek der Zee, Netherlands
Distinctions

Other distinction

2018 PhD fellowship - SFRH/BD/138182/2018
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal