Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Pedro Emanuel Ferreira dos Reis Vieira
Citation names
- Vieira, Pedro
- Pedro E Vieira
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- F51E-BBEB-9D95
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-4880-3323
- Google Scholar ID
- CYE5Qm8AAAAJ
- Researcher Id
- K-7608-2019
Addresses
- Campus Universitário de Gualtar, Departamento de Biologia, 4710-057, Braga, Braga, Portugal (Professional)
Websites
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/pedro-vieira-2802684b/ (Professional)
- http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4880-3323 (Scholar)
- https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Pedro_Vieira11 (Scholar)
Knowledge fields
- Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences - Bioinformatics
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Marine Biology
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
English | Advanced (C1) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Advanced (C1) |
Spanish; Castilian | Intermediate (B1) | Advanced (C1) | Intermediate (B1) | Advanced (C1) | Intermediate (B1) |
French | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2017/10/01 - 2018/05/30
Concluded
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Post-Graduation in Bioinformatics Analysis (Especialização pós-licenciatura)
Major in Bioinformatics
Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain
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9/10 |
2013/03/01 - 2017/10/31
Concluded
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Biology branch Molecular Biology and Genetics (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
"Biodiversity and evolution of the coastal peracaridean fauna of Macaronesia and Northeast Atlantic" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Aprovado |
2010 - 2011
Concluded
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Applied Biology branch in Molecular and Cellular Biology (Mestrado)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
"Amino acid toxicity in zebrafish" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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17 |
2005/09 - 2010
Concluded
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Biology (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
"Estudo do gene msbA na resistência ao tributilestanho (TBT) em Aeromonas molluscorum" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2018/03/01 - Current | Postdoc (Research) | Universidade do Minho, Portugal |
Universidade do Minho, Portugal | ||
2012/05 - 2013/02 | Researcher (Research) | Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal |
2009 - 2010 | Research Trainee (Research) | Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal |
Teaching in Higher Education
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2018/09/01 - 2019/05 | Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade do Minho, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
Designation | Funders | |
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2020/03 - 2020/03 | Crypticism in the marine realm: DNA barcode-based outlook into selected invertebrate taxa of the Eastern Mediterranean
Principal investigator
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR) , Greece
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Ongoing
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2009 - 2010 | Virulence factors associated with antimicrobial resistance determinants among Escherichia coli and Klebsiella spp. environmental
strains: potential impact on public health
ESCMID Research Grants 2010
Student
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
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Concluded
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Contract
Designation | Funders | |
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2019/07 - 2022/02 | Early detection and monitoring of non-indigenous species (NIS) in coastal ecosystems based on high-throughput sequencing tools
PTDC/BIA-BMA/29754/2017
Researcher
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2018/03/01 - 2019/06 | Next-Sea: Next generation monitoring of coastal ecosystems in a scenario of global change
NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-0000032
Post-doc Fellow
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
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Ongoing
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2012/05 - 2013/02 | DiverseShores - Testing associations between genetic and community diversity in European rocky shore environments
Research Fellow
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Other
Designation | Funders | |
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2022/01/26 - Current | Fish-DNA-Monitor: Supporting monitoring and management of fisheries resources in Guinea-Bissau through capacity-building on
cutting-edge DNA-based approaches
FCT AGA-KHAN / 541703280 / 2019
Co-PI
Universidade do Minho Centro de Biologia Molecular e Ambiental, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2022/01/01 - Current | Phylogeography and glue-formation genes expression from Sicilian populations of the tube-building Sabellaria alveolata (Polychaeta,
Sabellariidae): from local conservation to potential biomaterial insights
.
Researcher
Politechnika Lódzka, Poland
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Ongoing
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2021/09/01 - Current | ATLANTIDA - Platform for the monitoring of the North Atlantic ocean and tools for the sustainable exploitation of the marine
resources
NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000040
Colaborator
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2021/01/01 - Current | RIVER2OCEAN: Socio-ecological and biotechnological solutions for the conservation and valorization of aquatic biodiversity
in the Minho Region
NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000068
Researcher
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
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European Regional Development Fund
Ongoing
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2020/08/30 - Current | Cutting-edge DNA-based approaches for improved monitoring and management of fisheries resources along Magellan-Elcano's Atlantic
route
Team member
Universidade do Minho Centro de Biologia Molecular e Ambiental, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2021/01/01 - 2021/10/30 | Phylogenetic network inference for bioassessment and conservation
CPCA/A1/7359/2020
Principal investigator
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2021/01/01 - 2021/10/30 | Meta-species analyses of patterns of molecular variation in marine fauna
CPCA/A1/7313/2020
Principal investigator
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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Outputs
Publications
Conference paper |
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Conference poster |
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Journal article |
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Thesis / Dissertation |
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Other
Other output |
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Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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2021/02 | Novel insights into marine invertebrate biodiversity under a molecular perspective | Assemble Plus |
2020/12/09 | Monitorizar espécies não indígenas em ecossistemas marinhos e costeiros através de abordagens moleculares: estaremos preparados? | XIX SPECO
SPECO (Portugal)
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2020/12/09 | Deteção de espécies de invertebrados não-indígenas na marina de Viana de Castelo através do uso de DNA metabarcoding | XIX SPECO
SPECO (Portugal)
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2020/12/09 | Surveillance of non-indigenous invertebrate species in recreational marinas in the North and Center of Portugal through DNA metabarcoding | TiBE 2020 Metabarcoding and Metagenomics
Universidade do Porto (Portugal)
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2020/12/09 | Assessing the diversity of coastal macroinvertebrate assemblages growing in artificial substrates based on morphology and DNA metabarcoding approaches | TiBE 2020 Metabarcoding and Metagenomics
Universidade do Porto (Portugal)
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2020/10/26 | Are we ready to monitor non-indigenous species in aquatic ecosystems through DNA metabarcoding? | XX congress of the Iberian Association of Limnology
(Spain)
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2019/09/10 | Patterns of spatial and temporal variation in estuarine meiofaunal communities assessed through DNA metabarcoding: a case study in the Lima estuary (NW Portugal) | XX Iberian Symposium on Marine Biology Studies
University of Minho (Braga, Portugal)
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2019/09/10 | Combining artificial substrates, morphology and DNA metabarcoding for investigating macrozoobenthic communities in NW Iberia | XX Iberian Symposium on Marine Biology Studies. University of Minho
University of Minho (Braga, Portugal)
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2019/09/10 | Evolutionary insights derived from comprehensive analyses of DNA barcoding diversity in marine members of the superorder Peracarida (Crustacea: Malacostraca) | XX Iberian Symposium on Marine Biology Studies
University of Minho (Braga, Portugal)
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2019/08/26 | Broad-scale DNA barcode-based meta-species analyses of patterns of molecular variation in Amphipoda from world's oceans | 18th International Colloquium on Amphipoda
University Bourgogne Franche-Comté (Dijon, France)
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2019/06/17 | Prominent evolutionary divide between Macaronesian islands and nearby continental coasts in multiple peracarids (Crustacea): over 60 suspected new species | 8th International Barcode of Life Conference
NTNU University Museum and the Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre (Trondheim, Norway)
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2019/04 | Códigos de barras da vida | Open Weekend to highschool students
Departamento de Biologia Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal)
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2019/01 | The hidden secret of Macaronesia islands: how small crustaceans can answer big questions | Biology Department seminars
Departamento de Biologia Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal)
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2018/08/08 | Aquatic macroinvertebrates diversity and evolution: some novel perspectives after 15 years of DNA barcoding | 3rd Central European Symposium for Aquatic Macroinvertebrates Research
University of Lodz (Lodz, Poland)
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2018/07/08 | Surveying estuarine meiobenthos through DNA metabarcoding: a pilot study in the Lima estuary (NW Portugal) | 3rd Central European Symposium for Aquatic Macroinvertebrates Research
University of Lodz (Poland)
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2017/10/08 | Macaronesian islands as drivers of evolutionary diversification of two different peracaridean morphospecies | III International Symposium of Ecology and Evolution
University of Federal de Viçosa (Brazil)
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2017/09/04 | Compiling a global DNA barcode reference library for marine amphipods (Crustacea: Amphipoda) | 17th International Colloquium on Amphipoda
University of Trapani (Trapani, Italy)
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2017/01 | DNA barcoding unravels several cryptic species within the superorder Peracarida in Northeast Atlantic Ocean | School of Natural Sciences seminars
Bangor University (Wales) (Bangor, United Kingdom)
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2016/09/05 | Deeply divergent DNA barcode lineages within Dynamene edwardsi (Isopoda) from the Northeast Atlantic suggest between four to eight cryptic species | XIX Iberian Symposium on Marine Biology Studies
University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
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2015/09/07 | First insights into phylogenetic relationships among the Atlantic and Mediterranean species of the family Hyalidae. | 16th International Colloquium on Amphipoda
University of Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
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2015/08/18 | Phylogeographic structure of Dynamene edwardsi (Crustacea: Isopoda) matches remarkably the sequential genesis of the Macaronesian islands. | 6th International Barcode of Life Conference
University of Guelph (Guelph, Canada)
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Supervision
Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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2021/02 - Current | Exploring the use of environmental DNA to monitor the ichthyofauna and provide data to assist fish stock assessment in the
Atlantic
Co-supervisor
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Ciências (PhD)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
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2021/01 - Current | Optimization of DNA metabarcoding for the early detection and improved monitoring of non-indigenous species (NIS) in Portuguese
coastal ecosystems
Co-supervisor
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Programa Doutoral em Biologia Molecular e Ambiental (PhD)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
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2021/01 - Current | Meta-species screening for genetic divergence and phylogeographic reconstruction in Atlantic marine fish species
Co-supervisor
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Programa Doutoral em Biologia Molecular e Ambiental (PhD)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
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2021 - Current | Develop a semi-automated system to evaluate species discrimination ability of genetic markers
Supervisor
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Bioinformática (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
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2020/04 - Current | Development of a user-friendly interface for DNA barcode compilation and assembly of a reference library
Supervisor
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Bioinformática (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
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2020/01 - Current | Broad-scale DNA barcode-based meta-species analyses of patterns of molecular variation in marine invertebrates
Supervisor
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Bioinformática (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
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2021/05 - 2021/07 | Use of bioinformatics tools to audit a DNA barcoding reference library of marine invasive species from Europe
Co-supervisor
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Biologia Aplicada (Degree)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
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2021/05 - 2021/07 | The use of DNA metabarcoding for the detection and monitoring of exotic species in marine and coastal ecosystems
Co-supervisor
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Biologia Aplicada (Degree)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
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2021/04 - 2021/07 | Compilation of a Macaronesian marine invertebrate species library from a molecular perspective
Supervisor
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Biologia Aplicada (Degree)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
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2019/03 - 2019/06 | Biodiversity of the marine invertebrates of Moroccan coasts.
Supervisor
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Biologia Aplicada (Degree)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
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2019/03 - 2019/06 | Biodiversity of the marine invertebrates of the islands of Macaronesia
Supervisor
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Biologia Aplicada (Degree)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
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2019/03 - 2019/06 | Monitoring of native and non-indigenous species (NIS) in coastal ecosystems based on molecular tools
Co-supervisor
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Bioquímica (Degree)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
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2019 - 2019 | Compilation, gap analyses and evaluation of species discrimination ability of reference libraries of DNA barcodes
Co-supervisor
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Bioinformática (Specialization course)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
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2019 - 2019 | Broad-scale DNA barcode-based meta-species analyses of patterns of molecular variation in marine Amphipoda (Crustacea)
Co-supervisor
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Bioinformática (Specialization course)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
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2019 - 2019 | Development of a semi-automated system for auditing and annotation of reference DNA barcode libraries
Co-supervisor
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Bioinformática (Specialization course)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
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Event organisation
Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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2020/02/06 - 2020/03/18 | Organizer and tutor of the "R SESSIONS": it consists of 6 advanced courses to learn R - https://cbma.uminho.pt/events/rsessions/ (2020/02/06 - 2020/03/18)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade do Minho Centro de Biologia Molecular e Ambiental, Portugal |
2020/02/19 - 2020/02/19 | Invited to organize and teach the workshop "Introduction to DNA barcoding Bioinformatics" during the "Bioinformatics Open
Days" conference: http://www.bioinformaticsopendays.com/ (2020/02/19 - 2020/02/19)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade do Minho Centro de Engenharia Biológica, Portugal |
2019/09/09 - 2019/09/12 | Staff member and chair of two sessions: "XX Iberian Symposium on Marine Biology Studies (SIEBM XX)". University of Minho,
Braga, Portugal. September 09-12, 2019: 20thsiebm.org. (2019/09/09 - 2019/09/12)
Conference (Co-organisor)
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Universidade do Minho, Portugal |
2019/08/30 - 2019/08/30 | Co-organizer and co-tutor of the "BOLD" Workshop that occurred during the "18th International Colloquium on Amphipoda": https://blog.u-bourgogne.fr/ica2019/bold-workshop/
(2019/08/30 - 2019/08/30)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
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Université de Bourgogne, France |
2015/09/07 - 2015/09/11 | Organizing committee. 16th International Colloquium on Amphipoda. 16ica.web.ua.pt. (2015/09/07 - 2015/09/11)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal |
Event participation
Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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2021/06/15 - Current | NIS-DNA: developing and implementing DNA-based tools for detection and monitoring of non-indigenous species (NIS) in Portuguese
coastal ecosystems
Symposium
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Biological Invasions in the Red Sea: emerging challenges and opportunities
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
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2021/02/08 - 2021/02/12 | Invited as a lecturer to the advanced course: "Plankton in a changing World" from the University of Aveiro
Workshop
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Plankton in a changing World
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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2020/11 - 2020/11 | Noite dos Investigadores: "Será que consegues encontrar espécies invasoras através do seu ADN nos portos de Portugal?".
Other
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Noite dos Investigadores |
2019/06 - 2019/06 | Invited to the Hackathon on "Marine invertebrate biodiversity" to compile and edit data from the database BOLD.
Workshop
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Hackathon on "Marine invertebrate biodiversity"
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet Universitetsbiblioteket, Norway
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2019/02/28 - 2019/03/01 | Invited to the DNAquaNet Workshop Meeting "HPC-HTC for metabarcoding" to discuss new bioinformatics tools to analyze metabarcoding
data
Workshop
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DNAquaNet Workshop Meeting "HPC-HTC for metabarcoding"
IN2P3’s Computing Centre , France
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2018/12 - 2018/12 | Participation in the DNAquaNet & EnvMetaGen Workshop "Mainstreaming molecular approaches in national environmental monitoring
programs of aquatic ecosystems and biodiversity". Porto, Portugal, 2018.
Symposium
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Mainstreaming molecular approaches in national environmental monitoring programs of aquatic ecosystems and biodiversity
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
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Jury of academic degree
Topic Role |
Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization |
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2021/09/28 | Mitochondrial DNA phylogeography of African lineages
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Luísa Carolina Azevedo de Sá (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
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Ad Hoc journal article review
Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
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2022 - 2022 | animals (2076-2615) | MDPI |
2021 - 2021 | Diversity | MDPI |
2021 - 2021 | Peerj (2167-8359) | PeerJ |
2021 - 2021 | Life (2075-1729) | MDPI |
2021 - 2021 | Zookeys (1313-2970) | Pensoft |
2020 - 2021 | Thalassas: An International Journal of Marine Sciences | Springer |
2019/01 - 2021 | Scientific Reports (2045-2322) | Springer Science and Business Media LLC |
2019/10 - 2019/12 | NeoBiota (1314-2488) | Pensoft Publishers |
2019/09 - 2019/10 | Continental Shelf Research (0278-4343) | Elsevier |
2019/04 - 2019/08 | PLoS ONE (1932-6203) | Public Library of Science |
2019/05 - 2019/05 | BioInvasions Records (2242-1300) | Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre Oy - REABIC |
Conference scientific committee
Conference name | Conference host | |
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2021/01 - 2021/02 | 1st DNAQUA International Conference | DNAqua-Net Management Team & INRAE, France & University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany |
Course / Discipline taught
Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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2019/02 - 2019/05 | Biogeography | Geografia e Planeamento (Licenciatura) | Universidade do Minho - Campus de Azurém, Portugal |
2019/02 - 2019/04 | Biodiversity and Global Changes | Biologia Aplicada (Licenciatura) | Universidade do Minho, Portugal |
2018/09 - 2019/02 | Molecular Ecology | Ecologia (Mestrado) | Universidade do Minho, Portugal |
Interview (newspaper / magazine)
Activity description | Newspaper / Forum | |
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2019/11 | iBOL Barcode bulletin, highlighted in National activities (November 2019): https://ibol.org/barcodebulletin/nation-activities/dna-barcoding-at-the-iberian-symposium-on-marine-biology-studies/ | iBOL Barcode bulletin |
2019/06/10 | Uma equipa, que inclui três investigadores da Universidade do Minho (UMinho) e outros da Universidade de Aveiro, em conjunto com investigadores do Brasil, Itália e Reino Unido, descobriu 34 novas espécies de invertebrados marinhos nos arquipélagos dos Açores, Madeira e Canárias (a Macaronésia), que não existem em mais nenhum local do mundo. | Correio do Minho |
2019/06/07 | Uma equipa das universidades do Minho e Aveiro, em conjunto com investigadores do Brasil, Itália e Reino Unido, descobriu 34 novas espécies de invertebrados marinhos nos arquipélagos dos Açores, Madeira e Canárias (a Macaronésia), que não existem em mais nenhum local do mundo. | Correio dos Açores |
2019/06/04 | Uma equipa das universidades do Minho e Aveiro, em conjunto com investigadores do Brasil,Itália e Reino Unido, descobriu 34 prováveis novas espécies de invertebrados marinhos nos arquipélagos dos Açores, Madeira e Canárias (a Macaronésia), que não existem em mais nenhum local do mundo. | Diário do Minho |
2019/04 | iBOL Barcode bulletin, highlighted in research section (April 2019): https://ibol.org/barcodebulletin/research/the-diversification-and-evolution-of-marine-invertebrates-in-oceanic-islands. doi: 10.21083/ibol.v9i1.5477. | iBOL Barcode bulletin |
Interview (tv / radio show)
Program | Topic | |
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2020/03 - 2020/03 | Euronews | What's killing our underwater ecosystems |
2019/06/06 - 2019/06/06 | UM I&D | Programa sobre ciência |
Journal scientific committee
Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
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2021/01 - Current | Life | MDPI |
Mentoring / Tutoring
Topic | Student name | |
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2020/05 - 2020/07 | Biologia Aplicada | Vitor Alves |
2015 - 2015 | First insights into phylogenetic relationships among the Atlantic and Mediterranean species of the family Hyalidae | Andrea Desiderato |