Bárbara Ribeiro Parreira (AE16-11BF-FB1F)

Curriculum Vitae

Bárbara Ribeiro Parreira

Synopsis of the CV: I am a researcher in evolutionary biology and population genetics aiming at addressing biological questions in the fields of ecology and epidemiology. Much of my research interests lie in understanding the effect of fine-scale population structure (e.g. social structure) in the neutral distribution of genetic diversity of individuals, populations and species. My work is interdisciplinary and integrates population genetics theory and modeling as well as statistics and data analysis. In the past years, I have developed individual-based modeling tools to simulate genetic data (microsatellites and SNPs) in highly structured populations which I have applied to different organisms (e.g. lemurs and viruses, HIV and SARS-CoV-2). I have successfully obtained funding for a large research project as co-PI (Demographic Inference in Structured Populations funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia) and my Marie Sklodowska-Curie proposal (2020 call) obtained a 93% score (not funded, cut off score 93,7%). I have been involved in teaching, student supervision and reviewing (peer-reviewed journals and grants) as well as in the organisation of several meetings aimed at researchers and broad non-scientific audiences. Since 2009 I taught several population genetics courses at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência and Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa on fundamentals of population genetics aimed at students (undergraduates, graduate MSc and PhDs) and researchers. I have also supervised MsC and undergraduate students during short summer research projects (three to six months with final thesis). Career breaks: I am a mother to three child born in 2000, 2012 and 2017. During the past years I had two career breaks due to maternity. First, I have adopted a child of whom I am a foster mother since 2006, in a long process that took several years to be solved in court and that delayed my PhD for some years. I was granted a PhD fellowship from 2008 to 2012, but I only defended in 2016. Further, I had two maternity leaves associated to my other children born in 2012 and 2017. See also CV at: https://www.dropbox.com/s/2xkm278evmd70et/CV_BParreira_20220302.pdf?dl=0

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Identificação

Identificação pessoal

Nome completo: Bárbara Ribeiro Parreira

Identificadores de autor

Ciência ID: AE16-11BF-FB1F

Domínios de atuação

Ciências Naturais - Ciências Biológicas - Biologia da Evolução das Espécies
Ciências Exatas - Ciências da Computação e da Informação - Bioinformática
Ciências Exatas - Ciências da Computação e da Informação - Bioinformática
Ciências Exatas - Ciências da Computação e da Informação - Bioinformática

Idiomas

Idioma	Conversação	Leitura	Escrita	Compreensão	Peer-review
Português (Idioma materno)
Inglês	Utilizador proficiente (C1)	Utilizador proficiente (C1)	Utilizador proficiente (C1)	Utilizador proficiente (C1)	Utilizador proficiente (C2)
Francês	Utilizador elementar (A1)	Utilizador elementar (A2)	Utilizador elementar (A1)	Utilizador independente (B1)	Utilizador elementar (A1)

Formação

	Grau	Classificação
2016/04/26 Concluído	Biologia (Doutoramento) Especialização em Especialidade: Biologia Populacional Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal ""Patterns of genetic diversity in socially structured populations: an individual-based approach"" (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)	summa cum laude
2005/09 - 2006/09/13 Concluído	Curso de Especialização em Estatística Aplicada à Biologia e Ciências sa Saúde (Pós-Graduação) Especialização em Statistics Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal	16
2000/09 - 2005/07/22 Concluído	Biologia Aplicada aos Recursos Animais (Licenciatura) Especialização em Biologia Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal "Modelling the spread of human tuberculosis: an investigation of the reinfection threshold and its consequences for disease" (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)	15

Percurso profissional

Ciência

	Categoria Profissional Instituição de acolhimento	Empregador
2021/07/01 - Atual	Investigador Contratado (Investigação)	Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
	Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2017/03/01 - 2020/08/31	Pós-doutorado (Investigação)	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
	Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2017/01/01 - 2017/02/28	Pós-doutorado (Investigação)	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
	Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2016/01/01 - 2016/05/31	Investigador (Investigação)	Evolution et Diversité Biologique, França
	Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2015/03/01 - 2015/05/31	Investigador (Investigação)	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
	Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2007/05/01 - 2008/01/31	Estagiário de Investigação (Investigação)	Instituto de Emprego e Formação Profissional, Portugal
	Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal

Outros

	Categoria Profissional Instituição de acolhimento	Empregador
2017/09/23 - 2018/02/19	Maternity Leave	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
	Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2012/03 - 2015/02/28	Science Break (adoption process and maternity leave)	Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
	Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal

Projetos

Bolsa

	Designação	Financiadores
2017/04/01 - Atual	Genetic consequences of social structure SFRH/BPD/118783/2016 Bolseiro de Pós-Doutoramento	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Em curso
2016/01 - 2016/05	Comparative genomics analysis of the Pea-aphid n/a Investigador	Concluído
2008 - 2014/12/31	Patterns of genetic diversity in socially structured populations: an individual-based approach SFRH/BD/41346/2007 Bolseiro de Doutoramento Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluído
2007 - 2008	The effect of mutation and migration in the detection of bottlenecks n/a Bolseiro de Iniciação Científica

Projeto

	Designação	Financiadores
2017/01/01 - 2017/02/28	INFRAGECO - inference, fragmentation, genomics and conservation E-411030.01-BIODIVERSA/003/2015 Bolseiro de Pós-Doutoramento Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Em curso
2015/03/01 - 2015/05/31	A vertebrate's eye view on habitat loss and fragmentation across time and space in Madagascar PTDC/BIA/BIC/4476/2012 Bolseiro de Técnico de Investigação Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluído

Outro

	Designação	Financiadores
2018/10/01 - Atual	Demographic Inference in Structured Populations PTDC-BIA-EVL-30815-2017 Investigador Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Em curso

Produções

Publicações

Artigo em revista	Minhós, Tânia; Borges, Filipa; Parreira, Bárbara (AE16-11BF-FB1F); Oliveira Ruben; Aleixo-Pais, Isa; Fabian Leendertz; RomanWittig; et al. Autor correspondente: Minhós, Tânia. "The importance of well protected forests for the conservation genetics of West-African Colobine Monkeys". (2022): Em revisão Parreira, Bárbara; Quéméré, Erwan; Vanpé, Cécile; Carvalho, Inês; Chikhi, Lounès. "Genetic consequences of social structure in the golden-crowned sifaka". Heredity (2020): Em revisão Aleixo-Pais, Isa; Salmona, Jordi; Sgarlata, Gabriele Maria; Rakotonanahary, Ando; Sousa, Ana Priscilla; Parreira, Bárbara; Kun-Rodrigues, Célia; et al. "The genetic structure of a mouse lemur living in a fragmented habitat in Northern Madagascar". Conservation Genetics 20 2 (2018): 229-243. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10592-018-1126-z. 10.1007/s10592-018-1126-z Parreira, Bárbara R.; Chikhi, Lounès. "On some genetic consequences of social structure, mating systems, dispersal, and sampling". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112 26 (2015): E3318-E3326. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1414463112. 10.1073/pnas.1414463112 BRAY, T. C.; SOUSA, V. C.; PARREIRA, B.; BRUFORD, M. W.; CHIKHI, L.. "2BAD: an application to estimate the parental contributions during two independent admixture events". Molecular Ecology Resources 10 3 (2010): 538-541. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-0998.2009.02766.x. 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2009.02766.x Amorim, M.C.P.; Vasconcelos, R. O.; Parreira, B.. "Variability in the sonic muscles of the Lusitanian toadfish (Halobatrachus didactylus): acoustic signals may reflect individual quality". Canadian Journal of Zoology 87 8 (2009): 718-725. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/z09-067. 10.1139/z09-067 PARREIRA, B.; TRUSSART, M.; SOUSA, V.; HUDSON, R.; CHIKHI, L.. "SPAms: A user-friendly software to simulate population genetics data under complex demographic models". Molecular Ecology Resources 9 3 (2009): 749-753. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-0998.2009.02533.x. 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2009.02533.x
Poster em conferência	Parreira, Bárbara. "The genetic consequences of social structure". Trabalho apresentado em SMBE – Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2019. Parreira, Bárbara. "The genetic consequences of social structure". Trabalho apresentado em XIV ESEB - European Society for Evolutionary Biology, 2013. Parreira, Bárbara. "The genetic consequences of fine scale structure: social groups and intra-host structure as little studied examples". Trabalho apresentado em Mathematical and Computational Evolutionary Biology, 2013. Parreira, Bárbara. "An individual-based approach to model social structure". Trabalho apresentado em SOCIOR - Social Systems: demographic and genetic issues, 2010. Parreira, Bárbara. "Evolution of HIV intra-host genetic diversity: a metapopulation model". Trabalho apresentado em SMBS - Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2010.
Recurso online	Bray, T; Sousa, Vítor; Parreira, Bárbara (AE16-11BF-FB1F); Bruford, Michael; Chikhi, Lounès. 2BAD (2-event Bayesian ADmixture). 2010. http://compbio.igc.gulbenkian.pt/pcg/pcg_software.html. Parreira, Bárbara; TRUSSART, M.; Sousa, Vítor; HUDSON, R.; Chikhi, Lounès. SPAms - Simulation Program for the Analysis of ms. 2009. http://compbio.igc.gulbenkian.pt/pcg/pcg_software.html.
Tese / Dissertação	Parreira, Bárbara Ribeiro. "Patterns of genetic diversity in socially structured populations : an individual-based approach". Doutoramento, Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/25069. Parreira, Bárbara. "Modelling the spread of human tuberculosis: an investigation of the reinfection threshold and its consequences for disease". Licenciatura, Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, 2006.

Atividades

Apresentação oral de trabalho

	Título da apresentação	Nome do evento Anfitrião (Local do evento)
2019/10	Social groups and outbreeding in the golden-crowned sifaka	Empathy, Education and Conservation: Primates in a shared world Associação Portuguesa de Primatologia e Asociación Primatológica Española (Lisboa, Portugal)
2019/09	Genetic consequences of social structure	The 13th African Small Mammal Symposium (ASMS) Mekelle University (Mekelle, Etiópia)
2019/07	Genetic consequences of social structure - increasing diversity in the golden-crowned sifaka	15th EEF Congress – Ecology across borders Embedding Ecology in Sustainable Development Goals European Ecological Association and Sociedade Portuguesa de Ecologia (Lisboa, Portugal)
2018/09	An individual-based approach to simulate social structure	Evolutionary Models of Structured Populations – integrating methods Max Planck for Evolutionary Biology (Plön, Alemanha)
2018	Grupos sociais: as sifakas minimizam a endogamia?	Encontro Aberto de Primatologia USALMA - Universidade Sénior de Almada (Almada, Portugal)
2015/11	Social structure matters: the genetic consequences of mating systems, dispersal and sampling	5th Iberian Primatological Conference Universidade de Évora (Évora, Portugal)
2015/06	Modeling the genetic consequences of social structure	TiBE, Trends in Biodiversity and Evolution – Global Biodiversity Change – from genes to ecosystems Research Center in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources (Vairão, Portugal)
2012/12	The genetic consequences of social structure: a simulation approach	ENBE, Encontro Nacional de Biologia Evolutiva Sociedade Portuguesa de Biologia Evolutiva (Oeiras, Portugal)
2012/01	The impact of social structure on patterns of genetic diversity	PopGroup45, Population genetics meeting Population Genetics Group - Genetics Society (Nothingam, Reino Unido)
2011/12	The impact of social structure on patterns of genetic diversity: a simulation approach	TiBE, Trends in Biodiversity and Evolution – New challenges in conservation genetics Research Center in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources (Vairão, Portugal)
2011/08	The genetic consequences of social structure: a simulation approach	EMPSEB, 17th European Meeting of PhD Students in Evolutionary Biology European Society for Evolutionary Biology (Seia, Portugal)

Organização de evento

	Nome do evento Tipo de evento (Tipo de participação)	Instituição / Organização
2019/09 - Atual	Evolution Club. I have organized the IGC Evolution Club for an year (2018), afterwards I implemented my own idea of a joint Lisbon Evolution Club. (2019/09) Outro (Outra)	Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2021/12/17 - 2021/12/17	AskMeCOVID Round-table for the general public and schools where scientists from different areas (evolutionary biology, immunology, epidemiology and science communication) answered questions about SARS-CoV-2 and general virus evolution. Took place at Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian and was also transmitted via streaming on youtube (~200 views). https://enbe2021.rd.ciencias.ulisboa.pt/askme/ (2021/12/17 - 2021/12/17) Mesa-redonda	Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2011/05 - 2011/05	Biodiversity Day at Fundação Callouste Gulbenkian auditorium. Open event for the Society. Talks by researchers on different topics related to biodiversity and conservation. (2011/05 - 2011/05) Encontro (Membro da Comissão Organizadora)	Fundação Callouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
2009 - 2009	AMeGuS Annual Meeting of Gulbenkian Students. Anual meeting of Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência PhD students (2009 - 2009) Encontro (Membro da Comissão Organizadora)	Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal

Participação em evento

	Descrição da atividade Tipo de evento	Nome do evento Instituição / Organização
2015 - Atual	Outreaching activities at several schools (from 7º to 12th grades). I have been going to schools to talk about my research and the research taking place at the Populattion and Conservation Genetics Group. I discuss the usefulness of mathematics (usually a course that most students dislike) to aproach several questions in distinct fiels. I also discuss biodiversity loss and promote conservation. Outro
2012 - Atual	Open Day. The Open Day is an annual event where the Institute Gulbenkian de Ciência opens its doors and invites citizens to know the research done at the Institute. I have been participating in this initiative since 2012. I developed and implemented several activities related to conservation and biodiversity issues. Outro	Open Day Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2021/01/04 - 2021/01/06	PopGroup Meeting - "Population Genetics Group" Conferência	The 54th PopGroup University of Liverpool Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Reino Unido
2020/12/16 - 2020/12/17	ENBE - "Encontro Nacional de Biologia Evolutiva" (the Portuguese meeting on Evolutionary Biology). Online due to COVID-19. Conferência	XVI Encontro Nacional de Biologia Evolutiva Sociedade Portuguesa de Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal
2020/07 - 2020/07	vIGC International Undergraduate Summer School 2020. Talk about my research for students all over the world. The International Summer school provides student trainee on scientific concepts and the opportunity to attend scientific talks and ask questions to scientists. Oficina (workshop)	Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2018/12 - 2018/12	Shadow a Scientist. Outreach activity that allows students from highschools (11º and 12ª ) to spend a day with a scientist. Under this programme I have received two students. I discussed the chalengings of being a researcher and the powerfull tools that mathematics can offer. I also discussed the conservation work the PCG group does in Madagascar. Outro	Shadow a Scientist Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2011/06 - 2011/06	Optimus Alive (currently NOS Alive) I have participated in the activity "Speed dating with a scientist" where I have interacted with different people asking questions about my life as researcher, my work, etc. Festival	Optimus Alive Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal

Arbitragem científica em revista

	Nome da revista (ISSN)	Editora
2021/01 - Atual	Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences	Royal Society
2019/06 - 2019/06	BioEssays (1521-1878)	Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
2019/04 - 2019/04	Journal of Evolutionary Biology (1420-9101)	Wiley (Blackwell Publishing)
2017/06 - 2017/06	Molecular Ecology (1365-294X)	Wiley (Blackwell Publishing)

Curso / Disciplina lecionado

	Disciplina	Curso (Tipo)	Instituição / Organização
2021/07/12 - 2021/07/16	Teaching assistent at Inferring Demographic history from population genomics data, Physalia Courses. 25-hour workshop organised together with V Sousa and I Alves. https://www.physalia-courses.org/courses-workshops/demoinference/
2017/03/06 - 2017/03/13	Population Genetics and Demographic history: Model-based approaches. One week course pen to researchers at any level of their career (MsC students, PhD, Postdocs). Topics included selection, population structure, coalescent theory, bayesian inference and data simulation. Lectures were combined with hands-on computer exercises, using R and command-line based programs. Computer programs taught included SPAms, Fastsimcoal and SNIF. Organized at Instituto Gulbenkian de CIência. I helped with the overall practicals and and designed the SPAms exercises.	PGDH17 - Course organized by The Gulbenkian Training Programme in Bioinformatics (Outros)	Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2017/03 - 2017/03	Lectures on human Evolution. I was invited to give lectures at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (to the undergraduate students; Biological Anthropology course). The lectures focused Human Evolution before the genus Homo. In particular the genus Australophitecus.	Antropologia (Licenciatura)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2015/07/06 - 2015/07/09	Population Genetics and Demographic history: Model based approaches. One week course open to researchers at any level of their career (MsC students, PhD, Postdocs, etc) from all around the world. Topics included selection, population structure, demographic inference, coalescent and bayesian inference. Lectures were combined with hands-on computer exercises, mostly using R and command-line based programs. Computer programs taught included SPAms, STRUCTURE, FastSTRUCTURE. I helped with the overall practicals and and designed the SPAms exercises.	PGDH15 - The Gulbenkian Training Programme in Bioinformatics (Outros)	Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2011 - 2011	Fundamentals of Population Genetics. Practicals on Population Genetics to MsC Students of the Conservation Biology Mater Course (FCUL). I teached the praticsls on models to analyze genetic diversity and population structure.	Conservation Biology (Curso de mestrado (conclusão do curso de especialização))	Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2010 - 2010	Model based inference of population structure	Molecular Markers and Population Genetics (Outros)	Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal

Entrevista (jornal / revista)

	Descrição da atividade	Jornal / Forum
2020/11	In APBE popular science web channel: "Genética das populações e grupos sociais: como pequenos grupos podem aumentar a diversidade genética das espécies" (Genetics of populations and social groups: how small groups can increase the genetic diversity of species).	Associação Portuguesa de Biologia Evolutiva
2020/10	In the National Geographic Magazine: "Diversidade genética das espécies pode ser explicada pela sua estrutura social?" (Can the genetic diversity of species be explained by its social structure?). Popular science article about my work.	National Geographic
2020/08	In Nature Ecology and Evolution Community web channel: "Social structure increases genetic diversity in an endangered lemur"	Nature Ecology and Evolution
2015/06	In jornal i: "Viver em família ajuda conservação das espécies" (Family living helps the conservation of species). Newspaper article about my PhD work in a wide circulation newspaper.	Jornal i

Membro de associação

	Nome da associação	Tipo de participação
2019/12 - Atual	American Genetics Association (AGA)
2019/11/01 - Atual	Sociedade Portuguesa de Biologia Evolutiva
2019/07 - Atual	Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
2019/06 - Atual	Sociedade Portuguesa de Ecologia (SPECO)

Membro de comissão

	Descrição da atividade Tipo de participação	Instituição / Organização
2021/12/16 - 2021/12/17	Organizing Committee member at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Association for Evolutionary Biology. Chair of the session 1, including Evolutionary Genomics Talks (https://enbe2021.rd.ciencias.ulisboa.pt/). Membro
2021/07/18 - 2021/07/23	Scientific Committee member at the '2021 International Biology Olympiads'. Together with V. Sousa and R. Tournebize I developed three questions on Population Genetics and Phylogenetics Consultor

Tutoria

	Tópico	Nome do aluno
2018/06 - 2019/01	Integrating dominance hierarchies in a program simulating social struture	Alexandre Reis
2011/06 - 2011/09	Population genetic diversity in subdivided populations	Jade Lemseffe
2010/06 - 2010/09	Genetic diversity in social groups - simulating a few scenarios for primates	Damien Dufforc

Distinções

Outra distinção

2017	Individual Postdoc grant Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2008	Individual PhD Grant Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal