Personal identification

Full name

Fabiana Neves

Citation names

• Neves, Fabiana

Author identifiers

Ciência ID

5516-1F35-2FCA

ORCID iD

0000-0002-6593-2269

Google Scholar ID

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=pt-PT&user=kA_Jex8AAAAJ

Email addresses

• fabiananeves@cibio.up.pt (Professional)

Websites

• https://cibio.up.pt/people/details/fmneves (Professional)

Knowledge fields

• Medical and Health Sciences - Health Sciences - Public and Environmental Health
• Medical and Health Sciences - Health Sciences
• Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Evolutionary Biology
• Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Genetics and Heredity
• Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Molecular Biology
• Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Microbiology
• Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Other Biological Topics
• Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biology
• Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Virology

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
English	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)
French	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Elementary (A2)	Intermediate (B1)	Elementary (A2)

	Degree	Classification
2009/11 - 2017/10 Concluded	Doctor in Pathology and Molecular Genetics (PhD) (Doutoramento) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal "Genetic characterization of the Innate Immune system of Lagomorphs (ILs, CCLs)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Approved
2013/02/04 - 2013/02/18 Concluded	Science in Laboratory Animals - Categorie B (Outros) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal	17
2007/09 - 2009/11 Concluded	Master in Microbiology (Mestrado) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal "Cyanobacteria dynamics at Vela lake during 2008" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	16
2003/10 - 2007/07 Concluded	Clinical Analysis and Public Health (BSc) (Licenciatura) Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Saúde, Portugal "Vertical transmission of HIV-1" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	15

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2020/03/01 - Current	Contracted Researcher (Research)	Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências e Tecnologias Agrárias e Agro-Alimentares, Portugal
	Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal
2019/02/01 - 2020/01/31	Contracted Researcher (Research)	Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências e Tecnologias Agrárias e Agro-Alimentares, Portugal
	Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal
2018/04/03 - 2019/01/31	Researcher (Research)	Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências e Tecnologias Agrárias e Agro-Alimentares, Portugal
	Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2008/10/01 - 2012/02/29	Assistant (Polytechnic Teacher)	Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Saúde, Portugal
	Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Saúde, Portugal

Other Careers

	Category Host institution	Employer
2017/04/01 - 2018/04/02	Técnico Principal (Técnico de Diagnóstico e Terapêutica - Técnico de Análises Clínicas e de Saúde Pública)	CGC Genetics Centro de Genética Clínica, Portugal
	CGC Genetics Centro de Genética Clínica, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2012/03/01 - 2016/12/16	PhD Fellowship	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
	Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2018 - 2019/01/31	+Coelho: plano de acção para o controlo da doença hemorrágica viral dos coelhos Despacho n.º 4757/2017 Researcher Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal	Ministério da Agricultura Florestas e Desenvolvimento Rural Ongoing
2012 - 2016	Genetic characterization of the Innate Immune system of Lagomorphs (ILs, CCLs) SFRH / BD / 81916 / 2011 PhD Student Fellow Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2020 - Current	E-IMUNO: Applying elasmobranch immunogenetics to fisheries management and the study of vertebrate adaptive immunity PTDC/ASP-PES/28053/2017 Researcher Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2019 - 2020/01/31	The European rabbit IgA's as a model for therapeutic antibodies development: a genomic and functional approach. PTDC/BIA-OUT/29667/2017 Researcher Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing

Other

	Designation	Funders
2019 - Current	The European rabbit IgA's as a model for therapeutic antibodies development: a genomic and functional approach PTDC/BIA-OUT/29667/2017 Researcher Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2013 - 2015/09	How does the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) immune system recognise the rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus (RHDV) from its non-pathogenic form RCV-A1? PTDC/BIA-ANM/3963/2012 Researcher Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal	Foundation for Science and Technology Concluded
2012 - 2012/12	Why the Myxoma virus infection is highly lethal for the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus), while in other leporids it is benign? PTDC/BIA-BEC/103158/2008 Researcher Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal	Foundation for Science and Technology Concluded

Publications

Conference paper	Neves, Fabiana. "Comparative evolutionary analysis of IL6 in lagomorphs". Paper presented in British Society for Immunology Congress 2013, Liverpool, 2013. Published • https://doi.org/10.1111/imm.12184 Neves, Fabiana. "Signatures of positive selection in mammalian interleukins". Paper presented in European Congress of Immunology - ECI 2012, Glasgow, 2012. Published • https://doi.org/10.1111/imm.12002
Conference poster	Neves, Fabiana. "Pseudogenization patterns in CCL16 evolution". Paper presented in Trends in Biodiversity and Evolution - TiBE2018 - Host-parasite interactions, 2018. Neves, Fabiana. "Evolutionary Insights into Interleukins associated with Tularemia". Paper presented in Trends in Biodiversity and Evolution - TiBE2018 - Host-Parasite Interactions, 2018. Neves, Fabiana. "Genetic characterization of Interleukins with relevant biological roles in lagomorphs (rabbits, hares and pikas)". Paper presented in 4th European Congress of Immunology, 2015. Neves, Fabiana. "Comparative evolutionary analysis of IL6 in lagomorphs". Paper presented in British Society for Immunology Congress 2013, 2013. Neves, Fabiana. "Signatures of positive selection in mammalian interleukins". Paper presented in European Congress of Immunology - ECI 2012, 2012.
Journal article	Águeda-Pinto, Ana; Alves, Luís Q.; Neves, Fabiana; McFadden, Grant; Jacobs, Bertram L.; Castro, L. Filipe C.; Rahman, Masmudur M.; Esteves, Pedro J.. "Convergent Loss of the Necroptosis Pathway in Disparate Mammalian Lineages Shapes Viruses Countermeasures". Frontiers in Immunology 12 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2021.747737. 10.3389/fimmu.2021.747737 Almeida, Tereza; Ohta, Yuko; Gaigher, Arnaud; Muñoz-Mérida, Antonio; Neves, Fabiana; Castro, L. Filipe C.; Machado, André M.; et al. "A Highly Complex, MHC-Linked, 350 Million-Year-Old Shark Nonclassical Class I Lineage". The Journal of Immunology 207 3 (2021): 824-836. http://dx.doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.2000851. 10.4049/jimmunol.2000851 Almeida, Tereza; Gaigher, Arnaud; Muñoz-Mérida, Antonio; Neves, Fabiana; Castro, L. Filipe C.; Flajnik, Martin F.; Ohta, Yuko; Esteves, Pedro J.; Veríssimo, Ana. "Cartilaginous fish class II genes reveal unprecedented old allelic lineages and confirm the late evolutionary emergence of DM". Molecular Immunology 128 (2020): 125-138. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.molimm.2020.10.003. Published • 10.1016/j.molimm.2020.10.003 Águeda-Pinto, Ana; Lemos de Matos, Ana; Pinheiro, Ana; Neves, Fabiana; de Sousa-Pereira, Patrícia; Esteves, Pedro J.. "Not so unique to Primates: The independent adaptive evolution of TRIM5 in Lagomorpha lineage". PLOS ONE 14 12 (2019): e0226202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0226202. Published • 10.1371/journal.pone.0226202 Pinheiro, Ana; Águeda-Pinto, Ana; Melo-Ferreira, José; Neves, Fabiana; Abrantes, Joana; Esteves, Pedro J.. "Analysis of substitution rates showed that TLR5 is evolving at different rates among mammalian groups". BMC Evolutionary Biology 19 1 (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-019-1547-4. Published • 10.1186/s12862-019-1547-4 Neves, Fabiana; Águeda-Pinto, Ana; Pinheiro, Ana; Abrantes, Joana; Esteves, Pedro J.. "Strong selection of the TLR2 coding region among the Lagomorpha suggests an evolutionary history that differs from other mammals". Immunogenetics (2019): Published • https://doi.org/10.1007/s00251-019-01110-3 Neves, Fabiana; Abrantes, Joana; Lopes, Ana M.; Fisunatto, L A; Magalhães MJ; van der Loo, Wessel; Esteves, Pedro J.. "Evolution of CCL16 in Glires (Rodentia and Lagomorpha) shows an unusual random pseudogenization pattern". BMC Evolutionary Biology 19 59 (2019): 1-10. Published • https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-019-1390-7 Esteves, Pedro J.; Abrantes, Joana; Baldauf, Hanna-Mari; BenMohamed, Lbachir; Chen, Yuxing; Christensen, Neil; González-Gallego, Javier; et al. "The wide utility of rabbits as models of human diseases". Experimental & Molecular Medicine 50 5 (2018): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s12276-018-0094-1. Published • 10.1038/s12276-018-0094-1 Neves F; Abrantes J; Esteves PJ. "Evolution of CCL11: genetic characterization in lagomorphs and evidence of positive and purifying selection in mammals.". Innate immunity (2016): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/27189425. Published • 10.1177/1753425916647471 Neves F; Abrantes J; Almeida T; de Matos AL; Costa PP; Esteves PJ. "Genetic characterization of interleukins (IL-1a, IL-1ß, IL-2, IL-4, IL-8, IL-10, IL-12A, IL-12B, IL-15 and IL-18) with relevant biological roles in lagomorphs.". Innate immunity (2015): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/26395994. Published • 10.1177/1753425915606209 Pinheiro A; Neves F; Lemos de Matos A; Abrantes J; van der Loo W; Mage R; Esteves PJ. "An overview of the lagomorph immune system and its genetic diversity.". Immunogenetics 68 (2015): 83-107. http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/26399242. Published • 10.1007/s00251-015-0868-8 Almeida T; Lopes AM; Magalhães MJ; Neves F; Pinheiro A; Gonçalves D; Leitão M; Esteves PJ; Abrantes J. "Tracking the evolution of the G1/RHDVb recombinant strains introduced from the Iberian Peninsula to the Azores islands, Portugal.". Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases (2015): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/26165506. Published • 10.1016/j.meegid.2015.07.010 Neves F; Abrantes J; Lissovsky AA; Esteves PJ. "Pseudogenization of CCL14 in the Ochotonidae (pika) family.". Innate immunity (2015): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/25817712. Published • 10.1177/1753425915577455 Neves F; Abrantes J; Almeida T; Costa PP; Esteves PJ. "Evolutionary Insights into IL17A in Lagomorphs.". Mediators of inflammation (2015): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/26788019. Published • 10.1155/2015/367670 Neves F; Abrantes J; Pinheiro A; Almeida T; Costa PP; Esteves PJ. "Convergent evolution of IL-6 in two leporids (Oryctolagus and Pentalagus) originated an extended protein.". Immunogenetics (2014): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/25027474. Published • 10.1007/s00251-014-0787-0 Neves F; Abrantes J; Steinke JW; Esteves PJ. "Maximum-likelihood approaches reveal signatures of positive selection in IL genes in mammals.". Innate immunity (2014): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/23775092. Published • 10.1177/1753425913486687
Magazine article	Lopes, AM; Neves, Fabiana; Abade dos Santos, FA; Carvalho, CL; Cunha, MV; Duarte, MD; Esteves, PJ; Abrantes, Joana. "Vigilância serológica - Uma abordagem na estratégia de recuperação das populações naturais de coelho-bravo ( Serological surveillance - An approach to the recovery strategy of natural wild rabbit populations)", Veterinária Atual, 2018, http://www.iniav.pt/fotos/editor2/vet_atual_artigo_da_serologia.pdf. Cunha, MV; Duarte, M.; Carvalho, CL; Vaz, Y.; Hora, A; Alves, PC; Neves, Fabiana; et al. "Coelho-bravo, como podemos recuperá-lo? +COELHO, um projeto com forte ligação ao terreno ( "Wild rabbit, how can we recover their populations? + COELHO, a project with strong ground connection)", Caça & Cães de Caça, 2018
Thesis / Dissertation	Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar. "Genetic characterization of  the Innate Immune system of Lagomorphs (ILs, CCLs) - PhD Thesis". PhD, Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10216/107722. Pereira, Mário Jorge; Neves, Fabiana Marisa Vieira das. "Cyanobacteria dynamics at Vela lake during 2008 (Master's Dissertation)". Master, Universidade de Aveiro, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/882.