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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Sofia Lopes Mendes

Citation names

  • Mendes, Sofia L

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
C314-9608-1B22
ORCID iD
0000-0001-8915-701X
Google Scholar ID
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Researcher Id
IYT-0496-2023

Email addresses

  • slmendes@fc.ul.pt (Professional)

Addresses

  • Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Campo Grande, 1749-016, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Evolutionary Biology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
Education
Degree Classification
2019/12/01 - 2024
Ongoing
Biologia (Doutoramento)
Major in Biologia Evolutiva
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2022/07/19 - 2022/07/22
Concluded
Curso Prático em Experimentação Animal (Vertebrados) (Outros)
Órgão Responsável pelo Bem-Estar dos Animais da FCUL, Portugal
Approved
2019/10/22
Concluded
Theoretical Course on Laboratory Animal Sciences (Outros)
Sociedade Portuguesa de Ciências em Animais de Laboratório, Portugal
Approved
2018
Concluded
Biologia Evolutiva e do Desenvolvimento (Mestrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"The population genomics of western Iberian Squalius freshwater fish species: a genotyping by sequencing approach" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
18
2016
Concluded
Biologia - Ramo de Biologia Evolutiva e do Desenvolvimento (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"n/a" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
16
Affiliation

Others

Category
Host institution
Employer
2019/12/01 - Current PhD student Centro de Ecologia Evolução e Alterações Ambientais, Portugal
2019/05/07 - 2019/11/06 Grant researcher FCiênciasID Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências, Portugal
Centro de Ciências do Mar e do Ambiente, Portugal
2019/01 - 2019/05 Volunteer Centro de Ecologia Evolução e Alterações Ambientais, Portugal
2017/09 - 2018/12 MSc student Centro de Ecologia Evolução e Alterações Ambientais, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2019/12/01 - 2024/01/31 The role of hybridization in speciation and adaptation: insights from Iberian freshwater fish species
SFRH/BD/145153/2019
PhD Student Fellow
Centro de Ecologia Evolução e Alterações Ambientais, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2022/01/01 - 2024/12/31 HYBRIDOMICS: Pode a hibridação facilitar a adaptação e resposta a alterações ambientais? Genómica e proteómica de espécies de peixe de água doce endémicas
PTDC/BIA-EVL/4345/2021
PhD Student Fellow
FCiênciasID Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Ecologia Evolução e Alterações Ambientais, Portugal

Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2019/05/07 - 2019/11/06 MUSSELFLOW: Host-dependent evolution, ecology and conservation of freshwater mussels under varying hydrological conditions: consequences of climate change
PTDC/BIA-EVL/29199/2017
Research Technician Fellow
Centro de Ciências do Mar e do Ambiente, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference poster
  1. Mendes, Sofia L; Sousa Santos, Carla; Feulner, Philine G.D.; Sousa, Vitor C.. "Multiple outcomes of hybridization in Iberian chubs inferred from whole genome data". Paper presented in Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE) 2023 Meeting, 2023.
  2. Mendes, Sofia L; Sousa Santos, Carla; Feulner, Philine G.D.; Sousa, Vitor C.. "Evidence for ancient and ongoing hybridization in Iberian freshwater fish from whole genome data". Paper presented in ESEB2022: Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, 2022.
  3. Moreno, João M; Mendes, Sofia L; Sousa, Vitor; Coelho, Maria M.. "Demographic history and molecular adaptation in western Iberian freshwater fish". Paper presented in 8th Congress of the Italian Society for Evolutionary Biology, 2019.
  4. Mendes, Sofia L; Coelho, Maria M.; Sousa, Vitor. "Multi-species demographic modelling uncovers past introgression between currently allopatric freshwater species". Paper presented in Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE) 2019 Meeting, 2019.
  5. Mendes, Sofia L; Coelho, Maria M.; Sousa, Vitor. "Evidence for past introgression between western Iberian freshwater fish species". Paper presented in Fronteirs in E3: 5th cE3c Annual Meeting, 2019.
  6. Mendes, Sofia L; Coelho, Maria M.; Sousa, Vitor. "Exploring the construction of a SNP dataset based on Genotyping by Sequencing (GBS) for four Iberian freshwater fish species". Paper presented in Frontiers in E3: 4th cE3c Annual Meeting, 2018.
Journal article
  1. Sofia L. Mendes; Silvia Perea; Vitor C. Sousa; Carla Sousa Santos; Ignacio Doadrio. "A new species of the genus Squalius (Leuciscidae, Actinopterygii) from the Sado River basin in Portugal". Limnetica (2024): https://doi.org/10.23818/limn.44.19.
    10.23818/limn.44.19
  2. Mc Cartney, Ann M.; Formenti, Giulio; Mouton, Alice; De Panis, Diego; Marins, Luísa S.; Leitão, Henrique G.; Diedericks, Genevieve; et al. "The European Reference Genome Atlas: piloting a decentralised approach to equitable biodiversity genomics". npj Biodiversity 3 1 (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s44185-024-00054-6.
    10.1038/s44185-024-00054-6
  3. Marques, João P.; Alves, Paulo C.; Amorim, Isabel R.; Lopes, Ricardo J.; Moura, Monica; Myers, Eugene; Sim-sim, Manuela; et al. "Building a Portuguese coalition for biodiversity genomics". npj Biodiversity 3 1 (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s44185-024-00061-7.
    10.1038/s44185-024-00061-7
  4. Joaquim Reis; Silvia Perea; Mafalda Gama; Sofia L. Mendes; Vitor C. Sousa; Cristina Lima; Filipe Banha; et al. "Conservation Challenges Imposed by Evolutionary History and Habitat Suitability Shifts of Endangered Freshwater Mussels under a Global Climate Change Scenario". Diversity (2024): https://doi.org/10.3390/d16040209.
    10.3390/d16040209
  5. Perea, S.; Mendes, Sofia L; Sousa-Santos, C.; Ondina, P.; Amaro, R.; Castro, J.; San-Miguel, E.; et al. "Applying genomic approaches to delineate conservation strategies using the freshwater mussel Margaritifera margaritifera in the Iberian Peninsula as a model". Scientific Reports 12 1 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-20947-5.
    Published • 10.1038/s41598-022-20947-5
  6. Mendes, Sofia L; Miguel P. Machado; Maria M. Coelho; Vitor C. Sousa. "Genomic data and multi-species demographic modelling uncover past hybridization between currently allopatric freshwater species". Heredity (2021): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41437-021-00466-1.
    Published • 10.1038/s41437-021-00466-1
  7. De-Kayne, Rishi; Frei, David; Greenway, Ryan; Mendes, Sofia L; Retel, Cas; Feulner, Philine G.D.. "Sequencing platform shifts provide opportunities but pose challenges for combining genomic datasets". Molecular Ecology Resources (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.13309.
    Published • 10.1111/1755-0998.13309
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Mendes, Sofia L. "The population genomics of western Iberian Squalius freshwater fish species: a genotyping by sequencing approach". Master, Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/36870.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/07/30 Hybridization is prevalent but outcomes are distinct across Iberian chubs 3rd Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology
European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB), American Society of Naturalists (ASN), Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB) and Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE) (Montreal, Canada)
2023/12/19 Contrasting outcomes of hybridization in Iberian chubs revealed through whole genome data XIX ENBE - Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Association for Evolutionary Biology
Portuguese Association for Evolutionary Biology (APBE) (Lisboa, Portugal)
2016/10/14 Quantitative discrimination in Gambusia affinis XIII Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Etologia
Sociedade Portuguesa de Etologia (Lisboa, Portugal)

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event
Event name
Institution / Organization
2019/09/18 - 2019/09/18 Ação de Sensibilização "Prevenção de Riscos e Segurança no Laboratório"
Workshop
Prevenção de Riscos e Segurança no Laboratório
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2019/03/13 - 2019/03/13 Participação na ação de sensibilização "Segurança no Laboratório"
Workshop
"Segurança no Laboratório"
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Biossistemas e Ciências Integrativas, Portugal
2016/05/09 - 2016/05/09 Participação no workshop "A Publicação Científica"
Seminar
Seminário de Comunicação de Ciência
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2013/04/20 - 2013/04/20 Completou o Curso de Iniciação à Escrita Científica Biológica
Workshop
Curso de Iniciação à Escrita Científica Biológica
Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2022 - Current European Society for Evolutionary Biology Member
2019/05 - Current Fisheries Society of the British Isles Member
2019 - Current Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution Member
2019 - Current Associação Portuguesa de Biologia Evolutiva Member
Distinctions

Award

2023 Best Student Talk
XIX ENBE - Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Association for Evolutionary Biology, Portugal
2018 Diploma de Mérito Académico
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2016 Best Animal Behaviour project (FCUL)
Sociedade Portuguesa de Etologia, Portugal
2015 Diploma de Mérito Académico
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal