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Filipa Borges graduated in Biology from the University of Coimbra (Portugal) in 2015 and completed her Master's in Biodiversity, Genetics and Evolution at the University of Porto (Portugal) in 2017. She is currently a PhD student at Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA - NOVA FCSH), the University of Exeter, and CIBIO-InBIO, supported by an FCT individual grant (2020.05839.BD). She is interested in the study of primates and of the primate-nonhuman primate interface in West Africa. F. Borges published five articles in peer-reviewed international journals. She has co-organised, attended, and presented work at several national and international scientific meetings. She has extensive experience in laboratory work (e.g. DNA extraction, quantification, species identification, genotyping, library preparation, sequencing), fieldwork (collection of primates' non-invasive faecal samples, GPS handling, behavioural and cognition experiments, interviews with local communities), and statistical analyses (e.g. population genetics software, GIS, R, Linux). In 2017 she was awarded the Cláudia Sousa Memorial Fund for the Advancement of Portuguese Primatology by the Primate Research Institute (Kyoto, Japan) and in 2021 a grant by Primate Conservation Inc. to conduct fieldwork.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Filipa Franco da Silva Borges

Citation names

  • Borges, Filipa

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
4019-8889-4CB8
ORCID iD
0000-0002-1405-2341
Researcher Id
K-4645-2016

Email addresses

  • filipa.fsb@gmail.com (Professional)

Telephones

Telephone
  • (+351) 210464057 (Professional)

Addresses

  • Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência. Rua da Quinta Grande, 6, 2780-156, Oeiras, Oeiras, Portugal (Professional)
  • Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia (CRIA), Av. Forças Armadas, Edifício ISCTE, sala 2W2, 1649-026, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Sociology - Anthropology
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biodiversity Conservation
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Genetics and Heredity
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Evolutionary Biology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
French Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Education
Degree Classification
2019/10/01 - 2024/08/31
Ongoing
Antropologia (Doutoramento)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal

University of Exeter, United Kingdom

Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal

Associação BIOPOLIS - Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal
"Integrating genomics with local knowledge to understand responses of West African primates to past and present ecological and anthropogenic changes" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2020/01/22 - 2020/01/22
Concluded
RAD-seq (ipyrad) RadCamp 2020 (Outros)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2019/05/13 - 2019/05/17
Concluded
Population Genetics and Demographic History (Outros)
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2019/01/14 - 2019/01/16
Concluded
Gene Prediction and Annotation of Genomes (Outros)
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
2018/03/29 - 2018/03/30
Concluded
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) (Outros)
Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Japan
2018/02/19 - 2018/03/02
Concluded
Data Analysis in R (Outros)
Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Japan
2015/09 - 2017/12
Concluded
Biodiversidade, Genética e Evolução (Mestrado)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"A country-level genetic survey of the IUCN critically endangered western chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) in Guinea-Bissau" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
18/20
2017/02/18 - 2017/02/18
Concluded
Conservação de Primatas em Ambientes Antropogénicos: Desafios e Estratégias (Primate Conservation in Anthropogenic Environments: Challenges and Strategies) (Outros)
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2012/09 - 2015/07
Concluded
Biologia (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
16/20
2014/09/01 - 2015/05/31
Concluded
Science - Erasmus (Outros)
University College Dublin, Ireland
2014/04/22 - 2014/04/23
Concluded
Reprodução Assistida e Preservação da Fertilidade (Assisted Reproduction and Fertility Preservation) (Outros)
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal

Hospitais da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Affiliation

Others

Category
Host institution
Employer
2021/10/01 - Current PhD student Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
2021/10/01 - Current PhD student Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2019/10/01 - Current PhD student Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2019/10/01 - Current PhD student University of Exeter Centre for Ecology and Conservation, United Kingdom
2019/10/01 - 2020/07/31 Laboratory Manager & Research Technician - Population and Conservation Genetics Group Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2019/08/01 - 2019/09/30 Laboratory Technician - ROAZES: GENÉTICA E TOXICOLOGIA project Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2018/04/01 - 2019/07/30 Research Technician - Primatomics (PTDC/IVC-ANT/3058/2014) Project Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
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2018/01/02 - 2018/03/30 Traineeship - Cognition and behaviour experiments; Fieldwork (Koshima Island, Japan); Conferences, workshops, seminars Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Japan
2017/10/16 - 2017/12/22 Laboratory Technician - Primatomics (PTDC/IVC-ANT/3058/2014) and Primaction projects (molecular genetics and genomics techniques and analyses on primate species) Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2017/01/03 - 2017/03/31 Environmental consultant - Business&Biodiversity European Initiative (biological characterization of properties; environmental marketing; sustainable management; writing of reports) Sinergiae Ambiente, Lda., Portugal
2016/02/01 - 2016/07/31 Extracurricular internship - How do lizards implement maximum locomotor skills in different ecological and social functions (Supervisor: Antigoni Kaliontzopoulou, CIBIO/InBIO) Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
2016/03/21 - 2016/06/13 Environmental consultant - Business&Biodiversity European Initiative (biological characterization of properties; environmental marketing; sustainable management; writing of reports) Sinergiae Ambiente, Lda., Portugal
2015/06/15 - 2015/07/31 Summer internship - Effect of environmental changes over the biodiversity of the Douro Demarcated Region; Strategic environmental assessments; Functional biodiversity; Business&Biodiversity Sinergiae Ambiente, Lda., Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2019/08/01 - 2019/09/30 ROAZES: GENÉTICA E TOXICOLOGIA: Implementação de um programa de caracterização genética, fisiológica e toxicológica da população de roazes
Research Technician Fellow
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
Tróia-Natura, S.A.

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2018/04/01 - 2019/07/31 Comparative landscape evolutionary genomics of West-African primates: a contribution of the anthropological biology to their conservation plan
PTDC/IVC-ANT/3058/2014
Research Fellow
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Administração e Políticas Públicas, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2017/10/16 - 2017/12/22 Comparative landscape evolutionary genomics of WestAfrican primates: a contribution of the anthropological biology to their conservation plan
PTDC/IVC-ANT/3058/2014
Research Technician Fellow
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2017/10/16 - 2017/12/22 Primaction - Protecting the Western Chimpanzee and other primates from illegal logging and hunting in Guinea-Bissau
.
Research Technician Fellow
Born Free Foundation

Chester Zoo

Primate Conservation Inc
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Ferreira da Silva, Maria; Gerini, Federica; Aleixo-Pais, Isa; Maie, Tiago; Borges, Filipa; Costa, Mafalda; Colmonero-Costeira, Ivo; et al. "Does the exclusive use of genetic data inform on the demographic history in Anthropogenic landscapes? Investigating population size dynamics of Papio papio in Guinea-Bissau". In Genetics, Taxonomy and Biogeography of Papio sp., edited by Wallis, Janette. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022.
    Under revision
  2. Ferreira da Silva, M.J.; Gerini, Federica; Isa Aleixo-Pais; Maié, Tiago; Borges, Filipa; Costa, Mafalda; Colmonero-Costeira, Ivo; et al. "Inferring dynamics of the effective population size of the hunted Papio papio in Guinea-Bissau using genetic data". In Baboons: Behaviour, Ecology and Taxonomy, edited by Wallis, J.. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cabridge University Press, 2020.
    Under revision
Conference abstract
  1. Sevastópolska, Darya; Borges, Filipa; Isa Aleixo-Pais; Ferreira da Silva, Maria; CHIKHI, Lounès ; Minhós, Tânia. "Impact of human presence in two protected areas: a comparative analysis of genetic and spatial data of two African colobines". Paper presented in Anthropology and Conservation Conference, Londres, 2021.
    Published
  2. Borges, Filipa; Minhós, Tânia; Isa Aleixo-Pais; Sevastópolska, Darya; Ferreira da Silva, Maria; Ting, Nelson. "Using genetics to assess the conservation status of a colobine monkey in The Gambia". Paper presented in Anthropology and Conservation Conference, Londres, 2021.
    Published
  3. Sevastópolska, Darya; Borges, Filipa; Isa Aleixo-Pais; Minhós, Tânia. Corresponding author: Sevastópolska, Darya. "Impactos antropogénicos sobre duas espécies de colobíneos africanos: comparação de dados genéticos em duas áreas protegidas". Paper presented in II Encontro Anual de Antropologia do Ambiente, Lisboa, 2021.
    Published
  4. Borges, Filipa; Isa Aleixo-Pais; Ferreira da Silva, M.J.; Barca, Benjamin; Turay, Brima Sheku; Chikhi, Lounès; Minhós, Tânia. "Non-invasive Genetics Provide Insights into the Conservation Status of Two Colobine Monkeys in Gola Rainforest National Park, Sierra Leone". Paper presented in VIIth Iberian Primatological Conference - Empathy, Education and Conservation: Primates in a shared world, Lisbon, 2020.
    Published
  5. Isa Aleixo-Pais; Borges, Filipa; Barca, Benjamin; Frazão-Moreira, Amélia; Turay, Brima Sheku; Swaray, M.; Bruford, Michael W.; Minhós, Tânia. "The Sharing of Natural Resources Between Mende People and Non-human Primates in the Tropical Forest of Gola (Sierra Leone)". Paper presented in VIIth Iberian Primatological Conference - Empathy, Education and Conservation: Primates in a shared world, Lisbon, 2020.
    Published
  6. Ferreira da Silva, M.J.; Gerini, Federica; Isa Aleixo-Pais; Maié, Tiago; Borges, Filipa; Costa, Mafalda; Colmonero-Costeira, Ivo; et al. "Hunting and its Recent Demographic Consequences in Papio papio in Guinea-Bissau Assessed Through Social and Molecular Data". Paper presented in VIIth Iberian Primatological Conference - Empathy, Education and Conservation: Primates in a shared world, Lisbon, 2020.
    Published
  7. Borges, Filipa; Isa Aleixo-Pais; Sá, Rui M.; Bruford, Michael W.; Casanova, Catarina; Chikhi, Lounès; Minhós, Tânia; Ferreira da Silva, M.J.. "Serão todos primos? A genética na conservação dos primatas da África Ocidental". Paper presented in Encontro Aberto de Primatologia, Almada, 2018.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Borges, Filipa; Sevastópolska, Darya; Isa Aleixo-Pais; Barca, Benjamin; Turay, Brima Sheku; Barlow, Clive Richard; Ting, Nelson; et al. "Genetic status of two threatened colobine monkeys across West Africa". Paper presented in 2023 International Congress for Conservation Biology (ICCB), 2023.
  2. Borges, Filipa; Isa Aleixo-Pais; Sá, Rui M.; Bruford, Michael W.; Casanova, Catarina; Chikhi, Lounès; Gerini, Federica; et al. "The Western Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) in Guinea-Bissau – A Genetic Assessment for the Conservation of a Critically Endangered Taxon". Paper presented in 27th International Primatological Society Congress, 2018.
  3. Colmonero-Costeira, Ivo; Borges, Filipa; Gerini, Federica; Minhós, Tânia; Ferreira da Silva, Maria Joana. "Genetic survey of primates in six islands of the Bijagós Archipelago in Guinea-Bissau (West Africa)". Paper presented in 27th International Primatological Society Congress, Nairobi, Kenya, 2018.
  4. Borges, Filipa; Pais, Isa Aleixo; Sá, Rui Moutinho; Gerini, Federica; Colmonero-Costeira, Ivo; Bruford, Michael William; Casanova, Catarina; et al. "The Western chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) in Guinea-Bissau ¿ a genetic assessment for the conservation of a critically endangered taxon". Paper presented in 27th International Primatological Society Congress, Nairobi, Kenya, 2018.
  5. Gerini, Federica; Borges, Filipa; Colmonero-Costeira, Ivo; Tofanelli, S; Ferreira da Silva, Maria Joana. "Primate dispersal across a human-dominated landscape: comparative gene flow between the Western chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) and Guinea baboon (Papio papio) in Guinea Bissau, West Africa". Paper presented in 27th International Primatological Society Congress, Nairobi, Kenya, 2018.
  6. Borges, Filipa; Isa Aleixo-Pais; Sá, Rui M.; Bruford, Michael W.; Casanova, Catarina; Chikhi, Lounès; Minhós, Tânia; Ferreira da Silva, M.J.. "A Country-Level Genetic Survey of the Critically Endangered Western Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa". Paper presented in Primate Society of Great Britain 50th Anniversary with Jane Goodall & Frans de Waal, 2017.
  7. Borges, Filipa; Isa Aleixo-Pais; Minhós, Tânia; Chikhi, Lounès; Bruford, Michael W.; Casanova, Catarina; Brito, José Carlos; Ferreira da Silva, M.J.. "Genetic diversity and population structure of the Western Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus ) at the Cufada Lagoons Natural Park in Guinea-Bissau". Paper presented in TiBE 2016 (Tropical Biology), 2016.
Journal article
  1. Chesney, Chloe; Borges, Filipa; Mohamed Kamara, Osman; Ramadan Bah, Mohamed; Taylor, Joseph; Bell, Sarah. "Range Extension of the Western Patas Monkey (Erythrocebus patas patas) in Northern Sierra Leone, West Africa". African Primates 17 2 (2023): 53-62. http://www.primate-sg.org/storage/african-primates-journal/volume-172/AP%20Vol%2017%202%202023%20Chesney%20et%20al.pdf.
    Open access • Published
  2. Aleixo-Pais, Isa; Borges, Filipa; Sesay, Nazie; Songe, Mustapha; Cassama, Mamadu; Camara, Iaia T.; Ramos, Catarina; et al. "Dietary flexibility of western red colobus in two protected areas with contrasting anthropogenic pressure". Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2023.1280277.
    Published • 10.3389/fevo.2023.1280277
  3. Borges, Filipa; Minhós, Tânia; Parreira, Bárbara; Oliveira, Rúben; Aleixo-Pais, Isa; Leendertz, Fabien H.; Wittig, Roman; et al. "The importance of well protected forests for the conservation genetics of West African colobine monkeys". American Journal of Primatology 85 1 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajp.23453.
    10.1002/ajp.23453
  4. Jensen, Evelyn L.; Díez-del-Molino, David; Gilbert, M. Thomas P.; Bertola, Laura D.; Borges, Filipa; Cubric-Curik, Vlatka; de Navascués, Miguel; et al. "Ancient and historical DNA in conservation policy". Trends in Ecology & Evolution (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2021.12.010.
    10.1016/j.tree.2021.12.010
  5. Ferreira da Silva, M.J.; Paddock, Christina; Gerini, Federica; Borges, Filipa; Isa Aleixo-Pais; Costa, Mafalda; Colmonero-Costeira, Ivo; et al. "Chasing a ghost: notes on the present distribution and conservation of the sooty mangabey (Cercocebus atys) in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa". Primates (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10329-020-00817-2.
    Published • 10.1007/s10329-020-00817-2
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/11/04 Conservação de primatas na Serra Leoa - Comunidades humanas em paisagens partilhadas 2º Encontro Aberto de Primatologia
(Almada, Portugal)
2023/08/24 The human dimension of nonhuman primate conservation in Sierra Leone Joint Meeting of the International Primatological Society and the Malaysian Primatological Society (IPS-MPS)
2023/07/26 Primate Conservation in Sierra Leone - Human Communities in Shared Landscapes 2023 International Congress for Conservation Biology (ICCB)
Society for Conservation Biology (Kigali, Rwanda)
2022/10/06 Two colobine monkeys in two West African forests: Does the conservation of the ecosystem influence the primates' evolutionary potential? VIII Iberian Primatological Conference
(Barcelona, Spain)
2021/10/26 Using genomics to assess the conservation status of a colobine monkey in The Gambia Anthropology and Conservation
Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
2020/10/08 Genética não-invasiva na conservação de dois macacos cólobos no Parque Nacional de Gola, Serra Leoa I Conferência Anual de Antropologia do Ambiente
(Lisbon, Portugal)
2020/03/03 The sharing of natural resources between Mende people and non-human primates in the tropical forest of Gola (Sierra Leone) International Seminar on Environment and Society
Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019/08/02 Demographic history of West African primates inferred from genomic data 15th European Ecological Federation Congress and 18th National SPECO Meeting
Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019/02/15 The Genetics of Conservation: a case study on West African primates Conference of the Gesellschaft für Primatologie
(Göttingen, Germany)
2018/12/13 Population and conservation genetics and genomics, fieldwork planning, and experimental design Biodiversity, Conservation and Primatology
Faculdade de Ciências Socias e Humanas, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2018/01/30 Implications from Genetic Studies on Behaviour and Conservation Psychology Seminar
Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University (Inuyama, Japan)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2021/12/16 - 2021/12/17 ENBE - Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Association for Evolutionary Biology (2021/12/16 - 2021/12/17)
Meeting (Member of the Organising Committee)
2019/10/09 - 2019/10/11 VIIth Iberian Primatological Conference - Empathy, Education and Conservation: Primates in a shared world (2019/10/09 - 2019/10/11)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
Associação Portuguesa de Primatologia, Portugal
2018/06/05 - 2018/06/05 Workshop "Primate Conservation Genetics" (2018/06/05 - 2018/06/05)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
Njala University, Sierra Leone

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event
Event name
Institution / Organization
2022/09/06 - 2022/09/09 VIII Congresso da APA
Congress
VIII Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia
2020/12/17 - 2020/12/17 The G-BIKE aDNA Workshop
Workshop
2020/02/17 - 2020/02/18 Encontro Nacional sobre Investigação em Alterações Climáticas (National Meeting about Research on Climate Change)
Conference
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2019/10/18 - 2019/10/18 International Colloquium "Morality and Emotion: (Un)Conscious Journey to Being VI"
Conference
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2019/07/08 - 2019/07/10 Encontro com a Ciência e Tecnologia em Portugal (Meeting with Science and Technology in Portugal)
Conference
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2019/06/20 - 2019/06/21 Workshop "On Models and Modelling in Biology"
Conference
INSA Toulouse, France
2018/03/05 - 2018/03/05 The 9th International Symposium on Primatology and Wildlife Science
Conference
Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Japan

Wildlife Research Center, Kyoto University, Japan

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2020/10 - Current Genetic diversity and demographic history of two colobine monkeys from Sierra Leone Darya Sevastópolska
2017 - 2018 Structure and connectivity of sympatric primate species across a human-dominated landscape: population genetics of Western Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) and Guinea Baboon (Papio papio) in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa Federica Gerini
2017 - 2018 Insights into insular primates: conservation genetics of Cercopithecus petaurista buettikoferi, Cercopithecus campbelli and Chlorocebus sabaeus in the Bijagós Archipelago, Guinea-Bissau Ivo Colmonero-Costeira
Distinctions

Award

2017 Cláudia Sousa Memorial Fund for the Advancement of Portuguese Primatology
Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Japan

Other distinction

2021 Primate Conservation Inc.
2020 PhD scholarship
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal