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Sofia Graça Barbosa Alves. Completed the Mestrado in Biologia Funcional in 2010 by Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia and Licenciatura in Biologia in 2008 by Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia. Attends the Doutoramento in Biologia by Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia since 2020/03/31. Published 5 articles in journals. Organized 1 event(s). Participated in 3 event(s). Participates and/or participated as Other in 2 project(s) and Research Fellow in 1 project(s). Works in the area(s) of Natural sciences with emphasis on Biological Sciences with emphasis on Biology and Agrarian Sciences with emphasis on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries with emphasis on Agronomy. In their professional activities interacted with 40 collaborator(s) co-authorship of scientific papers.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Sofia Graça Barbosa Alves
Date of birth
1988/01/06
Gender
Female

Citation names

  • Alves, Sofia
  • Alves, S.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
451B-63F6-CEAA
ORCID iD
0000-0002-3184-6055
Google Scholar ID
https://scholar.google.pt/citations?user=_28CATQAAAAJ&hl=en

Email addresses

  • salves@isa.ulisboa.pt (Professional)

Addresses

  • Linking Landscape, Environment, Agriculture and Food - LEAF, Instituto Superior de Agronomia - ISA. Tapada da Ajuda, 1349-017, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biology
  • Agrarian Sciences - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries - Agronomy

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
Education
Degree Classification
2020/03/31 - 2024
Ongoing
 Biologia (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
2010
Concluded
 Biologia Funcional (Mestrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
"Estudo da organização genómica de sequências repetitivas em várias espécies de Fagaceae" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 17
2008
Concluded
 Biologia (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
"Interacção genómica em híbridos naturais do género Quercus -Estudo da organização da heterocromatina" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 12
Affiliation

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020/08/01 - Current FCT PhD fellow ref SFRH/BD/146660/2019 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
2017/06/01 - 2020/07/31 Fellow Research in european project LIBBIO, Lupinus mutabilis for Increased Biomass from marginal lands and value for BIOrefineries. Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
2009/10/01 - 2010/12/01 Internship within master's project ¿Estudo da organização genómica de sequências repetitivas em várias espécies de Fagaceae¿, Laboratório de Genética do Centro de Botânica Aplicada à Agricultura Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
2008/01/01 - 2008/07/01 Internship within bachelor's project ¿Interação genómica em híbridos naturais do género Quercus - Estudo da organização da heterocromatina¿ Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2020/08/01 - Current FlowerCast- Characterization of genetic and environmental determinants involved in reproductive development of Castanea sativa
POCI-01-0145-FEDER-027980-02/SAICT/2017
PhD Student
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2017/06/01 - 2020/07/31 “LIBBIO-Lupinus mutabilis for Increased Biomass from marginal lands and value for BIOrefineries”
H2020-BBI-PPP-2015
Research Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
Ongoing
2008/01 - 2010/12 GENETIC AND EPIGENETIC CHANGES ASSOCIATED WITH CORK QUALITY
PTDC/AGR-CFL/104197/2008
Master student
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference poster
  1. Alves, Sofia; Braga, Ângelo; Ramos, Miguel J. N.; Cavallo, Andrea; Parreira, Denise; Alhinho, Ana Teresa; Costa, M. Manuela R.; Morais-Cecílio, Leonor. "New evidence of epigenetic regulation in bud development of Castanea sativa Mill.". Paper presented in Encontro Ciência 2024, 2024.
  2. Alves, Sofia; Andrea Cavallo; Ângelo Braga; Alhinho, Ana Teresa; Costa, M. Manuela R.; Morais-Cecílio, Leonor. "Epigenetic regulators show different expression patterns during bud development of Castanea sativa Mill". Paper presented in Iberian Plant Biology 2023, 2023.
  3. Alves, Sofia; Andrea Cavallo; Ângelo Braga; Denise Parreira; Alhinho, Ana Teresa; Costa, M. Manuela R.; Morais-Cecílio, Leonor. "Epigenetic regulation mechanisms in the development of Chestnut (Castanea sativa) buds". Paper presented in Econtro Ciência 2023, 2023.
  4. Alves, Sofia; Ângelo Braga; Denise Parreira; Alhinho, Ana Teresa; Silva, Helena G.; Ramos, Miguel J. N.; Costa, M. Manuela R.; Morais-Cecílio, Leonor. "Identification and characterization of Fagaceae SET-domain proteins (Fagaceae SET-domain proteins)". Paper presented in IV Simpósio da Castanha, 2022.
  5. Alves, Sofia; Ângelo Braga; Denise Parreira; Alhinho, Ana Teresa; Silva, Helena G.; Ramos, Miguel J. N.; Costa, M. Manuela R.; Morais-Cecílio, Leonor. "DNA Methylation associated genes in the three most representative genera of Fagaceae family". Paper presented in Encontro Ciência 2022, 2022.
  6. Alhinho, A.T.A.; Ramos, M.J.N.; Alves, S.; Rocheta, M.; Morais-Cecílio, L.; Laranjo, J.G.; Sobral, R.; Costa, M.M.R.. "The dynamics of flower development in Castanea sativa Mill.". Paper presented in XX National Congress of Biochemistry, Universidade de Évora, Évora, Portugal, 2021.
  7. Aves, S; Braga, Â; Soares, C.; Costa, M. R.; Morais-Cecílio, L.. "DNA methylation associated genes help to tell the evolutionary history of Castanea genus". Paper presented in COST EpiCATCH - Epigenetic mechanisms of Crop Adaptation To Climate Change, Online conference, 2021.
  8. Guilengue, N.; Alves, S.; Talhinhas, P.; Neves-Martins, J.. "Genetic and Genomic Diversity in a Tarwi (Lupinus mutabilis SWEET) Germplasm Collection and Phenotypic Variability Under Mediterranean Conditions". Paper presented in XV International Lupin Conference, Cochabamba, Bolivia, 2019.
  9. Alves, Sofia; Guilengue, Norberto; Neves-Martins, João. "Flower and seed descriptors of Lupinus mutabilis". Paper presented in LIBBIO Workshop "Lupinus mutabilis: a new alternative", Insituto Superior de Agronomia, Lisboa, Portugal, 2018.
  10. Alves, S.; Rocheta, M; Ribeiro, T.; Viegas, W; Morais-Cecílio, L.. "Os retroelementos LTR na organização genómica de espécies europeias de Fagaceae". Paper presented in XXXV Jornadas Portuguesas de Genética, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal, 2010.
Journal article
  1. Sofia Alves; Ângelo Braga; Denise Parreira; Ana Teresa Alhinho; Helena Silva; Miguel Jesus Nunes Ramos; Maria Manuela Ribeiro Costa; Leonor Morais-Cecilio. "Genome-wide identification, phylogeny, and gene duplication of the epigenetic regulators in Fagaceae". Physiologia Plantarum (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ppl.13788.
    10.1111/ppl.13788
  2. Gulisano, Agata; Alves, Sofia; Rodriguez, Diego; Murillo, Angel; van Dinter, Bert-Jan; Torres, Andres F.; Gordillo-Romero, Milton; et al. Corresponding author: Trindade, Luisa M.. "Diversity and Agronomic Performance of Lupinus mutabilis Germplasm in European and Andean Environments". Frontiers in Plant Science 13 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2022.903661.
    10.3389/fpls.2022.903661
  3. Norberto Guilengue; Helena G. Azinheira; Sofia Alves; João Neves-Martins; Pedro Talhinhas; Leonor Morais-Cecílio. "The Analysis of Partial Sequences of the Flavonone 3 Hydroxylase Gene in Lupinus mutabilis Reveals Differential Expression of Two Paralogues Potentially Related to Seed Coat Colour". Agronomy 12 2 (2022): 450-450. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy12020450.
    10.3390/agronomy12020450
  4. Ana Teresa Alhinho; Miguel Jesus Nunes Ramos; Sofia Alves; Margarida Rocheta; Leonor Morais-Cecílio; José Gomes-Laranjo; Rómulo Sobral; Maria Manuela Costa. "The Dynamics of Flower Development in Castanea sativa Mill.". Plants (2021): https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/10/8/1538.
    10.3390/plants10081538
  5. Guilengue, Norberto; Alves, Sofia; Talhinhas, Pedro; Neves-Martins, João. "Genetic and Genomic Diversity in a Tarwi (Lupinus mutabilis Sweet) Germplasm Collection and Adaptability to Mediterranean Climate Conditions". Agronomy 10 1 (2019): 21. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/agronomy10010021.
    10.3390/agronomy10010021
  6. Gulisano, Agata; Alves, Sofia; Martins, João Neves; Trindade, Luisa M.. "Genetics and Breeding of Lupinus mutabilis: An Emerging Protein Crop". Frontiers in Plant Science 10 (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2019.01385.
    10.3389/fpls.2019.01385
  7. Alves, Sofia; Ribeiro, Teresa; Inácio, Vera; Rocheta, Margarida; Morais-Cecílio, Leonor. "Genomic organization and dynamics of repetitive DNA sequences in representatives of three Fagaceae genera". Genome 55 5 (2012): 348-359. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/g2012-020.
    10.1139/g2012-020
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Alves, Sofia. "Estudo da organização genómica de sequências repetitivas em várias espécies de Fagaceae". Master, Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, 2010.
  2. Alves, Sofia. "Interacção genómica em híbridos naturais do género Quercus -Estudo da organização da heterocromatina". Degree, Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, 2008.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/05/30 Distribution of epigenetic marks in different development stages of buds from Castanea sativa Mill 3rd EPI-CATCH CONFERENCE- ECIMA: Epigenetics in Crop Improvement, from Mechanisms to Applications
Epi-Catch (Sofia, Bulgaria)
2022/07/12 Fagaceae Histone Methyltransferases and Demethylases 2nd EPI-CATCH COST CA19125 Conference
MAICH (Chania, Crete, Greece)
2022/07/07 The dynamics of flower development in Castanea sativa Mill. (and why climate matters) IV Simpósio da Castanha
Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (Vila Real , Portugal)
2022/06/27 Identification and characterization of Histone acetylation associated proteins in Fagaceae III International Meeting of Portuguese Society of Epigenetics
Portuguese Society of Epigenetics (Évora)
2021/11 The molecular dynamics of flower development in Castanea sativa Mill. why does climate matter? XII Jornadas de Transferencia Técnica y Científica de Biocastanea
(El Bierzo, Spain)
2021/07 DNA methylation associated genes help to tell the evolutionary history of Castanea genus COST EpiCATCH - Epigenetic mechanisms of Crop Adaptation To Climate Change, Online conference
2019/03/19 Evaluation of Tarwi (Lupinus mutabilis SWEET) Adaptability to Cultivation Under Mediterranean Climate Conditions XV International Lupin Conference
(Cochabamba, Bolivia)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2021 - 2021 Identificação dos genes das metiltransferases e desmetilases de DNA em espécies do género Castanea
Co-supervisor
 Biology (Degree)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
2021 - 2021 Expressão de reguladores epigenéticos e o seu envolvimento nos processos de dormência e abrolhamento de gomos, de Quercus suber e Castanea sativa
Co-supervisor
 Biology (Degree)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
2019/01/01 - 2019/07/31 "Caracterização fenotípica de acessões de Lupinus mutabilis com sementes coloridas" Biologia (Degree)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
2018/11/01 - 2019/07/31 "Caracterização morfológica e agronómica de acessos de Lupinus mutabilis nas condições edafoclimáticas do Mediterrânico" - bolsa Piic Leaf Biologia (Other)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2018/04/18 - 2018/04/19 LIBBIO Workshop "Lupinus mutabilis: a new alternative" Reunião de trabalho com os parceiros europeus de projeto para analisar o decorrer do projeto. (2018/04/18 - 2018/04/19)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal