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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Elvira Lafuente

Citation names

  • Lafuente, Elvira

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
5D16-4DBE-FA5A
ORCID iD
0000-0002-2166-686X
Google Scholar ID
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ggTVSHMAAAAJ&hl=en
Researcher Id
O-2531-2018
Scopus Author Id
56152977400

Telephones

Mobile phone
  • (00351) 920008583 (Personal)
  • (+34) 675308519 (Personal)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Evolutionary Biology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Spanish; Castilian (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Portuguese Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Elementary (A2) Upper intermediate (B2) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2013/01/01 - 2017/12/15
Concluded
 Evolutionary Biology (Doctor of Philosophy)
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
"Evolution and regulation of developmental plasticity: body size and pigmentation in Drosophila" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2011/01/05 - 2011/12/31
Concluded
 Leonardo mobility program (Master)
University of Sussex, United Kingdom
"The factors controlling the Ultrabithorax 3’UTR processing during embryogenesis of Drosophila melanogaster. The role of RNA-binding proteins" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2010/09/01 - 2011/09/30
Concluded
 Genetics and Cellular Biology (Master)
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Universidad de Alcala de Henares, Spain
"The factors controlling the Ultrabithorax 3’UTR processing during embryogenesis of Drosophila melanogaster. The role of RNA-binding proteins" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2005/09/01 - 2010/08/28
Concluded
 Biology (Bachelor)
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
2008/09/30 - 2009/06/30
Concluded
 Erasmus exchange programme (Bachelor)
University of Sussex, United Kingdom
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2025/01/01 - Current Researcher (Research) FCiênciasID Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Ecologia Evolução e Alterações Ambientais, Portugal
2022/07/01 - 2024/10/31 Postdoc (Research) Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
(...)
2022/02/01 - 2022/06/30 Postdoc (Research) Eawag, Switzerland
Eawag, Switzerland
2019/09/01 - 2022/02/01 Postdoc (Research) Eawag, Switzerland
Eawag, Switzerland
2019/02/01 - 2019/06/30 Postdoc (Research) Helsingin yliopisto, Finland
2018/10/01 - 2019/01/31 Visiting Researcher (Research) Helsingin yliopisto, Finland
2013/01/01 - 2017/12/15 Researcher (Research) Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2012/06/01 - 2012/12/31 Research Assistant (Research) Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/11/01 - 2024/11/30 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2022/03/01 - 2022/06/30 Coping with anthropogenic stress: the role of gut-associated bacteria in a freshwater isopod
5221.00979.008.08 ATG21
Post-doc
Eawag, Switzerland
 Eawag
Ongoing
2019/09/01 - 2022/02/28 The Asellus triangle – the host, the microbiome and global change
PSP 5221.00492.013.03 Discretionary fund DF19
Post-doc
Eawag, Switzerland
 Eawag
Ongoing
2018/02 - 2018/04 The Paradox of Coexistence: The Evolution of Ontogenetic Interactions
1556884
Other
National Science Foundation
2013/01/01 - 2017/07/31 Evolution and regulation of developmental plasticity: body size and pigmentation in Drosophila
SFRH/BD/52171/2013
PhD Student Fellow
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2012 - 2013 Coping with changing environments: genetic and physiological mechanisms of adaptive plasticity
PTDC/BIA-BDE/100243/2008
Research Technician Fellow
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2025/01/01 - Current Coping with anthropogenic stress: the role of gut-associated bacteria
2022.08248.CEECIND/CP1722/CT0014
Principal investigator
Ongoing
2022/07/01 - Current Mechanisms of life and death of infected flies
PTDC/BIA-BIO/4693/2021
Post-doc
Ongoing

Other

Designation Funders
2011/05/01 - 2011/12/31 Leonardo Mobility Program
00000
Master Student Fellow
Concluded
2008/09/30 - 2009/06/30 Erasmus Mobility Program
00000
Bachelor Student
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference poster
  1. Akyaw PA; Lafuente, Elvira; Sucena, Élio. "Experimental evolution of disease tolerance in D. melanogaster". Paper presented in Annual meeting of the Portuguese Association for Evolutionary Biology, 2024.
  2. Priscilla A. Akyaw; Diogo Roque; Tânia F. Paulo; Duneau, David; Lafuente, Elvira; Sucena, Élio. "Approaching the mechanistic basis of Disease tolerance to immunopathology in Drosophila melanogaster". Paper presented in Meeting of the Portuguese Drosophila Researchers, 2024.
  3. Akyaw, Priscilla; Tânia F. Paulo; Diogo Roque; Duneau, David; Lafuente, Elvira; Sucena, Élio. "Approaching the mechanistic basis of Disease tolerance to immunopathology in Drosophila melanogaster". Paper presented in European Drosophila Research Conference, 2024.
  4. Priscilla A. Akyaw; Diogo Roque; Tânia F. Paulo; Duneau, David; Lafuente, Elvira; Sucena, Élio. "Unravelling the mechanisms of disease tolerance in Drosophila melanogaster in response to infection-induced damage". Paper presented in Insect models for Infection Biology Conference, 2024.
  5. Priscilla A. Akyaw; Diogo Roque; Tânia F. Paulo; Duneau, David; Lafuente, Elvira; Sucena, Élio. "Understanding disease tolerance in response to infection-induced damage in Drosophila melanogaster". Paper presented in • SymbNET International Conference on Host-Microbe Symbiosis, 2024.
  6. Katja Räsänen. "Coping with anthropogenic stress: the role of gut-associated bacteria in a freshwater isopod". Paper presented in EAWAG Annual Symposium, 2021.
  7. Katja Räsänen. "Host-microbiome responses to anthropogenic stress: Insight from the freshwater isopod Asellus aquaticus". Paper presented in 11th International Symposium on Terrestrial Isopod Biology, 2021.
  8. Lafuente, Elvira; Aijuan Liao; Katja Räsänen. "The Asellus triangle: the host, the microbiome and global change". Paper presented in Swiss Annual Meeting of Organismal Biology (Biology20), 2020.
  9. Lafuente, Elvira; Filipa Alves; Jessica G King; Patricia Beldade. "The effects of genetic and environmental factors on Drosophila body color components". Paper presented in Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, 2019.
  10. Lafuente, Elvira; Aijuan Liao; Katja Räsänen. "The Asellus triangle: the host, the microbiome and global change". Paper presented in EAWAG Symposium, 2019.
  11. Lafuente, Elvira; David Duneau; Erik van Bergen; Patricia Beldade. "Genetic and developmental bases of variation in plasticity in D. melanogaster". Paper presented in Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, 2017.
  12. Lafuente, Elvira; Patrícia Beldade. "Genetic basis of variation in thermal plasticity for body pigmentation and size". Paper presented in Encontro Nacional de Biologia Evolutiva, 2016.
  13. Lafuente, Elvira; Patricia Beldade. "Environmentally-induced phenotypic variation: molecular mechanisms and evolution.". Paper presented in Encontro Nacional de Biologia Evolutiva, 2014.
Journal article
  1. E. Lafuente; D. Duneau; P. Beldade. "Genetic basis of variation in thermal developmental plasticity for Drosophila melanogaster body pigmentation". Molecular Ecology (2024): https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17294.
    10.1111/mec.17294
  2. Elvira Lafuente; Louis Carles; Jean-Claude Walser; Marco Giulio; Simon Wullschleger; Christian Stamm; Katja Räsänen. "Effects of anthropogenic stress on hosts and their microbiomes: Treated wastewater alters performance and gut microbiome of a key detritivore (Asellus aquaticus)". Evolutionary Applications (2023): https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.13540.
    10.1111/eva.13540
  3. Smolander, Olli-Pekka; Blande, Daniel; Ahola, Virpi; Rastas, Pasi; Tanskanen, Jaakko; Kammonen, Juhana I; Oostra, Vicencio; et al. "Improved chromosome-level genome assembly of the Glanville fritillary butterfly (Melitaea cinxia) integrating Pacific Biosciences long reads and a high-density linkage map". GigaScience 11 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giab097.
    10.1093/gigascience/giab097
  4. Lafuente, Elvira; Lürig, Moritz D.; Rövekamp, Moritz; Matthews, Blake; Buser, Claudia; Vorburger, Christoph; Räsänen, Katja. "Building on 150 Years of Knowledge: The Freshwater Isopod Asellus aquaticus as an Integrative Eco-Evolutionary Model System". Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.748212.
    Open access • 10.3389/fevo.2021.748212
  5. Lafuente, Elvira; Alves, Filipa; King, Jessica G.; Peralta, Carolina M.; Beldade, Patrícia. "Many ways to make darker flies: Intra- and interspecific variation in Drosophila body pigmentation components". Ecology and Evolution 11 12 (2021): 8136-8155. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7646.
    10.1002/ece3.7646
  6. Lafuente, Elvira; Patrícia Beldade. "Genomics of Developmental Plasticity in Animals". Frontiers in Genetics (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2019.00720.
    Published • 10.3389/fgene.2019.00720
  7. Erik van Bergen; Elvira Lafuente. "Digest: The guppy project: Predicting evolution in the wild". Evolution (2018):
    Published • 10.1111/evo.13620
  8. Lafuente, Elvira; David Duneau; Patrícia Beldade. "Genetic basis of thermal plasticity variation in Drosophila melanogaster body size". PLoS Genetics (2018): https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1007686.
    Published • 10.1371/journal.pgen.1007686
  9. Ana Rita A Mateus; Manuel Marques-Pita; Vicencio Oostra; Elvira Lafuente; Paul M Brakefield; Bas J Zwaan; Patricia Beldade. "Adaptive developmental plasticity: compartmentalized responses to environmental cues and to corresponding internal signals provide phenotypic flexibility". BMC Biology (2014):
    Published • 10.1186/s12915-014-0097-x
  10. Ana Rogulja-Ortmann; Joao Picao-Osorio; Casandra Villava; Pedro Patraquim; Elvira Lafuente; Julie Aspden; Stefan Thomsen; Gerhard M. Technau; Claudio R. Alonso. "The RNA-binding protein ELAV regulates Hox RNA processing, expression and function within the Drosophila nervous system". Development (2014):
    Published • 10.1242/dev.101519
Online resource
  1. Elvira Lafuente; Moritz D. Lürig. Asellus Wiki. 2022. https://www.asellus.org/wiki/.
Preprint
  1. Priscilla A Akyaw; Tania F Paulo; Elvira Lafuente; Elio Sucena. "Pathogen-Induced Damage in Drosophila: Uncoupling Disease Tolerance from Resistance". 2025. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.31.635923.
    10.1101/2025.01.31.635923
  2. E Lafuente; D Duneau; P Beldade. "Genetic basis of variation in thermal developmental plasticity forDrosophila melanogasterbody pigmentation". 2023. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.09.03.556093.
    10.1101/2023.09.03.556093
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Lafuente, Elvira. "Evolution and regulation of developmental plasticity: body size and pigmentation in Drosophila". PhD, 2017.
  2. Lafuente, Elvira. "The factors controlling the Ultrabithorax 3’UTR processing during embryogenesis of Drosophila melanogaster. The role of RNA-binding proteins". Master, 2011.
Website
  1. Elvira Lafuente; Moritz D. Lürig; Blake Matthews; Katja Räsänen; Žiga Fišer. Asellus aquaticus: A model system for evolutionary ecology. 2021. https://www.asellus.org/.

Other

Other output
  1. Many ways to make darker flies: Intra- and inter-specific variation in Drosophila body pigmentation components. 2020. Elvira Lafuente; Filipa Alves; Jessica G King; Carolina M Peralta; Patrícia Beldade. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.08.26.268615.
    10.1101/2020.08.26.268615
  2. Genetic basis of thermal plasticity variation in Drosophila melanogaster body size. 2018. E Lafuente; D Duneau; P Beldade. https://doi.org/10.1101/268201.
    10.1101/268201
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2021/11/25 Coping with anthropogenic stress: the role of gut-associated bacteria in A. aquaticus 2nd International Asellus Symposium
2020/09 Within species variation in responses to anthropogenic change: insights from Asellus aquaticus EAWAG Annual Symposium
EAWAG
2019/12/11 Coping with environmental change; Insights from invertebrate models Lecture series in Aquatic Ecology and Evolution -
EAWAG (Kastanienbaum, Switzerland)
2019/02/15 Evolution and regulation of developmental plasticity: body size and pigmentation in Drosophila Animal Ecology Revolution Symposium
Uppsala University (Uppsala, Sweden)
2019/01/30 Evolution and regulation of developmental plasticity: body size and pigmentation in Drosophila Evolution and Development Seminar Series
Cambridge University (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
2018/08/20 Genetic basis of inter-genotype variation for thermal plasticity in D. melanogaster 2nd Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology
Montpellier University - ESEB (Montpellier, France)
2015/12/13 Genetic basis of variation in thermal plasticity for body pigmentation 11th Encontro Nacional de Biologia Evolutiva
APBE - Associação Portuguesa de Biologia Evolutiva (Lisbon, Portugal)
2015/08/13 Genetic basis of variation in thermal plasticity for body pigmentation 15th Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology
Lausanne University - ESEB (Lausanne, Switzerland)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2024/11/10 - 2024/11/11 Co-organized Portuguese Annual Drosophila Meeting (2024/11/10 - 2024/11/11)
Conference (Co-organisor)
2024/08/26 - 2024/08/30 Symposium organization at 3nd Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology (2024/08/26 - 2024/08/30)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
2021/11/25 - 2021/11/26 2n International Asellus Symposium (2021/11/25 - 2021/11/26)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
 Eawag, Switzerland

Jyväskylän yliopisto, Finland
2013/03/01 - 2014/05/31 Annual Meeting for Gulbenkian Students (AMeeGuS) 2014. (2014/05/24 - 2014/05/28)
Meeting
 Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2021/10/15 - Current Effective Communication of Science
Workshop
2021/06/01 - Current Fix the Leaky Pipeline coaching program
Other
 Initiative from ETH Domain to foster womens scientific careers and achieve gender equality in technical-academic fields
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Switzerland
2021/08/01 - 2021/08/31 Collegial Coaching Workshop
Workshop
 Solution-focused coaching techniques to lead more effective conversations and support colleagues on their academic journey
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Switzerland

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2021/08 - Current Associação Portuguesa de Biologia Evolutiva, APBE
2020/03 - Current Crowdfight Covid19
2014/01/01 - Current European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) Member
2018/01/01 - 2018/12/28 Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE) Member
2014/01/01 - 2017/12/31 Portuguese Society for Evolutionary Biology (APBE) Member

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2021/08/01 - Current Equal Opportunities Committee
Member
 Eawag, Switzerland

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2024/09/01 - Current Advisor for the Thriving Earth Exchange Community Science Fellow initiative

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2020/10/05 - 2020/10/05 Discussion session on evolutionary applications in Aquatic Ecology Aquatic Ecology (Bachelor) Universität Zürich, Switzerland
2019/10/15 - 2019/10/15 Discussion session on evolutionary applications in Aquatic Ecology Aquatic Ecology (Bachelor) Universität Zürich, Switzerland

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization Funding entity
2023/04/01 - Current Participation in the evaluation process of AAPG 2023 grants, from the National Research Agency (ANR), as a Scientific Expert for the scientific panel Living earth.
Specialist
 Agence nationale de la recherche, France

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2022/03/01 - Current Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
2022/01/02 - Current Journal of Evolutionary Biology Manuscript Review
2021/11/01 - Current Science of the Total Environment Manuscript Review
2021/11 - Current Science of the Total Environment Manuscript Review
2021/09 - Current The American Naturalist Manuscript Review
2020 - Current Evolution Manuscript Review
2020 - Current Molecular Ecology Manuscript Review
2020 - Current OIKOS Manuscript Review
2020 - Current Peer Community in Evolutionary Biology (PCI Evol Biol) Manuscript Review
2019 - Current Heredity Manuscript Review
2019 - Current Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Manuscript Review
2019 - Current Ecology and Evolution Manuscript Review

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2020/03/01 - 2021/03/31 Adaptation to Environmental Stress in Asellus aquaticus Jan Pfister
2020/11 - 2021/03 Acquisition and maintenance of gut-microbiome in Asellus aquaticus Capucine Lechartre
2020/10/01 - 2020/11/30 Population level effects of micropollutants on Asellus aquaticus Johanna Kohler, Giulia Malingamba
2019/10/01 - 2019/11/30 Effects of chemical pollution on Asellus aquaticus Valentina Pezzoli, Michele Reich
2015 - 2015 Plasticidade: influência da temperatura exterior na variação fenotípica da pigmentação dorso-abdominal da Drosophila melanogaster Emanuel Fernandes
2015 - 2015 Adaptive developmental plasticity Inês Antunes, Mariana Ferreira
2015 - 2015 Pigmentation Plasticity in Drosophila: A comparative analysis of interspecific variation Jessica King
2015 - 2015 Thermal pigmentation plasticity in Drosophila melanogaster João Santos
2014 - 2014 Adar and Developmental Plasticity Carolina M Peralta
2014 - 2014 Windows of thermal sensitivity for body size and pigmentation in D.melanogaster Tânia Paulo
Distinctions

Other distinction

2021 Best poster and flash talk presentation
Eawag, Switzerland
2014 Best poster presentation
Portuguese Society for Evolutionary Biology (APBE) , Portugal