Fábio Miguel da Cruz Teixeira (651D-7BE5-237A)

Curriculum Vitae

Fábio Miguel da Cruz Teixeira

Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Fábio Miguel da Cruz Teixeira

Citation names

Teixeira, Fábio

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 651D-7BE5-237A
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0497-995X

Telephones

Mobile phone

934559153 (Personal)

Knowledge fields

Agrarian Sciences - Veterinary Sciences
Agrarian Sciences - Animal and Dairy Science - Animal and Dairy Science
Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Genetics and Heredity
Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences - Bioinformatics
Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Genetics and Heredity
Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences - Bioinformatics

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Advanced (C1)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Advanced (C1)	Upper intermediate (B2)
Spanish; Castilian	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Elementary (A2)	Intermediate (B1)	Elementary (A2)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2023/09/01 - 2027/04/30 Ongoing	Veterinary sciences (Doutoramento) Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2025/05/26 - 2025/05/29 Concluded	Understanding Multivariate Data (Outros) Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2025/02/22 - 2025/03/15 Attended	Introduction to Programming with Julia (Outros) Universidade de Évora, Portugal Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2024/06/18 - 2024/06/21 Attended	EU-LI-PHE TRAINING SCHOOL - Phenotyping Technologies (Outros) COST Action CA22112 European Network on Livestock Phenomics, EU-LI-PHE, Belgium Instituut voor Landbouw- Visserij- en Voedingsonderzoek, Belgium
2024/05/27 - 2024/05/29 Concluded	1st course of R for population genetics and animal breeding (Outros) Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2021/09 - 2023/12 Concluded	Animal Production Engineering (Mestrado) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, Portugal "Whole genome sequencing of Landim pigs from Mozambique to unravel ancestry and selection" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	16
2018/02 - 2018/03 Concluded	Agriculture and livestock on the job training for angolan delegates (Postgraduate Certificate) Major in Ciencias agrarias e Produção animal SMK-SPP St. PAULUS MAKALE, Indonesia
2009 - 2015 Concluded	Medicina Veterinária (Licence) Major in Medicina Veterinária Universidade José Eduardo dos Santos, Angola "Effectiveness of ivermectin on dog ticks in Huambo-Angola" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	16

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2023 - 2027	Research Trainee (Research)	MED – Mediterranean Institute for Agriculture, Environment and Development & CHANGE – Global Change and Sustainability Institute, Instituto de Investigação e Formação Avançada, Universidade de Évora, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2020/02/14 - 2024	Trainee Assistant (University Teacher)	Universidade José Eduardo dos Santos, Angola
	Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária (UJES), Angola

Other Careers

	Category Host institution	Employer
2013 - 2020	Professor do ensino básico e secundário (Professor do ensino básico e secundário)	Ministery of Education of Angola, Angola
	Liceu Pedras de Caninguili, Angola

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2023/09/01 - 2027/08/31	Caracterização genética de suínos locais de Angola e sua relação com suídeos selvagens em simpatria - introgressão entre espécies e implicações na adaptação PRT/BD/154780/2022 10.54499/PRT/BD/154780/2022 PhD Student Fellow Universidade de Évora, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2022/09/26 - 2023/05/31	GEroNIMO: Genome and Epigenome eNabled breedIng in MOnogastrics 101000236 Master Student Fellow Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação Interdisciplinar em Sanidade Animal, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, Portugal	European Commission Ongoing
2018/10/01 - 2018/10/19	Curso Internacional de Aquacultura Sustentável de Moluscos e Macroalgas em África 2 FORMANDO UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DEL NORTE - FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS DEL MAR, Chile	AGENCIA CHILENA DE COOPERACION INTERNACIONAL PARA EL DESAROLLO Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Chile Concluded
2016/11/15 - 2016/12/15	ESTÁGIO DE IMERSÃO IFREMER 884272H ESTAGIÁRIO Ifremer Station de Palavas, France	Campus France Concluded

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2025/02/20 - 2026/08/19	Unveiling intriguing diversity of African pigs and wild suids through epigenetics 2023.15455.PEX 10.54499/2023.15455.PEX Researcher Universidade de Évora, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação Interdisciplinar em Sanidade Animal, Portugal The University of Edinburgh The Roslin Institute, United Kingdom	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2023/02/01 - 2024/07/31	Genetic Diversity of local sheep of Angola and detection of signatures of selection for resistance to trypanosomosis 2022.10733.PTDC 10.54499/2022.10733.PTDC Researcher Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing

Other

	Designation	Funders
2018/01 - 2018/02	Advanced technical training on internship rearing of beef cattle and native chicken 2018 Participante Indonesian Research Institute for Animal Production (IRIAP), Indonesia

Outputs

Publications

Conference poster

Teixeira, Fábio; Chiaia, Hermenegildo; Sebastino, Kiala; Leitão, Alexandre; Amaral, Andreia J.. "Uncovering genetic diversity and selection for immune traits in Mozambique's indigenous Landim pigs". Paper presented in 4th Symposium of the National Research Infrastructure for Genome Sequencing and Analysis, 2025.
Chiaia, Hermenegildo; Teixeira, Fábio; Sebastino, Kiala; Leitão, Alexandre; Amaral, Andreia J.. "Genetic diversity and signatures of selection in southern Angolan sheep: Unravel adaptation for maternal and body conformation traits". Paper presented in 4th Symposium of the National Research Infrastructure for Genome Sequencing and Analysis,, 2025.
Sebastino, Kiala; Teixeira, Fábio; Chiaia, Hermenegildo; Leitão, Alexandre; Amaral, Andreia J.. "Molecular diversity of Angola’s native bovine populations". Paper presented in 4th Symposium of the National Research Infrastructure for Genome Sequencing and Analysis, 2025.
Teixeira, Fábio; Chiaia, Hermenegildo; Sebastino, Kiala; Gaspar,J; Afonso, P; Ngola, S; Simão, C; et al. "Genomic detection of selection signatures linked to reproduction and morphology in South Angolan sheep". Paper presented in 4º Encontro Anual do Laboratório Associado para a Ciência Animal e Veterinária (AL4AnimalS), 2025.
Tadeu-Querido, Beatrice; Teixeira, Fábio; Ferreira-Dias, Graça; Lopes, Jordana; Bettencourt, Elisa Maria Varela; Gama, Luis; Bettencourt, Carlos; Mateus, Luisa; Amaral, Andreia J.. Corresponding author: Amaral, Andreia J.. "Comparison of T3 and T4 blood serum concentration in Alentejano vs. commercial (LWxLR) gilts". Paper presented in 15ª Jornadas Internacionais Hospital Veterinário Muralha de Évora, 2024.
Teixeira, Fábio; Sá, Pedro; Santos, Dulce; Zimba, Rosa; Carmen Maria Lucas Pedro Garrine; Lucas, Hermenegildo; A.M. Cordeiro; et al. "Whole-genome sequencing of Landim pigs of Mozambique reveals a close relationship with Angolan native pigs and suggests selection for immune response". Paper presented in 2023 ISAG Conference Cape Town, South Africa, 2023.
Teixeira, Fábio; Sá, Pedro; Santos, Dulce; Carmen Maria Lucas Pedro Garrine; Zimba, Rosa; Souza, Laurinda; Chiaia, Hermenegildo; et al. "Whole genome sequencing of Landim pigs from Mozambique: a contribution for the exploration of African genetic resources in Portuguese-speaking countries". Paper presented in VII PhD Students Meeting in Environment and Agriculture, 2022.
Querido, Beatrice; Mateus, Luisa; Teixeira, Fábio; Ferreira-Dias, Graça; Gonçales, Maria; Valente, Pamela; Bettencourt, Elisa Maria Varela; et al. "Comparison of blood cell counts in Alentejano vs commercial (LWxLR) pigs". Paper presented in VII PhD Students Meeting in Environment and Agriculture, 2022.
Teixeira, Fábio; Sá, Pedro; Santos, Dulce; Carmen Maria Lucas Pedro Garrine; Zimba, Rosa; Souza, Laurinda; Chiaia, Hermenegildo; et al. "Whole genome sequencing of Landim pigs from Mozambique suggests selection for immune response and a close relationship with native pigs from Angola". Paper presented in CIISA Congress 2022: “Innovation in Animal, Veterinary and Biomedical Research”, 2022.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2023/12/12	Genetic Signatures of Selection in Mozambique's Landim Pigs Unveil Regions for Meat Quality and Reproductive Traits	The PhD Students Meeting in Environment and Agriculture is organised MED – Mediterranean Institute for Agriculture, Environment and Development and IIFA – Institute for Research and Advanced Training at the University of Évora (Évora, Portugal)
2023/07/06	Whole-genome sequencing of Landim pigs of Mozambique reveals a close relationship with Angolan native pigs and suggests selection for immune response	2023 ISAG Conference Cape Town, South Africa International Society for Animal Genetics (ISAG) (Cape Town, South Africa)

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2025/02/11 - Current	Symposium “African Swine Fever Virus: An Emerging Global Challenge", held at Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Lisbon, on February 11th, 2025. Symposium	African Swine Fever Virus: An Emerging Global Challenge Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, Portugal
2024/11/06 - 2024/11/08	Whole genome sequencing of Landom Pigs from Mozambique reveal selection towards immune resistance, presented in Animal genomics for sustainability in the tropical regions Parallel Session – Projects Showcase, Organised by: School of Science and Technology, Uevora Conference	Tropical Summit 2024 Foreseeing Answers to Global Challenges University of Lisbon - Tropical College of the University of Lisbon (CTROP), Portugal Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA), Ghana

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2019 - Current	Morfofisiologia dos Organismos Aquáticos	Aquicultura (Licence)	Universidade José Eduardo dos Santos, Angola
2017 - Current	Anatomia aplicada à aquicultura	Aquicultura (Licence)	Universidade José Eduardo dos Santos, Angola
2013 - 2020	Língua Inglesa	Ciencias físicas e biológicas	Liceu Pedras de Caninguili, Angola

Distinctions

Award

2022	Best Poster Prize in the area of Veterinary Science and Animal Production Universidade de Évora, Portugal Instituto Mediterrâneo para a Agricultura Ambiente e Desenvolvimento Laboratório de Microbiologia do Solo, Portugal Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2016	Menção Honrosa Universidade José Eduardo dos Santos, Angola
2015	Melhor estudante finalista Lactiangol, Lacticinios de Angola S.A., Angola

Other distinction

2022

HONORABLE MENTION POSTER PRESENTATION IN S2: ANIMAL AND FOOD SCIENCE BY A MSC STUDENT

Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação Interdisciplinar em Sanidade Animal, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal