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Joel Alves obtained his BSc and MSc degrees at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto in 2008 and 2010, respectively. He then won a scholarship to start a PhD in Genetics at the University of Cambridge, focusing on rabbit genomics and historical DNA, which he concluded in 2016. Following his PhD, he remained at the University of Cambridge as a postdoctoral researcher until 2018, when he moved to the School of Archaeology of the University of Oxford. During this time, he also spent several months at the Ancient Laboratory of GeoGenetics in Copenhagen and the Dept of Integrative Biology at U.C. Berkeley. Over his career, he published multiple articles in journals, three of which were in Science magazine. He has been part of multiple R&D projects both as a PhD student and in 2022 won three different research grants that use ancient DNA to disentangle domestication and evolutionary questions. In 2021 he was appointed a Junior Research Fellow at Somerville College at the University of Oxford. He has been a board member of several institutions, such as the Cambridge University Portuguese Speakers Society (CUPortSS) and the Portuguese Association of Researchers and Students in the United Kingdom (PARSUK). He is currently based at the Wellcome Trust Palaeogenomics & Bio-Archaeology Research Network at Oxford University (PalaeoBARN). He has a double affiliation with CIBIO institute in Portugal, where he is a postdoctoral fellow leading several ancient DNA projects of multiple taxa ranging from ferrets to rabbits. He has supervised several MSc and PhD theses and is currently co-supervising two PhD students and two MSc students, and he is the line manager of the PalaeoBARN Lab technician. His areas of expertise are animal genomics, domestication, local adaptation, host-parasite co-evolution and ancient DNA.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Joel Alves

Citation names

  • Alves M, Joel

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
6B15-97AD-BAFC
ORCID iD
0000-0001-6138-9134

Email addresses

  • joel.alves@arch.ox.ac.uk (Professional)

Telephones

Telephone
  • (+44) 1865285642 (Professional)

Addresses

  • School of Archaeology University of Oxford, South Parks Road, 1, OX1 3TG, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Genetics and Heredity

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Education
Degree Classification
2016
Concluded
 Genetics (Doutoramento)
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
2010
Concluded
 Biodiversidade, Genética e Evolução (Mestrado integrado)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2008
Concluded
 Biologia (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2018/01/01 - Current Postdoc (Research) University of Oxford School of Archaeology, United Kingdom
University of Oxford School of Archaeology, United Kingdom
2018 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
2016 - 2017 Postdoc (Research) Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021/10/01 - Current Junior Research Fellow University of Oxford Somerville College, United Kingdom
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2020 - Current From wild to domestic and back again: A multidisciplinary study of rabbit domestication and feralisation
EBD00250
Principal investigator
University of Oxford School of Archaeology, United Kingdom
 University of Oxford John Fell Fund
Ongoing
2017/03/25 - Current Exploring the Easter E.g. - Shifting Baselines and Changing Perceptions of Cultural and Biological Aliens
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/RCUK/AHRC/AH2%FN0045582%F1/GB
Post-doc Fellow
UK Research and Innovation
Concluded
2012/05/01 - Current Combining population genomics and quantitative genetics to decipher the molecular basis of phenotypic change during the early stages of animal domestications
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/COMPETE/122943/PT
PhD Student Fellow
UK Research and Innovation
Concluded
2023/03/01 - 2024/08/01 Ancient Genomics of Speciation and Hybridisation
2022.07766.PTDC
Principal investigator
Associação BIOPOLIS - Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2022/05/01 - 2023/08/30 Revealing the intertwined history of rabbits and ferrets
SG2122\211243
Principal investigator
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
 Leverhulme Trust
Ongoing
2022/07/01 - 2023/06/01 The hidden power of gingers and the evolution of camouflage
EBD00370
Principal investigator
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
 University of Oxford John Fell Fund
Ongoing
2019 - 2020 Unifying Domestication and Evolution through Ancient DNA
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/337574/EU
Post-doc Fellow
University of Oxford School of Archaeology, United Kingdom
 European Commission
Concluded
2012 - 2015 Porquê é a infecção pelo vírus Mixoma altamente letal no Coelho-bravo (Oryctolagus cuniculus), enquanto em outros leporídeos é benigna?
PTDC/BIA-BEC/103158/2008
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2010 - 2015 The evolutionary arms race between European rabbits and the myxoma virus: genomics of historical and modern populations
SFRH/BD/72381/2010
PhD Student Fellow
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Journal article
  1. Joel M. Alves; Miguel Carneiro; Jonathan P. Day; John J. Welch; Janine A. Duckworth; Tarnya E. Cox; Mike Letnic; et al. "A single introduction of wild rabbits triggered the biological invasion of Australia". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2022): https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2122734119.
    10.1073/pnas.2122734119
  2. Joel M. Alves. "Irrupting prey populations in the absence of a mammalian apex predator drive shifts in prey selection by eagles". The Science of Nature 109 4 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00114-022-01804-x.
    10.1007/s00114-022-01804-x
  3. Marchandeau, Stéphane; Queney, Guillaume; Alves, Joel M.; Carneiro, Miguel; Ferrand, Nuno. "Myxomatosis: rabbits have separately developed the same mechanisms of genetic resistance in France, Australia and the United Kingdom". médecine/sciences 35 8-9 (2019): 611-613. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/medsci/2019118.
    10.1051/medsci/2019118
  4. Joel M. Alves; Miguel Carneiro; Jade Y. Cheng; Ana Lemos de Matos; Masmudur M. Rahman; Liisa Loog; Paula F. Campos; et al. "Parallel adaptation of rabbit populations to myxoma virus". Science 363 6433 (2019): 1319-1326. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aau7285.
    10.1126/science.aau7285
  5. Matthew R. Jones; L. Scott Mills; Paulo Célio Alves; Colin M. Callahan; Joel M. Alves; Diana J. R. Lafferty; Francis M. Jiggins; et al. "Adaptive introgression underlies polymorphic seasonal camouflage in snowshoe hares". Science 360 6395 (2018): 1355-1358. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aar5273.
    10.1126/science.aar5273
  6. Ben Longdon; Adam S. Lauring; Jonathan P. Day; Joel M. Alves; Sophia C. L. Smith; Thomas M. Houslay; John E. McGonigle; Lucia Tagliaferri; Francis M. Jiggins. "Host shifts result in parallel genetic changes when viruses evolve in closely related species". PLOS Pathogens 14 4 (2018): e1006951-e1006951. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1006951.
    10.1371/journal.ppat.1006951
  7. Malene Lauritsen; Richard Allen; Joel M. Alves; Carly Ameen; Tom Fowler; Evan Irving-Pease; Greger Larson; et al. "Celebrating Easter, Christmas and their associated alien fauna". World Archaeology (2018): 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2018.1515655.
    10.1080/00438243.2018.1515655
  8. Jacob E. Crawford; Joel M. Alves; William J. Palmer; Jonathan P. Day; Massamba Sylla; Ranjan Ramasamy; Sinnathamby N. Surendran; et al. "Population genomics reveals that an anthropophilic population of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in West Africa recently gave rise to American and Asian populations of this major disease vector". BMC Biology 15 1 (2017): https://doi.org/10.1186%2Fs12915-017-0351-0.
    10.1186/s12915-017-0351-0
  9. Miguel Carneiro; Vicente Piorno; Carl-Johan Rubin; Joel M. Alves; Nuno Ferrand; Paulo C. Alves; Leif Andersson. "Candidate genes underlying heritable differences in reproductive seasonality between wild and domestic rabbits". Animal Genetics 46 4 (2015): 418-425. https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fage.12299.
    10.1111/age.12299
  10. Joel M. Alves; Miguel Carneiro; Sandra Afonso; Susana Lopes; Hervé Garreau; Samuel Boucher; Daniel Allain; et al. "Levels and Patterns of Genetic Diversity and Population Structure in Domestic Rabbits". PLOS ONE 10 12 (2015): e0144687-e0144687. https://doi.org/10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0144687.
    10.1371/journal.pone.0144687
  11. M. Carneiro; C.-J. Rubin; F. Di Palma; F. W. Albert; J. Alfoldi; A. M. Barrio; G. Pielberg; et al. "Rabbit genome analysis reveals a polygenic basis for phenotypic change during domestication". Science 345 6200 (2014): 1074-1079. https://doi.org/10.1126%2Fscience.1253714.
    10.1126/science.1253714
Activities

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2013/12 - 2013/12 2nd Forum of Portuguese Graduates Overseas (GRAPE 2013) (2013/12)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
2007 - 2008 Series of debates "(Im)possible Relationships" (2007 - 2008)
Conference (President of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2021/01/01 - Current Postdoc Committee of the School of Archaeology of the University of Oxford
Coordinator
 University of Oxford, United Kingdom
2017 - 2018 Postdoc Committee of the Dept. of Genetics of the University of Cambridge Postdoc Committee of the Dept. of Genetics of the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
2013 - 2014 President of the Fiscal Council of Portuguese Association of Researchers and Students in the UK (PARSUK)
Coordinator
 Portuguese Association of Researchers and Students in the UK (PARSUK), United Kingdom
2012 - 2014 Secretary and event officer of the Cambridge University Portuguese Speakers Society (CUPorTSS)
Coordinator
 Cambridge University Portuguese Speakers Society (CUPorTSS), United Kingdom
2007 - 2008 Chair for the Department of External Relations and Employment of Student Association of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto (AEFCUP)
Member
 Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2012 - 2017 Evolution & Behaviour; 1st-year Natural Sciences course. Evolution & Behaviour (Bachelor) University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Distinctions

Award

2018 Best Postdoctoral Fellow poster (SMBE 2018, Yokohama, Japan)
2018 Conference Registration Award
Society of Molecular Biology And Evolution , United States
2017 Junior Scientist Travel Grant
Genetics Society, United Kingdom
2016 Best talk at the Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics Symposium
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
2013 Best Department of Genetics PhD talk
2013 TH Middleton Fund Travel Award
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom