I lead a young research group of enthusiastic biologists and data scientists interested in understanding how animal-microbiota interactions shape ecological and evolutionary processes.
My research is focused on understanding how animal-microbiota-environment interactions affect animal behaviour and its implication for animal ecology and evolution.
I am an ecologist with knowledge on statistical modelling and data analysis. My research focuses on studying microbial species distributions and diversity, as well as host-microbe and microbe-microbe interactions.
As a molecular biologist I perform DNA extractions and library building for the Earth Hologenome Initiative and I generate data used in projects investigating the interaction between vertebrates and their gut microbiome.
I am an evolutionary biologist who explores the boundaries of species. With the hologenomics approach I will uncover the evolutionary interactions between two toad species, their microbiomes, and the notorious chytrid fungus.
Amalia is working on developing and implementing micro-scale metagenomics.
My PhD focused on exploring the gut microbiome of lizards and the interactions between these bacteria and their host.
My research focuses on how the hologenomic approach can be applied in the conservation of endangered animal species by pre-conditioning the microbiome of captive-bred individuals prior to their release into the wild.
Based at the University of Porto, the research of my Ph.D. focuses on the impacts that anthropogenic habitats have on the diet, microbiome, and genome of fire salamanders in the north-western Iberian Peninsula.
My PhD focuses on newts and salamanders. I aim to characterise inter- and intraspecific differences in their gut microbiome to investigate the influence of environmental factors on the microbial diversity and functionality.
Through my PhD, I aim to explore the role of the gut microbiota in mediating the evolutionary dietary shifts observed in Mediterranean wall lizards.
My PhD focuses around the ecological role of dry-stone walls on the preservation of biodiversity and ecosystem services. I’m particularly interested in characterizing trophic interactions through metabarcoding.
I am studying how climate change is affecting bat hibernation and what changes in the transcriptome and metabolome are happening due to the prolonged winter inactivity.
My PhD project focusses on shedding light on host-microbiota interactions in a spatially resolved manner, with the goal to develop and implement a large-scale untargeted imaging approach.
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