Catarina Branco
September 2021 -Present
Guest PhD student, University of Geneve
Short stay in the Anthropology Unit at the department of Genetics & Evolution in the University of Geneva, Switzerland.
October 2019 - Present
PhD Fellowship
PhD Fellowship. Funded by the FCT (Portuguese Government). Ref. SFRH/BD/143607/2019. Fellowship to perform the PhD at the University of Vigo, Spain.
September 2020 -January 2021
Guest PhD student, University of Porto
Short stay in the Genetic Diversity research group at the Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde in the University of Porto, Portugal.
October 2018 - September 2019
Contracted researcher
Contracted researcher at the University of Vigo, Spain.
Places and grants
Publications
8. Branco C, Kanellou M, González-Martín, Arenas M. 2022. Consequences of the Last Glacial Period on the Genetic Diversity of Southeast Asians. Genes.
7. Ferreiro D, Núñez-Estévez B, Canedo M, Branco C, Arenas M. 2021. Evaluating causes of current genetic gradients of modern humans of the Iberian Peninsula. Genome Biology and Evolution.
6. Del Amparo R, Branco C, Arenas J, Vicens A, Arenas M. 2021. Analysis of selection in protein-coding sequences accounting for common biases. Briefings in Bioinformatics.
5. Branco C, Ray N, Currat M, Arenas M. 2020. Influence of Paleolithic range contraction, admixture and long‐distance dispersal on genetic gradients of modern humans in Asia. Molecular Ecology.
4. Arenas M, Gorostiza A, Baquero JM, Campoy E, Branco C, Rangel-Villalobos H, González-Martín A. 2020. The early peopling of the Philippines based on mtDNA. Scientific Reports.
3. Branco C, Velasco M, Benguigui M, Currat M, Ray N, Arenas M. 2018. Consequences of diverse evolutionary processes on american genetic gradients of modern humans. Heredity.
2. Branco C., Arenas M. 2018. Selecting among Alternative Scenarios of Human Evolution by Simulated Genetic Gradients. Genes.
1. Arenas M, Araujo NM, Branco C, Castelhano N, Castro-Nallar E, Pérez-Losada M. 2018. Mutation and recombination in pathogen evolution: Relevance, methods and controversies. Infection, Genetics and Evolution.
19th Portugaliæ Genetica - Phenotypic Manifestation of Genetic Heterogeneity: Oral presentation entitled “Approximate Bayesian Computation modelling of the successful out-of-Africa migration of modern humans”. March 2022. Virtual Meeting.
Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution Meeting 2021: Oral presentation entitled “Influence of the Last Glacial Period on the genetic diversity of current Southeast Asians”. July 2021. Virtual Meeting.
II International Meeting of the Portuguese Society of Genetics: Oral presentation entitled “Influence of the sea level variation on the genetic diversity of Southeast Asian populations”. July 2021. Virtual Meeting.
XVI National Meeting of Evolutionary Biology: Oral presentation entitled “Genetic Consequences of the Last Glacial Period on modern humans from Southeast Asia”. December 2020. Virtual Meeting.
ISCB-Latin America SoIBio BioNetMX Symposium 2020: Poster presentation entitled “Consequences of diverse past evolutionary processes on the genetic gradients of current Asians”. October 2020. Virtual Meeting.
Bioinformatics Open Days 2020: Poster presentation entitled “Computational analyses of the influence of evolutionary processes on the spatial genetic variation of Asian Modern Humans”. February 2020. University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.
XV National Meeting of Evolutionary Biology: Oral presentation entitled “Influence of environmental and evolutionary processes on the genetic gradients of current Asians”. November 2019. Research Centre in
Biodiversity and Genetic Resources (CIBIO-InBIO), University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
Society for Molecular Biology & Evolution Meeting 2019: Poster presentation entitled “Consequences of the last glacial period on genetic gradients of current Asians”. July 2019. Manchester, United Kingdom.
3rd Annual Meeting CINBIO: Poster presentation entitled “Influence of the Last Glacial Period and Admixture on Genetic Gradients of current Asians”. July 2019. Biomedical Research Centre (Cinbio), University of Vigo, Vigo, Spain.
Annual Meeting 2018 of the Portuguese Society of Genetics: Poster presentation entitled “Consequences of Admixture and Last Glacial Maximum on Principal Component Analyses of The Americas”. June 2018. Institute for Research and Innovation in Health (i3s), Porto, Portugal.
18th Portugaliæ Genetica: Poster presentation entitled “Consequences of Admixture and Last Glacial Maximum on Principal Component Analyses of The Americas”. March 2018. Institute for Research and Innovation in Health (i3s), Porto, Portugal.
XLI Portuguese Meeting of Genetics: Poster presentation entitled “Principal Component Analyses of American Modern Humans”. June 2017. University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal.
XX National Meeting of Biology Students: Oral presentation entitled “Consequences of admixture and Last Glacial Maximum on current American genetic diversity gradients”. April 2017. University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal.
IX Meeting of Genetics and Biotechnology: Oral presentation entitled “Consequences of admixture and Last Glacial Maximum on current American genetic diversity gradients”. March 2017. University of Trás-os- Montes and Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal
9th Meeting of Biology: Oral presentation entitled “Human–Animal Interaction: Evaluation of behavior and escape distance of Churra da Terra Quente sheep (Ovis aries) in a park test”. October 2015. University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal.
Attended courses and conferences organisation
July 2021
Inferring Demographic History from Population Genomics Data
Course about population genomics data and methods to model and infer the demographic history of populations/species.
January 2021
Introductory course to LaTeX
Introduction to Scientific text processing with LaTeX.
June 2020
Course on Introduction to Python Programming
Introductory course to Python Programming language: Variables and Data types, Strings, Lists, Tuples, Sets, Dictionary, Conditional and Loop Statements, Functions, Exception Handling and GUI with Tkinter.
May 2019
Advanced use of FINISTERRAE II
Course about the use of FINISTERRAE II, a scientific computing infrastructure managed by the Supercomputing Centre of Galicia.
April 2017
Module 1: Introduction to applied statistics with R
Course on statistics with R software conducted by the advanced training unit from Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Porto, Portugal.
April 2017
Workshop: Introduction to R
Introduction to R programming organised by the scientific committee of the XX National Meeting of Biology Students. Aveiro, Portugal
March 2013
VIII Meeting of Biology
Part of the organising committee of the annual meeting of biology of the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro.