CV Marta Antunes

Marta Antunes    Investigadora   Mestre em Bioinformática e Biologia Computacional   Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa       Este endereço de email está protegido contra piratas. Necessita ativar o JavaScript para o visualizar.   Tel: +351 284314399   Ext: 01107

Education and Training  

Master degree in Bioinformatics and Computacional  Biology by Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal (2017)

Bachelor degree in Genetics and Biotechnology by Universidade Trás-os_Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal (2015)

Research and Professional Experience

December 2017 - (current) Fellowship Researcher

CEBAL - Centre of agronomic and Agro-Industrial biotechnology of Alentejo.

Project ALT20-03-0145-FEDER-000032 - SelectPorAl - Seleção e melhoramento genómico de características produtivas do Porco Alentejano.

September 2015 – June 2016 - Volunteer

LASIGE -  Laboratório de Sistemas Informáticos de Grande Escala

-  Identifying chemical entities in patents using brown clustering and semantic similarity and extraction of temporal expressions,clinical events and relations.

June 2014 - Trainee

IST - Instituto Superior Técnico

-  Studies of anti-cancer action by the protein Azurin

June and July 2013 - Summer Volunteer

UTAD – Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro

-  Implications of uncertain transgene insertion in maize: effect in protein-coding and non-coding regulatory genes Ref PTDC/AGRGPL/121536/2010

Current interests of research

Bioinformatics, Next-generation sequencing, molecular biology; pig genetic improvement

Selected Publications

Papers in peer reviewed journals

Seabra, Sofia G., Inês Fragata, Marta A. Antunes, Gonçalo S. Faria, Marta A. Santos, Vitor C. Sousa, Pedro Simões & Margarida Matos. 2017. Different genomic changes underlie adaptive evolution in populations of contrasting history. Molecular Biology and Evolution (online early). Doi: 10.1093/molbev/msx247

Marcia Barros, Andre Lamurias, Gonçalo Figueiro, Marta Antunes, Joana Teixeira, Alexandre Pinheiro and Francisco M. Couto. 2016. ULISBOA at SemEval-2016 Task 12:Extraction of temporal expressions,clinical events and relations using IBEnt. Proceedings of SemEval-2016.

Andre Lamurias, Manuel Lobo, Marta Antunes, Luka A. Clarke, and Francisco M. Couto. 2015. Identifying chemical entities in patents using brown clustering and semantic similarity. Proceedings of the fifth BioCreative challenge evaluation workshop

Posters in Conferences

Antunes, Marta A., Seabra, Sofia G., Inês Fragata, Gonçalo S. Faria, Marta A. Santos, Miguel Lopes-Cunha, Pedro Simões & Margarida Matos. Real-time evolution of the genomic content of inversions in initially diferentiated populations of Drosophila subobscura. XVI European Society for Evolutionary Biology meeting, Holanda, 20-25 August 2017.

Antunes, Marta A., Seabra, Sofia G., Inês Fragata, Gonçalo S. Faria, Marta A. Santos, Miguel Lopes-Cunha, Pedro Simões & Margarida Matos. Analysis of genomic changes during adaptive evolution in Drosophila subobscura populations of contrasting biogeographical history. XII Encontro Nacional de Biologia Evolutiva - Campus de Santiago da Universidade de Aveiro, December 16, 2016.

Oral presentations

Antunes, Marta A. (speaker), Pedro Simões, Inês Fragata, Gonçalo S. Faria, Marta A. Santos, Margarida Matos, Sofia G. Seabra. Genomic changes during adaptive evolution of Drosophila subobscura populations of contrasting biogeographical history. 3rd Annual Meeting cE3c. June 5-6 2017, Ponta Delgada, Açores, Portugal.

Antunes, Marta (speaker), Pedro Simões, Inês Fragata, Gonçalo S. Faria, Marta A. Santos, Margarida Matos, Sofia G. Seabra. Genomic approaches to the study of adaptive evolution in Drosophila subobscura populations of contrasting biogeographical history. Bioinformatics Open Days 6th Edition. February 22-24 2017, Braga, Portugal. 

Simões, Pedro (speaker), Inês Fragata, Gonçalo S. Faria, Marta A. Antunes, Marta A. Santos, Sofia G. Seabra, Margarida Matos. Predictability of evolution of populations with contrasting history varies between biological levels. 3rd Annual Meeting cE3c. June 5-6 2017, Ponta Delgada, Açores, Portugal. 

Thesis

Antunes, MA (2017) “Analysis of genomic changes during adaptive evolution in Drosophila subobscura populations of contrasting biogeographical history” Master ’s thesis.

Antunes, MA (2015) “Estudos da ação antitumoral da proteína Azurina”