Faculdade

Department

João Almeida

Professor Auxiliar (c/ Nomeação definitiva)
2.01, Edifício Departamental
(+351) 21 294 85 30 x 11103
11103
jmfa@fct.unl.pt

Interesses Científicos

Comparative genomics. Molecular phylogenetics. Cross referencing of biological data in public databases. Methods for data integration and exploration (visualization and hypothesis testing). Development of graphical approaches to enable candid users with the ability to implement workflows for sequence processing, and analysis. Dynamics presented by the yeast community present in the waters of the Tagus estuary: interface between marine and terrestrial environment, influence of human activities. Yeast distribution across the stratified oceanic water column.

Publicações Representativas

Sobral, P. S., Luz, V. C. C., Almeida, J. M. G. C. F., Videira, P. A., & Pereira, F. (2023). Computational Approaches Drive Developments in Immune-Oncology Therapies for PD-1/PD-L1 Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 24(6), 5908. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms24065908
 
 
Meier, C. S., Pagni, M., Richard, S., Mühlethaler, K., Almeida, J. M. G. C. F., Nevez, G., Cushion, M. T., Calderón, E. J., & Hauser, P. M. (2023). Fungal antigenic variation using mosaicism and reassortment of subtelomeric genes’ repertoires. Nature Communications, 14(1), 7026. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-42685-6
 
 
Pinheiro, C., Wienkoop, S., De Almeida, J. F., Brunetti, C., Zarrouk, O., Planchon, S., Gori, A., Tattini, M., Ricardo, C. P., Renaut, J., & Teixeira, R. T. (2019). Phellem Cell-Wall Components Are Discriminants of Cork Quality in Quercus suber. Frontiers in Plant Science, 10, 944. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2019.00944
 
 
Luraschi, A., Richard, S., Almeida, J. M. G. C. F., Pagni, M., Cushion, M. T., & Hauser, P. M. (2019). Expression and Immunostaining Analyses Suggest that Pneumocystis Primary Homothallism Involves Trophic Cells Displaying Both Plus and Minus Pheromone Receptors. mBio, 10(4), e01145-19. https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.01145-19

 

Coelho, M. A., Almeida, J. M. G. C. F., Hittinger, C. T., & Gonçalves, P. (2015). Draft Genome Sequence of Sporidiobolus salmonicolor CBS 6832, a Red-Pigmented Basidiomycetous Yeast. Genome Announcements, 3(3), e00444-15. https://doi.org/10.1128/genomeA.00444-15

 

Almeida, J. M. G. C. F., Cissé, O. H., Fonseca, Á., Pagni, M., & Hauser, P. M. (2015). Comparative Genomics Suggests Primary Homothallism of Pneumocystis Species. mBio, 6(1), e02250-14. https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.02250-14

 

Figueiredo, T. A., Sobral, R. G., Ludovice, A. M., de Almeida, J. M. F., Bui, N. K., Vollmer, W., de Lencastre, H., & Tomasz, A. (2012). Identification of Genetic Determinants and Enzymes Involved with the Amidation of Glutamic Acid Residues in the Peptidoglycan of Staphylococcus aureus. PLoS Pathog, 8(1), e1002508. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1002508

 

de Almeida, J. M. G. C. F. (2010). BiDiBlast: Comparative Genomics Pipeline for the PC. Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics, 8(2), 135–138. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1672-0229(10)60015-0

 

de Almeida, J. M. G. C. F. (2005). Yeast community survey in the Tagus estuary. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 53(2), 295–303. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.femsec.2005.01.006

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