Carlos Fernandes

I am a wildlife genetics researcher at the Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes (CE3C) of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, and Invited Assistant Professor at FPUL. My current research interests include phylogeography and evolutionary history, genetics and genomics applied to biodiversity conservation, population and evolutionary genetics, molecular systematics, molecular ecology, and adaptation genomics. I am also interested in the biology and genetics of behaviour, evolutionary psychology, and conservation psychology, and am open to research in these areas.

Evolutionary Biology and Genetics
Population Genetics
Phylogeography
Wildlife Genetics
Genetics applied to Biodiversity Conservation

2023-2026: FCT grant for a research project on “OCELOT – One Health empirico-mechanistic modelling of antimicrobial resistance” (ref. 2022.01539.PTDC) (250 K€). Role: team member

2023-2024: FCUL grant for a research project on “INVASIVES – Biological invasions across terrestrial and marine habitats: histories, common traits, and ecological impacts” (50 K€). Role: team member

Theissinger, K., Fernandes, C., Formenti, G., et al. (2023). How genomics can help biodiversity conservation. Trends in Genetics 39(7), 545-559. (shared first authorship). DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2023.01.005 (IF2023 11,4; Q1 Genetics & Heredity).

Formenti G., Theissinger K., Fernandes C., et al. (2022). The era of reference genomes in conservation genomics. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 37(3), 197-202. (shared first authorship). DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2021.11.008 (IF2022 16,8; Q1 Evolutionary Biology).

Prost S., Machado A.P., Zumbroich J., Preier L., Mahtani-Williams S., Guschanski K., Brealey J.C., Fernandes C., Vercammen P., Godsall-Bottriell L., Bottriell P., Dalton D.L., Kotze A. & Burger P.A. (2022). Genomic analyses show extremely perilous conservation status of African and Asiatic cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus). Molecular Ecology, 31(16), 4208-4223. DOI: 10.1111/mec.16577 (IF2022 4,9; Q1 Evolutionary Biology).

Gopalakrishnan, S., Sinding, M. H. S., Ramos-Madrigal, J., Niemann, J., Castruita, J. A. S., Vieira, F. G., Carøe, C., Montero, M. M., Kuderna, L., Serres, A., Gonzalez-Basallote, V. M., Liu, Y. H., Wang, G. D., Marques-Bonet, T., Mirarab, S., Fernandes, C., Gaubert, P., Koepfli, K. P., Budd, J., Rueness, E. K., Heide-Jørgensen, M. P., Petersen, B., Sicheritz-Ponten, T., Bachmann, L., Wiig, O., Hansen, A. J., & Gilbert, M. T. P. (2018). Interspecific gene flow shaped the evolution of the genus Canis. Current Biology, 28(21), 3441-3449.e5. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.08.041 (IF2018 9,193; Q1 Biology).

Liu, Y-H., Wang, L., Xu, T., Guo, X., Li, Y., Yin, T-T., Yang, H-C., Yang, H., Adeola, A. C., Sanke, O. J., Otecko, N. O., Wang, M., Ma, Y., Charles, O. S., Sinding, M-H. S., Gopalakrishnan, S., Samaniego, J. A., Hansen, A. J., Fernandes, C., Gaubert, P., Budd, J., Dawuda, P. M., Rueness, E. K., Jiang, L., Zhai, W., Gilbert, M. T. P., Peng, M-S., Qi, X., Wang, G-D., & Zhang, Y-P. (2018). Whole-genome sequencing of African dogs provides insights into adaptations against tropical parasites. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 35(2), 287-298. DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msx258 (IF2018 14,797; Q1 Genetics & Heredity).

wildlife genetics;
phylogeography;
conservation genetics;
population genetics;
evolutionary genetics;
molecular systematics;
molecular ecology;