| His main research area is to assess the impact of domestication process in the genome and population structure of the domesticated species (animal and plants). During the last four years he has being travelling and studying the main domestication centers and the major routes of human expansion and trade. Domestics were privileged witnesses of human history across the last ten millennia. Assessing the phylogeography of domestic species and of its wild ancestors may help to infer the history of our species. In a first stage (almost ending), he studied the world-wide maternal phylogeography of the most important domestic species - Cattle, Donkey, Sheep, Goat. In a second stage (now starting), he jumping into the population genomics to evaluate molecular variation at the coding nuclear genes to detect signatures of selection and past demographic events, that shaped the genome of this species. Albano graduated in Animal Sciences and Husbandry by Azores University (1997) and received his Ph D. (doutoramento) from University of Porto (2005). Since 2006 he serves as Editor of the Journal Molecular Ecology Notes and he has been founder and Organizer of an annual course on Conservation Genetics Data Analyses (ConGen), data each other year takes place in Porto and Missoula, MT, USA.
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