Maria Joana Ferreira da Silva

Christina Paddock (2021) Population Genomics and the Viability of the Sanje Mangabey in the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania. Cardiff University, UK. Supervisors: Maria Joana Ferreira da Silva, Prof. Michael W Bruford (Univ Cardiff), Dr. Gráinne Michelle McCabe (Bristol Zoological Society, Bristol) and Dr. Pablo Orozco-terWengel (Organisms and Environment Division, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, UK).

João Manuel Carvalho Lemos Gonçalves Lima (2021) Predicting the impacts of climate change on West African colobines: insights for conservation and management. Supervisors: Maria Joana Ferreira da Silva, Sílvia Carvalho and Ângela Lomba.

Master in Biodiversity, Genetics and Evolution. University of Porto

Ivo Costeira (2019) Insights into insular primates: conservation genetics of Cercopithecus petaurista buettikoferi, Cercopithecus campbelli and Chlorocebus sabaeus in the Bijagós Archipelago, Guinea-Bissau. University of Minho. Supervisors: Maria Joana Ferreira da Silva, Tania Minhós (Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA) Portugal)

Paula Tralma (2019) Testing hybridization between Papio cynocephalus and Papio ursinus at Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique. Chile University, Chile, and CIBIO-InBio, Portugal. Supervisors: Maria Joana Ferreira da Silva, Prof. Felipe Martinez (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile) and Prof. Rene Bobe (Primate Models for Behavioural Evolution Lab, Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford, UK).

Frederica Gerini (2018) Structure and connectivity of sympatric primate species across a human-dominated landscape: population genetics of Western Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) and Guinea Baboon (Papio papio) in Guinea Bissau, West Africa. University of Pisa, Italy. Supervisors: Maria Joana Ferreira da Silva, Sergio Tofanelli (Univ. Pisa)

Filipa Borges (2017) A country-level genetic survey of the IUCN critically endangered Western chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) in Guinea-Bissau. Supervisor: Maria Joana Ferreira da Silva

Master in Biodiversity, Genetics and Evolution. University of Porto

Helena Teixeira (2016) Landscape genetics of Guinea baboon: assessing population structure, gene flow dynamics, and functional connectivity with molecular and spatial tools. Master in Biodiversity, Genetics and Evolution University of Porto Supervisor: Maria Joana Ferreira da Silva Co-Supervisor: José Carlos Alcobia Rogado de Brito

Master in Biodiversity, Genetics and Evolution. University of Porto

Ivo Colmonero Costeira Ethnobiological and genomic insights of traditional management practices of insular mammals by the bijagó ethnic group in Guinea-Bissau and its applications to non-human primate conservation. Cardiff University, UK, CIBIO/InBio, Portugal and Coimbra University. Supervisors: Maria Joana Ferreira da Silva, Prof. Michael W Bruford and Dr. Susana Costa.

Filipa Borges Integrating genomics with indigenous knowledge to understand responses of West African non-human primates to past and present ecological and anthropogenic-related changes. Supervisors: Maria Joana Ferreira da Silva, Prof. Tania Minhós and Prof. Kimberley Hockings.

BIODIV Doctoral Programme. University of Porto

Associate Researcher