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Diretor de Departamento (PhD)
Ricardo Ramiro

Director, Data Management and Risk Analysis

PhD in Evolutionary Biology from the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Areas of expertise:

Bioinformatics; Evolutionary Biology; Microbial genomics/ Metagenomics; Statistics

Previous positions:

Postdoctoral researcher at the ONEIDA project, Bioinformatics Unit, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

FCT Postdoctoral Researcher in the Evolutionary Biology group, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

13scientific publications; h-index (Scopus): 10

Two relevant publications:

Ramiro, R. S., Durão, P., Bank, C., & Gordo, I. (2020). Low mutational load and high mutation rate variation in gut commensal bacteria. PLoS Biology, 18(3), e3000617
doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000617

Sousa, A., Ramiro, R. S., Barroso-Batista, J., Güleresi, D., Lourenço, M., & Gordo, I. (2017). Recurrent Reverse Evolution Maintains Polymorphism after Strong Bottlenecksin Commensal Gut Bacteria. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 34(11), 2879-2892
doi: 10.1093/molbev/msx221