Sofia L. Mendes

Help! Is anyone else finding batch effects between whole genome sequences generated with Illumina NovaSeq6000 vs NovaSeqX?
Any suggestions or solutions would be hugely appreciated! 🙏
#PopGen #ConGen #Bioinformatics #Genomics 🧬🖥️🧪

23.04.2025 08:48 — 👍 8    🔁 6    💬 4    📌 0

🎙️Our team member @sofialmendes.bsky.social was recently featured in @90segundosciencia.bsky.social, where she spoke about her work on the description of an endemic fish species in the Sado River basin: Squalius caetobrigus🐟
▶️Tune in to hear more (only in 🇵🇹):
90segundosdeciencia.pt/episodes/ep-...

12.03.2025 12:27 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Interactions between mechanisms of reproductive isolation Speciation is responsible for the diversity of species observed today and corresponds to the build-up of reproductive isolation between populations. Reproductive isolation can be generated by differen...

📢Just out!
A new preprint from our team members Alex Blanckaert and Vitor Sousa.
💡"Evolution of mate choice or accumulation of DMIs: exclusive paths to reproductive isolation?"
📎Available at: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@cienciasulisboa.bsky.social @ce3c

21.02.2025 14:44 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

On February 11th, we celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, recognizing their vital role in science and technology.
Meet some of the women from our team who are driving science forward!💪👩
@cienciasulisboa.bsky.social

11.02.2025 15:58 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

(1/2) We congratulate our student Julie Westerling on the defence of her MSc dissertation, last friday, entitled: "Exploring genetic diversity and population structure of the Spanish minnowcarp (Anaecypris hispanica)".🐟
@cienciasulisboa.bsky.social
📷Carlos Carrapato

14.01.2025 09:39 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Jumping salmon.

A study of 632 freshwater fish species from 9,989 locations finds climate warming affects fish abundances, with increases at the poleward edges of species’ distributions and declines at the equatorward edges of species’ distributions. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

11.12.2024 20:50 — 👍 42    🔁 28    💬 0    📌 3

Unfortunately, as with many Iberian rivers, the habitat of the Sado chub is heavily impacted by human activities 🏭🚜 But you can still find some beautiful pristine places if you know where to look.

10.12.2024 11:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Cientist using electrofishing to catch fish.

This was a team effort so huge thanks to all my co-authors, especially Nacho and Carla!

10.12.2024 11:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Super happy to share that we described a new species of #freshwater #fish endemic to the Sado River basin in Portugal - the Sado chub🐟🐟

10.12.2024 11:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0