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Maria Daniela Santos Nunes

Address: Institut fur Populationsgenetik, Veterinärmedizinische Universität Wien, Josef Baumann Gasse 1, 1210 Wien – Austria
Phone: +43 1 250774336
E-mail: Daniela.SantosNunes 'at' vetmeduni.ac.at

 

Education


2005-present: Graduate student in Biological Sciences at the Institut für Tierzucht und Genetik, Veterinärmedizinische Universität Wien, Austria.


2004: Degree in Biochemistry (Licenciatura em Bioquímica) at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto, Portugal.

Grants


November 2004 – June 2005: APBRF grant to support work in the project “Gametophytic self-incompatibility: a model system to study molecular co-evolution” at the Molecular Evolution Group (Division of Structural and Molecular Biology, IBMC – Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology, Porto, Portugal).

 

Contributed Communications at Scientific Meetings


2007: 20th European Drosophila Research Conference (EDRC). Vienna, Austria (12th-14th September). Poster


2007: 11th Congress of The European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB). Uppsala, Sweden (August 20th-25th). Poster


2007: 48th Annual Drosophila Research Conference. Philadelphia Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (March 7th–11th). Poster


2007: 9Jahrestagung der GfBS. Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna, Austria (February 20th—23rd). Talk


2006: 12th Regional Drosophila Meeting Research. Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna, Austria (November 24th—25th). Talk

 

Publications list


Nunes, Maria D. S., Schlötterer, Christian . Evidence for widespread mitochondrial DNA heteroplasmy in Drosophila melanogaster, in prep.

Nunes, Maria D. S., Orozco-terWengel P., Kreissl, M., Schlötterer, Christian. Frequent hybridization between Drosophila simulans and Drosophila mauritiana is supported by recurrent mtDNA introgression, submitted.

Nunes, Maria D. S., Neumeier,Hannah, Schlötterer,Christian (2008). Contrasting patterns of natural variation in global Drosophila melanogaster populations. Mol Ecol, 17(20):4470-9.

Nunes, Maria D. S., Nolte, Viola , Schlötterer, Christian (2008). Nonrandom Wolbachia infection status of Drosophila melanogaster strains with different mtDNA haplotypes. Mol Biol Evol. 25(11):2493-8.

Nunes, Maria D. S., Santos, Raquel A. M., Ferreira, Sónia M., Vieira, Jorge & Vieira, Cristina P. (2006). Variability patterns and positively selected sites at the gametophytic self-incompatibility pollen SFB gene in a wild self-incompatible Prunus spinosa (Rosaceae) population. New Phytol. 172(3):577-87.