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Margarida Cardoso Moreira

Contact Information
Department of Ecology and Evolution
The University of Chicago
1101 E. 57th St.
Chicago, IL 60637

E-mail
mmoreira@uchicago.edu

Telephone
+1 773 834 3567 (Lab)
+1 773 972 4661 (Mobile)

Academic Qualifications
2004-present
Ph.D. student with Dr. Manyuan Long. Department of Ecology and Evolution, The University of Chicago, Chicago, USA. Tentative thesis title “Evolutionary Genomic Analysis of Gene Duplication in Drosophila”.

2003-2004
GABBA graduate student. Graduate Program in Areas of Basic and Applied Biology. University of Porto, Portugal. (http://gabba.up.pt).

2003
Undergraduate thesis project. 6 months. “Voltage-gated ion channel genes: patterns of alternative splicing and relationship with Drosophila male “love song””.
Supervised by Dr. Jorge Vieira at IBMC (Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology). Porto, Portugal.

1999-2003
B.S. degree in Biology (Summa cum Laude). Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Portugal.

Publications
Emerson, J.J.*, Cardoso-Moreira, M.*, Borevitz, J. and Manyuan Long (2007) Natural selection shapes genome-wide patterns of copy number polymorphism in Drosophila melanogaster.
(in revision)
* Equally contributing authors

Poster communications

Cardoso-Moreira, M., Emerson, J.J. Borevitz, J. and Manyuan Long (2007) “Natural selection shapes levels and patterns of copy number polymorphisms in the Drosophila melanogaster genome”. Mechanisms of Genome Evolution, American Genetics Association Annual Symposium, Indiana University, USA.

Cardoso-Moreira, M., Emerson, J.J. and Manyuan Long (2004). “Evolutionary Genomic Analysis of Gene Duplication in Drosophila”. 8th Annual Meeting of the GABBA Program in Basic and Applied Science. Porto, Portugal.

Oral communications

December 2007. Natural selection shapes genome wide patterns of copy number polymorphism in D. melanogaster”. 11th Annual Meeting of the GABBA Program in Basic and Applied Science. Porto, Portugal and III Meeting of Portuguese researchers in Evolutionary Biology, Lisbon, Portugal.

September 2007. “Evolutionary forces acting on copy-number variation in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster”. 20th European Drosophila Research Conference, Viena, Austria.

December 2006. “Widespread copy number variation in the fly genome”. 10th Annual Meeting of the GABBA Program in Basic and Applied Science. Porto, Portugal.

December 2005. “Genome-wide survey of copy-number polymorphisms in D. melanogaster and D. simulans”. 2nd Joint Meeting of Graduate Programmes in Bioscience. Tomar, Portugal.

Funding Awarded

2007 – Grant awarded by the American Genetics Association to attend and present a poster in the Annual Symposium on “Mechanisms Of Genome Evolution” organized by Prof. Michael Lynch.

2003-2007 - GABBA Ph.D. studentship. Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT-Portugal).

Awards

2003 – Award from the Engenheiro António de Almeida Foundation for outstanding academic performance.

2001-2002 – Merit Scholarship awarded for outstanding academic performance. The award was given by the Universidade do Porto, Portugal.