People

Carla Gonçalves

Junior Researcher

Position
CEEC Individual Junior Researcher (since 2022)
Email
carla.goncalves@fct.unl.pt
Ciência Vitae

Recent publications

  • Steenwyk, JL; Buida, TJ; Goncalves, C; Goltz, DC; Morales, G; Mead, ME; LaBella, AL; Chavez, CM; Schmitz, JE; Hadjifrangiskou, M; Li, YN; Rokas, A. 2022. BioKIT: a versatile toolkit for processing and analyzing diverse types of sequence data. GENETICS, 221, DOI: 10.1093/genetics/iyac079
  • Goncalves, C; Marques, M; Goncalves, P. 2022. Contrasting Strategies for Sucrose Utilization in a Floral Yeast Clade. mSphere, 7, DOI: 10.1128/msphere.00035-22
  • Goncalves, P; Goncalves, C; Brito, PH; Sampaio, JP. 2020. The Wickerhamiella/Starmerella clade-A treasure trove for the study of the evolution of yeast metabolism. YEAST, 37, DOI: 10.1002/yea.3463
  • Goncalves, C; Goncalves, P. 2019. Multilayered horizontal operon transfers from bacteria reconstruct a thiamine salvage pathway in yeasts. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 116, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1909844116
  • Goncalves, C; Ferreira, C; Goncalves, LG; Turner, DL; Leandro, MJ; Salema-Oom, M; Santos, H; Goncalves, P. 2019. A New Pathway for Mannitol Metabolism in Yeasts Suggests a Link to the Evolution of Alcoholic Fermentation. Frontiers in Microbiology, 10, DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.02510
  • Goncalves, C; Wisecaver, JH; Kominek, J; Oom, MS; Leandro, MJ; Shen, XX; Opulente, DA; Zhou, XF; Peris, D; Kurtzman, CP; Hittinger, CT; Rokas, A; Goncalves, P. 2018. Evidence for loss and reacquisition of alcoholic fermentation in a fructophilic yeast lineage. eLife, 7, DOI: 10.7554/elife.33034

Main research interests

  • Genome Evolution
  • Phylogenetics
  • Ecology
  • Computational Biology
  • Evolutionary Biology