ONGOING PROJECTS 

 

D Borges. Participants: DJ Harris, MA Carretero, A Perera, JP Maia

January 2014 - December 2016

“Beta-diversidade de anfíbios e lagartos em gradiente altitudinal no Nordeste Brasileiro: Implicações para a conservação de espécies ameaçadas” Funded by CNPq Brasil.

 

Y Chiari. Participant: MA Carretero

August 2014 - December 2014

“Estimates of relative preferred temperatures (Tp) in different species of turtles”

British Chelonia Group + The Linnean Society of London. United Kigdom.

 

A Crottini

October 2013 - September 2014

"Monitoring for Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) in wild amphibian populations from Madagascar"

Funded by Paris Zoo, France.

 

A Crottini

March 2013 - February 2015

“Reptile diversity assessment in the Relict Low Elevation Rainforest of Betampona”

Funded by Saint Louis Zoo Field Conservation program, USA. 

 

C Pinho. Participants: C Rato and D Salvi

November 2014

"Molecular and population genetic signatures of cytonuclear interactions: the Podarcis model"

EXPL/BIA-EVF/1283/2012 funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal).

 

N Serén. Participants: Y Chiari and MA Carretero

May 2014 - December 2014

“Genetic response to heavy metal exposure in amphibian larvae under laboratory experimental conditions"

Funded by Society for the Study of Amphibains and Reptiles (SSAR), USA.

 

A van der Meijden. Participant: A Kaliontzopoulou

May 2013 - April 2015

“Scorpion venom: Integrative evolutionary biology as a guide for bioprospecting”

PTDC/BIA-EVF/2687/2012 funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal).

 

 

FINISHED PROJECTS 

 

MA Carretero

2007 - 2009

Helmiths and lizards: Codaptation, cospeciation and host switching.

PTDC/BIA-BDE/67678/2006 funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal)

 

MA Carretero

May 2010 - September 2013

“Evolution of lizard ecophysiology. Applying character tracking and mechanistic models”

PTDC/BIA-BEC/101256/2008 funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal)

 

MA Carretero (Enrique Ayllón as PI)

April 2013 - June 2014

 “Análisis de la situación de las poblaciones de Anfibios y Reptiles del Anexo II de la Directiva Hábitat en Extremadura”.

Expedient nº GPEXMN13-002 funded by Junta de Extremadura (Spain) to AHE (Spanish Herpetological Society).

 

A Crottini

March 2013 - February 2014

“Monitoring for Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) in the amphibians of Madagascar: false alarm or real threat?”

Funded by the Rufford Small Grants for Nature Conservation, UK.

 

A Crottini

May 2013 - April 2014

“Conservation of the amphibians of Madagascar: A proposal of collaborative efforts”

Funded by Parc de Thoiry, France.

 

DJ Harris

2005 - 2007

"Phylogeographic analysis of geckos from the Mediterranean basin and Macaronesian Islands"

POCTI/BIA-BDE/61946/2004 funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal)

 

DJ Harris

2007 - 2009

"Molecular evolution of the herpetofauna of the Indian Ocean Islands"

PTDC/BIA-BDE/65745/2006 funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal)

 

DJ Harris

2007 - 2009

"Gene flow across the pillars of Hercules: the role of North Africa in the postglacial recolonization of Europe"

PTDC/BIA-BDE/74349/2006 funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal)

 

DJ Harris

2007 - 2009

"Modelling terrestrial biodiversity in the Cape Verde Islands: combining ecogeographical information with molecular markers"

PTDC/BIA-BDE/74288/2006 funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal)

 

I Damas-Moreira

December 2012

“In cold blood: community ecology of reptile hemoparasites"

Funded by British Herpetological Society.

 

A Kaliontzopoulou

February 2013

PI of SYNTHESYS project in the Natural History Museum, London “How do sexual and natural selection mold body size and shape variation in Podarcis wall lizards? A comparative approach using linear and geometric morphometrics”

European Union, GB-TAF-2594

 

A Kaliontzopoulou

October 2013

ExpeER European Infrastructure project “Functional and physiological divergence in lizards”

7th framework programme of the EU

 

JP Maia

2013

“In cold blood: community ecology of reptile hemoparasites”.

Funded by Chicago Herpetological Society.

 

A Perera

2010 - 2013

“Parallel patterns of mitochondrial selective sweeps in European geckos: a model for investigating cyto-nuclear discordance in phylogeographic studies”

PTDC/BIA-BEC/105327/2008 funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal).

 

A Perera

April 2013 - 2014

 “Taxonomic reassessment of the moroccan lizard Scelarcis perspicillata”

Funded by Systematic Association Fund.

 

C Pinho. Participants: MA Carretero, D Salvi and A. Kaliontzopoulou

May 2010 - September 2013

“On the road to speciation: an integrated analysis of the evolution of reproductive isolation in a cryptic species complex”

PTDC/BIA-BEC/102179/2008 funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal)

 

C Rato

April 2013 - April 2014

“Unravelling the divergence mechanisms in Tarentola mauritanica geckos: a complex species complex”

Funded by the Systematics Association (UK). 

 

D Rosado

December 2013

“Assessing genetic diversity in an ancient genus of geckos, Saurodactylus, in Morocco"

Funded by British Herpetological Society.

 

N Sillero. Participants: MA Carretero and A Kaliontzopoulou

May 2010 - September 2013

“HOUSE: a multidisciplinary approach to determine home ranges of Iberian lacertids”

PTDC/BIA-BEC/102280/2008 funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal)