Susana S. Neves, PhD

 

---

Name:  Susana Maria Sousa Silva Neves

Citizenship:  Portuguese

 

ITQB NOVA – Plant Cell Biotechnology Laboratory

Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Av. da República, 2780-157 Oeiras – PORTUGAL



Keywords

Plant systematics.  Evolution.  Molecular phylogeny.  DNA sequences.  Plant morphology.  Herbarium.  Fieldwork.

Bupleurum,  Apiaceae;  Eleusine,  Chloridoideae,  Poaceae;  Lathyrus,  Fabaceae;  Menispermaceae.

 

Academic qualifications

2000	Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
1993	Licentiate in Biology, Scientific Research, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal.
1988	Licentiate in Biology, Educational, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal.

Professional experience

2017-present	School Teacher, Agrupamento de Escolas de Ourém, Freixianda and Ourém, Portugal.
2017-present	Botanist, project "Red List of the Vascular Flora of Continental Portugal", Sociedade Portuguesa de Botânica, Portugal.
2016-2017	Biology teacher (part-time), Academia do Parque - Centro de Estudos e Actividades, Oeiras, Portugal.
Oct. 2013-present	Invited Researcher, Plant Cell Biotechnology Lab, ITQB NOVA, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras.
Sep. 2007-Sep. 2013	Postdoctoral Fellow, ITQB, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras.
Aug. 2006-Aug. 2007	Research Associate (postdoctoral position), Dept. of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA.
Oct. 2002-Jul. 2006	Postdoctoral Fellow, ITQB, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras.
Mar.-Sep. 2002	Postdoctoral Fellow, IBET - Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica, Oeiras.
Jan. 2001-Jan. 2002	Postdoctoral Associate, Dept. of Biology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA.
1996-1998, 2000	Demonstrator (teaching assistant - part-time), ICMB - Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Edinburgh, UK.
1995-1999	PhD student, ICMB, University of Edinburgh, and the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, UK.
1993-1994	Invited Assistant (teaching assistant - part-time), Departamento de Biologia, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal.
1993-1995	Monitor (teaching assistant), Departamento de Botânica, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal.
1988-1992	Secondary School Teacher, Escola Secundária de Ourém, Portugal.
1987-1988	Secondary School Teacher (in training), Escola Secundária D. Duarte, Coimbra.

Scientific expertise

• Phylogenetic analysis of sequence data
• DNA sequencing
• Plant anatomy and SEM study
• Plant nomenclature and typification
• Plant identification and morphological study
• Herbarium work
• Botanical field survey
• Floristics

Research projects and collaborations

• Participant in the project Red List of the Vascular Flora of Continental Portugal / "Lista Vermelha da Flora Vascular de Portugal Continental" (POSEUR-03-2215-FC-000013 and FCNB nº 2015020210001), developed by the Sociedade Portuguesa de Botânica, in collaboration with PHYTOS, Associação Portuguesa de Ciência da Vegetação, and the ICNF, Instituto da Conservação da Natureza e das Florestas, Portugal.

• Systematics and evolution in the genus Bupleurum (Apiaceae) – in collaboration with Mark Watson (Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, UK), Greg Plunkett (New York Botanical Garden, USA), and Michael Pimenov (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia).

• Phylogenetic relationships in subfamily Chloridoideae (Poaceae) based on DNA sequences – in collaboration with Khidir Hilu (Virginia Tech, USA) and Larry Alice (Western Kentucky University, USA).

• Molecular phylogeny and genetic diversity in the genus Eleusine (Poaceae) – in collaboration with W. Vance Baird and Ginger Swire-Clark (formerly at Clemson University, South Carolina, USA), and Khidir Hilu (Virginia Tech, USA).

• Phylogeny and evolution in Menispermaceae (the moonseed family) - in collaboration with Sara Hoot and Keir Wefferling (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA).

            

Sinomenium acutum (Thunb.) Rehder & E.H. Wilson                               Strychnopsis thouarsii Baill.          

                                                                                                 - sectioned fruit (endocarp and seed) -

  

• Biodiversity and DNA barcoding: the importance of botanical collections (Treaty of Windsor Programme, grant nº B-21-09) - in collaboration with Manuela Costa (Universidade do Minho, Portugal), and Mary Gibby, David Long, Mark Watson, and David Bell, all from RBGE (Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, UK), and Stephen Jury from the University of Reading (UK).

Research grants

• 2009-2010. Treaty of Windsor Programme/ Acção Integrada Luso-Britânica, grant nº B-21-09. Project: “Biodiversity and DNA barcoding: the importance of botanical collections”. CRUP, Conselho de Reitores das Universidades Portuguesas, and British Council, Portugal. Coordinators: Susana Neves (ITQB, Portugal) and Mary Gibby (RBGE, UK).

• 2009. Flora of North America microgrant (work visits to Harvard University Herbaria, Yale University, New York Botanical Garden and Missouri Botanical Garden). Flora of North America Association.

• 2009. Conference participation grant (Botany and Mycology 2009, Utah, USA). Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal.

• 2008. SYNTHESYS project, grant nº GB-TAF-3802. Project: “Taxonomic revision of the ‘Falcatum’ species group in the genus Bupleurum (Apiaceae)”.  European Union-funded Integrated Infrastructure Initiative. Project leader: Susana Neves.   SYNTHESYS website

• 2008. Conference participation grant (6th International Symposium on Apiales, Moscow, Russia). Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal.

• 2007-2013. Postdoctoral fellowship (SFRH/BPD/26669/2006). Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal.

• 2005. Conference participation grant (XVII International Botanical Congress, Vienna, Austria). Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal.

• 2004-2005. Acção Integrada Luso-Espanhola, grant nº E-95/04. Participant in the project “Breeding and biotechnological approaches for the reintroduction of Lathyrus in Mediterranean farming systems”. CRUP, Conselho de Reitores das Universidades Portuguesas. Portuguese Coordinator: Carlota Vaz Patto.

• 2004. Conference participation grants (Botany 2004, Utah, USA). Luso-American Foundation and Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal.

• 2002-2006. Postdoctoral fellowship (SFRH/BPD/9366/2002). Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal.

• 1998. Field collection grant (fieldwork in Spain). Davis Expedition Fund, University of Edinburgh, UK.

• 1996-1997. Travel grants to work in the Montpellier and Paris herbaria. James Rennie Bequest, University of Edinburgh, UK.

• 1995-1999. Doctoral scholarship (BD/4057/94), Program Praxis XXI. Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal.

 

Publications

Neves S.S. Bupleurum. In: Flora of North America Editorial Committee, eds. Flora of North America North of Mexico, Vol. 13. Oxford University Press, New York (accepted).

da Silva S.M., Amaral C., Neves S.S., Santos C., Pimentel C., Rodrigues-Pousada C. (2015) An HcpR paralog of Desulfovibrio gigas provides protection against nitrosative stress. FEBS Open Bio 5: 594-604.   [Full text - Open Access]

Wefferling K.M., Hoot S.B., Neves S.S. (2013) Phylogeny and fruit evolution in Menispermaceae. American Journal of Botany 100: 883-905.   [Abstract and full text links]

Neves S.S., Forrest L.L. (2011) Plant DNA sequencing for phylogenetic analyses: from plants to sequences. In: G. Cagney, A. Emili, eds. Network Biology: Methods and Applications. Methods in Molecular Biology 781: 183-235. Humana Press - Springer, New York.   [Abstract and full text links]   [Springer protocol]

Neves S.S. (2011) Eleusine. In: C. Kole, ed. Wild Crop Relatives: Genomic and Breeding Resources, Millets and Grasses. pp. 113-133. Springer, Berlin and Heidelberg.   [Abstract and full text links]

Neves S.S., Weakley A.S., Cox P.B. (2009) Bupleurum gerardii All. (Apiaceae), an addition to the North American flora, with comments on the treatment of aliens in floras. Castanea 74: 424-433.   [Abstract and full text links]

Hoot S.B., Zautke H., Harris D.J., Crane. P.R., Neves S.S. (2009) Phylogenetic patterns in Menispermaceae based on multiple chloroplast sequence data. Systematic Botany 34: 44-56.   [Abstract and full text links]

Matter A.M., Hoot S.B., Anderson P.D., Neves S.S., Cheng Y.-Q. (2009) Valinomycin biosynthetic gene cluster in Streptomyces: conservation, ecology and evolution. PLoS ONE 4(9): e7194.   [Abstract and full text links]

Neves S.S., Reduron J.P. (2006) List of contributors (Bupleurum typification). In: C.E. Jarvis, J.P. Reduron, M.A. Spencer and S. Cafferty, eds. Typification of Linnaean plant names in Apiaceae. Taxon 55: 207-216.   [Abstract and full text links]

Neves S.S., Swire-Clark G., Hilu K.W., Baird W.V. (2005) Phylogeny of Eleusine (Poaceae: Chloridoideae) based on nuclear ITS and plastid trnT-trnF sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 35: 395-419.   [Abstract and full text links]

Neves S.S., Watson M.F. (2004) Phylogenetic relationships in Bupleurum (Apiaceae) based on nuclear ribosomal DNA ITS sequence data. Annals of Botany 93: 379-398.   [Abstract and full text links]

Neves S. (2003) Bupleurum L. (Umbelliferae-Apioideae). In: G. Nieto Feliner, S.L. Jury, A. Herrero, eds. Flora iberica, Vol. 10: 240-265. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC, Madrid.   [Bupleurum in Flora iberica - pdf file]     [Flora iberica web site]

Neves S.S. (2003) Typification of some taxa of Bupleurum L. (Umbelliferae). Anales del Jardín Botánico de Madrid 60: 457-458.  [pdf file]

Neves S. (2002) Bupleurum L. (Apiaceae). In: B. Valdés, M. Rejdali, A. Achhal El Kadmiri, S.L. Jury, J.M. Montserrat, eds. Checklist of Vascular Plants of N Morocco with Identification Keys, Vol. 1: 452-454. CSIC, Madrid.

Neves S.S. (2000) Taxonomy and Evolution in Bupleurum L. (Umbelliferae) in the W Mediterranean and Macaronesia. PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh, UK.

 

Presentations in international conferences  /  Published abstracts

 

Oral communications

Neves S.S.* (2013) Bupleurum (Apiaceae) in the Mediterranean: species boundaries and underestimated diversity. XIV OPTIMA Meeting. Organization for the Phyto-Taxonomic Investigation of the Mediterranean Area - 14 September, Palermo, Sicily, Italy.  

Neves S.S.* (2009) Morphology, chromosome numbers and molecular evidence: problems in species circumscription in Bupleurum (Apiaceae). Botany and Mycology 2009. Botanical Society of America - 29 July, Snowbird, Utah, USA.   [Abstract]

Neves S.S.*, Fevereiro P.S., Watson M.F. (2008) The perennials of the genus Bupleurum (Apiaceae) in Eurasia: progress in the understanding of the complex ‘Falcatum’ group. Apiales 2008 - 6th International Symposium on Apiales - 27 June, Moscow, Russia.

Hoot S.B.*, Wulff J.A., Neves S.S. (2008) Phylogeny of Ranunculales based on multiple sequence data and morphology. Botany 2008. Botanical Society of America and Canadian Botanical Association - 29 July, Vancouver, Canada.   [Abstract]

Neves S.S.*, Hoot S.B. (2007) Systematics and evolution of Menispermaceae based on plastid DNA sequences. Plant Biology and Botany 2007. Botanical Society of America and American Society of Plant Biology - 11 July, Chicago, USA.   [Abstract]

Neves S.S.*, Watson M.F. (2005) Systematics and evolution in Bupleurum: current knowledge and research challenges. Apiales V Symposium - 25 July, Vienna, Austria.

Neves S.S.*, Swire-Clark G., Hilu K.W., Baird W.V. (2004) Phylogeny of Eleusine (Poaceae: Chloridoideae) based on nuclear and plastid DNA sequence analyses. Botany 2004. Botanical Society of America - 4 August, Snowbird, Utah, USA.   [Abstract]

Neves S.S., Alice L.A.*, Hilu K.W. (2002) The root of the Chloridoideae (Poaceae) revisited: a preliminary assessment based on trnT-trnF and matK sequences. Botany 2002. Botanical Society of America - 5 August, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.

Neves S.S.*, Watson M.F. (2001) Phylogeny of Bupleurum (Apiaceae) based on ITS sequence data. Botany 2001: Plants and People. Botanical Society of America - 13 August, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.   [Abstract]

(*) Presenting author

Posters

Silva S.M., Amaral C., Pimentel C., Neves S.S., Rodrigues-Pousada C. (2014) Desulfovibrio gigas HcpR is required for growth under nitrosative stress conditions. FEBS EMBO 2014. 30 August - 4 September, Paris, France.

Fernández-Aparício M., Moral A., Vaz Patto M.C., Neves S., Rubiales D. (2006) Recolección de germoplasma de Lathyrus silvestres en la Península Ibérica. 2as Jornadas de la Asociación Española de Leguminosas - 25-27 April, Cuenca, Spain.

Neves S.S., Kenicer G.J., Fevereiro P., Vaz Patto M.C. (2005) Phylogeny and systematics of the genus Lathyrus L. (Fabaceae): evidence from nuclear ITS sequences. XVII International Botanical Congress - 17-23 July, Vienna, Austria.

Baird W.V., Swire-Clark G., Neves S.S., St. John A., Patel P., Yarrow L., Hilu K.W. (2001) Evolution in Eleusine with emphasis on polyploid species using ITS and trnT-F sequence information. Botany 2001: Plants and People. Botanical Society of America - 12-16 August, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.

 

---

 

Plant Cell Biotechnology Laboratory

 

Last updated on 22 January 2018