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Filipa Borges

filipa.fsb@gmail.com

CiênciaVitae

ORCID

Academic Degree

Master's

Group

Environment, Sustainability and Ethnography

About

Research Context

Sierra Leone

Research Interests

Ethnoprimatology | Genetics | Shared landscapes | Sierra Leone

Institutional Subunit

NOVA FCSH

Biographical Note

Holder of a master’s degree in Biodiversity, Genetics and Evolution from the University of Porto (2017). Fellow at the Primate Research Institute (Kyoto University, Japan) in 2018. Laboratory manager and research technician at the Population and Conservation Genetics Group at Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência between 2018 and 2020. Currently a PhD candidate in Anthropolgy (2019-) affiliated to CRIA, the University of Porto and the University of Exeter. Her PhD project is entitled “Integrating genomics with local knowledge to understand responses of West African primates to past and present ecological and anthropogenic changes”.

All projects

Data updated on 19-03-2023, from platform CIÊNCIAVITAE.

2019/08/01-2019/09/30

ROAZES: GENÉTICA E TOXICOLOGIA: Implementação de um programa de caracterização genética, fisiológica e toxicológica da população de roazes

Research Technician Fellow

Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência

Financiers: Tróia-Natura, S.A.; Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

2018/04/01-2019/07/31

Comparative landscape evolutionary genomics of West-African primates: a contribution of the anthropological biology to their conservation plan

PTDC/IVC-ANT/3058/2014

Research Fellow

Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência; Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Administração e Políticas Públicas

Financiers: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

2017/10/16-2017/12/22

Primaction - Protecting the Western Chimpanzee and other primates from illegal logging and hunting in Guinea-Bissau

Research Technician Fellow

Financiers: Born Free Foundation; Chester Zoo; Primate Conservation Inc

2017/10/16-2017/12/22

Comparative landscape evolutionary genomics of WestAfrican primates: a contribution of the anthropological biology to their conservation plan

PTDC/IVC-ANT/3058/2014

Research Technician Fellow

Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência

Financiers: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Highlighted Publications

Data updated on 24-07-2022 , from platform CIÊNCIAVITAE .

Journal article

Chasing a ghost: notes on the present distribution and conservation of the sooty mangabey (Cercocebus atys) in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa

Ferreira da Silva, M.J.; Paddock, Christina; Gerini, Federica; Borges, Filipa; Isa Aleixo-Pais; Costa, Mafalda; Colmonero-Costeira, Ivo; et al, Primates. 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10329-020-00817-2 . 10.1007/s10329-020-00817-2 . PublishedPrimates

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Data updated on 19-03-2023 , from platform CIÊNCIAVITAE .

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Hunting and its Recent Demographic Consequences in Papio papio in Guinea-Bissau Assessed Through Social and Molecular Data

Ferreira da Silva, M.J.; Gerini, Federica; Isa Aleixo-Pais; Maié, Tiago; Borges, Filipa; Costa, Mafalda; Colmonero-Costeira, Ivo; et al, 15-04-2020.

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The Sharing of Natural Resources Between Mende People and Non-human Primates in the Tropical Forest of Gola (Sierra Leone)

Isa Aleixo-Pais; Borges, Filipa; Barca, Benjamin; Frazão-Moreira, Amélia; Turay, Brima Sheku; Swaray, M.; Bruford, Michael W.; Minhós, Tânia, 15-04-2020.

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Non-invasive Genetics Provide Insights into the Conservation Status of Two Colobine Monkeys in Gola Rainforest National Park, Sierra Leone

Borges, Filipa; Isa Aleixo-Pais; Ferreira da Silva, M.J.; Barca, Benjamin; Turay, Brima Sheku; Chikhi, Lounès; Minhós, Tânia, 15-04-2020.

Journal article

Chasing a ghost: notes on the present distribution and conservation of the sooty mangabey (Cercocebus atys) in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa

Conference poster

The Western Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) in Guinea-Bissau – A Genetic Assessment for the Conservation of a Critically Endangered Taxon

Borges, Filipa; Isa Aleixo-Pais; Sá, Rui M.; Bruford, Michael W.; Casanova, Catarina; Chikhi, Lounès; Gerini, Federica; et al, 27th International Primatological Society Congress. 19-08-2018.

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Serão todos primos? A genética na conservação dos primatas da África Ocidental

Borges, Filipa; Isa Aleixo-Pais; Sá, Rui M.; Bruford, Michael W.; Casanova, Catarina; Chikhi, Lounès; Minhós, Tânia; Ferreira da Silva, M.J., 2018.

Conference poster

A Country-Level Genetic Survey of the Critically Endangered Western Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa

Borges, Filipa; Isa Aleixo-Pais; Sá, Rui M.; Bruford, Michael W.; Casanova, Catarina; Chikhi, Lounès; Minhós, Tânia; Ferreira da Silva, M.J., Primate Society of Great Britain 50th Anniversary with Jane Goodall & Frans de Waal. 27-11-2017.

Conference poster

Genetic diversity and population structure of the Western Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus ) at the Cufada Lagoons Natural Park in Guinea-Bissau

Borges, Filipa; Isa Aleixo-Pais; Minhós, Tânia; Chikhi, Lounès; Bruford, Michael W.; Casanova, Catarina; Brito, José Carlos; Ferreira da Silva, M.J., TiBE 2016 (Tropical Biology). 28-11-2016.

Filipa Borges

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2018/04/01-2019/07/31

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2017/10/16-2017/12/22

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