João Queirós
Researcher
Conservation Genetics and Wildlife Management
CIBIO, Centro de Investigacao em Biodiversidade e Recursos Geneticos
Portugal
Biography
By combining the information gathered from these two fields, in my thesis I am trying to acquire a better knowledge on host pathogen interaction regarding tuberculosis (TB), studying both population (population genetics/genomics) and individual (genotype and gene expression) characteristics which are modulating mycobacterial infections as well as their interaction, using two natural TB hosts as a model, the Eurasian wild boar (Sus scrofa) and the red deer (Cervus elaphus).
Research Interest
My main research topics are the population genetics/genomics and health status of wildlife populations
Publications
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Gonzalez-Barrio D, Avila ALV, Boadella M, Beltran-Beck B, Barasona JA, Santos JPV, Queiros J, Garcia-Perez AL, Barral M, Ruiz-Fons F (2015) Host and Environmental Factors Modulate the Exposure of Free-Ranging and Farmed Red Deer (Cervus elaphus) to Coxiella burnetii. Applid and Enviromental Microbiology, 81(18): 6223-6231.
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Queiros J, Vicente J, Alves PC, de la Fuente J, Gortazar C (2016) Tuberculosis, genetic diversity and fitness in the red deer, Cervus elaphus. Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 43: 203-212.
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Lopez V, Villar M, Queiros J, Vicente J, Mateos-Hernandez L, Diez-Delgado I, Contreras M, Alves PC, Alberdi P, Gortazar C, de la Fuente J (2016) Comparative Proteomics Identifies Host Immune System Proteins Affected by Infection with Mycobacterium bovis. Plos Neglected Tropical Diseases, 10(3): 4541-4541.
