|back to unit homepage| 1. personal data 2. academic degree 3. area of scientific activity 4. research projects 5. membership in scientific societies 6. referee and editor of scientific journals 7. publications 8. supervising theses 9. language skills 10. other information 1. personal data back to main menu   name Luisa Cristina Gouveia Mendes address IMAR- Instituto do Mar a/c Departamento de Zoologia, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia Universidade de Coimbra 3004-571 Coimbra, Portugal contact data tel. +351 239 855760 fax. +351 239 855789 email lcgmendes@hotmail.com   2. academic degree back to main menu   year academic degree scientific area institution 2006 PhD Biologia populacional Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa 2000 MSc Gestão dos Recursos Naturais Instituto Superior de Agronomia 1995 Graduation Recursos Faunísticos e Ambiente Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa   3. area of scientific activity back to main menu   domain of specialization Evolutionary biology, with an emphasis in host-parasite interactions and ecology of infections diseases and animal ecology, physiology (e.g. immunity) and behaviour with special focus on migration and behavioural strategies to avoid infections.   present investigation interests My main goals are to understand the mechanisms and the processes that prevent or promote transmission of infectious diseases in wild migratory populations, with special emphasis to migratory shorebirds. To achieve this goal, I believe that researches must integrate information regarding several parasites and pathogens and relate this information with environmental, and host-related behavioural, physiologic (immune responses) and genetic factors.   other skills/activities Em 1997 participei no recenseamento das aves do Parque Nacional de Orango, no Arquipélago dos Bijagós, Guiné-Bissau. Este trabalho teve o apoio logístico da Union Internacional pour la Conservation de la Nature (UICN). Em 1998 participei no Recenseamento da Águia Pesqueira Africana Haliaetus vocifer, Abutre das Palmeiras Gypohierax angolensis, e Águia pesqueira Europeia Pandion haliaetus, no Parque Nacional de Orango, no Arquipélago dos Bijagós, Guiné-Bissau. Este trabalho teve o apoio logístico da Union Internacional pour la Conservation de la Nature (UICN).   4. coordination/participation of research projects back to main menu   With Portuguese national financial support Principal investigator of the following project: "Understanding the factors that promote the prevalence of infectious diseases in migratory shorebirds" (Ref: PTDC/BIA-BDE/64063/2006)awarded and financed by the Portuguese Science Foundation (FCT). The project started in January 2008 and finished in December 2011. With international financial support Services rendered   5. membership in scientific societies back to main menu   1995 - Portuguese Ornithological Society (SPEA). 2001 - Wader Study Group.   6. referee and editor of scientific journals back to main menu   Referee 2006 - Airo 2007 - Airo 2008 - Ardea; Journal of Avian Biology 2009 - Physiological and Biochemical Zoology; Journal of avian Biology 2012 - Oecologia   7. publications back to main menu   |papers (ISI)| |books| |book chapters| |book reviews| |proceedings (int)| |proceedings (nat)| |national journals| |technical reports| |oral presentations| |posters| papers in international scientific periodicals with referee (ISI) back to top 2013 Mendes, L., Pardal, S., Morais, J., Antunes, S., Ramos, J.A., Perez-Tris, J. and Piersma, T. In press. Hidden haemosporidian infections in Ruffs (Philomachus pugnax) staging in Northwest Europe en route from Africa to Arctic Europe. Parasitology Research. Accepted. 2012 Santos, S. , Pardal, S., Proença, D., Lopes, R.J., Ramos, J., Mendes, L. and Morais, P. Diversity of cloacal microbial diversity in migratory shorebirds that use the Tagus estuary as a stopover habitats and their potential to harbor and disperse pathogenic organisms. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 82: 63-74. Ventim, R., Mendes, L., Ramos, J., Cardoso, H., and Pérez-Tris, J. Local haemoparasites in introduced wetland passerines. Journal of Ornithology. 153:1253-1259. Ventim, R., Ramos, J., Osório, H., Lopes, R., Pérez-Tris, J., Mendes, L. In Press. Avian malaria infections in western European mosquitoes. Parasitology Research. 111: 637-645. Lopes de Carvalho, I., Zé-Zé, L:, Alves, A.S., Pardal, S., Lopes, R.J., Mendes, L. and Núncio, M. S. In Press. Borrelia garinii and Francisella tularensis subsp. holarctica detected in migratory shorebirds in Portugal. European Journal of Wildlife Research. 58: 857-861. Ventim, R, Tenreiro, P, Grade N, Encarnação P, Araújo M, Mendes L, Pérez-Tris J and Ramos JA. In Press. Characterization of Haemosporidian infections in warblers and sparrows at south-western European reed beds. Journal of Ornithology. 153: 505-512. Ventim, R.,Morais J., Pardal, S., Mendes, L., Ramos, J.A. and Pérez-Tris, J. Host-parasite associations and host-specificity in haemoparasites of reedbed passerines. Parasitology. 139:310-316. 2008 Mendes, L., Dias, M. & Rufino, R. 2008. Assessment of the importance of non-estuarine coastal habitats for wintering waders in Portugal – January/February 2000. pp. 59–63. In: N.H.K. Burton, M.M. Rehfisch, D.A. Stroud & C.J. Spray (eds). The European Non-Estuarine Coastal Waterbird Survey. International Wader Studies 18. International Wader Study Group, Thetford, UK. Burton, N.H.K., Blew, J., Colhoun, K., Cortes, J., Deceuninck, B., Devos, K., Hortas, F., Mendes, L., Nilsson, L., Radovic, D., Rehfisch, M.M., van Roomen, M., Soldatini, C., Thorup, O. & Stroud, D.A. 2008. Population status of waders wintering on Europe’s non-estuarine coasts. pp. 95–101. In: N.H.K. Burton, M.M. Rehfisch, D.A. Stroud & C.J. Spray (eds). The European Non-Estuarine Coastal Waterbird Survey. International Wader Studies 18. International Wader Study Group, Thetford, UK. 2006 Mendes, L., Piersma, T., Hasselquist, D., Matson, K. D. & Ricklefs, R. A. 2006. Variation in the innate and acquired arms of the immune system among five shorebird species. Journal of Experimental Biology 209, 284-291. Mendes, L., Piersma, T. & Hasselquist, D. (2006). Two estimates of the metabolic costs of antibody production in migratory shorebirds: low costs, internal reallocation, or both? Journal of Ornithology 147, 274-300. 2005 Mendes, L., Piersma, T., Lecoq, M., Spaans, B. & Ricklefs, R. A. 2005. Disease-limited distributions? Contrasts in the prevalence of avian malaria in shorebird species using marine and freshwater habitats. Oikos 109, 396-404. 2001 Piersma, T, L. Mendes, J. Hennekens, Ratiarison S., Groenewold S. & J. Jukema (2001). Breeding plumage honestly signals likelihood of tapeworm infestation in females of a long-distance migrating shorebird, the bar-tailed Godwit. Zoology. (104) 1: 41-48. 1998 Catry, P. & Mendes, L. (1998). Red-throated Pipit Anthus cervinus and Icterine Warbler Hippolais icterinus, new to Guine-Bissau- Malimbus (20) 2.   books back to top   book chapters back to top   proceedings of international meetings with referee back to top   national journals, from portugal or from abroad, with peer review back to top   proceedings of portuguese national meetings back to top Gomes, L, Mendes, L., Pena, A., Lecoq, N., Armelin, M. (1997). Monitorização da Avifauna. Ponte Vasco da Gama - lisboa: Trabalhos de Monitorização ambiental durante a construção. Centro de Estudos e Monitorização Ambiental (CEMA). Lisboa.   editorial and book reviews back to top   technical reports back to top   oral presentations back to top Vector-borne diseases detected on migratory shorebirds caught in two major Portuguese wetlands. Pardal, S; Lopes, RJ; Alves, JA; Rocha, A; Zé-Zé, L; Osório, HC; Amaro, F; Lopes de Carvalho, I; Morais, J; Pérez-Tris, J; Alves, MJ; Núncio, MS; Ramos, JA and Mendes, L. Presented at International Wader Study Group in October 2010. Disease risk and migration, in shorebirds. Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France at 21 of April 2006. Habitat-related differences in avian malaria infections and in innate and humoral immune response, in shorebirds, apresentado no European Ornithological Union (EOU), in August 2005. Parasites and immune response in shorebirds with contrasting habitat choice. Seminar at the University of Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands, in May 2005. Parasites and immune response in shorebirds with contrasting habitat choice. Seminar at the Royal Institute for Sea Research, Texel, The Netherlands, in November 2003. Parasites and Immunocompetence in Shorebirds, with contrasting habitat choice, apresentado no 4º congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa para o estudo das aves (SPEA), em Novembro de 2003. Parasites and immunocompetence in shorebirds, with contrasting habitat choice, apresentado na Migratory birds and parasites workshop em Hartberg, Austria. Financiado pelo European Science Foundation, in November 2002. Sucesso reprodutor da Andorinha-do-mar-anã Sterna albifrons nas salinas do Samouco, apresentado no 1º Congresso de Ornitologia, organizado pela Sociedade Portuguesa para o estudo das aves (SPEA), em Novembro de 1996.   posters back to top Hidden Haemosporidian infections in ruffs, migrating through the north-western Europe. Mendes, L; Pardal, S; Morais, J; Jukema, J; Pérez-Tris, J; Piersma, T. Poster presented at International wader study group meeting in October 2010. Why Waders have such a low prevalence of Avian Malaria? Three case studies from the Portuguese wetlands. Pardal S., Osório H.C., Pérez-Tris J., Lopes R.J., Alves J.A., Rocha A., Tavares P.C., Alves M.J., Ramos J.A. and Mendes L. Apresentado no 5º Encontro Técnico de Anilhadores, organizado pela Associação Portuguesa de Anilhadores de Aves (APAA), de 27 a 28 de Março de 2010. Avian malaria prevalences in Portuguese reedbed passerines. Ventim, Rita; Morais J; Ramos J; Pérez-Tris J; Mendes L; Pardal S; Araújo M & Tenreiro P. Poster presented at Portuguese society for the study of birds SPEA in December 2009. Mosquito species distribution in mainland Portugal over 2005-2008 period. Osório, HC, Amaro, F, Zé-Zé, L, Mendes, L, Pardal, S, Ventim, R, Nunes, S, Alves MJ and REVIVE workgroup. Poster presented in the 5th European Mosquito Control Association Workshop, Turin, ITALY 9th - 13th March 2009. Variation in immune components in Ruffs migrating through Friesland, The Netherlands, presented at the Wader Study Group meeting in La Rochelle, France in September 2007. Variation in the contitutive immune system in migratory shorebirds, presented at the International Ornithologic Congress (IOC), na Alemanha, in August 2006. Número e fenologia das aves limícolas no estuário do Tejo, apresentado no 1º Congresso de Ornitologia, organizado pela Sociedade Portuguesa para o estudo das aves (SPEA), in November 1996. Habitat selection of the Black-Winged Stilt in Castro Marim, South Portugal. Apresentado na 10 th International Waterfowl Ecology and Wader Study Group Conference, organizado pela Universidade de Aveiro, Instituto de Conservação da Natureza (ICN), Centro de estudos de Migração e Protecção de aves (CEMPA), International Waterfowl Research Bureau (IWRB) e Wader Study Group (WSG) em Setembro de 1995.   8. supervising theses back to main menu Co-superviser of Rita Ventim Neves doctoral project, entitled "Haemosporidian parasites in communities of southwestern European reedbeds: their passerine hosts and their vectors.". Defended at 30 March 2012 with CUM LAUDE. Co-superviser of Susana Master thesis entitled "Comparision of the Microbial community in shorebirds and its relation with the microbial community of their habitat". Thesis defended in September 2010, got 19 (out of 20). Co-superviser of Sara Lopes Pardal Master thesis entitled "Comparision of the potential risks of mosquito-borne diseases for shorebirds that use saltpans and rice-fields, in Portugal". Thesis defended in September 2009, got 19 (out of 20). Co-superviser of Sara Lopes Pardal PhD ongoing project entitle "Hitching on migration: host-parasite interactions across the flyway".   9. language skills back to main menu   language reading writing conversation portuguese born language born language born language english excelent excelent excelent french good regular regular Dutch Very good Good Very good   10. other information [e.g. patents] back to main menu