Hi! My name is Fernanda.
I am a PhD researcher at the Molecular Systems Evolution Group at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology. I am interested in evolutionary biology, and in my current work I do single-cell transcriptomics of yeast to study the evolution of gene expression noise.
Education
PhD (ongoing): Molecular Systems Evolution Group - IMPRS for Evolutionary Biology
Masters: Molecular Biology and Evolution (MAMBE) CAU Kiel
Bachelors: Biological Sciences at UFMG
Publications
Moutinho, Ana Filipa, Fernanda Fontes Trancoso, and Julien Yann Dutheil. "The impact of protein architecture on adaptive evolution." Molecular biology and evolution 36.9 (2019): 2013-2028.
Photography work featured in publications:
Giannini, Tereza Cristina, et al. "Climate change in the Eastern Amazon: crop-pollinator and occurrence-restricted bees are potentially more affected." Regional Environmental Change 20.1 (2020): 9.
Borges, Rafael Cabral, et al. "A dataset of multi-functional ecological traits of Brazilian bees." Scientific Data 7.1 (2020): 120.
Some pictures I took:
Contact
Email: trancoso at evolbio dot mpg dot de