Vanessa Mata

It was a great honor to present at #EBRS2024! 😊

The portuguese bat team is at #EBRS24 ! Lots of talks today and tomorrow! 🦇😁

Finally, the day has arrived, first day at the @ebrs2024 !! Isn't it cool the bat-cave conference room? 🤩

10 yrs ago I joined the metabarcoding world and this was my first output! 💪Happy to see it keeps flying 😊

Do grant proposal texts matter for funding decisions? A field experiment Spoiler alert...NO! #Grants #academia

@buchner_dominik great! that will be fantastic! 😁 thanks for the effort!! 💪

@matavca there's also an issue open on GitHub demanding the same. Will be implemented in the next release!

Just updated BOLDigger2: By popular demand 🫡, BOLDigger2 now accepts BOLD credentials as optional arguments for seamless integration into existing bioinformatics pipelines. Update now at github.com/DominikBuchner…! #boldigger2 #update 💻

Finally, the monumental work led by @SoniaFe02577409 is out, reporting on moth barcodes from Portugal, based on 2350 specimens from 1158 species. The InBIO Barcoding Initiative Database: DNA barcodes of Portuguese moths doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.12…

E para celebrar o Dia Internacional dos #Morcegos, aqui está um excelente artigo do @PublicoAzul sobre a nossa investigação da dieta dos morcegos da Ilha da #Madeira. @PortugalEcology @sbeq @SECEMU_ @CIBIO_InBIO @munfunchal @eva_keltanen @matavca @TMB_cE3c @CE3CResearch

A work started in 2018, is finally out. Our results reveal simplified bird-pest interaction networks with increased agricultural cover, where bird abundance emerges as the key predictor of species' importance in pest consumption. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/me…

Unable to decide between Spain or France to apply for your dream #metabarcoding postdoc? Why not both? Position with @Fred__Viard @xavierturon & Sophie Arnaud-Haond on Project @BIOcean5. #marine #eDNA #environmental #bioinformatics Apply soon! Position is open until filled.

𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗣𝗔𝗣𝗘𝗥📢 As part of my PhD, we quantify, for the 1st time in Europe, the #EcosystemServices of #bats as insect pest suppressors in #rice paddies🌾🦇. Bats halved plant damage, saving ∼70 kg rice/ha, which translates into 💸56€/ha Read more👇 doi.org/10.1016/j.ecos…

Join me @Naturalis_Sci for a PhD on taxonomic and functional meiofauna diversity! CT scanning, (meta)barcoding & transcriptomics, fieldwork in Indonesia, Japan & New Caledonia. Strong collaboration with @Ifremer_fr @Senckenberg @JAMSTEC_PR #PhDPosition academictransfer.com/338203/

This study was a brilliant work led by Daniel Velarde and supervised by @LuisPascoalSil1 @PedroBeja12 and myself 🙃 All scripts and data used for analysis are provided! 😉

Instead, it appears that the population became a mixture of specialist and generalist individuals, which may reflect OFT mechanisms on individuals with differential competitive ability to access better food resources.

Right on time for christmas 🎄, our newest article is out! 😍 @CIBIO_InBIO @molecology We used DNA metabarcoding and beta diversity partitioning to test the Optimal Foraging Theory (OFT) and Niche Variation Hypothesis (NVH)! 🧶👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/me…