Biografia
I am a population geneticist interested in the mechanistic processes of Evolution and in establishing cross-disciplinary dialogues to understand the human past. I work across a wide range of topics at the forefront of evolutionary genetics, including demographic inference, comparative genomics, conservation genetics and natural selection, using both modern and ancient DNA. I am particularly interested in human evolution and the admixture events between human groups in the Pleistocene, historical human migrations in Europe and the Americas, the dynamics of domestication and the impacts of these processes for human health. I am deeply committed to interdisciplinary research and in combining genetics with other disciplines, in particular archaeology and philosophy, to establish new research paradigms and build holistic perspectives of human history. At present, I hold a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award from the Australian Research Council that allows me to develop my research at the Australian National University, in Canberra; and serve as elected Scientific Vice-Coordinator of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of the University of Coimbra (CEIS20).
Temas e problemáticas da atividade científica
Evolução Humana
ADN antigo
Interdisciplinaridade
Publicações mais relevantes no período de 2018-2023
Roca-Rada, X., Tereso, S., Rohrlach, A.B., Brito, A., Williams, M.P., Umbelino, C., Curate, F., Deveson, I.W., Souilmi, Y., Amorim, A., Carvalho, P.C., Llamas, B., Teixeira, J.C. (2022). A 1000-year-old case of Klinefelter’s syndrome diagnosed by integrating morphology, osteology, and genetics. The Lancet. 400:691–92.
Purnomo, G.A., Mitchell, K.J., O'Connor, S., Kealy, S., Taufik, L., Schiller, S., Rohrlach, A., Cooper, A., Llamas, B., Sudoyo, B., Teixeira, J.C., Tobler, R. (2021) Mitogenomes reveal two major influxes of Papuan ancestry across Wallacea following the Last Glacial Maximum and Austronesian contact. Genes. 12(7):965.
Teixeira, J.C., Jacobs, G.S., Stringer, C., Tuke, J., Hudjashov, G., Purnomo, G.A., Sudoyo, H., Tobler, R., Cox, M.P., Turney, C.S.M., Cooper, A., Helgen, K.M. (2021) Widespread Denisovan ancestry in Island Southeast Asia but no evidence of substantial super-archaic hominin admixture. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 5(5):616-624.
Teixeira, J.C., Huber, C.D. (2021) The inflated significance of neutral genetic diversity in conservation genetics. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 118(10):e2015096118.
Teixeira, J.C., Cooper, A. (2019) Using hominin introgression to trace modern human dispersals. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 116(31):15327-15332.
Participação em projetos financiados no período de 2018-2023
PTDC/HAR-ARQ/6273/2020, A Aldeia Histórica de Idanha-a-Velha: cidade, território e população na Antiguidade (séc. I. A.C. - XII D.C.). IGAEDIS. Pedro C. Carvalho. Univerisdade de Coimbra, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. FCT. https://igaedis.uc.pt DE210101235.
Encounters with hominins: the history of human arrival in Sahul. Australian National University. Australian Research Council.
Orientação de estudantes de pós-graduação no período de 2018-2023
Dr. Evelyn Phlox. The University of Adelaide.
Dr. Gludhug Purnomo. The University of Adelaide.
Dr. Xavier-Roca-Rada. The University of Adelaide.
Dr. Prashasti Singh. The University of Tasmania.
Dr. Xavier-Roca-Rada. Universidade de Coimbra.