Willian T. A. F. Silva
Work
2023-current: Principal research engineer (förste forskningsingenjör):
Linköping University (Sweden).
2022-2023: Postdoctoral researcher:
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (Sweden).
2020-2022: Postdoctoral researcher:
Lund University (Sweden).
2019-2020: Researcher:
University of Gothenburg (Sweden).
2013: Research assistant:
Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain).
Skills
Programming: R, Bash, Matlab, Mathematica, Netlogo, Fortran.
Computational modeling: Development and analyses of mathematical models and computer simulations.
Statistics: Data analysis on R.
Bioinformatics: Genomics and transcriptomics.
Scientific illustrations (Inkscape, GIMP).
Field work in marine biology (crabs, seals).
Experimental biology and molecular biology methods.
Driving license (AM/B).
UAV (drone) pilot license (A1/A3, Sweden).
Education
Ph.D. in Evolutionary Genetics (2014-2018):
Graduate School on Genomes and Phenotypes.
Uppsala University (Sweden).
Thesis title: Non-genetic processes in development and heredity.
M.Sc. in Evolutionary Biology (2011-2013):
Erasmus Mundus Master in Evolutionary Biology (MEME).
Uppsala University (Sweden).
Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich (Germany).
University of Montpellier (France).
Exchange at Harvard University (USA).
B.Sc. in Biological Sciences (2006-2010):
Federal University of Alagoas (Brazil).
Exchange at Gonzaga University (USA).
Exchange at University of Barcelona (Spain).
Primary and Secondary education (1995-2005):
Escola Santa Catarina (Brazil).
Colégio Nossa Senhora Rosa Mística (Brazil).
Publications
Silva, W.T.A.F.; Hansson, M.; Johansson, J. 2024. Phenological evolution in annual plants under light competition, changes in the growth season and mass loss. Ecology and Evolution 14 (4): e11294. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.11294.
Infantes, E.; Carroll, D.; Silva, W.T.A.F.; Harkonen, T.; Edwards, S.; Harding, K.C. 2022. An automated work-flow for pinniped surveys: a new tool for monitoring population dynamics. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 10: 905309. DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2022.905309.
Silva, W.T.A.F. 2022. Digest: The evolution of social behavior and its effect on aggressiveness and reproduction. Evolution 76 (3): 679-680. DOI: 10.1111/evo.14111.
Sáez-Espinosa, P.; Franco-Esclapez, C.; Robles-Gómez, L.; Silva, W.T.A.F.; Romero, A.; Immler, S.; Gómez-Torres, M.J. 2022. Morphological and ultrastructural alterations of zebrafish (Danio rerio) spermatozoa after motility activation. Theriogenology 188: 108-115. DOI: 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2022.05.025.
Silva, W.T.A.F.; Hansson, M.; Johansson, J. 2021. Light competition and phenological adaptation of annual plants to a changing climate. Climate Change Ecology 2: 100007. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecochg.2021.100007.
Silva, W.T.A.F.; Otto, S.P.; Immler, M. 2021. Evolution of plasticity in production and transgenerational inheritance of small RNAs under dynamic environmental conditions. PLoS Genetics 17 (5): e1009581. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1009581.
Joffard, N.; Silva, W.T.A.F.; Twyford, A. 2021. Digest: The role of postzygotic isolation in Mimulus speciation. Evolution 75 (3): 756-758. DOI: 10.1111/evo.14175.
Silva, W.T.A.F. 2021. The complex distribution of SARS-CoV-2 in a population invalidates the use of the per capita rates of death and infection in international comparisons. Public Health 190: e9. DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2020.10.019.
Silva, W.T.A.F.; Nyqvist, A.; Jonsson, P.R.; Harding, K.C. 2020. Ecological success of sexual and asexual reproductive strategies invading an environmentally unstable habitat. BioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2020.02.10.942466.
Yazdi, H.P.; Silva, W.T.A.F.; Suh, A. 2020. Why do some sex chromosomes degenerate more slowly than others? The odd case of ratite sex chromosomes. Genes 11 (10): 1153. DOI: 10.3390/genes11101153.
Silva, W.T.A.F. 2020. Digest: A synergistic approach explains the evolutionary connection between brain size and longevity. Evolution 74 (12): 2743-2745. DOI: 10.1111/evo.14087.
Silva, W.T.A.F.; Harding, K.C.; Marques, G.M.; Bäcklin, B.M.; Sonne, C.; Dietz, R.; Kauhala, K.; Desforges, J.-P. 2020. Lifecycle bioenergetics of the gray seal (Halichoerus grypus) in the Baltic Sea: population response to environmental stress. Environment International 145: 106145. DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2020.106145.
Silva, W.T.A.F.; Bottagisio, E.; Härkönen, T.; Galatius, A.; Olsen, M.T.; Harding, K.C. 2020. Risk for overexploiting a seemingly stable seal population: influence of multiple stressors and hunting. Ecosphere 12 (1): 1-17. DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.3343.
Silva, W.T.A.F. 2020. Per capita death and infection rates should be avoided in international comparisons. Public Health 186: 18-19. DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2020.06.038.
Silva, W.T.A.F.; Sáez-Espinosa, P.; Torijo-Boix, S.; Romero, A.; Devaux, C.; Durieux, M.; Gómez-Torres, M.J.; Immler, M. 2018. The effects of male social environment on sperm phenotype and genome integrity. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 32 (6): 535-544. DOI: 10.1111/jeb.13435.
Silva, W.T.A.F. 2018. Non-genetic processes in development and heredity. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology 1718. 44 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-513-0435-9.
Silva, W.T.A.F. 2018. Methylation dynamics during the maternal-to-zygotic genome transition in dioecious species. PLoS ONE 13 (7): e0200028. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0200028.
Enault, S.; Muñoz, D.N.; Silva, W.T.A.F.; Borday-Birraux, V.; Bonade, M.; Oulion, S.; Ventéo, S.; Marcellini, S.; Debiais-Thibaud, M. 2015. Molecular footprinting of skeletal tissues in the catshark Scyliorhinus canicula and the clawed frog Xenopus tropicalis identifies conserved and derived features of vertebrate calcification. Frontiers in Genetics 6: 283. DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2015.00283.
Silva, W.T.A.F.; Calado, T. C. S. 2014. Burrow architectural types of the Atlantic ghost crab, Ocypode quadrata (Fabricius, 1787) (Brachyura: Ocypodidae), in Brazil. BioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/006098.
Silva, W.T.A.F.; Calado, T.C.S. 2013. Number of ghost crab burrows does not correspond to population size. Central European Journal of Biology 8 (9): 843-847. DOI: 10.2478/s11535-013-0208-7.
Silva, W.T.A.F.; Calado, T.C.S. 2011. Spatial distribution of and anthropogenic impacts on ghost crab Ocypode quadrata (Crustacea, Ocypodidae) burrows in Maceió, Brazil. Revista Nordestina de Zoologia 5 (1): 1-9.
Complementary education
2016: Workshop on Genomics (Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic).
2014: OIST Winter Course on the Evolution of Complex Systems (Okinawa, Japan).
2014: SciLifeLab - An introduction to bioinformatics using NGS data (Umeå, Sweden).
2014: An Introduction to Geometric Morphometrics using R (Tromsø, Norway).
2014: 3rd Southern-Summer School on Mathematical Biology (São Paulo, Brazil).
2013: Summer School in Evolutionary Developmental Biology (Venice, Italy).
2013: 2nd Southern-Summer School on Mathematical Biology (São Paulo, Brazil).
2009: 1st Latin American School of Evolution (Montevideo, Uruguay).
Teaching
2021: Terrestrial Ecology (teaching assistant at Lund University, Sweden).
2018: Ecology (teaching assistant at Uppsala University, Sweden).
2017: Biology A: Patterns, Processes and Science Education - Genetics (teaching assistant at Uppsala University, Sweden).
2017: Ecology (teaching assistant at Uppsala University, Sweden).
2016: Biology A: Patterns, Processes and Science Education - Genetics (teaching assistant at Uppsala University, Sweden).
2016: Ecology (teaching assistant at Uppsala University, Sweden).
2016: MEME Summer School 2016 (teaching assistant at Uppsala University, Sweden).
2016: Population Genomics (teaching assistant at Uppsala University, Sweden).
2015: Ecology (teaching assistant at Uppsala University, Sweden).
2009: Biology of Vertebrates (teaching assistant at Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil).
Funding
2020: The Royal Physiographic Society of Lund (The Nilsson-Ehle Endowments): 80k SEK.
2016: Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien (The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences): 30k SEK.
2015: Tullberg for Biological Research (Sweden): 15k SEK.
2015: Sven and Lilly Lawski Fund for Scientific Research (Sweden): 150k SEK.
2014: Sven and Lilly Lawski Fund for Scientific Research (Sweden): 150k SEK.
2014: OIST travel grant (Japan).
2014: Travel grant from the Graduate School on Genomes and Phenotypes (Sweden).
2014: ForBio Fellowship (Norway).
2014: ICTP-SAIFR Fellowship (Brazil).
2013: CDB-RIKEN Travel Fellowship (Japan).
Ad hoc reviews for scientific journals
2023: PLoS ONE (eISSN 1932-6203).
2021: Functional Ecology (eISSN 1365-2435).
2021: PLoS ONE (eISSN 1932-6203).
2011: Revista de Biología Tropical/International Journal of Tropical Biology and Conservation (ISSN: 2215-2075).