Dr João Aguiar Macedo Teixeira
ARC Research Associate
School of Biological Sciences
Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology
Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.
I am a population geneticist focusing on the evolution of humans and closely related species. I work across a wide range of topics at the forefront of modern human evolutionary genetics, including demographic inference, comparative genomics and natural selection.
Currently, my main research focus revolves around human evolution during the Pleistocene, in particular the admixture events between so-called modern and archaic humans after the out-of-Africa and before human colonisation of Sahul.
I am expert on uncovering signatures of natural selection in the genome, in particular balancing selection, and continue to study how advantageous genetic diversity can be maintained for millions of years in natural populations.
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Language Competencies
Language Competency English Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review French Can read, speak and understand spoken Portuguese Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review Spanish; Castilian Can read, write, speak and understand spoken -
Education
Date Institution name Country Title 2012 - 2016 Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Germany PhD in Evolutionary Genetics University of Porto Portugal MSc Forensic and Population Genetics -
Research Interests
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Journals
Year Citation 2023 Taufik, L., Teixeira, J. C., Llamas, B., Sudoyo, H., Tobler, R., & Purnomo, G. A. (2023). Human Genetic Research in Wallacea and Sahul: Recent Findings and Future Prospects. Genes, 13(12), 1-11.
2022 Collen, E. J., Johar, A. S., Teixeira, J. C., & Llamas, B. (2022). The immunogenetic impact of European colonization in the Americas. Frontiers in Genetics, 13, 918227-1-918227-12.
2022 Roca-Rada, X., Tereso, S., Rohrlach, A. B., Brito, A., Williams, M. P., Umbelino, C., . . . Teixeira, J. C. (2022). A 1000-year-old case of Klinefelter's syndrome diagnosed by integrating morphology, osteology, and genetics.. Lancet (London, England), 400(10353), 691-692.
2022 Souilmi, Y., Tobler, R., Johar, A., Williams, M., Grey, S. T., Schmidt, J., . . . Huber, C. D. (2022). Admixture has obscured signals of historical hard sweeps in humans. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 6(12), 2003-2015.
Scopus2 WoS2 Europe PMC12021 Teixeira, J. C., & Huber, C. D. (2021). The inflated significance of neutral genetic diversity in conservation genetics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(10), e2015096118.
Scopus116 WoS112 Europe PMC602021 Aguiar Macedo Teixeira, J. C., Jacobs, G. S., Stringer, C., Tuke, S., Hudjashov, G., Purnomo, G. 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.
Scopus21 WoS17 Europe PMC122021 Roca-Rada, X., Politis, G., Messineo, P. G., Scheifler, N., Scabuzzo, C., Gonzalez, M., . . . Fehren-Schmitz, L. (2021). Ancient mitochondrial genomes from the Argentinian Pampas inform the early peopling of the Southern Cone of South America. iScience, 24(6), 1-18.
Scopus7 WoS6 Europe PMC12021 Purnomo, G. A., Mitchell, K. J., O'Connor, S., Kealy, S., Taufik, L., Schiller, S., . . . Tobler, R. (2021). Mitogenomes reveal two major influxes of Papuan ancestry across Wallacea following the last glacial maximum and Austronesian contact. Genes, 12(7), 1-21.
Scopus10 WoS10 Europe PMC52021 Teixeira, J. C., & Huber, C. D. (2021). Authors’ Reply to Letter to the Editor: Neutral genetic diversity as a useful tool for conservation biology. Conservation Genetics, 22(4), 547-549.
Scopus12020 Williams, M., & Teixeira, J. (2020). A genetic perspective on human origins. Biochemist, 42(1), 6-10.
Scopus12020 O'Neill, M. B., Laval, G., Aguiar Macedo Teixeira, J., Palmenberg, A. C., & Pepperell, C. S. (2020). Genetic susceptibility to severe childhood asthma and rhinovirus-C maintained by balancing selection in humans for 150 000 years. Human molecular genetics, 29(5), 736-744.
Scopus5 WoS4 Europe PMC32020 Barquera, R., Collen, E., Di, D., Buhler, S., Aguiar Macedo Teixeira, J., Llamas, B., . . . Sanchez-Mazas, A. (2020). Binding affinities of 438 HLA proteins to complete proteomes of seven pandemic viruses and distributions of strongest and weakest HLA peptide binders in populations worldwide. HLA, 96(3), 277-298.
Scopus57 WoS52 Europe PMC502020 Souilmi, Y., Tobler, R., Johar, A., Williams, M., Grey, S., Schmidt, J., . . . Cooper, A. (2020). Ancient human genomes reveal a hidden history of strong selection in Eurasia.
2020 Roca-Rada, X., Souilmi, Y., Teixeira, J. C., & Llamas, B. (2020). Ancient DNA studies in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. Genes, 11(11), 1-19.
Scopus4 WoS4 Europe PMC12019 Teixeira, J., & Cooper, A. (2019). A ‘Denisovan’ genetic history of recent human evolution.
2019 Teixeira, J. C., & Cooper, A. (2019). Using hominin introgression to trace modern human dispersals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(31), 15327-15332.
Scopus15 WoS14 Europe PMC62018 Bitarello, B. D., de Filippo, C., Teixeira, J. C., Schmidt, J. M., Kleinert, P., Meyer, D., & Andrés, A. M. (2018). Signatures of Long-Term Balancing Selection in Human Genomes. Genome Biology and Evolution, 10(3), 939-955.
Scopus56 WoS56 Europe PMC402015 Nogueiro, I., Teixeira, J., Amorim, A., Gusmão, L., & Alvarez, L. (2015). Reply to letter from Felice L. Bedford and Doron Yacobi. European Journal of Human Genetics, 23(8), 994-995.
2015 Nogueiro, I., Teixeira, J. C., Amorim, A., Gusmão, L., & Alvarez, L. (2015). Portuguese crypto-Jews: the genetic heritage of a complex history. Frontiers in Genetics, 6(FEB), 1-12.
Scopus7 WoS8 Europe PMC32015 Teixeira, J. C., de Filippo, C., Weihmann, A., Meneu, J. R., Racimo, F., Dannemann, M., . . . Andrés, A. M. (2015). Long-Term Balancing Selection in LAD1 Maintains a Missense Trans-Species Polymorphism in Humans, Chimpanzees, and Bonobos. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 32(5), 1186-1196.
Scopus48 WoS49 Europe PMC322015 Nogueiro, I., Teixeira, J., Amorim, A., Gusmão, L., & Alvarez, L. (2015). Echoes from Sepharad: signatures on the maternal gene pool of crypto-Jewish descendants. European Journal of Human Genetics, 23(5), 693-699.
Scopus10 WoS12 Europe PMC52014 Key, F. M., Teixeira, J. C., de Filippo, C., & Andrés, A. M. (2014). Advantageous diversity maintained by balancing selection in humans. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development, 29, 45-51.
Scopus66 WoS68 Europe PMC462011 Teixeira, J. C., Nogueiro, I., Goios, A., Gusmão, L., Amorim, A., & Alvarez, L. (2011). Mitochondrial DNA-control region sequence variation in the NE Portuguese Jewish community. Forensic Science International: Genetics Supplement Series, 3(1), e51-e52.
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Conference Papers
Year Citation 2016 Andres, A. M., Dannemann, M., Teixeira, J., & Kelso, J. (2016). Balancing selection and adaptive introgression as sources of advantageous genetic diversity in populations. In AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY Vol. 159 (pp. 80-81). Atlanta, GA: WILEY-BLACKWELL. -
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Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name 2020 - 2022 Co-Supervisor Post-contact evolutionary immunogenetics in Indigenous peoples of America Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Evelyn Jane Collen 2019 - 2022 Co-Supervisor Human demographic insights from paleogenetic studies of American and Iberian skeletal remains Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Xavier Roca Rada 2018 - 2022 Co-Supervisor Reconstructing the Population History of Wallacea and Sahul Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Gludhug Ariyo Purnomo
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