Instructors
Lisete Sousa
Affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa,, PT
Lisete Sousa is an Associate Professor in Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (FCUL) and coordinates the Centre of Statistics and Applications (CEAUL) since January 2017.
She obtained her PhD in Probability and Statistics (Lisbon University and Dortmund University - Germany) in 2004, and since then she has taught the course Statistical Methods in Bioinformatics in the University of Lisbon, among other statistical courses for BSc. and MSc. Her main research interests are the development of statistical methodologies for detecting differentially expressed genes, and the prediction of transmembrane proteins topology based on hidden Markov models but adopting a Bayesian perspective.
She coordinated the MSc in Biostatistics at FCUL, from 2009 to 2016, and collaborates with researchers from the Institute of Molecular Medicine (IMM-FMUL) and from the Center for Biodiversity, Functional and Integrative Genomics (BioFIG-FCUL) in the development of statistical methods for the analysis of Microarray and RNA-Seq data. She has been a GTPB instructor in the BFB course in 2010 and 2012, and the ABSTAT course in 2014 and 2017.
Carina Silva
Affiliation: Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, PT
Carina Silva graduated in Statistics and Operational Research and holds a MSc degree in Probability and Statistics from Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa.She obtained a PhD in Probability and Statistics in 2012. She is Adjunct Professor at Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde de Lisboa (ESTeSL - IPL) and she is the Diretor of the Natural and Exact Sciences Departament in ESTeSL. She teaches Applied Mathematics and Biostatistics there.
She is a member of the executive commission of CEAUL (Center of Statistics and Applications). She collaborates with the Genetics and Metabolism Investigation Group of ESTeSL and with the Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome Group of ISAMB (Instituto de Saú&de Ambiental, FMUL). She also participated in the Gulbenkian Partnerships Development Programme in Maputo-Mozambique in January 2015.
Her main research interests are Statistics in Health Sciences, ROC analysis, Molecular Genetics (Microarray Data Analysis) and Bayesian Statistics. She has been a GTPB instructor in the BFB course in 2010, 2011, 2012 and  and the ABSTAT course in 2015 and 2017.
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