Profile

M. Alice Pinto is a Full Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (IPB) and a researcher at the Mountain Research Centre (CIMO), Portugal. She earned a doctoral degree in entomology from Texas A&M University, US. She developed a keen interest in honey bees during her PhD research, while studying a fascinating feral population living in oak tree cavities. For her PhD dissertation, she examined the genetic changes in this population undergoing Africanization. Currently, her main research interests involve uncovering the processes that shape extant genetic diversity patterns in honey bee populations, with a particular focus on understanding the basis of local adaptation.