I have a degree in Veterinary Medicine from ICBAS – Universidade do Porto since 2016. Between 2016-18, I worked as a designated veterinarian in IBIMED, and, due to a growing interest in laboratory animal welfare and research, joined LAS in 2018 as a research and training assistant, taking part in a project aimed at understanding laboratory mouse preweaning mortality. My work is focused specially in applying pathology techniques and behaviour analysis to gather data on preweaning mortality of wild-type laboratory mice.
Since Nov 2020, I joined the NVS team at Francis Crick Institute (London, UK) as a ECLAM (European College of Laboratory Animal Medicine) Resident while, at the same time, continuing to pursue my PhD degree in Veterinary Sciences (ICBAS-UP) in collaboration with LAS and under the supervision of Anna Olsson.
Selected Publications
From Mating to Milk Access: A Review of Reproductive Vocal Communication in Mice. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience16:, 2022. [Journal: Review] [CI: 4] [IF: 3]
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2022.833168 SCOPUS: 85128346137
Capas-Peneda S., Munhoz Morello G., Lamas S., S Olsson I.A., Gilbert C.
Necropsy protocol for newborn mice. Laboratory Animals55(4):358-362, 2021. [Journal: Article] [CI: 3] [IF: 2,9]
DOI: 10.1177/0023677220983374 SCOPUS: 85099303248
Brajon S., Morello G.M., Capas-Peneda S., Hultgren J., Gilbert C., Olsson A.
All the pups we cannot see: Cannibalism masks perinatal death in laboratory mouse breeding but infanticide is rare. Animals11(8):, 2021. [Journal: Article] [CI: 13] [IF: 3,2]
DOI: 10.3390/ani11082327 SCOPUS: 85112487153
Morello G.M., Hultgren J., Capas-Peneda S., Wiltshire M., Thomas A., Wardle-Jones H., Brajon S., Gilbert C., Anna I.
High laboratory mouse pre-weaning mortality associated with litter overlap, advanced dam age, small and large litters. PLoS ONE15(8 August):, 2020. [Journal: Article] [CI: 17] [IF: 3,2]
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0236290 SCOPUS: 85089407903