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Paulo R. Guimarães Jr. (Miúdo)Currently, I am Associate Professor at the Departamento de Ecologia, IB - USP. I am interested in understand how species interactions mold and are molded by ecological and evolutionary processes. I explore this problem by combining empirical data on species interactions, mathematical models, and information on the natural history of studied systems.
Selected publications: Guimarães, P. R., M. M. Pires, P. Jordano, J. Bascompte, J. N. Thompson. 2017. Indirect effects drive coevolution in mutualistic networks. Nature 550: 511–514. Guimarães, P.R., P. Jordano, J. N. Thompson. 2011. Evolution and coevolution in mutualistic networks. Ecology Letters 14: 877-885 [PDF]. See also the article in Science highlighting this study: [Editors' Choice] Guimarães, P.R., V. Rico-Gray, P. S. Oliveira, T. J. Izzo, S. F. dos Reis, J.N. Thompson. 2007. Interaction intimacy affects structure and coevolutionary dynamics in mutualistic networks. Current Biology 17: 1797-1803. [PDF] [Supplemental Data] |
Ana Paula A. AssisI am a postdoc researcher at the Departamento de Ecologia at Universidade de Sao Paulo (Fellowship: FAPESP). I am an evolutionary biologist interested in the interplay between genetic (co)variation and natural selection in determining how species coevolve and adapt to environmental changes. To study this I use a combination of empirical data and theoretical models grounded in community ecology and quantitative genetics theory. In my postdoc at Guimarães lab I am studying how genetic correlations between traits influence the coevolutionary dynamics in antagonistic and mutualistic interactions. Additional information at my website.
Selected publications: Assis, A. P. A., D. M. Rossoni, J. L. Patton, G. Marroig. 2017. Evolutionary processes and its environmental correlates in the cranial morphology of western chipmunks (Tamias). Evolution 71: 595-609. Assis, A. P. A., J. L. Patton, A. Hubbe, G. Marroig. 2016. Directional selection effects on patterns of phenotypic (co)variation in wild populations. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 283:1-9. Assis, A. P. A., B. M. A. Costa, D. M. Rossoni, D. Melo, G. Marroig. 2016. Modularity and Integration. Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology, 1ed., vol:3,34-40. |
Daniela Coelho I am a PhD student in Ecology at Universidade de Sao Paulo. My research focuses on trophic interactions and in understand an evolution of defense strategies, especially aposematism, camouflage and mimicry. I will explore this problem by combining natural history data on species diets and network theory, as well as mathematical models. I enjoy fieldwork and the natural history.
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Pamela C. Santana I am a biologist fascinated in plant-pollinator interactions and a PhD candidate in the Ecology Program, at Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. I am interested in understanding how plant-pollinator interactions have contributed to phenotypic evolution and also to biodiversity patterns. To study this subject, I will use network theory, mathematical evolutionary models and empirical data.
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Lucas CamachoMy name is Lucas Camacho and i am a MSc student in Ecology at Universidade de São Paulo (Fellowship: CNPq). My main interest is in the interface between ecology and evolution, in how coevolution create, maintain and break ecological interactions and how these interactions affect the coevolutionary process. In my MSc, I will use mathematical models and empirical networks of interactions to investigate the role of the strength of mutualisms to different coevolutioanry dynamics.
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Julia Nader Acquaviva (Coral)I am a undergrad student in Biological Sciences at Universidade de São Paulo. I am interested in understandind the ecological and evolutionary consequences of ecological interactions. Currently I am studying commensalisms among extant megafauna and birds in South America
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Irina Birskis Barros I am working in Guimarães’ lab as a technician (fellowship:FAPESP) performing computational tasks and data compilation. Previously, I was Paulo’s MSc student investigating ecological and evolutionary processes that generate some müllerian memetism patterns. Specifically in my Msc (fellowship: CNPq), I used mathematical modelling and computer simulations to understand the effects of the interaction between habitat heterogeneity and species generalism in the generation of mimicry rings.
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AliceAlice joined the lab in 2012.
Alice is interested in toucans, flowers, hummingbirds, sacis, and wonder woman. She is now working on testing predictions of entropy-based theories, using her bedroom as studied system. |
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