The Lab: MP3

Our lab – MP3 – is a jointed lab including four research groups headed by Glauco Machado, Paulo Ínacio de K. L. de Prado, Pérsio de Souza Santos Filho and I (Paulo R Guimarães Jr.).  Our lab activities involves regular seminars in which we all (students, postdocs and faculty) discuss our ongoing research, talks and meetings with visiting scholars, a journal club in which we informally discuss significant papers in ecology and evolution that recently came out, and research focusing on multiple levels of ecological organization, from behavior of individuals to the structure of ecological communities.  In this sense, my research group is exploring different aspects of the ecology and evolution of ecological networks.

Regular Seminars and Meetings

12/12/2009 - Flavia Marquitti's practice for qualification exam

11/26/2009 - Glauco Machado's Research Program

11/12/2009 - Paulo I. K. Prado's Research Program

11/05/2009 - Paulo Guimarães's Research Program

09/16/2009 - Inauguration

Seminars by visiting scholars

Marcus A. M. de Aguiar hosted by Paulo R. Guimaraes Jr. (01/27/2010)
Departamento de Fisica da Materia Condensada, IFGW, Unicamp, Brazil.

Marcus will talk about his recent Nature's paper. The talk is entitled: Uma teoria neutra de especiaçãoo e biodiversidade.

Rodrigo Cogni hosted by Paulo R. Guimaraes Jr. (12/14/2009)
Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, U.S.A.

In addition to the talk entitled Coevolução em uma interação inseto-planta: variação geográfica, adaptação local e custos de uma contra-adaptação, Rodrigo chat and met several students and faculty from our lab.

Journal Club

12/19/2009 - Beaumont,H. J. E., J. Gallie, C. Kost, G. C. Ferguson, P. B. Rainey. 2009. Experimental evolution of bet hedging. Nature: 462: 90 - 93.

12/05/2009 - Harmon, L. J., B. Matthews, S. Des Roches, J. M. Chase, J. B. Shurin, D. Schluter. 2009. Evolutionary diversification in stickleback affects ecosystem functioning. Nature: 458: 1167 - 1170.

Students at São Paulo

Flávia Maria Darcie Marquitti

Flávia is in our group since 2007. She did her undergrad course in Biological Sciences at Unicamp, Brazil (2003-2007). She worked as lab technician at Marco Mello's lab at UFSCar (2007 - 2008, co-supervisor: Paulo R. Guimaraes Jr.). Currently, she is a MSc. student at Ecology Graduate Program at Unicamp (2008 -  ; co-supervisior: Marco A. M. de Mello). She is also attending a second undergrad course (Applied Math) at Unicamp, Brazil (2007 -  ).

Publications:

Mello, M.A.R. ; F. M. D. Marquitti, P. R. Guimaraes, P. Jordano, E. K. V. Kalko. 2008. Small differences may lead to big consequences: bat and bird seed dispersal networks (Abstract, Luis F Barcardi Award 2008). Biotropica 40:777-777.

Helen Carlimbanchi

Helen is in our group since 2009. Currently, she is attending an undergrad course in Earth Sciences  & Environmental Education at USP, Brazil (2006 -  ). She is now starting as research assistant at our lab.

Mariana Morais Vidal, MSc.

Mariana is in our group since 2009. She did her undergrad course in Biological Sciences at USP, Brazil (1999-2002) and her Master dissertation at Ecology Graduate Program at the same university (2004 - 2007; supervisor: Vania Regina Pivello). She teaches to undergrad Biological Sciences at Uninove since 2008. She will apply to Ecology Graduate Program at USP (PhD) in 2010.

Publications:

Vidal, M. M., V. R. Pivello, S. T. Meirelles, J. P. Metzger. 2007. Produção de serapilheira em floresta Atlântica secundária numa paisagem fragmentada (Ibiúna, SP): importância da borda e tamanho dos fragmentos. Revista Brasileira de Botânica 30:521-532.


Pivello, V. R., D. Petenon, F. M. Jesus, S. T. Meirelles, M. M. Vidal, R. A. S. Alonso, G. C. Franco, J. P. Metzger. 2006. Chuva de sementes em fragmentos de Floresta Atlântica (São Paulo, SP, Brasil), sob diferentes situações de conectividade, estrutura florestal e proximidade da borda. Acta Botanica Brasilica 20: 845-859.

Mathias Mistretta Pires

Mathias is in our group since 2009. He did his undergrad course in Biological Sciences (2004-2007) at Unicamp, Brazil. He is now finishing up his Master dissertation at Ecology Graduate Program at USP (2008 - 2010; supervisor: Sérgio Furtado dos Reis, co-supervisor: Paulo R. Guimaraes Jr.). He will start his PhD at the Ecology Graduate Program at USP in 2010.

Publications:

Pires, M. M., E.G. Martins, M. N. F. Silva, S. F. dos Reis. 2010. Gracilinanus microtarsus. Mammalian Species. In press.

Paula Lemos (co-supervised)

Paula is in our group since 2010. She just finished up (2009) the undergrad course in Biological Sciences (USP). She is now starting as research assistant at our lab under supervision of Marcio S. Araujo from Florida International University, USA.

Rafael L. Galdini Raimundo, MSc.

Rafael is in our group since 2010. He did his undergrad course in Biological Sciences at Unicamp, Brazil (1997-2000) and his Master dissertation at Ecology Graduate Program at the same university (2008 - 2009; supervisor: Thomas Michael Lewinsohn). He will apply to Ecology Graduate Program at USP (PhD) at the end of 2010.

Selected Publications:

Raimundo, R.L.G., A.V.L. Freitas, P. S. Oliveira. 2009. Seasonal Patterns in Activity Rhythm and Foraging Ecology in the Neotropical Forest-Dwelling Ant, Odontomachus chelifer (Formicidae: Ponerinae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 102: 1151-1157.

Raimundo, R.L.G., R. L. Fonseca, R. Schachetti, A. T. Peterson, T. M. Lewinsohn. 2007. Native and exotic distribution of Chromolaena odorata (the Siam weed) modelled using the Genetic Algorithm for Rule Set Production. Weed Science 55: 41-48.

Raimundo, R. L. G., P. R. Guimaraes, M. Almeida-neto, M. A. Pizo. 2004. The influence of fruit morphology and habitat structure on ant-seed interactions: a study with artificial fruits. Sociobiology . 41: 261-270.

Raimundo, R. L. G., A. V. L. Freitas, R. N. S. Costa, J. B. F. de Oliveira, A. B. de Melo, A. F. de Lima, K. S. Brown. 2003. Manual de Monitoramento Ambiental usando Borboletas e Lib�lulas - Reserva Extrativista do Alto Juru�.

Machado, G., R. L. G. Raimundo. 2001. Parental investment and the evolution of subsocial behaviour in harvestmen (Arachnida Opiliones). Ethology Ecology & Evolution13: 133-150.

Students at Large

Jean Philippe Gibert

Jean did his undergrad course in Biological Sciences at Universidad de la República, Uruguay (2005-2009). Currently, he is a MSc. student in Ecology at the same university (2009 -  ; co-supervisior: Richard Farina). He is also attending a second undergrad course (Math) at the same university (2008 -  ).

Julieta Genini, MSc. (co-supervised)

Juli did her undergrad course in Biology (1995-2000) at Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina. She did her Master in Plant Biology at Unesp - Rio Claro, Brazil (2004 - 2006; supervisor: Mauro Galetti). Currently, she is doing her PhD in Botany at Unesp - Rio Claro (2008 - ; supervisor: Patricia Morellato).

Publications:

Genini, J., L. P. C. Morellato, P. R. Guimaraes, J. M. Olesen. 2010. Cheaters in mutualism networks. Biology Letters. In press.

Genini, J., S. R. Bovendorp, M. Galetti. 2005. La Mata Atlântica brasilera , un paraíso ecológico?. El Indiferente, Islas Canarias 48 - 51.

Justin Yeakel (in the commitee)

Justin finished his undergrad course in Biological Anthropology at Kent State University, U.S.A. in 2004. Currently, his doing his PhD (2006 - ; committee: Nate Dominy, Paul Koch (supervisors), Jim Estes and Paulo R. Guimaraes Jr.) at Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UC - Santa Cruz, California.
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Publications:

Yeakel J. D., B. D. Patterson, K. Fox-Dobbs, M. M. Okumura, T. E. Cerling, J. W. Moore, P. L. Koch, N. J. Dominy. 2009. Cooperation and individuality among man-eating lions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106: 19040-19043.

Dominy N. J., E. R. Vogel, J. D. Yeakel, P. Constantino, P. W. Lucas. 2008. Mechanical properties of plant underground storage organs and implications for dietary models of early hominins. Evolutionary Biology 35: 159-175.

Yeakel J. D., N. C. Bennett, P. L. Koch, N. J. Dominy. 2007. The isotopic ecology of African mole-rats informs hypotheses on the evolution of human diet. Proceeding of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 274: 1723-1730.

Maurício Cantor (co-supervised)

Maurício did his undergrad course in Biological Sciences at Unicamp, Brazil (2002 - 2008). He is a MSc. student at Ecology Graduate Program at UFSC (supervisor: Paulo César de Azevedo Simões Lopes).

Cantor, M., S. Siqueira, G. T. Cruvinel, F. P. P. Leite. 2009. Occurrence of the amphipod Leucothoe spinicarpa Abildgaard, 1789 (Crustacea, Amphipoda) in the ascidian Phallusia nigra (Urochordata, Ascidiacea) in southeastern Brazil. Nauplius 17: 13-17.

Pizzatto, L., M. Cantor, J. L. Oliveira, O. A. V. Marques, V. Capovilla, M. Martins. 2008. Reproductive ecology of dipsadine snakes, with emphasis on South American species. Herpetologica 64: 168-179.

Cantor, M., L. Pizzatto. 2008. Leptodeira annulata diet. Herpetological Review 39: 470-471.

Former Students

Maria Clara Oleski Amatuzzi, MSc. (co-supervised)

Maria Clara finished her undergrad course in Biological Sciences at Unicamp, Brazil in 2006. She finished her Master dissertation at Ecology Graduate Program at Unicamp (2009 -  ; supervisor: Wesley R. Silva ) in 2009.