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Rodrigo Antônio Castro-Souza (a.k.a. Pirilo), a PhD student from the Federal University of Mato Grosso (Cuiabá, Brazil) has joined the group for a three-month exchange, until June 2024, during the last year of his doctoral studies. Pirilo began his scientific career...
Mónica Gómez Vadillo has just started working with us, thanks to a 4-yr PhD grant from Spanish AEI, associated to project NICED. Mónica will be supervised by Joaquín Hortal and Emilio García Roselló from Vigo University. After more than two years of experience as a...
En una larga entrevista para el pódcast "Hablando con Científicos" repasamos el trabajo publicado recientemente sobre cómo la diversidad de coleópteros coprófagos mejora el funcionamiento de los escosistemas (Noriega et al. Nature Communications 2023). Además de...
Max Willian Tavares de Almeida had his viva yesterday, 20th December. After a nice 5-hour defence by teleconference, he obtained his PhD in Ecology and Evolution at the Universidade Federal de Goiás. Max's thesis describes the shortfalls in the knowledge on the...
Drylands occupy over 40% of the Earth’s land surface but there are many challenges to organisms colonizing these environments, such as aridity and extreme weather conditions. Despite these challenges, drylands support a high level of biodiversity that has developed...
Frederico Neves and Juliana Kuchenbecker, from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais at Belo Horizonte, have joined the group for a 6-month sabbatical, until May 2024. Juliana is interested on the spatiotemporal patterns of herbivorous insects. She works at the...