Amir Yassin
Institut Diversité, Ecologie et Evolution du Vivant (IDEEV), Gif-sur-Yvette
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Dr. Amir Yassin received his Ph.D. from the University of Paris-South XI, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette (France) in 2007. His research aims at identifying the genomic basis of adaptive traits. It focuses on the systematics and evolution of flies in the family Drosophilidae. Drosophila melanogaster is undoubtedly a genetics star, but our understanding of the morphological and ecological diversity of non-melanogaster drosophilids remains nebulous. He attempts to establish a comprehensive phylogenetic classification of the family based on molecular and morphological data. Dr. Yassin also combines population and functional genomics approaches to unravel the basis of two traits: first, an apparent case of sexual color mimicry, which has independently evolved in more than 20 species, and second, a recurrent specialization on a toxic fruit in an island population of a generalist species.
Ana Lauer Garcia
Federal University of Pernambuco
Dr. Garcia had her Master's and Doctorate in Genetics and Molecular Biology (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul) under the guidance of Prof. Vera Valente. She is currently an Associate Professor at the Vitória Academic Center of the Federal University of Pernambuco, where she works on conservation biology using drosophilids (Insecta, Diptera) and small vertebrates.
Augusto Rampasso
Cornell University
M.Sc. Augusto Rampasso received his Master's degree in Genetics from the University of São Paulo under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Carlos Vilela. He is currently a Ph.D. student in the Entomology program at Cornell University (USA) under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Patrick O'Grady. His research interests are speciation, ecology, taxonomy and phylogenetics, with Hawaiian drosophilids being an excellent model for his studies.
Bernard Kim
Stanford University/Princeton University
Dr. Bernard Kim, during his Ph.D. with Kirk Lohmueller at the University of California LA, studied the distribution of fitness effects in humans and showed how the segregation of deleterious variation plays an important role in shaping introgression patterns between hybridized species. Currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Petrov Lab (Stanford University), Bernard is very interested in understanding how population genetic processes shape genetic diversity on the macroevolutionary time scale. From large-scale polymorphism data from many Drosophila species, he hopes to understand how the landscape of adaptation and constraint changes on this time scale, and what the importance of gene flow is in shaping these processes. Dr. Kim will join the faculty in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University in January 2025.
Claudia Carareto
São Paulo State University
Dr. Claudia Carareto has a Master's degree and a doctorate in Genetics from São Paulo State University. She did postdoctoral research at the University of Arizona (United States of America), in the area of Genetics and Evolution of Transposable Elements, and at the University of Lyon (France) with the theme Effects of Transposable Elements on the Evolution of Insecticide Resistance. She is currently a Full Professor of Evolution at São Paulo State University and a 1C researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development. In various organisms, she investigates the phylogenetic relationships of mobile genetic elements, the transposition elements, the horizontal genetic transfer of these sequences and their effects on the structure and functioning of genomes, as well as the impact of interspecific hybridization on the genomic dynamics of these elements and their effects on speciation.
Elgion Lucio da Silva Loreto
Universidade Federal de Santa Maria
Dr. Loreto developed his Master's and Doctorate in Genetics and Molecular Biology at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, under the guidance of Prof. Vera Lucia Da Silva Valente Gaiesky. He is currently a Full Professor at the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. He carries out his research using Drosophila species, including those from the flavophila group, focusing on transposable elements, horizontal genetic transfer, phenotypic/genomic and hologenomic plasticity.
Gustavo Kuhn
Federal University of Minas Gerais
Dr. Kuhn began his work on Drosophila evolution as an undergraduate student in 1992 (University of São Paulo) and, since 2011, has been leader of the "Repetitive DNAs and genome evolution" group at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, using mainly Drosophila species as models. His research aims to contribute to a better understanding of various aspects of repetitive DNAs, such as origin, structure, organization, variation, molecular evolution, genomic dispersion, function and impacts on the evolutionary process.
Helena Araujo
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Dr. Helena Araujo holds a Master's degree in Biochemistry from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and Doctorate in Biophysics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She had postdoctoral experience at the University of California at San Diego and a senior internship at Princeton University (United States of America). She is a Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, where she coordinates the Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Development. She studies regulatory networks that control spatial patterns of gene expression during insect development. She also coordinates biotechnological projects on Genomic Editing to control insect vectors of human diseases. She is a group leader at the Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia em Entomologia Molecular (INCT-ENEM).
Julian Mensch
University of Buenos Aires
Dr. Julián Mensch is an Independent Researcher at the He received his B.Sc. in Biological Sciences and his Ph.D. in Biology at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is member of the European Drosophila Population Genomics Consortium, and his research focuses on how the ectotherms deal with seasonality in terms of growth, survival and reproduction. To do so, he applies various approaches ranging from ecophysiology to evolutionary and molecular biology with aims of reaching an integrated understanding of climatic adaptations at different organization levels.
Karla Yotoko
Universidade Federal de Viçosa
Dr. Yotoko completed her Doctorate in Genetics and Molecular Biology, under the guidance of Prof. Vera Nisaka Solferini (State University of Campinas). She currently holds the position of Associate Professor at the Universidade Federal de Viçosa, where she studies the Wolbachia-Neotropical Drosophilid interaction using controlled crossings, geometric morphometrics, genetic and behavioral studies as approaches.
Louis Bernard Klaczko
State University of Campinas
Dr. Klaczko returned to the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in 1984 after completing his doctorate at Yale University and in 1992 went to Unicamp. From the beginning of his work, with his students, he aimed to transform Drosophila mediopunctata into a model organism for studies of evolution. Thus, they used it for an experimental demonstration of Fisher’s principle; create the ellipse method for the description of the wing; show that curved patterns of reaction norms should not be ignored; study correlations between wing and edeagus measurements; and, sequence the genome of the species, as well as conduct cyto and phylogenetic studies in species of the tripunctata group. In addition to D. mediopunctata, in collaboration with Brazilian and foreign colleagues, they worked with other species of Drosophila and other genera of Diptera, such as: D. suzukii, D. melanogaster; Zaprionus; Cochliomya; and Lutzomyia. Finally, they analyzed the interactions between the endosymbiotic bacterium Spiroplasma poulsonii and D. melanogaster; and also between yeast species and Drosophila species.
Lizandra Robe
Universidade Federal de Santa Maria
Dr. Lizandra Robe did her Master's and Doctorate in Genetics and Molecular Biology at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Vera Lucia Da Silva Valente Gaiesky. She is currently an Associate Professor at the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria. Her research focuses on understanding micro- and macro-evolutionary patterns associated with the diversification of different components of the Neotropical fauna.
Marcos Túlio de Oliveira
São Paulo State University
Dr. Marcos Túlio de Oliveira has a Master's degree in Genetics and Molecular Biology from the State University of Campinas and a doctorate in Genetics from Michigan State University, (United States of America). He was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Tampere, Finland. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Biotechnology Department of the Faculty of Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences of Jaboticabal, Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho". He is interested in several topics of Mitochondrial Biology, mainly: the structure and maintenance mechanisms of mitochondrial genomes; the use of alternative enzymes to understand the functioning of the mitochondrial respiratory chain.
Maria D. Vibranovski
University of São Paulo
Dr. Maria D. Vibranovski received her Doctorate from the University of São Paulo in 2005. She won the prestigious Pew Latin American Fellows award for following her scientific training in a postdoctoral research in the University of Chicago from 2006 to 2012. She joined the faculty of the New College for Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University in from 2021 to 2022 as associate professor. She is currently assistant professor at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. During her career, Dr. Vibranovski developed the first technique for dissecting male germ cells and generated the first large-scale gene expression database for different stages of Drosophila spermatogenesis. Combining cutting-edge technologies for gene expression, bioinformatics and cytogenetics, Dr. Vibranovski boosted her research field, founding the haploid selection hypothesis for the evolution of new genes and deciphering the male meiotic X chromosome inactivation in Drosophila.
Marina Prigol
Federal University of Pampa
Dr. Marina Prigol holds a Master's and in Toxicological Biochemistry from the Federal University of Santa Maria, with part of her Doctorate developed at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Lisbon (Portugal). She is currently an Associate Professor at the Federal University of Pampa, where she coordinates the Laboratory for Pharmacological and Toxicological Evaluations Applied to Bioactive Molecules. Her line of research focuses mainly on pharmacological and/or toxicological studies of bioactive molecules, working mainly on the search for compounds with therapeutic potential for biological alterations related to oxidative stress. In addition to using D. melanogaster as a model to evaluate the effects of microplastic particles at different stages of life: toxicological, neurodevelopmental and reproductive implications.
Marlúcia Bonifácio Martins
Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
Dr. Marlúcia Martins holds a Doctorate in Ecology from the State University of Campinas (1996) and a postdoctoral in Ecology and Evolution from Leeds University - UK (1999). She was a Visiting Professor at the Université Marie Curie-Paris VI (2008), Research and Postgraduate Coordinator at the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (2014 - 2015), Substitute Director of the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (2014). Member of the board of REBIO GURUPI (2014 - 2017, 2023 -). Representative of the Emilio Goeldi Museum in the alliance for the restoration of the Amazon (2017 - 2021) Stalkholder IPBES since 2018. She has been a full researcher at the Emílio Goeldi Museum of Pará and a professor in the Biodiversity and Evolution Program - PPGBE since 2017, and works in the areas of Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation Biology.
Rodrigo Cogni
University of São Paulo
Dr. Cogni received his B.Sc. degree in Biology in 2001 and his M.Sc. in Ecology in 2003, both from the State University of Campinas, in Brazil. He obtained his Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolution from Stony Brook University in the USA in 2010. He worked as a postdoctoral associate in Evolutionary Genetics at Stony Brook University from 2010 to 2012, and at Cambridge University in the UK from 2012 to 2014. In 2014, he returned to Brazil to join the faculty of the Ecology department at Universidade de São Paulo. He is interested in natural selection and the evolution of adaptations. He combines genomic techniques, variation in natural populations, and experimentation to study fundamental questions in this research area. The main goal of his research program is to study the ecological pressures in the wild that influence the patterns of variation at the genomic level and result in the evolution of adaptations. He is interested in adaptations to abiotic environmental factors as well as ecological interactions.
Rodrigo Nunes da Fonseca
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Dr. Rodrigo Nunes da Fonseca holds a Master's degree in Biochemistry from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and a PhD in Genetics and Functional Genomics from the University of Cologne (Germany), with postdoctoral experience in evolutionary biology from the same university. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Institute of Biodiversity and Sustainability at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He has a CNPq Level 2 productivity grant. He is one of the enthusiasts of the Evo-Devo area of invertebrates in Brazil.
Rosana Tidon
University of Brasilia
Dr. Tidon completed a Master's degree in Entomology and a Doctorate in Genetics (University of São Paulo) under the guidance of Prof. Fábio de Melo Sene. She served as a Visiting Researcher at Harvard University (United States) and as a Visiting Professor at the University of Göttingen (Germany). She is a Full Professor at the Institute of Biological Sciences at the University of Brasília, where she coordinates the Evolutionary Biology Laboratory, with research in the area of Evolutionary Ecology with a focus on drosophilids and Biological Invasions.
Timothy Karr
Arizona State University
Timothy Karr received his Ph.D. in Chemistry with Daniel L. Purich in 1981 at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Karr was a Jane Coffin Child Postdoctoral Fellow with Bruce Alberts (1981-84) and a American Cancer Society Fellow (1984-87) with Thomas Kornberg in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, UC San Francisco where he began his work on fertilization and early Drosophila embryogenesis. Subsequently at the University of Illinios, Urbana and The University of Chicago (1987-2002), Dr. Karr continued studies of fertilization and and sperm biology in Drosophila. In 2002 Dr. Karr received a prestigious Wolfson-Royal Society Merit Award and moved to the University of Bath, United Kingdom, as a Reader in Biology. In 2006 and 2010, Dr. Karr published the first functional genomic and evolutionary analyses of the Drosophila and mouse sperm proteomes. In 2008 he moved to the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University where he continues to elucidate the functional genomics and biochemistry of the mammalian sperm proteomes.
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