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Lab Members

Come Join us!

Opportunities are open for students and postdocs enthusiastic about biological evolution, including bachelors projects (Iniciação Científica), master's, PhD and post doc for various starting dates. If you're interested, write an email to fhenning @ acd . ufrj . br (remove spaces). Make sure to state what interests you and tell me something about your background

Principal investigator

Undergrad student

Fernanda Hirahara

Undergrad student

José Oliveira 

Master's student investigating gene expression differences related to hypertrophied lips in Crenicichla cichlids

PhD candidate investigating trophic niche specialization in Crenicichla for her pre-project.

PhD student at the CONICET program in Argentina looking at the genetic basis of hypertrophied lips and genome evolution in Crenicichla

Post-doc. Population genomics and sexual selection in Atolopus manauensis frogs

Rafael Jorge

Former Members

M.Sc. 2023-2025 - Evolution of vision and retinal gene expression in Crenicichla

Ananda D'Elia

Graciane Rocha

MSc. Molecular identification of crab cake components (i.e. "casquinhas de siri") through amplicon-seq

PhD, 2020-2024. Camila's project involved building a draft reference and investigating sex determination in Neotropical cichlids

Camila Nacif

Letícia Soares

MSc, 2021-2023. Leticia investigated the genetic basis of a color polymorphism in oysters

MSc, 2022-2023. Natália developed a paedagogical game focusing on the evolution of human pigmentation for the national graduate program for biology teachers (PROFBIO).

Natália Costa

MSc, 2019-2021.Marcela investigated fraudulent commercialization of elasmobranchs using DNA barcoding

Marcela Alvarenga

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