Faculty

Permanent Professors

Dra. Andrea Furtado Macedo
Plant biotechnology; proteomics; metabolomics; tissue culture; medicinal plant; bioprospecting; mass spectrometry; photomorphogenesis.

Dra. Christina Wyss Castelo Branco 
Limnology; coastal lagoons; hydroelectric reservoirs; taxonomy and ecology of lake plankton; diet of neotropical fish; biological indicators of anthropic impacts.

Dra. Claudia Alessandra Fortes Aiub 
Toxicological genetics; toxicology of natural and synthetic products; molecular genetics; mutagenesis.

Dr. Davor Vrcibradic 
Herpetology.

Dra. Eugenia Zandonà
Ecology of ecosystems and communities; ecology of aquatic environments; ecological stoichiometry; fish ecology; behavioral ecology.

Dr. Fabiano Salgueiro
Molecular evolution; conservation genetics; molecular systematics; phylogeography; gene flow; crossbreeding system of neotropical species.

Dr. Fabio Verissimo Correia
Environmental health; Ecotoxicology; soil management and conservation; pollution; natural resources.

Dr. Joel Campos de Paula 
Botany; taxonomy of marine macroalgae; marine natural products; benthic algae.

Dr. Leonardo dos Santos Avilla
Vertebrate zoology; systematic (taxonomy and evolution) and paleoecology of South American mammals.

Dr. Lazaro Luiz Mattos Laut
Ecology of foraminifera and tecamebas; biostratigraphy; paleontology; sedimentology; evolution of coastal environments.

Dr. Luciano Neves dos Santos 
Ecology of aquatic environments; management and conservation of fishery resources; artificial reefs; species-habitat interactions (natural and artificial); invasive species; predator-prey interactions; sampling methods; abiotic variables; biostatistics.

Dr. Marcos de Souza Lima Figueiredo 
Macroecology and ecology of communities; biological diversity measures (functional and phylogenetic diversity); spatial gradients of diversity; importance of regional factors in structuring local communities.

Dra. Maria Lucia Lorini 
Analysis and spatial modeling in biodiversity; distribution and habitat modeling; changes in land use; climate changes; remote sensing and geographic information systems; scale and complexity; conservation biology and biogeography; landscape ecology; biodiversity information systems; ecoinformatics; neotropical mastozoology.

Dra. Raquel de Almeida Ferrando Neves
Experimental aquatic ecology; applied ecotoxicology; evaluation of the effects of stressors on the behavior and physiology of aquatic organisms; evaluation of impacts on fish and shellfish; prospecting for biological alternatives for environmental remediation.

Dr. Ricardo Silva Cardoso 
Marine ecology; sandy beaches; population biology; macrofauna and marine invertebrates; marine biodiversity and its scales; conservation, urbanization and recreation of sandy beaches.

Dra. Silvia Mattos Nascimento 
Ecology, physiology and toxicology of microalgae; phytoplankton ecology; harmful microalgae; epiphytic and benthic dinoflagellates.

Dra. Tatiana Fabrício Maria 
Taxonomy and ecology of marine nematodes; ecology of sandy beaches.

Dr. Timothy Peter Moulton
Theoretical and applied ecology; stream ecology (trophic web, key species, exclusion experiment); functioning of the river ecosystem (carbon flow, metabolism); assessment of aquatic systems; aquatic conservation.

Dra. Valéria Laneuville Teixeira
Benthic marine algae; marine bioprospecting; natural products from benthic marine algae; assessment of biotechnological potential; taxonomic, ecological and evolutionary importance of marine macroalgae.

Dra. Valéria Magalhães Aguiar
Parasitology; biological control; forensic entomology; larval therapy.

Collaborator Professors

Dr. Allan Paulo Moreira dos Santos
Study of the diversity and distribution of trichoptera (Insecta); systematics of Hydroptilidae (Insecta: Trichoptera); morphological and molecular data.

Dra. Ana Maria Paulino Telles de Carvalho e Silva
Herpetology; tadpole development; reproductive biology; morphology and anatomy of adults and larvae; ecology and taxonomy of the Atlantic Forest amphibian.

Dra. Camila Maistro Patreze
Biotechnology and molecular biodiversity of plants and mycorrhizal fungi; floral development; gene expression.

Dr. Igor Christo Miyahira
Zoology; malacology; freshwater mollusks.

Dra. Natascha Krepsky
Marine microbiology; bioprospecting; bioremediation; biodegradation.

Dr. Rodrigo Hipólito Tardin Oliveira 
Influence of climatic, oceanographic and anthropogenic factors (including global climate change) on the spatial and behavioral ecology of cetaceans.

Visiting Professors

Emili García Berthou – Girona University (Spain)
Fish ecology; invasive species; statistical analysis.

Friedrich Reckagel - Adelaide University (Australia)
Development of mathematical models for ecological analysis.

Postdoctoral Researchers

Ana Clara Sampaio Franco
Ecology of aquatic environments; fish ecology; biological invasions; species-habitat interactions; species-abiotic variable; interspecific interactions.

Viviane Bernardes dos Santos Miranda
Zooplankton of lotic and lentic environments; phytoplankton; protozooplankton; Periphyton.