Associate Research Scientist @ Yale University | Macroevo/eco of Lizards & Snakes! | AE Evolution
Laura Alencar 🇧🇷🐍🦎
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Interested in #macroevolution, #macroecology, and mountain biodiversity?
I'm recruiting a #postdoc for an NSF-funded project at Yale, in collaboration with Martha Muñoz (Yale) and Maya Stokes (Florida State University).
I'll be at #Evol2026 and happy to chat!
Link below
Laura Alencar 🇧🇷🐍🦎
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Last week the lab had a reason to celebrate as Julia Laterza successfully defended her PhD dissertation. Congratulations, Doctor Julia Laterza! Your dedication, perseverance, and hard work have led to this remarkable achievement, and we are excited to see what comes next!! 🐸
Postdoc opportunity in plant systematics + phylogenomics 🌿 my lab at the University of Michigan is recruiting for a Research Fellow working on species delimitation in neotropical myrtles. Full details + apply here (deadline April 30) careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
Interested in #macroevolution, #macroecology, and #mountains? I'll soon be advertising a #postdoc position at Yale as part of a newly funded NSF project. Stay tuned for details!
Happy to announce that I was awarded a Young Investigator Grant by FAPESP to explore causal associations in Macroevolution! Looking forward to starting my own team in the near future, and hopeful that this will help me get a permanent job eventually!
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Alencar et al. use a macroevolutionary framework to reveal how environmental, life history, and geographical factors interact with thermal tolerance to shape the distribution of the most diverse lizard family from North America.
Read now ahead of print!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Hey y'all. I'm a month late to this, but I wanted to share that one of my PhD chapters was published in Systematic Biology with my advisor, Frank Burbrink. Here, we explore how ecological opportunity influences phenotypic evolution in North American natricid snakes. 🧵/8
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Laura Alencar 🇧🇷🐍🦎
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Job Alert! I am recruiting a postdoc (and soon a lab tech) to study the functional morphology and biomechanics of walking-like behaviors in fishes at the University of Virginia. Details at: jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0.... Ads for postdoc+lab tech on salamander locomotion grant coming soon!
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