Coleoptera curator @Senckenberg German Entomological Institute - Insect taxonomist & evolutionary biologist. Beetles, collections-based research, biodiversity, genomics, and +!
Vinicius S. Ferreira
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🪲 A PhD position in my lab will open soon! Work includes Caribbean fieldwork, visits to major European entomological collections, and cutting-edge morphology, phylogenomics & museomics. If you’re interested in beetle evolution and biodiversity research, consider applying! 🔬🌍
Calling all OrthoFinder users!
We’ve just released GLADE, a tool to infer gene gains, losses, duplications, and ancestral genomes across a phylogeny.
GLADE runs directly on OrthoFinder results.
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Open postdoc position in my lab at Cornell, conducting comparative and experimental studies on transcriptomic responses to diet and toxins, utilizing the milkweed-insect community. Background in molecular bio & herbivory desired. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31867
🚨 New paper! 🚨 We sequenced the mitochondrial genome of Hypocephalus armatus, a rare mole beetle endemic to Brazil’s Cerrado & Caatinga, helping clarify its long-mysterious evolutionary placement. First paper of the year with colleagues from UFRJ: academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
🪲 !Deadlines! 🪲
Registration with a contribution (talk or poster): up to 1st May
Registration without any contribution: up to 15th May
Abstract submission (talk or poster): up to 15th May
Registration form here: forms.gle/V8pWKzNKiKji...
I spent a great day at the Zoological Collection of University of Halle! I saw not only important beetle materials, but also lots of other fun stuff, including a really interesting collection of domesticated animals and some taxidermized animals!
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New open-access paper in Systematic Entomology 🪲🔬 Review of Omethidae with a key to all genera, species checklist, and habitus images. Once and for all, “Telegeusidae” are Omethidae 😄
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