Current opportunities for joining the lab
Recently Funded project
We have received funding for three years (BRL 99,000.00) from the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development to work on eco-evolutionary dynamics in urban ecosystems in Brazil. One PhD and one Master's student are already working on this project testing the effects of landscape context and local variables on phenotypic variables (both morphometric and biacoustic) of frogs along an urbanization gradient.
The project has other four co-PIs from different institutions in Brazil: Andros T Gianuca (UFRN), Fernando R da Silva (UFSCar), Michel V Garey (UNILA), Franco L Souza (UFMS), and Fabio Angeoletto (UFR).
We need more people to work on this project and help us reach our goals. If you would like to join our team as a Master or PhD student, plese get in touch with me or any other member of the team.
The project has other four co-PIs from different institutions in Brazil: Andros T Gianuca (UFRN), Fernando R da Silva (UFSCar), Michel V Garey (UNILA), Franco L Souza (UFMS), and Fabio Angeoletto (UFR).
We need more people to work on this project and help us reach our goals. If you would like to join our team as a Master or PhD student, plese get in touch with me or any other member of the team.
Message for prospective students
I'm currently recruiting grad students. If you have browsed the lab page, liked what you found, and thought about joining the lab as an undergrad, Master's, or PhD student, please send me an e-mail (diogo.provete[at]ufms.br) telling me more about yourself, research interests, experience, and your goals. I can advise graduate students in the Ecology and Conservation graduate program and Animal Biology at UFMS, take a look at their website to find the deadlines for applying and more about the admission process.
I'm always interested in meeting and talking to people about ecology, evolution, and science in general.
Recomendo fortemente a leitura deste post no blog do Prof. Marco Mello especialmente, mas não restrito, aos estudantes de graduação sobre o que fazer quando procurar um orientador.
O que trazer para uma reunião com o seu orientador.
Dicas preciosas para quem deseja ingressar na carreira acadêmica ainda na graduação
Available resources
We have access to several facilities in the INBIO (Instituto de Biociências) here at UFMS. There's a field station in the heart of the Pantanal (see info here). There's also multi-user molecular biology and image capture labs with stereomicroscope, light microscospe, and a Scanning Electron Microscope, along with natural history collections of zoology and a herbarium with several hundred specimens catalogued. The institute also runs a LTER study site at the Bodoquena Plateau. There's a high performance computing system at the School of Computer Science.
Our core values
I believe that a research program in community ecology (Werner 1998) should include three main components: quantitative natural history information (Futuyma 1998; Underwood et al. 2000), field and/or laboratory experimentation (Underwood 1990; 1991) and modelling (Levins 1966). Field observations are important because they can reveal patterns (Levin 1978; 1992). But only experiments can uncover the mechanisms producing those patterns (Werner 1998). Model building is important in ecology because we can expand our view of the study system and turn Ecology into a predictive science. Many other papers were very influential during my academic life and helped to shape my ecological thinking, I recommend their reading (arranged in chronological order): Brown (1995), Lawton (1999), Hubbell (2001), Simberloff (2004), Roughgarden (2009), Scheiner & Willig (2008), and Vellend (2010).
We strive to make our science open as much as possible. As such, we always post preprints to public repositories. There're many advantages in using preprints, especially for Early Career Researchers, inclusing increasing citations
We strive to make our science open as much as possible. As such, we always post preprints to public repositories. There're many advantages in using preprints, especially for Early Career Researchers, inclusing increasing citations