Current members of our lab

Prof. Dr. Diogo B. Provete

Principal Investigator (PI)

  My CV (in English) | Lattes CV | My Academic Tree

​I obtained my Bachelor's in Biological Sciences at the Federal Univeristy of Alfenas (UNIFAL) in 2006, and my Master's degree in Animal Biology at the São Paulo State University (UNESP) in 2010. I earned in 2015 a PhD. in Ecology and Evolution from the Federal University of Goiás (UFG), Brazil. I then spent 6 months as a guest Post-doctoral fellow at the Antonelli's lab in the Universty of Gothenburg, Sweden, and then 8 months as a FAPESP post doc fellow at the Federal University of São Carlos at Sorocaba, Brazil in the lab of Fernando R Silva. I joined the Institute of Biosciences of the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS) in September 2017, as an Assistant Professor.

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Marcos Rafael Severgnini 

Master's Student (PPG Biologia Animal)

Marcos is trying to understand the macroevolutionary mechanisms determining phenotypic diversity in Neotropical tadpoles. He's primarily focusing in testing for differences in morphospace of species inhabiting streams and ponds. He uses a variety of analytical approaches, including Geometric Morphometrics and phylogenetic comparative methods.

Philip Teles Soares

PhD Student (PPG Ecologia & Conservação)

The goal of Philip's PhD project is three fold, he's trying to undertand the factors that affect chytrid fungus prevalence in the Neotropics using macroecological methods, such as Environmental Niche Models and phylogenies. 

Matheus Moroti

PhD Student (PPG Ecologia & Conservação)

Matheus is interested in the evolutionary and ecological factors in shaping the current diversity of vertebrates in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. He's using a combination of analytical techniques to tackle this question, including the tool box of functional diversity, phylogenetic comparative methods, and modern biogeographic analysis.

Adriana Carolina Acero

PhD Student (PPG Ecologia & Conservação)

Adriana is working with ecomorphology of a community of bats in the Bodoquena Plateau, central Brazil. She's interested in understanding the ecological and evolutionary factors that affect community assembly patterns of bat species along gallery forests using geometric morphometrics for quantifying shape of skull and wings.

Gabriel Tirintan

Master Student (PPG Ecologia & Conservação)

Gabriel is interested in understanding the ecological and socio-economical factors and determine species richness and functional diversity of birds in Brazilian cities. He's using  macroecological methods along with big data obtained by citizen science projects, such as iNaturalist and eBird

Past members or co-advised students

Daniel Din Negre

Undergrad student

Daniel has a degree in Biology from the Fundação Santo André and is completed his Master's at the University of São Paulo (USP). His bachelor's monograph dealt with tadpole community structure at the Parque Natural Municipal Nascentes de Paranapiacaba, in Santo André, São Paulo. The main aims were:

(1) Evaluate the relative roles of abiotic factors in determining temporal and spatial distribution of species;
(2) To make an identification key to tadpoles found in streams and ponds.

Daniel can be contacted here.

Gabriela B. Leite

Undergrad student

Laura Bonin

Laura is currently working with the evolution of echolocation in bats worldwide. She's compiling a database of the presence and types of echolocationfor ~ 800 species of bats and using phylogenetic comparative methods to test for correlates of echolocation loss.