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University of Basel (UniBas) - Department of Zoology
Basel, Switzerland
Dissertation: Lake Tanganyika Cichlids genetic diversity origin determination
Supervisor: Walter Salzburger and Julia MI Barth
PhD
Researcher
2022 - ongoing
Master
Researcher
2018 - 2020
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) - Department of Genetics
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Dissertation: Flounder mislabelling analyses: factors that influence fish fraud occurrence on supply chain categories, label regulations and market price.
Supervisor: Antonio M. Sole-cava
BRes.
Genetics
2014 - 2018
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) - Department of Genetics
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Project: Molecular identification and authenticity of seafood commercialized as flounder in Rio de janeiro
Modules - Statistics, Scientific Methodology, Evolution, population genetics, Genetics analysis, Conservation genetics, Marine genetics, Coastal and Oceanic Management.
Supervisor: Antonio M. Sole-cava
BRes.
Teaching
Biology
2018 - 2021
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) - Department of Education
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Modules - Educational sociology, Physics to biology teachers, Brazilian educational system, Educational Philosophy.
 Research skills and techniquesFluent in Linux/Unix, R languages and basic in Phyton and Perl languages, analysis of large genomic (~700 vertebrate genomes) datasets. Development of analysys and interpretation pipelines to phylogenetic, population genetics and adaptive evolution projects, especially in demographic analysis and modelling (by Relate, GONE2, CurrentNe2, Neestimator, fastsimcoal). DNA extraction, quantification, and whole genome and gene sequencing (Illumina and Sanger) applied to large datasets. |  PublicationsPublished - Alvarenga et al., 2025 - Rapid DNA/eDNA-based ID tools for improved Chondrichthyes monitoring and management - Souza et al., 2021 - From fish-markets to restaurants: substitution prevalence along the flatfish commercialization chain in Brazil. - Salles, et al., 2017 - Quantitative Dengue Serotyping: The Development of a Higher Performance Method Using SYBR Green Assay. |  CollaborationsPhD collaborations - "Germline mutation-rate variation, reproductive mode evolution and the genomic basis of body shape adaptation to pelagic environments across cichlids" Master's collaboration - “Expanding the molecular toolkits for the identification of elasmobranchs using target-enrichment” and “Mislabelling in the commerce of codfish, the leading imported fish in Brazil” |
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 Conferences2026 - Invited speaker at Aquatic Ecology and Evolution Seminar, University 2025 - Invited speaker at the European society for evolutionary biology congress (ESEB 2025) 2024 - The 3rd Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology (Evolution 2024) 2023 - Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution conference (SMBE). 2023 - Evolutionary Biology in Guarda summer school. Unibasel, Switzerland 2023 - European Meeting for PhD Students in Evolutionary Biology (EMPSEB). 2022 - Cichlid Science. Cambridge, UK |  Honors / Awards2021 – selected dissertation on scientific innovation of Biodiversity and Evolutive Biology graduate course (PPGBBE) 2019-2020. Master Scholarship – FAPERJ Grade 10 - of outstanding academic performance. 2019. Honourable mention for exceptional progress of dissertation project, First and second semester PPGBBE, UFRJ. 2017. Honourable mention of best oral presentation. I Virology Symposium, UFRJ. |  Workshops and Courses2026 - COST/Genetic Nature Observation and Action (GENOA) Working Groups' Workshop, Kaunas, Lithuania. 2025 - Teaching assistant and First steps in UNIX workshop lecturer at WPSG, Český Krumlov, Czech Republic. 2024 - Block Course ministration and supervision of undergraduate students, University of Basel 2023 - Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics courses 2022 - Workshop population and speciation Genomics 2019 - Conservation genetics workshop, Latin-American network for conservation genetics |