Molecular phylogeny course
01/09/2018
Like every year, in 2018 Karla offered the course Molecular phylogeny for graduate students.
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Pint of Science Viçosa 2018
15/05/2018
The research leader of the LBE Karla Yotoko participated in the Pint of Science Viçosa 2018; she shared the stage with the teacher Ivonete da Silva Lopes (UFV) to talk about Diversity. The discussion was about biological and social diversity. Also, they also discussed the participation of women in society and science.
Marina and Barbara presented their Bsc research
14/11/2017
This week our two undergraduations students Marina Magalhães and Bárbara Shalaguti presented their research work to form as Biologist. We are really proud of them
Nicole Ibagon at The II International Symposium on Phylogeny and Classification of Neotropical Fishes
27/11/2017
Nicole Ibagon, our PhD student was in Londrina (PR) at the II International Symposium on Phylogeny and Classification of Neotropical Fishes. She did a 15 minute talk about "Morphological differentiation of the Species Complex Hoplias malabaricus (Bloch, 1794) (Teleostei: Erythrinidae) in the Neotropical region"
Participation at the XIII Congresso de Ecologia - III International Symposium of Ecology and Evolution (III EcoEvol)
17/10/2017
Last week our laboratory participated of the XIII Congresso de Ecologia - III International Symposium of Ecology and Evolution (III EcoEvol) at the Universidade Federal de Viçosa. We were working at the organization, poster presentation (3 posters) and general participation.
Visit to the MZUSP
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The students Nicole Ibagon and Barbara Shalaguti were visiting the Museu de Zoologia of the University of São Paulo. The visit was from July 24 to August 4, during that time they photographed the more than 1000 samples of Erythrinidae for their research projects. They also had the advice of Dr. Osvaldo Oyakawa, taxonomist and expert of the group.
Participation at the "I Curso de Campo em Ecologia de Floresta no Sul da Bahia"
24/05/2017
Camilo Guzman, our Ph.D. student, was in Ilheus Bahia at the "I Curso de Campo em Ecologia de Floresta no Sul da Bahia" in the Reserva Ecológica Michelin (Igrapiúna, Bahia, Brasil). He met other 15 students and professors from Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Spain.
The course was offered by the Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Conservação da Biodiversidade of Universidade Estadual Santa Cruz.
Welcome back Camilo
In and out of the Neotropics: historical biogeography of Eneopterinae crickets
19/05/2017
Our laboratory just published the paper "In and out of the Neotropics: Historical Biogeography of Eneopterinae crickets" in the Journal of Biogeography.
This work is the result of Natallia Maria Vicente's Ph.D. in collaboration with researchers from Brazil and France. We are very proud of the paper of Natallia and Karla
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XIII Congresso de Ecologia - III International Symposium of Ecology and Evolution (III EcoEvol)
15/03/2017
This year The XIII Congresso de Ecologia and the III International Symposium of Ecology and Evolution (III EcoEvol) will occur at the Universidade Federal de Viçosa, the interface between ecology and evolution will be the central theme of the event. Our laboratory will be participating in all activities !!!
Journal Club
13/03/2017
Last week we had our first Journal Club of the year, we talked about PCR and molecular biology. This year our goal is to approach fundamental topics in evolution and train our undergraduate students to read recent papers of ecology and evolution
Tercia´s job
14/03/2017
After finishing her Ph.D., Tércia was looking for a job as a biologist. Finally, she became a teacher in her hometown. The best wishes to Tercita in this new adventure, we will miss you a lot.
Camilo at the Chilean Congress of Entomology
03/12/2016
Yoan Camilo Guzmán Sarmiento, our Master Degree student, was at the University of Talca - Chile at the XXXVIII Chilean Congress of Entomology. He participated in the INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ROLE OF MICROBIAL SYMBIONTS ON THE BIOLOGICAL INTERACTIONS IN AGROECOSYSTEMS. For this Congress, Camilo exhibited the poster "Wolbachia infection of Drosophila stutervanti (Duda) (Diptera: Drosophilidae), Wstv, widely spread in Neotropical region."
BBQ Party
06/12/2016
All lab members and families gathered to celebrate this year's accomplishments. Welcome 2017
Tony Robillard visited our new laboratory
27/10/2016
This week we had the visit of our Collaborator Tony Robillard from The Muséum National d'Histoire naturelle of France. We discussed new research perspective and had a nice week in his company. Tony came to Brazil to participate in the ICO 2016 – 12º International Congress of Orthopterology in Ilheus BA. He will be presenting Come back soon Tony!!!
Our students at the Symposium of Academic Integration
19/10/2016
Today the student Cainã Castro (Undergraduation) and Tércia Vargas (Graduation) exposed the poster "Diferenciação de três espécies de besouros rola-bosta por códigos de barras de DNA e morfometria geométrica" "Differentiation three species of dung beetles by DNA barcode and geometric morphometric" at the Symposium of Academic Integration of the UFV. We congratulate them for their work and dedication.
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LBE at the Brazilian-International Congress of Genetics
14/09/2016
Last week we were at the Brazilian-International Congress of Genetics in Caxambu, MG - Brazil.
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Tércia Vargas (PhD student), Camila Kaliman (Graduation student) and Karla Yotoko, presented the poster "Molecular evidence of three putative species under Canthon staigi (Coleoptera: Scarabaenidae)"
Camilo Gúzman (Master degree student) and Karla Yotoko showed his work entitled "Presence of Wolbachia in Ubiquepuella telytokous (Orthoptera: Grylloidea), a rare parthenogenetic cricket species"
Participation of our student in the Geometric Morphometrics and Phylogeny Course, Barcelona, Spain
16/09/2016
The PhD student Nicole Ibagón participated of the course Geometric Morphometrics and Phylogeny taught by Prof. Chris Klingenberg (University of Manchester, United Kingdom) in Barcelona, Spain.
The project of research that Nicole and Karla Yotoko send to de organisation Transmitting Science was the criterion for earn the grant for the inscription of this course.
At the end of the course, all the participants (representants from UK, India, France, Switzerland, Spain, Brazil and Colombia) exposed their projects, and the advances made during the course
We have a new lab
05/09/2016
We have been working at our new laboratory since August. Have a new room for PCRs, a place for computers and students, one big table for DNA extraction and electrophoresis and of course two rooms for the professors.
We continue at the building of Biology, but now our office is 142. Come have a coffee with us!!!
Postgraduate Course Molecular Phylogeny
01/08/2016
The postgraduate course in Molecular Phylogeny (Bio-649) happened last week; we had the participation of 11 students of the UFV and one from the UFMG (Belo Horizonte- Brazil). Those students work in different research lines with viruses, fungi, plants, bacteria, insects and vertebrates.
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Summary of the course:
Techniques of molecular biology and bioinformatics applied to the phylogenetic study. Molecular evolution. Phylogenies constructed by geometrical methods and statistical tests. Maximum parsimony method. Maximum likelihood method. Bayesian inference of phylogeny. Phylogenetic methods applied to phylogeography.
Exhibition of final projects - Evolution (BIO 340)
05/07/2016
This semester Prof. Karla Yotoko proposed doing creative projects to exhibit subjects of evolution at the biology building.
Students of the course Evolution (BIO 340) performed samples of the final projects.
These projects included the didactic line time about Darwin and Mendel lives, the parody "Carreta Evolução" explained genetic drift, interviews with teachers of Biology about breaking barriers in teaching evolution and the documentary about eugenic.
The videos were projected on the wall of the elevator of the building, was something innovative and appealing to the academic community
​The closure was a debate about Eugenia, which lasted more than two hours, had the participation of Priscila Dorella and Rubens Panegassi from the Department of History (UFV).
PhD student participates in the Latin American macroevolution Workshop
05/07/2016
The curse took place in San Juan Puerto Rico. The instructors were Dr. Liam Revell (University of Massachusetts Boston), Dr. Luke Harmon (University of Idaho), Dr. Mike Alfaro (University of California, Los Angeles), and Dr. Ricardo Betancur (University of Puerto Rico). Enveloped students from Latin America (United States, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina and Brazil) and Spain.
Researcher visits our laboratory
25/09/2015
The LBE recived today the visit of the researcher Hermes Fonseca de Medeiros from the Universidade Federal do Pará - Campus de Altamira. His research is focused on ecology and evolution of Drosophilidae.
Hermes will stay at Viçosa until October 4, in order to collaborate with some research in progress about genetic and diversity of Drosophilidae; in addition to teach the course "Introduction to the biology of Drosophilidae", associated with the Ecology Graduate Program of the UFV.
Panel Discussion. Insects Phylogeny
August 19, 2015
Last week, during the V International Symposium of Entomology (UFV), ocurred the Panel Discussion "Insects Phylogeny: morphology and mollecular approaches". The event had the participation of researchers Tony Robillard (Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle France), Fernando Montealegre-Z (University of Lincoln, UK) and Vera Solferini (Departamento de Genética, Evolução e Bioagentes, UNICAMP) with mediation of Dr. Karla Yotoko (Departamento de Biologia Geral, UFV)
Picture: PPG Entomologia UFV
