Rynchops niger, Ilha Comprida, SP, Brazil, June 2016
Doctoral students
Ariane Gouvea (Started Fall 2014; Co-advised with L. F. Silveira; Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo) – "Taxonomy and biogeography of Rynchops niger (Rynchopidae) and Phaetusa simplex (Sternidae) (Aves: Charadriiformes): using morphology and molecular markers to investigate the role of rivers in the evolution and migration of waterbirds"
Sergio Bolívar (Started Fall 2015; Co-advised with L. F. Silveira; Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo) "Comparative phylogeography of passerine birds with circum-Amazonian distribution"
Fernanda Bocalini (Started Fall 2015; Co-advised with L. F. Silveira; Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo) "Biogeography of birds in the Pernambuco center of endemism"
Masters students
Diego Cueva (Started Fall 2015; Co-advised with L. F. Silveira; Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo) "Molecular phylogeny of the genus Tharupis and species limits of the T. episcopus - sayaca complex"
Renata Beco (Started Summer 2016; Co-advised with L. F. Silveira; Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo) "Evolution of visual and acoustic signals in the antwrens of the tribe Formicivorini (Aves, Thamnophilidae)"
Alumni
Cristiane Apolinário (2015–2017; MSc. Co-advised with L. F. Silveira; Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo) "Phylogeography of the Pionus maximiliani species complex" Eamon Corbett (2016–2018; BSc. Co-advised with S. V. Edwards; Harvard University, OEB) "Phylogeography of the Rufous-fronted Thornbird (Phacellodomus rufifrons), with implications for South American dry forest biogeography."
