Students
Rynchops niger, Ilha Comprida, SP, Brazil, June 2016

Doctoral students

Andres Rojas (Started Fall 2018: Co-advised by Paulo Guimarães; Universidade de São Paulo)
        TBA
Gabriel Macedo (Started Fall 2017: Co-advised by Cibele Biondo; Universidade Federal do ABC)
       "The evolution of sexual dimorphism in antbirds (Aves, Thamnophilidae): patterns and processes"
Sergio Bolívar (Started Fall 2015; Co-advised by 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 by L. F. Silveira; Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo)
         "Biogeography of birds in the Pernambuco center of endemism"
Ariane Gouvêa (Started Fall 2014; Co-advised by 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"

Masters students

Renata Beco (Started Summer 2016; Co-advised by 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

Diego Cueva (2015–2018; MSc. Universidade de São Paulo)
         "Molecular phylogeny of the genus Thraupis and species limits of the T. episcopus - sayaca complex"
Cristiane Apolinário (2015–2017; MSc. Universidade de São Paulo)
         "Phylogeography of the Pionus maximiliani species complex"
Eamon Corbett (2016–2017; BSc. Harvard University) – Now PhD student at Louisiana State University
         "Phylogeography of the Rufous-fronted Thornbird (Phacellodomus rufifrons), with implications for South American dry forest biogeography."