Angelica Cibrián Jaramillo

Joint NYBG—AMNH Postdoctoral Research Associate
Ph.D. in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Columbia University, 2007

Projects

• Conservation genetics of understory palms in Mesoamerica.
• Functional population genetics (ESTs) of Pacific cycads and their insect pest.

Select Publications

• Hodgkin T, Rao VR, Cibrian-Jaramillo A, and Gaiji S. 2003. The use of ex situ conserved plant genetic resources. Plant Genetic Resources 1(1), 19–29.
• Cibrian-Jaramillo A. 2002. Comparative genomics between sunflower and Arabidopsis. Gordon Research Conference in Evolutionary & Ecological Functional Genomics.
• Cibrian-Jaramillo A. 1998. Genetic variation in wild and cultivates plants of Vanilla planifolia in Mexico. 7^th Latin America/14^th Mexican Botanical Congress Memoirs.

Isabela de Macedo Gomes Dias, DVM

AMNH Conservation Genetics Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D. in Genetics, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, 2007

Projects

• Conservation genetics and fitness in wooly mouse opossums.

Select Publications

• Dias IMG, Bergmann JAG, Rezende AC, Castro G. 2000. Formação e estrutura populacional do equino brasileiro de hipismo. Arq. Bras. Med. Vet. Zootec. 52(6), 647-654.
• Dias IMG. 1998. Comportamento do equino estabulado. Rev. Mangalarga Marchador ABCCMM, Belo Horizonte 33, 64-69.

Sergios-Orestis Kolokotronis

Research Coordinator
Ph.D. in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Columbia University, 2008

Projects

• DNA Barcoding Initiative for Conservation
• Molecular evolution of pathogens
• African elephant phylogenetics

Select Publications

• Krause J, Unger T, Noçon A, Malaspinas AS, Kolokotronis SO, Stiller M, Soibelzon L, Spriggs H, Dear PH, Briggs AH, Bray SE, O'Brien SJ, Rabeder G, Matheus P, Cooper A, Slatkin M, Pääbo S, Hofreiter M. (2008) Mitochondrial genomes reveal an explosive radiation of extinct and extant bears near the Miocene-Pliocene boundary. BMC Evolutionary Biology 8, 220.
• Baillie GJ, Kolokotronis SO, Waltari E, Maffei JG, Kramer LD, Perkins SL. (2008) Phylogenetic and evolutionary analyses of St. Louis encephalitis virus genomes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 47(2), 717-728.
• Ho SYW, Kolokotronis SO, Allaby RG. (2007) Elevated substitution rates estimated from ancient DNA sequences. Biology Letters 3(6), 702-705. {Suppl. Mat.}
• Kolokotronis SO, MacPhee RDE, Greenwood AD. (2007) Detection of mitochondrial insertions in the nucleus (NuMts) of Pleistocene and modern muskoxen. BMC Evolutionary Biology 7, 67.
• Amor DC, Kolokotronis SO, Medellín RA, Ramey Jr. R, Ryder OA. (2005) Genética de la conservación. In: El Berrendo en México, Acciones de conservación. Valdes M, de la Cruz E, Peters E, Pallares E, Editors. Agrupación Sierra Madre & Instituto Nacional de Ecología (INE-SEMARNAT), México DF. pp. 27-33.
• Shykoff JA, Kolokotronis SO, Collin CL, López-Villavicencio M. (2003) Effects of male sterility on reproductive traits in gynodioecious plants: A meta-analysis. Oecologia 135(1), 1-9.

Eugenia Naro-Maciel

Marine Biodiversity Scientist, AMNH Center for Biodiversity and Conservation
Ph.D. in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Columbia University, 2006

Projects

• Population connectivity and structure of Atlantic green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas).
• Bahamas biocomplexity project: genetic connectivity.

Select Publications

• Naro-Maciel E, Becker JH, Lima HSM, Marcovaldi MA, DeSalle R. 2007. Testing dispersal hypotheses in foraging Green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) of Brazil. Journal of Heredity 98(1), 29-39.
• Naro-Maciel E, Mrosovsky N, Marcovaldi MA. 1999. Thermal profiles of sea turtle hatcheries and nesting areas at Praia do Forte, Brazil. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 3(3), 407-413.
• Naro-Maciel E. 1998. The inter-American convention for the protection and conservation of sea turtles: an historical overview. Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy 1(1), 169-178.
• Naro ES. 1998. Thermal profiles of marine turtle hatcheries and nesting areas at Praia do Forte, Brazil. Proceedings of the 16th Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFSC-412, 109.

Cristina Pomilla

AMNH Conservation Genetics Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D. in Biology, New York University, 2005

Projects

• Conservation genetics of jaguars from Central and South America.
• Major histocompatibility complex variation in Arctic mammals.
• Population genetics of Southern Hemisphere and Arabian Sea humpback whale populations.
• Population structure of Greenland halibut in the Northwest Atlantic.

Select Publications

• Pomilla C and Rosenbaum HC. 2006. Estimates of relatedness in groups of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) on two wintering rounds of the Southern Hemisphere. Molecular Ecology 15(9), 2541-2555.
• Pomilla C and Rosenbaum HC. 2005. Against the current: an inter-oceanic whale migration event. Biology Letters 1(4), 476-479.
• Rosenbaum HC, Razafindrakoto Y, Vahoavy J, Pomilla C. 2001. Sightings of southern right whales (Eubalaena australis) along the east coast of Madagascar. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management 2, 177-180.

Diana Weber

NSF Polar Programs Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D. in Ecology, Evolution & Behavior, University at Albany-SUNY, 2003

Projects

• The effects of environmental changes on marine mammals, including the consequences of fishing and pollution on the marine environment.
• Determining the magnitude of human impact on marine animals, in terms of conservation, exploitation, and fisheries-related mortality using ancient DNA.
• The effects of reduced variability and potential bottlenecks on marine mammal populations and their ability to withstand disease epidemics, epizootic attacks, rapid changes in the environment, and long-term environmental changes, such as gradual climatic shifts.

Select Publications

• Weber DS, Gaines G, Brownell RL Jr, Clapham PJ, Cooper LN, Rosenbaum HC. 2005. The impact of Basque whaling on right (Eubalaena glacialis) and bowhead (Balaena mysticetus) whales in the western North Atlantic: a reevaluation of a perspective on genetic data. Paper SC/57/BRG20 presented to the Scientific Committee of the IWC.
• Leslie MS, Weber DS, Batibasaga A, Olsen D, Rosenbaum HC. 2005. First record of Blainville's beaked whale Mesoplodon densirostris in Fiji. Pacific Conservation Biology 11(4), 302-305.
• Weber DS, Stewart BS, Schienman J, Lehman N. 2003. Major histocompatibility complex variation at three class II loci in the northern elephant seal. Molecular Ecology 13(3), 711-718.
• Weber DS, Stewart BS, Lehman J. 2003. Genetic consequences of a severe population bottleneck in the Guadalupe fur seal (Arctocephalus townsendi). Journal of Heredity 95(2), 144-153.
• Weber DS, Stewart BS, Garza JC, Lehman N. 2000. An empirical genetic assessment of the severity of the northern elephant seal population bottleneck. Current Biology 10(20), 1287-1290.