Lab Members
Come Join us!
Opportunities are open for students and postdocs enthusiastic about biological evolution, including bachelors projects (Iniciação Científica), master's, PhD and post doc for various starting dates. If you're interested, write an email to fhenning @ acd . ufrj . br (remove spaces). Make sure to state what interests you and tell me something about your background
Meet The Team
Principal investigator
Master's student investigating the molecular evolution and expression of opsin genes
PhD student. Camila's project involved building a draft reference and investigating sex determination in Neotropical cichlids
Camila Nacif
Master's student looking at the composition of crab cakes ("casquinhas de siri") through the development of a novel amplicon-seq assay
Master's student investigating gene expression differences related to hypertrophied lips in Crenicichla cichlids
Pre-Doc investigating trophic niche specialization in Crenicichla for her pre-project.
PhD student at the CONICET program in Argentina looking at the genetic basis of hypertrophied lips and genome evolution in Crenicichla
