Center for Marine Sciences, Faro, University of Algarve, Portugal
r2c2.lab@gmail.com

People in the lab
My research is question-driven, instead of model driven and I am interested primarily in understanding evolutionary patterns and processes. Therefore I am not confined to a particular type of organism, habitat or world region.
Rita Castilho
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Researcher
Katy Nicastro


Pedro did his master degree thesis on Candidula, a land smail genus. link
Master student
Pedro Madeira
Teófilo worked on the invasive species Fundulus heteroclitus. link
Teófilo Morim
Master student
John Horne
John did his first post-doc with us.
After his two-year stay he moved closer to home, to Halifax, Canada, then to the University of Southern Mississipi at the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, USA and presently he is a Senior Research Associate at NOAA, La Jolla, California, USA

Elena González
Elena stayed in my lab during 2013 funded by CSIC. She returned to Madrid where she got a Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Fellowship.

R2C2 LAB
Resources, Restoration, Climate, Connectivity
Pedro Andrade
Group Leader
My research is question-driven, instead of model driven and I am interested primarily in understanding evolutionary patterns and processes. Therefore I am not confined to a particular type of organism, habitat or world region.
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Principal Investigator
Jorge Palma
Senior Researcher
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Post-doctoral fellow
Gerardo Zardi

Master student and Lab technician
Luana Corona

Master student
Adam Galatoulas
Master student
Alexander

Doctoral student
Sara Vieira

Doctoral student
Betania Ferreira

Doctoral student
Rui Peres dos Santos

Gerard Subiron
Master student

Jessica Carvalho
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Master student
Felipe Abrunhosa

Filipa Godinho
Undergraduate student
Luana is a lab technician working on several topics: phylogeography, species molecular identification, mitochondrial genomes while doing her MSc thesis
Untangling the impact of small-scale fisheries on sea turtles in Gulf of Guinea: Socio-economic, cultural and ecological implications of sea turtle consumptive use and conservation
Temporal and spatial distribution of cetaceans in the Azores as a means to define migration and movement patterns and associated biotic and abiotic distributional driving factors
Population assessment and management needs of the hawksbill sea turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata, in São Tomé and Príncipe
A comparison of Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) social calls between dyads and competition groups

Master student
Monica Ponzi
Evaluation and effective use of artificial structures in seahorse habitat recovery
Filipa is a valuable volunteer in our research group. She is learning molecular techniques and helping with general lab tasks

Doctoral student
Lorenzo Cozzolino
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Origin of stranded Caretta caretta along the Portuguese coast determined by genetics
Understanding sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) in Pico Island, Azores
Biomonitoring vertebrate communities in the northwest Atlantic using eDNA metabarcoding
Felipe is a valuable volunteer in our research group. He is learning molecular techniques while doing in MSc thesis
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Eduardo Esteves

Past lab members
