Ricardo Mallarino Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Department of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology and Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA Phone (617)-308-5895; email:
[email protected] EDUCATION 2011-present Postdoctoral Fellow, Hopi Hoekstra Laboratory, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 2005-2011 Ph.D., Biology, Arhat Abzhanov Laboratory, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 1998-2003 B.S., Biology, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia RESEARCH INTERESTS Molecular basis of morphological change; developmental biology; ecology and evolutionary biology; genetics and genomics. RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 2011-present Department of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology and Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Hopi Hoekstra laboratory -Studied the molecular basis of local adaptation in Peromyscus mice using functional in vivo and in vitro approaches -Developed a new mammalian model species for studying the developmental basis of periodic pattern formation 2005-2011 Department of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, Arhat Abzhanov laboratory -Identified a network of developmental genes responsible for generating beak diversity in Darwin’s finches -Studied beak patterning mechanisms in the relatives of Darwin’s finches 2005 Whitehead Institute, Susan Lindquist laboratory -Studied the role of molecular chaperones in controlling adaptive polyphenisms in insects 2003-2005 Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, supervisors: Chris Jiggins and Biff Bermingham -Studied molecular systematics and phylogenetics of tropical butterflies 2001-2003 Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, supervisor: Penelope Barnes -Studied coevolution of marine bivalves of the Family Lucinidae and their sulfur-oxidizing bacterial endosymbionts RESEARCH GRANTS AND AWARDS 2012 Putnam Expeditionary Grant; Harvard University 2009 Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, National Science Foundation 2008 Summer Research Grant, Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University 2005 Student Research Award, Dept.