Bruno A. S. De Medeiros, Ph.D. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Panama City, Panama [email protected]
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Bruno A. S. de Medeiros, Ph.D. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Panama City, Panama [email protected] www.brunodemedeiros.me RESEARCH INTERESTS I am an evolutionary biologist interested in the role of species interactions in creating and maintaining diversity, using plants and their insect flower visitors as model systems. My research involves fieldwork, systematics, natural history, and evolutionary genomics. EDUCATION AND APPOINTMENTS 2020- Postdoctoral Fellow, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama Main supervisor: E. Allen Herre Project: Why do generalist palms have specialized brood pollinators? 2020- Research Associate, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 2018-2019 Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University Supervisors: Brian Farrell and Gonzalo Giribet Projects: Insect population genomics, Phylogenomics of Ecdysozoa 2018 Ph.D. in Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University Thesis: The Evolution of Syagrus palms and their insect pollinators Faculty Advisor: Brian D. Farrell 2011 M.Sc. in Zoology, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil Thesis: Phylogenetic analysis and systematic revision of the genus Anchylorhynchus Schoenherr, 1836 (Curculionidae: Derelomini), using discrete and continuous morphological characters Faculty Advisor: Sergio A. Vanin 2008 B.Sc. in Biological Sciences, University of São Paulo Thesis: Insect attraction to artificial lighting, focusing on Coleoptera Faculty Advisor: Sergio A. Vanin PUBLICATIONS Preprints and in review 1. Church SH, de Medeiros BAS, Donoughe S, Reyes NLM, Extavour CG. 2020. Repeated loss of variation in insect ovary morphology highlights the role of developmental constraint in life-history evolution. bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2020.07.07.191940 Peer-reviewed 1. Chamorro L, de Medeiros BAS, Farrell BD. 2021. First phylogenetic analysis of Dryophthorinae (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) based on structural alignment of ribosomal DNA reveals Cenozoic diversification. Ecology and Evolution 11:1984–1998. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.7131 2. de Medeiros BAS, Farrell BD. 2020. Evaluating insect-host interactions as a driver of species divergence in palm flower weevils. Communications Biology 3:749. DOI: 10.1038/s42003-020-01482-3 3. de Medeiros BAS & Vanin SA. 2020. Systematic revision and morphological phylogenetic analysis of Anchylorhynchus Schoenherr, 1836 (Coleoptera, Curculionidae: Derelomini). Zootaxa 4839: 1–98. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4839.1.1 4. de Medeiros BAS, Núñez-Avellaneda LA, Hernandez AM, Farrell BD. 2019. Flower visitors of the licuri palm (Syagrus coronata): brood pollinators coexist with a diverse community of antagonists and mutualists. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 126:666-687 DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blz008 5. Church SH, Donoughe S, de Medeiros BAS, Extavour CG. 2019. Insect egg size and shape evolve with ecology but not developmental rate. Nature 571:58-62. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1302-4 6. Church SH, Donoughe S, de Medeiros BAS, Extavour CG. 2019. A dataset of egg size and shape from more than 6,700 insect species. Scientific Data 6:104. DOI: 10.1038/s41597-019-0049-y 7. Fernández E, Ferreras I, Farrel BD, de Medeiros BAS, Romero-González GA. 2019. Studies in Aristolochia (Aristolochiaceae) of Hispaniola. Phytotaxa 420: 1–20. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.420.1.1 8. Valente RM, da Silva PAL, de Medeiros BAS. 2019. The first Cotithene Voss (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Curculioninae) from Amazonian Brazil, with notes on its function as pollinator of Evodianthus funifer (Poit.) Lindm. (Cyclanthaceae). Zootaxa 4576:461-482. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4576.3.3 9. de Medeiros BAS, Farrell BD. 2018. Whole-genome amplification in double-digest RADseq results in adequate libraries but fewer sequenced loci. PeerJ 6:e5089. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.5089. 10. McKenna DD, Clarke DJ, Anderson R, Astrin JJ, Brown S, Chamorro L, Davis SR, de Medeiros BAS, et al. 2018. Morphological and molecular perspectives on the phylogeny, evolution, and classification of weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea): Proceedings from the 2016 International Weevil Meeting. Diversity 10:64. DOI: 10.3390/d10030064 11. Kim S, de Medeiros BAS, Byun BK, Lee S, Kang JH, Lee B, Farrell BD. 2018. West meets East: How do rainforest beetles become circum-Pacific? Evolutionary origin of Callipogon relictus and allied species (Cerambycidae: Prioninae) in the New and Old Worlds. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 125:163– 176. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.02.019. 12. de Medeiros BAS, Barghini A, Vanin SA. 2017. Streetlights attract a broad array of beetle species. Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 61:74–79. DOI: 10.1016/j.rbe.2016.11.004. 13. de Medeiros BAS, Bená DC, Vanin SA. 2014. Curculio Curculis lupus: biology, behavior and morphology of immatures of the cannibal weevil Anchylorhynchus eriospathae G. G. Bondar, 1943. PeerJ 2: e502. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.502 14. Vanin SA & de Medeiros BAS. 2013. A new species of Sicoderus Vanin from Bolivia (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Curculioninae: Otidocephalini). Zootaxa 3734: 81–85. DOI: 10.11646/ zootaxa.3734.1.9 15. Valente RM, de Medeiros BAS. 2013. A new species of Anchylorhynchus Schoenherr (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) from the Amazon, with a record of a new host palm for the genus. Zootaxa, 3709(4), 394– 400. DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.3709.4.6 16. de Medeiros BAS, Núñez-Avellaneda LA. 2013. Three new species of Anchylorhynchus Schoenherr, 1836 from Colombia (Coleoptera: Curculionidae; Curculioninae; Acalyptini). Zootaxa, 3636(2), 394–400. DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.3636.2.10 17. Barghini A, de Medeiros BAS. 2012. UV radiation as an attractor for insects. Leukos 9(1):47-56. DOI: 10.1582/LEUKOS.2012.09.01.003 18. Barghini A, de Medeiros BAS. 2010. Artificial lighting as a vector attractant and cause of disease diffusion. Environmental Health Perspectives 118(11):1503-1506. DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1002115 PRESENTATIONS Invited seminars 2020 The evolutionary consequences of palm-weevil interactions STRI Virtual Science Talks, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute 2019 Insect diversification at phylogenetic and populational scales Bioforum, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil Recent conference talks 2021 Invited Palm weevils as a model to understand role of insect-plant interactions in diversification. Encontro de Coleoptera (Coleoptera Meeting) 2021, Virtual. 2 2020 18,000 Miles forward and 20 meters up: chasing palm-associated weevils in Brazil Entomological Collection Network Annual Meeting, Virtual Voted as the best presentation in the Tales from the Field symposium by conference participants Available at: https://youtu.be/vWcZWYYcNLo 2019 Target enrichment using PCR-based probes: applications of a flexible and low-cost sequencing method Entomology 2019, St. Louis, MO 2019 Understanding specialization in palm flower weevils with species delimitation Weevil workers meeting, Entomology 2019, St. Louis, MO 2019 Invited Target enrichment using historical specimens and PCR products as probes Entomological Collection Network Annual Meeting 2019 Insect-plant antagonism is not associated with higher population differentiation in palm flower weevils Evolution Meeting, Providence, RI 2019 Invited The state of public biodiversity data at the onset of the genomic revolution Data as Development Workshop, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 2017 Population divergences of palm flower weevils: Differences between mutualists and antagonists Entomology 2017, Denver, CO 2016 Effects of insect-host interactions on the diversification of palm weevils XXV International Congress of Entomology, Orlando, USA 2016 Genomics and natural history in weevil evolution: a case study with palm weevils 2016 International Weevil Meeting, Orlando, USA Selected conference posters 2019 How to stick thousands of insect eggs in a phylogenetic tree Evolution Meeting, Providence RI SOFTWARE Matrix Condenser An interactive tool to visualize patterns of missing data in phylogenomic datasets Available at: https://github.com/brunoasm/matrix_condenser TaxReformer A Python program to correct and update lists of species names based on online databases Available at: https://github.com/brunoasm/TaxReformer TEACHING & ADVISING EXPERIENCE Workshops 2020 Data Carpentry for Ecology, Smithsonian Institution (online). 20 students. This workshop included several tools for data management for ecology, and I led classes on Python programming language. 2020 Introduction to R, STRI (online). 50 students. I designed and ran this workshop together with other fellows at STRI, leading the class on statistical modeling. 2016 Gorongosa Phylogenetics Workshop, Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique. 6 students. I was the invited instructor of this week-long workshop. I designed and taught lectures and computer labs. 3 Study abroad summer course 2013-2017 Teaching Fellow for the Harvard Summer School Course “Biodiversity of the Dominican Republic” for 5 summers. This course, with an average of 10 students enrolled, involved involving assisting students living for 5 weeks in the city of Santo Domingo, leading field trips with the main instructor in several aquatic and terrestrial environments throughout the country, helping students to identify species of plants, insects, birds and reptiles and meeting with students individually and in groups to review class content. Teaching Fellow for Term-Time Courses Responsibilities included developing new class materials, leading class discussions, supervising labs, grading assignments, and meeting with