CV - GERARD TALAVERA

Education

2012 – Ph.D. in Biology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Catalonia, Spain; Advisor: Dr. Roger Vila;

Thesis: Phylogenetic inference at different insect taxonomic levels. (Maximum mark: Cum Laude)

2007 – M.Sc. in Genetics, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Catalonia, Spain. Advisor: Dr. José Castresana;

Thesis: Alignments quality and their impact in phylogenetic analysis (Maximum mark: 10/10)

2004 – B.Sc. in Biology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Catalonia, Spain.

Research Positions

2014 - 2017: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) & Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology (OEB)

Harvard University, MA, USA. (Prof. Naomi Pierce lab)
Beatriu de Pinós & Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships

2013: Department of Entomology, Faculty of Biology & Soil Science

St Petersburg State University (Prof. Vladimir Lukhtanov lab)
Postdoctoral Fellow.

2013: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) & Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology (OEB)

Harvard University, MA, USA. (Prof. Naomi Pierce lab)
Postdoctoral Fellow.

2009 - 2012: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) & Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology (OEB)

Harvard University, MA, USA. (Prof. Naomi Pierce lab)
Visiting PhD Student. Awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Science.

2008 - 2012: Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-UPF), Barcelona, Spain & Department of Genetics and Microbiology

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Spain
PhD Student. Awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Science.

2004 - 2007: Institute of Molecular Biology (CSIC), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

Group of Phylogeny and Computational Evolutionary Biology
Post‐graduate Fellowship and MSc Student. Awarded by he CSIC I3P postgraduate program (Spanish Ministry
of Science) and the BBVA foundation.

Conferences and Meetings

North American Butterfly Association Biennial Meeting / Texas Butterfly Festival

Keynote speaker. November 2016. Mission, TX, USA.

Workshop on Population and Speciation Genomics 2016

24th of January to 6th of February of 2016. Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic

V Encuentro de Lepidoptera Neotropicales (ELEN)

16h to 20th of November 2015. Tucumán, Argentina.
Oral Presentation: Barren in the Promised land: The biogeographic history of the relict Brazilian butterfly Elkalyce cogina (Lycaenidae)
Poster Presentation: Ancient Neotropical origin and recent recolonisation: Phylogeny, biogeography and diversification of the Riodinidae
(Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea).

Butterfly Weekend - Boston Museum of Science

Guest Research Presentation: A marvelous migration (July 2015)

7th International Conference on the Biology of Butterflies.
August 2014. Turku University, Finland

Poster presentation: Making phylogenetically comprehensible the hyperdiverse Polyommatina butterflies

1st Congress of Insects in Qatar

24th to 30th of April of 2014. Doha, Qatar
Invited talk: Exploring insect diversity through molecular systematics: phylogenetic and spatial biodiversity surveys of butterfly fauna

Workshop on Landscape Genetics 2014

10th to 15th of March of 2014. Göttingen, Germany (Awarded by the Volkswagen Foundation)

Workshop on Genomics 2014

12th to 25th of January of 2014. Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic

Thematic School on Advanced methods in Neotropical Biogeography

October 2013. Kourou, French Guiana. (Awarded by CEBA - Centre d’étude de la biodiversité amazonienne)

II Iberian Congress of Biological Systematics

September 2013. Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Oral presentation: Improving the knowledge of root, branches and leaves of the hyperdiverse Lycaenidae + Riodinidae tree

5th Central European Workshop of Myrmecology

September 2013. University of Innsbruck, Austria.
Oral Presentation: Discovered just before extinction? The first endemic ant from the Balearic Islands endangered by climate change.

XIII Jornada de Biologia Evolutiva

           July 2013. Societat Catalana de Biologia Evolutiva, Barcelona, Spain
          Oral Presentation: Descoberta just abans de l’extinció? La primera formiga endèmica de les Illes Balears amenaçada pel
          canvi climàtic.

First Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology

July 2012. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Poster presentation: Exploring ecological causes behind the Palaeartic radiation of the Polyommatus blues.

Biodiversity Informatics Training Workshop (BITW) (VertNet)

June 2012. University of Colorado (USA) (Awarded by the Vertnet project)

CEE Symposium on “Integrating Ecology into Macroevolutionary Research”

March 2011. Zoological Society of London
Poster presentation: Exploring ecological causes behind the Palaeartic radiation of the Polyommatus blues.

6th International Conference on the Biology of Butterflies

July 2010. Universidad de Alberta, Canada
Poster presentation: How common are dot-like distribution ranges? Taxonomical oversplitting in Western European
Agrodiaetus (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) revealed by chromosomal and molecular markers.

Workshop on Molecular Evolution 2010

23th July to 12th of August of 2010. MBL - Woods Hole, MA (USA)

Mutualism (5th Annual Harvard Plant Biology Symposium)

May 2009. Harvard University

Reviewer History

I have reviewed for: National Science Foundation, USA (NSF), Scientific Reports, Gene, Journal of Biogeography, BMC Evolutionary Biology, Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Plos ONE, Ecological Research, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Genome, Journal of Insect Conservation, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Organisms Diversity and Evolution.

Member of:

European Society of Evolutionary Biology (ESEB)
British Ecological Society (BES)
The Systematics Association
Cambridge Entomological Club
Asociación Ibérica de Mirmecología

Fieldwork

2016: Butterfly diversity and tracking migrators in Japan
2016: Butterfly diversity and tracking migrators in China
2016: Butterfly diversity and tracking migrators in Thailand
2016: Butterfly diversity and tracking migrators in Malaysia
2016: Butterfly diversity and tracking migrators in Bali
2016: Butterfly diversity and tracking migrators in Hawaii
2015: Ant-Butterfly interactions in Argentina
2015: Butterfly diversity and tracking migrators in Northern and Central Mexico
2015: Butterfly diversity and tracking migrators in Dominican Republic
2015: Butterfly diversity and tracking migrators in Northern, Central US and Canada

2015: Butterfly diversity and tracking migrators in Namibia
2015: Butterfly diversity and tracking migrators in California and Arizona
2014: Butterfly and Ant diversity of S Ethiopia
2014: Butterfly and Ant diversity of Senegal
2014: Butterfly and Ant diversity of Benin
2014: Butterfly and Ant diversity of Chad
2014: Butterfly and Ant diversity of N Ethiopia
2014: Butterfly and Ant diversity of Qatar
2013: Butterfly and Ant diversity of French Guiana
2013: Butterfly and Ant diversity of NE USA
2013: Butterfly and Ant diversity of Oman
2012: Ant diversity of the Balearic Islands
2011: Butterfly population tracking in Germany
2011: Butterfly diversity of NE Kazakhstan and Altai Mountains
2010: Butterfly diversity of W Canada
2009: Butterfly and Ant diversity of the Balearic Islands
2003-2008: Bolivia, Peru, Indonesia, Iceland, Nepal, Uganda, Morocco, Jordan, Algeria, Europe