Beetle Pollinators Workshop 2022

Bruno, Cristina and her students at Ikiam

By invitation of Maria Cristina Peñuela, I designed a taught a week-long workshop on beetle pollinators for her students at Unversidad Regional Amazónica IKIAM. The workshop included lectures about the main groups of beetle pollinators, as well as hands-on experience on building a collection and identifying species. It included a field trip to Jatun Sacha biological station.

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Weevil lecture 2021

By invitation of Cibele Ribeiro Costa, I gave the lecture on Curculionoidea to entomology graduate students taking the course on Coleoptera. It was really fun to interact with students and figure out ways to follow keys and talk about characters over zoom!

The Carpentries Workshops 2020-2021

The pandemics closed some opportunities and opened up others. While the Smithsonian Carpentries Team is mostly based in Washington DC, all teaching moved online in 2020. I became a certified The Carpentries Instructor in 2020, and in August 2020 I will teach Data Analysis and Visualization with Python to a group of 20 students from all units of the Smithsonian.

STRI R Workshop 2020

When covid19 reached Panama, I and a group of postdocs and fellows of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute organized a 4-week workshop on R, covering the basics of the language, data visualization and model fitting. Workshop materials are permanently hosted here.

Biodiversity of Hispaniola 2013–2017

I was Teaching Fellow of the Harvard Summer Course Biodiversity of Hispaniola for 5 summers between 2013 and 2017. In this field course we explore the aquatic and terrestrial environments of the Dominican Republic learning about its organisms and processes of formation. The extremely complex geography of this island makes it possible to quickly travel between pine forests, rainforests, deserts, mangroves and coral reefs, resulting in a unique learning experience.

Gorongosa Phylogenetics Workshop 2016

I taught a Phylogenetics workshop for Mozambican students at the Gorongosa National Park in 2016. The course was taught in the park and included the basics of Phylogenetic Systematics and methods of phylogenetic inference using both morphological and molecular data.

Other courses

During my PhD, MSc and undergrad, I was Teaching Fellow of several other courses:

Harvard University

  • Biogeography (OEB 141)

  • Foundations of Biological Diversity (OEB 10)

University of São Paulo

  • Diversification and Biogeography of the Neotropical Biota

  • Evolutionary Biology 

  • Invertebrates II 

  • Evolutionary Processes 

  • Principles of Systematics and Biogeography