https://www.bigtree-training.org/students daily 0.75 2025-10-10 https://www.bigtree-training.org/students/karen-santisteban monthly 0.5 2025-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62781dca4c176c1faa61c758/5b6bc8ae-fb3d-493d-bf28-c8848fd4eda6/Ancient+Nectandra+seeds Students - Karen Anais Santisteban Obregon - Tracing the sacred seeds: spatial and temporal variations of Nectandra in ancient and contemporary Peru - Make it stand out Ancient Nectandra seeds. https://www.bigtree-training.org/students/geraldine-rueda-munoz monthly 0.5 2025-07-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62781dca4c176c1faa61c758/f4c4836c-9760-433d-ac9c-9373f64a05df/Geraldine+Rueda+Munoz+butterfly.png Students - Geraldine Rueda Muñoz - Genetic load accumulation following the founder effect in Heliconius butterflies: a population genomics study on Gorgona island, Colombia - Make it stand out A Heliconius cydno butterfly from Gorgona Island. https://www.bigtree-training.org/students/diego-salazar monthly 0.5 2025-07-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62781dca4c176c1faa61c758/714d290f-3edd-4088-9713-fe666f46dfa6/diego_salazar_project_2.png Students - Diego Salazar - Evolutionary simulations to evaluate trait detection in GWAS: the effect of sample size and genetic architecture - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62781dca4c176c1faa61c758/6b88b1aa-95b2-4be2-8919-833c7c581a66/diego_salazar_project_1.png Students - Diego Salazar - Evolutionary simulations to evaluate trait detection in GWAS: the effect of sample size and genetic architecture - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.bigtree-training.org/students/jacqueline-hernandez monthly 0.5 2025-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62781dca4c176c1faa61c758/d209c4d8-9b9d-46a2-85e5-1d23179a086b/Tucume_featherworks.jpg Students - Jacqueline Hernández Mejía - Ancient DNA analysis for identification of birds present in feathered artifacts from pre-Hispanic cultures of the Peruvian coast   - Make it stand out Pre-Hispanic featherwork from the Túcume site in northern Peru. https://www.bigtree-training.org/students/emma-falkeid monthly 0.5 2025-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62781dca4c176c1faa61c758/18d3990d-8f07-471a-b0f3-8825f2739d51/EmmaFE+projectimage.jpg Students - Emma Falkeid Eriksen - Genetic risk and connectivity in neotropical pollinators - Make it stand out Orchid bees are key pollinators in the Neotropics. Occurrence points from GBIF and photo from Düster et al. 2018. Peru is shaded on the map. https://www.bigtree-training.org/students/diana-arias monthly 0.5 2025-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62781dca4c176c1faa61c758/f701a16f-5fd6-4009-ae5b-130b4ad74a4f/IMG_6960.jpg Students - Diana Alexandra Arias Cardenas - Genomics of the diversification of Heliconius cydno (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) in northern South America - Make it stand out Heliconius cydno individual. https://www.bigtree-training.org/students/frasella-de-martino monthly 0.5 2025-03-08 https://www.bigtree-training.org/students/fatima-rivera monthly 0.5 2025-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62781dca4c176c1faa61c758/5809dc43-8d75-4a16-8466-8832f33a4860/fatima_snails.jpg Students - Maria de Fatima Rivera Poma - Genomic analysis of the diversification and species boundaries within the Megalobulimus genus (Gastropoda: Mollusca) - Make it stand out Megalobulimus snails sold in a local street market in Tarapoto, San Martin region, Peru. https://www.bigtree-training.org/students/renato-la-torre monthly 0.5 2025-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62781dca4c176c1faa61c758/1f4423ad-2856-4e1c-9eab-fcd0ec5165b7/algarrobos.jpg Students - Renato Daniel La Torre Ramirez - Understanding the diversity and adaptation of Peruvian mesquites with temporal genomics - Make it stand out Neltuma sp. https://www.bigtree-training.org/students/nicolas-luna monthly 0.5 2025-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62781dca4c176c1faa61c758/394e0b28-70bd-4155-9c36-0e211d924abb/sparrow.jpg Students - Nicolas Luna Niño - Urban-rural genomic comparison in Dutch house sparrow populations - Make it stand out Passer domesticus. https://www.bigtree-training.org/students/karla-mantilla monthly 0.5 2024-06-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62781dca4c176c1faa61c758/b2749a10-f609-47bc-a8c1-d6ec4020e623/Episcepsis+venata+butterfly.jpg Students - Karla Mantilla Lobatón - Phylogenomics of the moth genus Episcepsis - Make it stand out Episcepsis venata Butler, 1877. Type species. Male. Dorsal view. Scale bar = 5 mm. Photo: K. Mantilla https://www.bigtree-training.org/students/pierr-cisneros monthly 0.5 2023-09-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62781dca4c176c1faa61c758/96609b9e-e1a8-46a1-8482-cac506bf8b3b/biological+soil+crust.jpg Students - Pierr Cisneros Jurado - Biodiversity of photosynthetic communities in biological soil crusts from extreme ecosystems in Perú - Make it stand out Biological soil crust developing in the upper centimeters of soil from the fog oasis ecosystem. https://www.bigtree-training.org/students/mauricio-salamanca-fonseca monthly 0.5 2023-09-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62781dca4c176c1faa61c758/096c935b-f42a-462a-906f-11ea9f1ba230/Morichal_ecosystem.jpg Students - Mauricio Salamanca Fonseca - Seasonal diversity of root-associated fungi on Orinoquia palms - Make it stand out Morichal ecosystem dominated by the palm species Mauritia flexuosa. https://www.bigtree-training.org/students/jackeline-ruiz-mendoza monthly 0.5 2023-09-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62781dca4c176c1faa61c758/8a5414f1-c6f0-4792-9cf7-1d082bfdaad6/Octopus.png Students - Jackeline Ruiz Mendoza - Population genomics of Octopus species in the Southeast Pacific - Make it stand out A Pacific octopus on the hunt. Photo from Sustainable Fisheries Partnership. https://www.bigtree-training.org/students/elizabeth-escobar-sulca monthly 0.5 2023-09-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62781dca4c176c1faa61c758/e7aa63ae-da7f-4b0e-a77e-87d6624231dc/Caluromys_lanatus_opossum.jpeg Students - Elizabeth Escobar Sulca - Phylogenomics of small mammals in the montane forest of Perú - Make it stand out The brown-eared woolly opossum (Caluromys lanatus), which inhabits eastern Perú and also ranges across South America. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. https://www.bigtree-training.org/students/alejandro-mendivil-malpica monthly 0.5 2023-09-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62781dca4c176c1faa61c758/71eb2608-361f-4d82-8771-7a4b4c9083a4/Aplysia.jpg Students - Alejandro Mendivil Malpica - Phylogenomics of Aplysia sea hares from the Eastern Pacific - Make it stand out Original illustrations of Aplysia species described from Peru. (A) Aplysia lessonii (from Rang, 1828). (B) Aplysia inca (from d’Orbingy, 1837). (C) Aplysia nigra (from d’Orbingy, 1837). (D) Aplysia rangiana (from d’Orbingy, 1837). (E) Aplysia chierchiana (from Mazzarelli & Zuccardi, 1890). https://www.bigtree-training.org/students/marthe-svihus monthly 0.5 2023-09-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62781dca4c176c1faa61c758/1d1be8a3-90f1-4910-b97e-ff13dc22e458/weevil.jpeg Students - Marthe Svihus - A molecular sequence library to disentangle the interaction network of the weevil-aroid community - Make it stand out Weevil visiting a host plant. Photo by Egor Kamelev. https://www.bigtree-training.org/students/shayan-pourazami monthly 0.5 2023-09-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62781dca4c176c1faa61c758/c1541acb-0e0b-44b2-b51b-ce9754b65048/Screen+Shot+2023-02-08+at+1.27.14+PM.png Students - Shayan Pourazami - Adaptation transcriptomics of Peruvian desert snails - Make it stand out Peruvian land snails. Image reproduced from “El Niño in Peru: biology and culture over 10,000 years. Papers from the VIII Annual A. Watson Armour III Spring Symposium, May 28-29, 1999, Chicago.” https://www.bigtree-training.org/students/kamal-hossain monthly 0.5 2023-09-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62781dca4c176c1faa61c758/8f5a9cc7-00a6-403c-bb0f-8bedb5e1d489/colombia+no+attribution+reqd.jpg Students - Kamal Hossain - Advancing conservation of biodiversity by investigating spatial phylogenetics of plants in Colombia - Make it stand out Colombia, the world’s most biodiverse country. https://www.bigtree-training.org/students/jaime-morin monthly 0.5 2023-09-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62781dca4c176c1faa61c758/d53069fd-9653-42af-bc7f-5a5c65703778/Tucume_featherworks.jpg Students - Jaime G. Morin Lagos - Evolutionary history of parrots elucidated by museum genomics and pre-Hispanic South American parrot remains - Make it stand out A parrot featherwork object from the Túcume site, Perú. https://www.bigtree-training.org/students/daniel-angulo monthly 0.5 2023-09-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62781dca4c176c1faa61c758/097196ba-4aca-40f2-b551-c1f1264565e9/paramo+photo.jpg Students - Daniel Angulo Serrano - Effects of altitude and range on root metagenomic diversity in Colombia’s mountain Ericaceae plants - Make it stand out A páramo ecosystem. Image (c) Missouri Botanical Garden. https://www.bigtree-training.org/students/rafael-gongora monthly 0.5 2023-08-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62781dca4c176c1faa61c758/66a34f6c-21b2-4036-a81c-4255ccc87acf/rafael_gongora_otoba_photo+21214_1403197010_web.jpeg Students - Rafael Góngora Rosero - Biodiversity of endophytic fungi isolated from otobo trees from a low montane tropical forest - Make it stand out Otoba gracilipes. https://www.bigtree-training.org/students/juan-sanchez monthly 0.5 2023-02-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62781dca4c176c1faa61c758/947c42ea-548f-493c-a627-a203ed901b5b/WhatsApp+Image+2022-05-27+at+9.54.09+AM.jpeg Students - Juan David Sanchez Tello - Metagenomics of root-associated fungi in the Espeletia plant radiation - Make it stand out Espeletia plants in their páramo habitat. https://www.bigtree-training.org/students/paula-torres monthly 0.5 2023-08-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62781dca4c176c1faa61c758/d35da8af-f799-4d2e-b6e5-4f417217a8da/Spiders.jpg Students - Paula Torres Quintero - De novo transcriptome characterization of the color-polymorphic orb-weaver spider Gasteracantha cancriformis with reference to pigment genes - Make it stand out Gasteracantha cancriformis color morphs. https://www.bigtree-training.org/students/juan-esteves monthly 0.5 2023-08-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62781dca4c176c1faa61c758/c97fef8a-1a16-4916-bef0-f47049d645c6/tucume.jpeg Students - Juan Francisco Esteves Ramírez - Archaeogenomics for molecular identification of botanical and faunal remains from the Túcume archaeological complex - Make it stand out Archaeological ruins at Túcume. https://www.bigtree-training.org/students/alejandra-arana monthly 0.5 2023-08-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62781dca4c176c1faa61c758/745a25a7-58fc-493e-88d3-f850afa3433d/alejandra_amazon_birds_photo.jpeg Students - Alejandra Arana Salinas - Geographic variation in phylogenetic diversity of terrestrial bird communities in Peruvian Amazonia - Make it stand out A native bird of the Peruvian Amazon. https://www.bigtree-training.org/home daily 1.0 2022-09-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62781dca4c176c1faa61c758/a7b6d4fa-46da-4f13-8128-f339189cdbac/screenshot-2022-01-19-at-08-1.05.11.png Home - BiGTREE is an HKdir-funded NORPART training network between Norway, Peru and Colombia. This network aims to provide training in cutting-edge genomics and bioinformatics in the field of biodiversity genomics. Through this scheme, Norwegian and South American students and staff will benefit from collaboration, increased knowledge, impacts, visibility, and reach of their research. Through mutual mobility and cooperation, our ultimate goal is to contribute towards further understanding and conservation of biodiversity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62781dca4c176c1faa61c758/1653058102221-IAV9OCO0TJD4TUM77YG3/unsplash-image-xgQZ1rXbYa4.jpg Home - A major role of BiGTREE is to provide mobility scholarships to M.Sc. and Ph.D. students for research stays in partner countries for 3-6 months. 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