Research Projects

Area of Concentration: Vegetal Genetics

Research Line – Cytogenetics of Vertebrates

Fiberblast Bank and Bioprospecting of Mesenchymal Stem-Cells in the Brazilian Biodiversity

Coordinator: Julio Cesar Pieczarka 

Starting date: 09/2012

Funding:  National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) - (Research Funding)

Biogeography and Cytogenomics of a Neotropical Group of Fish in the Amazon Region Using Comparative Genomic Mapping by Chromosome Painting and DNA Barcoding

Coordinator: Cleusa Yoshiko Nagamachi

Starting date: 09/2012

Funding:  National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) - (Research Funding)

Cytogenomics of Mammals

Coordinator: Edivaldo Herculano Correa de Oliveira

Starting date: 09/2012

Funding: 

Development of the Biodiversity Advanced Studies Center (CEABIO)

Coordinator: Julio Cesar Pieczarka 

Starting date: 09/2012

Funding:  The Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES – Portuguese Acronym) – Research Support Foundation

Study of the Biodiversity of Small Mammals in the Amazon and Its Biotechnological Use

Coordinator: Cleusa Yoshiko Nagamachi

Starting date: 12/2010

Funding: 

Cytogenetic and Cytogenomic Studies of the Amazon Biodiversity, with Implementation of Technical Advancements

Coordinator: Cleusa Yoshiko Nagamachi

Starting date: 01/2014

Funding: Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel(CAPES) – Pro-Amazon: Biodiversity and Sustainability

Comparative Genomic Mapping through Chromosome Painting in Bats from the Phyllostomidae Family: towards the construction of the family phylogeny and its ancestral karyotype

Coordinator: Julio Cesar Pieczarka

Starting date: 12/2013

Funding: 

The Impact of the Chromosome Painting Technique (Fish Simples e Fish Multicor) in the Study of the Chromosome Phylogeny in Rodents from the Cricetidae Family with Focus on Sigmodontinae and in Fish from the Gymnotiformes Order with Focus on the Gymnotus Genus

Coordinator: Cleusa Yoshiko Nagamachi

Starting date: 01/2014

Funding: 

Research Line – Systematics and Biography of Fishing Resources

Estuary-Sea Connectivity Evaluated Through the Genetic Structure of Fish of Economic Importance

Coordinator: Horacio Schneider 

Starting date: 01/2008

Funding:  National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq)- (Research Funding) / State of Pará Research Support Foundation (FAPESPA) – Support Program

Genetic Connectivity Among Estuary-Dependent (or Resident) Fish Populations Evaluated Through Mitochondrial DNA

Coordinator: Horacio Schneider

Starting date: 01/2011

Funding:  National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq)- (Research Funding)

Mangrove Fringed Estuaries and Deltas in North Brazil: differences and analogy of fish connectivity

Coordinator: Horacio Schneider

Starting date: 01/2012

Funding:  National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) - (Research Funding)

Research Line – Systematics and Molecular Evolution of Vertebrates

Structural Genomic Analysis of Callithrix penicillata (Primates, Platyrrhini)

Coordinator: Evonnildo Costa Gonçalves

Starting date: 01/2012

Funding: 

Studies of the Biodiversity of Vertebrates in the Amazon

Coordinator: Julio Cesar Pieczarka 

Starting date: 01/2012

Funding:  State of Pará Research Support Foundation (FAPESPA) – (Support Program)

Phylogeny and Phylogeography of Cebus and Sapajus

Coordinator: Horacio Schneider

Starting date: 01/2012

Funding:  National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq)- (Financial Support)

Molecular Phylogeny of Phylogenetically Neglected Species

Coordinator: Horacio Schneider

Starting date: 01/2010

Funding:  National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq)- (Financial Support)

Molecular Phylogeny of Vertebrates

Coordinator: Horacio Schneider 

Starting date: 01/1998

Funding:  National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq)- (Financial Support)

Genome of Brazilian Birds, Phylogenomics, Speciation, Conservation and Neural Genic Networks Linked to the Birdsong (Humming Bird and Thrush) and Talking Ability Implatation

Coordinator: Maria Paula Cruz Schneider

Starting date: 01/2010

Funding:  National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq)- (Financial Support) / Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) – Special Projects

Research Lines – Chromosome Variation and Karyotypic Evolution

Cytogenetics of Birds: Evolutionary and Cytotaxonomic Aspects

Coordinator: Edivaldo Herculano Correa de Oliveira

Starting date: 09/2012

Funding: 

Genetic Mapping and Taxonomic Diversity Small Non-Volant Mammals from the Estuary Region of the Amazon River

Coordinator: Cleusa Yoshiko Nagamachi

Starting date: 01/2008

Funding:  State of Pará Research Support Foundation (FAPESPA) – (Support Program)