Geimy Carolina Pardo DÃaz
Proffesor
Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Universidad del Rosario
Spain
Biography
Undergraduate in Microbiology, Universidad de los Andes (2008). PhD in Zoology, University of Cambridge (2013). Postdoctoral researcher, Universidad del Rosario (2014). Principal career professor, Universidad del Rosario (2015 to date).
Research Interest
She is interested in understanding and determining the identity of molecular and developmental mechanisms that produce diversity and that control evolutionary change in natural populations. To this end, I study recent adaptive radiations in order to understand if the regulatory and gene expression mechanisms that control the production of adaptive phenotypes follow the same principles and patterns in nature. In particular, I focus my research on Neotropical butterflies of the genus Heliconius, an emerging model in the Evo-Devo field, showing a great adaptive morphological diversity where the alar coloration pattern serves as a warning sign of toxicity to potential predators.
Publications
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Reed, R., Pope, R., Martin, A., Hines, H., Counterman, B., Brown-Diaz, C., Jiggins, C., Chamberlain, N. , Kronforst, M., Chen, R., Halder, G., Nijhout, HF., McMillan, WO. (2011). optix Drives the Repeated Convergent Evolution of Butterfly Wing Pattern Mimicry. Science, 333, 1137.
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Pardo-Diaz, C., Salazar, C., Baxter, SW., Merot, C., Figueiredo-Ready, W., Joron, M., McMillan, WO., Jiggins, C. (2012). Adaptive Introgression across Species Boundaries in Heliconius Butterflies. PLoS Genetics: 8 (6): e1002752.
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Pardo-Diaz, C., Jiggins, C. (2014). Neighboring genes shaping the single adaptive mimetic trait. Evolution and Development: 16, 3. doi: 10.1111 / ede.12058
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Pardo-Diaz C., Salazar C., Jiggins, CD (2015) Towards the identification of the loci of adaptive evolution. Methods in Ecology and Evolution.6: 445-464.
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Sanchéz AP, Pardo-Diaz C., Enciso-Romero J., Muñoz A., Jiggins CD, Linares M., Salazar C. (2015) An introgressed wing pattern acts as a mating cue. Evolution.69: 1619-1629.
