Bernardo F. Santos
 Hymenoptera Peter Buck Postdoctoral FellowÂ
Entomology
National Museum Institute of the History of Art, Conservation and Museology
United States of America
Biography
Bernardo F. Santos, Hymenoptera, Peter Buck Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Entomology, Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History NMNH, United States. He studied Ph.D. in Comparative Biology. Richard Gilder Graduate School (American Museum of Natural History), B.S. in Biology, M.Sc. in Animal Biology. Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brazil.
Research Interest
My research interests are centered on the evolution of one of the most diverse and ecologically important groups of organisms on Earth: the ichneumonid parasitic wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae). I am particularly interested in the processes that generated the impressive diversity of life history strategies, morphological adaptations and ecological traits seen in these wasps. During my Ph.D., I have worked to elucidate these questions by combining a robust phylogenetic framework with statistical tools such as phylogenetic comparative methods and geometric morphometrics. In the process of investigating these issues, I also invest in unraveling the largely unexplored wasp biodiversity, conducting projects of revisionary systematics and describing new species.
Publications
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Aguiar AP, Santos BF. Discovery of potent, unsuspected sampling disparities for Malaise and Möricke traps, as shown for Neotropical Cryptini (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae). Journal of Insect Conservation. 2010 Apr 1;14(2):199-206.
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Michailidou K, Hall P, Gonzalez-Neira A, Ghoussaini M, Dennis J, Milne RL, Schmidt MK, Chang-Claude J, Bojesen SE, Bolla MK, Wang Q. Large-scale genotyping identifies 41 new loci associated with breast cancer risk. Nature genetics. 2013 Apr 1;45(4):353-61.
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Santomauro AT, Boden G, Silva ME, Rocha DM, Santos RF, Ursich MJ, Strassmann PG, Wajchenberg BL. Overnight lowering of free fatty acids with Acipimox improves insulin resistance and glucose tolerance in obese diabetic and nondiabetic subjects. Diabetes. 1999 Sep 1;48(9):1836-41.
