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Dr. Juan Armando Sánchez Muñoz - CEMarin

24 12, 2019
Researchers

Dr. Juan Armando Sánchez Muñoz

Education

  • 1998-2003 Ph.D. in Biological Sciences, University at Buffalo (SUNY), U.S.A.
  • 1998-2001 M.Sc. in Biological Sciences, University at Buffalo (SUNY), U.S.A.
  • 1996-1998 M.Sc. in Biological Sciences, National University of Colombia, Colombia. 
  • 1986-1994 B.Sc. in Marine Biology, University Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Colombia.

University Unit

  • Universidad de los Andes. 
  • Department of Biological Sciences.
  • Laboratorio de Biología Molecular Marina (BIOMMAR).
  • Calle 19 No 1-60 (J 212/ J 308). Bogotá, Colombia.
  • Building J Office 211 .

Research Group

Technical/Quantitative skills: 

  • Deep water diving.

Contact information

Professional experience

  • 2019-date Member of academic strategy made by the Colombian government, “Misión de Sabios”.
  • 2004-date Full professor at Universidad de los Andes, Colombia.
  • 2003-2004 Postdoc position at National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research. 
  • 2002-2003 Postdoc position at Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History.
  • 1999 Researcher at State University Of New York Buffalo.
  • 1996-1998 Researcher at Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Colombia.
  • 1995-1996 Associate researcher at Instituto de investigaciones marinas y costeras José Benito Vives de Andreis (INVEMAR).

Research Interests

Topics: Evolutionary biology, molecular ecology, marine ecology, population genomics, coral reef science, conservation biology.

Selected Publications

Sánchez, J.A. 2013. Remarkable specialization in Eastern Pacific sea fan ectoparasites (Neosimnia). Coral Reefs 32 (3): 891-891, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-013-1049-6

Sánchez, J.A., McFadden, C.S., France, S.C., Lasker, H.R., 2013. Molecular phylogenetic analyses of shallow-water Caribbean octocorals. Marine Biology 142 (5): 975–987,  doi: 10.1007/s00227-003-1018-7. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-003-1018-7 

Foster, N., Paris, C., Kool, J., Baums, I., Stevens, J., Sánchez, J.A., Bastidas, C., Agudelo, C.,  Bush, P., Day, O., Ferrari, R., González, P., Gore, S., Guppy, R.,  McCartney, M., McCoy, C., Mendes, J., Srinivasan, A., Steiner, S., Vermeij, M., Weil, E., Mumby, P. 2012. Connectivity of Caribbean coral populations: complementary insights from empirical and modelled gene flow. Molecular ecology 21 (5): 1143-1157, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05455.x  

Eakin, C., Morgan, J.A., Heron, S., Smith, T., Liu, G., Alvarez-Filip, L., Baca, B., Bartels, E., Bastidas, C., Bouchon, C., Brandt, M., Bruckner, A., Bunkley-Williams, L., Cameron, A., Causey, B., Chiappone, M., Christensen, T., Crabbe, J., Day, O., Guardia, E., Díaz-Pulido, G., DiResta, D., Gil-Agudelo, D., Gilliam, D., Ginsburg, R., Gore, S., Guzmán, H., Hendee, J., Hernández-Delgado, E., Husain, E., Jeffrey, C., Jones, R., Jordán-Dahlgren, E., Kaufman, L., Kline, D., Kramer, P., Lang, J., Lirman, D., Mallela, J., Manfrino, C., Maréchal, J.P., Marks, K., Mihaly, J., Miller, W., Mueller, E., Muller, E.M., Orozco Toro, C.A., Oxenford, H., Ponce-Taylor, D., Quinn, N., Ritchie, K., Rodríguez, S., Rodríguez Ramírez, A., Romano, S., Samhouri,  J.F., Sánchez, J.A., Schmahl, G., Shank, B.,  Skirving, W., Steiner, S., Villamizar, E., Walsh, S., Walter, C., Weil, E., Williams, E., Roberson, K., Yusuf, Y. 2010. Caribbean corals in crisis: record thermal stress, bleaching, and mortality in 2005. PloS one 5 (11): e13969, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0013969 

Number of publications: 

Cvlac: 116

TAGS: Molecular ecology and marine science.