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Dr. Susana Caballero Gaitán - CEMarin

24 12, 2019
Researchers

Dr. Susana Caballero Gaitán

Education

  • 2002-2007 Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolution, University of Auckland, New Zealand. 
  • 1994-1999 B.Sc. in Biology, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia.
  • 1994-1998 B.Sc. in Microbiology, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia.

University Unit

  • Universidad de los Andes 
  • Biological Science Department – Faculty of Science
  • Building A – Office 312
  • Phone: +571 3394949 Ext: 3759

Research Group

LEMVA- Molecular Ecology of Aquatic Vertebrates

http://lemva.uniandes.edu.co/Bienvenido_Welcome.html

Technical/Quantitative skills: 

  • Management of research and academic entities.

Contact information

Professional experience

  • 2009-date Associated professor, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. 
  • 2006-2008 Postdoc position at University of Waikato, New Zealand. 
  • 2004 Visiting researcher, Universidad Federal de Belo Horizonte, Brazil. 
  • 2003 Visiting researcher, Edith Cowen University, Perth, Western Australia.
  • 2000 Visiting researcher, University of Auckland, New Zealand. 
  • 2000 Visiting researcher, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Research Interests

Topics: Use of molecular techniques and genomics to describe the population structure and evolutionary processes of different groups of aquatic mammals: humpback whales, sharks, manatees, bottlenose dolphins, Amazon River Dolphins and the South American coastal and riverine dolphins, the tucuxi and Guiana dolphin.

Selected Publications

Farias-Curtidor, N., Barragán-Barrera D. C., Chávez-Carreño, P. A., Jiménez-Pinedo, C., Palacios, D. M., Caicedo, D., Trujillo, F., Caballero, S. 2017. Range extension for the common dolphin (Delphinus sp.) to the Colombian Caribbean, with taxonomic implications from genetic barcoding and phylogenetic analyses. PLoS ONE 12(2): e0171000. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0171000

Cypriano-Souza, A. L., Engel, M. H., Caballero, S., Olavarría, C., Flórez-González, L., Capella, J., Steel, D., Sremba, A., Aguayo, A., Thiele, D., Baker, C. S., Bonatto, S. L. 2016. Genetic differentiation between humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) from Atlantic and Pacific breeding grounds of South America. Marine Mammal Science. 33 (2): 457-479

https://doi.org/10.1111/mms12378 
Martínez, J. G., Caballero, S., Sánchez-Bernal, D., Nogueira de Assunção, E., Astolfi-Filho, S., Hrbek, T. and I.P. Farias. 2016. De novo SNP markers development for the Neotropical gilded catfish Brachyplatystoma rousseauxii using next-generation sequencing-based genotyping. Conservation Genet Resour (2016) 8: 415. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12686-016-0584-1

Number of publications: 

Cvlac: 63

TAGS: Molecular ecology, phylogeography, taxonomy, molecular systematics.