Lab Member: Carlos Brito

Degrees:

B.Sc. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota DC, Colombia

Publications:

J. P. VanZee, J. A Schlueter, S. Schlueter, P. Dixon, Carlos A. Brito-Sierra and C. A. Hill. 2015. “Paralog analyses reveal gene duplication events and genes under positive selection in Ixodes scapularis and other ixodid ticks” BMC Genomics.

Carlos A. Brito-Sierra & Hugo Lopez-Arévalo Registro de mamíferos en las pinturas rupestres de Cerro Azul, Guaviare, Colombia. Book Chapter: Saberes Etnozoológicos Latinoamericanos. UEFS. 2015 175pp

Benjamin J Matthews, Olga Dudchenko, Sarah Kingan, Sergey Koren, Igor Antoshechkin, Jacob E Crawford, William J Glassford, Margaret Herre, Seth N Redmond, Noah H Rose, Gareth D Weedall, Yang Wu, Sanjit S Batra, Carlos A Brito-Sierra, Steven D Buckingham, Corey L Campbell, Saki Chan, Eric Cox, Benjamin R Evans, Thanyalak Fansiri, Igor Filipovic, Albin Fontaine, Andrea Gloria-Soria, Richard Hall, Vinita S Joardar, Andrew K Jones, Raissa G G Kay, Vamsi Kodali, Joyce Lee, Gareth J Lycett, Sara N Mitchell, Jill Muehling, Michael R Murphy, Arina Omer, Frederick A Partridge, Paul Peluso, Aviva Presser Aiden, Vidya Ramasamy, Gordana Rasic, Sourav Roy, Karla Saavedra-Rodriguez, Shruti Sharan, Atashi Sharma, Melissa Smith, Joe Turner, Allison M Weakley, Zhilei Zhao, Omar S Akbari, William C Black IV, Han Cao, Alistair C Darby, Catherine Hill, J. Spencer Johnston, Terence D Murphy, Alexander S Raikhel, David B Sattelle, Igor V Sharakhov, Bradley J White, Li Zhao, Erez Lieberman Aiden, Richard S Mann, Louis Lambrechts, Jeffrey R Powell, Maria V Sharakhova, Zhijian Tu, Hugh M Robertson, Carolyn S McBride, Alex R Hastie, Jonas Korlach, Daniel E Neafsey, Adam M Phillippy, Leslie B Vosshall. Improved Aedes aegypti mosquito reference genome assembly enables biological discovery and vector control. bioRxiv 240747 (2018). doi:10.1101/240747

Presentations:

Poster presented at 1nd World Science Conference. Organized jointly by State of Israel and Ministry of Foreing Affairs, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel. August 15-20, 2015. “New technical applications of the Lottus Effect”

Poster at Colombian Congress of Zoology. Organized by Zoologic Colombian Association. Cartagena, Colombia. December 1-5, 2014. “Survey of hematozoa in San José del Guaviare Herpetofauna”

Presentation at UREP-C symposium. Organized by Colombian-Purdue Insitute. Purdue University. West Lafayette, Indiana. December 8, 2015. “Developing Resistance Breaking Insecticides for Mosquito Control: Molecular Characterization of Aedes and Anopheles GPCRs”

Awards:

Scholarship at the World Science Conference, Israel, 2015.

Scholarship Undergraduate Research Experience Purdue-Colombia, UREP-C, 2015

Graduate School’s Lynn Fellowship, Purdue University, 2016