Chief Investigators
Coordination of the project organization and of sampling expeditions in Antarctic and sub-Antarctic areas. Redaction of the manuscripts and preparation of reports. Supervision of the phylogeny and phylogeography laboratory work and analyses for freshwater invertebrates.
Coordination of the microbial section of the project. Collaboration in redaction of the manuscripts and in the preparation of reports. To plan and develop campaigns to field with the Project Director. Supervision of the genomics laboratory work and analyses for microorganisms.
Plan and develop campaigns to field with the Project Director. Supervision of the genomics laboratory work and analyses for marine invertebrates.
Plan and develop campaigns to field with the Project Director. Supervision of the genomics laboratory work and analyses for birds and marine mammals.
Associated Researchers
Supervision of the phylogeny and phylogeography laboratory work and analyses for marine invertebrates.
Supervision of the phylogeny and phylogeography laboratory work and analyses for fishes.
Benjamín Vera
Administrative staff
Postdoctoral Researchers
Guillaume Schwob
Biogeography of the microbiota in Antarctic and sub-Antarctic areas
Nicolás Segovia
Biogeography of marine fauna in the Southern Ocean
Associated Postdoctoral - FONDECYT
Céline Lavergne
Microbial ecology of methanogens in aquatic and terrestrial high-latitude ecosystems
Associated Postdoctoral - FONDECYT
PhD Students
Claudia Maturana
PhD student of the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Program at the Universidad de Chile
Historical biogeography of the freshwater Antarctic copepod Boeckella poppei during the Last Glacial Period: Mass extinction or refugium in situ?
Daly Noll
PhD student of the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Program at the Universidad de Chile
Adaptation in contrasting environments in the Southern Ocean: genomic landscape after the speciation of the gastropods genus Margarella
Javier Naretto
PhD student of the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Program at the Universidad de Chile
Phylogeography and recent diversification of the genus Harpagifer (Richardson, 1844) (Perciformes: Notothenioidei) in the Southern Ocean
Zambra Lopez
PhD student of the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Program at the Universidad de Chile
Evaluation of the potential of the subantarctic crab Halicarcinus planatus (Hymenosomatidae) to become the first marine invader in Antarctica: physiological and dispersive capacity
María José Frugone
PhD student of the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Program at the Universidad de Chile
Comparative phylogeography of penguin species of the genus Eudypes: genomic and behavioral diversity in the Southern Ocean
Paula Ocaranza
PhD student of the Marine Biology Program at the Universidad Austral de Chile
Algae phylogeography
Valentina Bernal Durán
PhD student of the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Program at the Universidad de Chile
Connectivity patterns and selection in Harpagifer antarcticus in Maritime Antarctic: A focus on early life stages
Sebastián Rosenfeld Sekulovic
PhD student of the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Program at the Universidad de Chile
Integrative taxonomy and historical biogeography of the genus Laevilitorina (Littorinimorpha: Littorinidae) in the Magellan province
MSc Students
Constanza Ceroni
Magister on Science, mention in Management and Conservation of Natural Resources in Subantarctic Environments
Impact of the Quaternary glaciations on the genetic diversity of populations of Halicarcinus planatus (Fabricius, 1775) in the Magellanic region
Verónica Aros
Magister on Science, mention in Management and Conservation of Natural Resources in Subantarctic Environments
Phylogeography of Halicarcinus planatus (Fabricius, 1775) in the Southern Ocean.
Carolina Pérez
Magister on Science, mention in Management and Conservation of Natural Resources in Subantarctic Environments
Genetic diversity characterization and population structure of Parochlus steinenii (Diptera: Chironomidae), distributed in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica
Constanza Millan
Magister on Biological Science
Genetic diversity and population structure of a brooding sea urchin Abatus cordatus (Verril 1876) in the Kerguelen Archipelago
Undergraduate Students
Marcelo Lizama Morales
Biology, mention in Environment
Single nucleotide polymorphism analysis (SNPs) of Siphonaria lateralis on Subantarctic island Kerguelen
Vanessa Jeldres Quiroga
Marine Biology
Biogeography of Laevilitorina caliginosa
Research Assistants
Sebastián Kraft
Lía Ramirez
Fabiola León