born in São Paulo, Brazil
currently at Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
159 Sapsucker Woods Rd., Ithaca, NY, USA 14850
Academic Appointments
2024–current | Assistant Curator of Ornithology, Florida Museum of Natural History
2022–current | Associate Researcher, Museum of Zoology of University of São Paulo
2022–2023 | Edward Rose Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University
2022–2024 | Visiting Scholar, Simoes-Costa Lab, Harvard Medical School
Education
2015–2022 | PhD, Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University
2011–2013 | Master of Science, Zoology, University of São Paulo
2007–2010 | Bachelor’s degree, Biological Sciences, University of São Paulo
2007–2010 | Bachelor's degree, Science Education, University of São Paulo
Publications
2024 | Rego MA, Del-Rio G, Brumfield RT. 2024. Subspecies-level distribution maps for birds of the Amazon basin and adjacent areas. Journal of Biogeography. 51(1), p.14-28. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14718.
2024 | Capurucho JMG, Musher LJ, Lees A, Rego MA, Del-Rio G, Aleixo A, Luzuriaga-Aveiga VE, Ferreira M, Ribas CC, Thom G. Amazonian avian biogeography: Broadscale patterns, microevolutionary processes, and habitat-specific models revealed by multidisciplinary approaches. Ornithology. 141(1), ukad051. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/ornithology/ukad051.
2023 | Musher LJ, Del-Rio G, Marcondes RS, Brumfield RT, Bravo GA, Thom G. Geogenomic Predictors of Gene tree Heterogeneity Explain Phylogeographic and Introgression History: A Case Study in an Amazonian Bird (Thamnophilus aethiops). Systematic Biology. syad061. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syad061.
2022 | Del-Rio G, Rego MA, Whitney BM, Schunck F, Silveira LF, Faircloth BC, Brumfield RT. Displaced clines in an avian hybrid zone (Thamnophilidae: Rhegmatorhina) within an Amazonian interfluve. Evolution. 76(3), p. 455-475
2022 | Musher LJ, Giakoumis M, Albert J, Del-Rio G, Rego M, Thom G, Aleixo A, Ribas C, Brumfield RT, Smith BT, Cracraft J. River network rearrangements promote speciation in lowland Amazonian birds. Science Advances. 8(14) doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abn1099.
2021 | Del-Rio G, Mutchler MJ, Costa B, Hiller AE, Lima G, Matinata B, Salter JF, Silveira LF, Rego MA, Schmitt D. Birds of the Juruá River: extensive várzea forest as a barrier to terra firme birds. Journal of Ornithology. 162, p. 565–577
2021 | Slobodian V, Soares KDA, Falaschi RL, Prado LR, Camelier P, Guedes TB, Leal LC, Hsiou AS, Del-Rio G, Costa ER, Pereira KRC, D’Angiolella ABD, Sousa AS, Diele-Viegas LM. Why we shouldn’t blame women for gender disparity in academia: perspectives of women in zoology. Zoologia. 38, p. 1-9
2020 | Feng S, Stiller J, […], Del-Rio G et al. Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics. Nature. 587, p. 252-257
2017 | Del-Rio G, Rego MA, Silveira LF, Itoh A. Plant Invasion: another threat to the São Paulo Marsh Antwren (Formicivora paludicola), a species on the verge of extinction. PloSOne. 12(12), p. e0189465
2017 | Tonnetti V, Bocalini F, Silveira LF, Del-Rio G. Taxonomy and systematics of the Yellow-green Grosbeak Caryothraustes canadensis (Passeriformes: Cardinalidae). Brazilian Journal of Ornithology. 25(3), p. 176-189
2017 | Del-Rio G. Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil the Atlantic Forest of Southeast Brazil, including São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro (book review). Journal of Field Ornithology. 88(1), p. 94- 95
2017 | Costa TVV, Piacentini VQ, Oliveira DMM, Schunck F, Whitney BM, Rego MA, Rubio TC, Oliveira F, Freitas B, Del-Rio G, Seeholzer GF, Harvey MG, Terrill RS, Correa AG, Arantes F, Silveira LF. New records of the enigmatic Clytoctantes atrogularis (Thamnophilidae) in Amazonian Brazil, with remarks on plumage, natural history, and distribution. Wilson Journal of Ornithology. 129(1), p. 1-12
2016 | Del-Rio G, Silveira LF. Remarks on the Natural History of São Paulo Marsh Antwren (Formicivora paludicola). Wilson Journal of Ornithology. 128 (2), p. 445-448
2015 | Del-Rio G, Rego MA, Silveira LF. A multiscale approach indicates a severe reduction in Atlantic Forest wetlands and highlights that São Paulo Marsh Antwren is on the brink of extinction. PloSOne. 10, p. e0121315
2015 | De Camargo C, Gibbs HL, Costa MC, Del-Rio G, Silveira LF, Wasko AP, Francisco MR. Marshes as mountain tops: genetic analyses of the Critically Endangered São Paulo Marsh Antwren (Aves: Thamnophilidae). PloSOne.10(10), p. e0140145
2015 | De Camargo C, Costa MC, Del-Rio G, Gibbs HL, Glenn TC, Bagal U, Silveira LF, Wasko AP, Francisco MR. Novel and cross-amplified microsatellite loci for the critically endangered São Paulo Marsh Antwren Formicivora paludicola (Aves: Thamnophilidae). Conservation Genetics Resource. 7, p. 129
2015 | Cavarzere V, Del-Rio G, Schunck F, Piacentini VQ, Rego MA, Somenzari M, Silveira LF. Wintering Sporophila seedeaters in an Amazonian Cerrado ecotone in central Brazil. Cotinga. 37, p. 57
2014 | Rego MA, Del-Rio G, Silveira LF. A taxonomic review of Picumnus exilis (Aves: Picidae) reveals an underestimation of Piculet species diversity in South America. Journal of Ornithology. 155, p. 853-867
2014 | Marcondes RS, Del-Rio G, Rego MA, Silveira LF.Geographic and seasonal distribution of a little known Brazilian endemic rail inferred from occurrence records and ecological niche modeling. Wilson Journal of Ornithology.126, p. 663-672
2013 | Del-Rio G, Silveira LF, Cavarzere V, Rego MA. A taxonomic review of the Golden-green Woodpecker, Piculus chrysochloros (Aves: Picidae) reveals the existence of six valid taxa. Zootaxa. 3626, p. 531-542
Honors and Awards
2023 | American Ornithological Society James G. Cooper Early Professional Award
2022 | Edward W. Rose Postdoctoral Fellowship
2021 | SEC Emerging Scholar Program
2021 | Wilson Ornithological Society, Jed Burtt Undergraduate Mentoring Grant
2020 | American Ornithological Society Award best oral presentation
2019 | Wilson Ornithological Society Graduate Student Research Award
2019 | LSU T. Vinton Holmes Ornithology Award
2019 | American Ornithological Society Travel Award
2018 | LSU Museum of Natural Science Outstanding Graduate Student
2018 | Society of Systematic Biologists Graduate Student Research Award
2018 | Brazilian Ornithology Meeting best oral presentation
2018 | Sir Charles Blois Explorer Award by the Scientific Exploration Society
2018 | American Museum of Natural History Chapman Memorial Fund Grant
2016 | American Association of University Women, International Student Fellowship
2016 | LSU Alumni Association International Student Scholarship
2015 | Science Without Borders Fellowship PhD
2014 | Cooper Ornithological Society Mewaldt-King Student Research Award
2012 | São Paulo Research Foundation Fellowship (FAPESP) master’s degree
2012 | Brazilian Ornithology Meeting best oral presentation graduate student
2011 | Brazilian Ornithology Meeting best oral presentation undergraduate student
2009 | São Paulo Research Foundation Fellowship (FAPESP) undergraduate research
Field Work
2019 | LSU Emilie Snethlage Women Expedition, Amazonas Brazil 35 days – expedition leader
2018 | LSU Collecting Expedition, Manicoré, Amazonas, Brazil 40 days
2017 | LSU Collecting Expedition, Apuí, Amazonas, Brazil 22 days – expedition leader
2016 | LSU Collecting Expedition, Colniza, Mato Grosso, Brazil 40 days – expedition leader
2015 | INPA Bird banding workshop, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil 7 days
2014 | MZUSP Bird banding, monitoring and collecting, Abunã, Rondônia, Brazil 30 days
2014 | Bird monitoring, São Simão, Goiás, Brazil 20 days
2014 | MZUSP Collecting Expedition, Santana do Araguaia, Pará, Brazil 30 days – expedition leader
2013 | LSU Collecting Expedition, Sucunduri, Amazonas, Brazil 30 days
2012 | MZUSP Collecting Expedition, Campos do Jordão, São Paulo, Brazil 10 days
2012 | MZUSP Bird banding, monitoring and collecting, Abunã, Rondônia, Brazil 30 days
2012 | LSU Collecting Expedition, Sucunduri, Amazonas, Brazil 30 days
2012 | Bird monitoring “Ecology of Formicivora paludicola project” ~260 days – expedition leader
2011 | Bird monitoring and banding, Mogi das Cruzes, São Paulo, Brazil 15 days
2011 | MZUSP Bird banding, monitoring and collecting, Abunã, Rondônia, Brazil 30 days
2011 | Fauna Forever banding workshop, Puerto Maldonado, Peru 15 days
2010 | MZUSP Collecting Expedition, Matina, Bahia, Brazil 20 days
2010 | Field volunteer at project “Breeding Biology of Lear’s Macaw”, Bahia, Brazil 30 days
2010 | MZUSP Bird banding, monitoring and collecting, Abunã, Rondônia, Brazil 30 days
2010 | MZUSP Collecting Expedition, Santana do Araguaia, Pará, Brazil 30 days
2009 | MZUSP Collecting Expedition, Santana do Araguaia, Pará, Brazil 30 days
Teaching Experience
2019–2022 | Teaching assistantship, Biology Laboratory for Science Majors, Louisiana State University
2019–2019 | Invited lecturer, Evolution, Louisiana State University
2018–2018 | Invited lecturer at Genomics workshop, Brazilian Ornithology Meeting
2015–2015 | Invited lecturer, Genetics, Louisiana State University
2015–2016 | Teaching assistantship, Genetics, Louisiana State University
2015–2015 | Invited instructor, IV INPA Bird Banding Workshop
2014–2015 | Teaching assistantship, R Language for Statistics, University of São Paulo
2014–2014 | Invited lecturer, Ornithology, University of São Paulo
2013–2014 | Teaching assistantship, Ornithology, University of São Paulo
Laboratory, Computational and Curatorial Experience
2019–2021 | Curatorial assistantship at LSU Museum of Natural Science Genetic resources collection
2015–2021 | Preparation of genomic libraries whole-genome resequencing, UCEs, RADseq
2015–2021 | Preparation of bird scientific specimens taxidermized ~600 birds
2012–2021 | Bioinformatics: R, Python, command line bwa, bedtools, GATK, plink, Phyluce, STACKS
2009–2014 | Curatorial assistantship at Museum of Zoology of University of São Paulo Bird and genetic resources collections
Mentoring Experience
2024-current | Raphael Sabongi Lucio Marcelino – Ph.D. Biology at the University of Florida
Phylogenomics of Piciformes and genomic basis of bill shape in birds
2024-current | Preston Bertka-Ballard – B.S. Wildlife Ecology and Conservation at the University of Florida
Genomics of the hybrid zone between Red-eyed and White-eyed Eastern Towhee
2022-current | Ryan Zucker – B.S. Biological Sciences at Cornell University
Vocal variation and phylogenetic relationships in the genus Rhegmatorhina
Cornell Lab of Ornithology Undergraduate Research Grant
2022-current | Huy Truong – B.S. Biological Sciences at Cornell University
Systematics and taxonomy of Vireolanius leucotis
Cornell Lab of Ornithology Undergraduate Research Grant
2019–2021 | Marquette Mutchler – B.S. Biological Sciences at Louisiana State University
Vocal variation and phylogeography of Myrmoborus myotherinus
Wilson Ornithological Society, Jed Burtt Undergraduate Mentoring Grant
2017–2019 | Ashley Schoonmaker – B.S. Computer Science and B.S. Biological Sciences at Louisiana State University
Plumage variation and phylogenetics of the genus Myrmoborus
2017–2018 | Layse Albuquerque and Daniele Mariz – Visiting students at Louisiana State University
Ultraconserved elements for the study of population genetics in caatinga birds
Journal Reviewer
Nature Communications, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Systematic Biology, Evolution, Journal of Heredity, Ornithology, Wilson Journal of Ornithology, Journal of Field Ornithology, Brazilian Journal of Ornithology, Tropical Conservation Science, Check List the journal of biodiversity data, Bird Conservation International, Biota Neotropical
Conferences and Presentations
2021 | Congresso Latino Americano de Evolución oral presentation (symposium)
2021 | American Ornithological Society oral presentation (symposium)
2021 | Brazilian Ornithological Meeting invited keynote speaker
2021 | Society for the Study of Evolution Meeting
2020 | North American Ornithological Conference oral presentation (best presentation award)
2019 | American Ornithological Society Meeting oral presentation
2018 | 25th Brazilian Ornithological Congress oral presentation (best presentation award)
2015 | 10th Neotropical Ornithological Congress oral presentation
2015 | Society for the Study of Evolution Meeting
2014 | 21st Brazilian Ornithological Congress oral presentation
2012 | 19th Brazilian Ornithological Congress oral presentation (best presentation award)
2011 | 18th Brazilian Ornithological Congress oral presentation (best presentation award)
2011 | 9th Neotropical Ornithological Congress oral presentation
2010 | 25th International Ornithological Congress
2009 | 17th Brazilian Ornithological Congress
Outreach and Seminars
2022 | American Museum of Natural History Seminar Series
2022 | SUNY Cortland, NSF LSAMP Seminar Series
2022 | Cornell University, Ornithology Seminar Series
2021 | LSU College of Science, Science and Spirits event, showcase museum activities for donors
2021 | West Chester Bird Club, talk about the Emilie Snethlage Expedition
2021 | Avistar Brazil, Women in Science and a tribute to Emilie Snethlage round table
2021 | Delaware Valley Ornithological Club, talk about the Emilie Snethlage Expedition
2021 | UFBA Symposium of Neotropical Zoology
2020 | Federal University of Pernambuco, talk at Seminar Series, the Rhegmatorhina hybrid zone
2020 | Federal University of Ceará, talk at Seminar Series, the Rhegmatorhina hybrid zone
2019 | LSU Museum of Natural Science Night at the Museum
2019 | LSU Museum of Natural Science Girls in STEM event
2019 | Avistar Brazil, talk about Emilie Snethlage Expedition
2018 | LSU Museum of Natural Science 6th graders and Science
2018 | LSU Museum of Natural Science Night at the Museum
2017 | LSU Museum of Natural Science Special Saturday
2016 | LSU Museum of Natural Science Special Saturday
2015 | LSU Geaux Science, event to get undergraduate students interested in Science Majors
2015 | Butanta Bird Observatory, talk about the Woodpeckers family
2015 | Avistar Manaus, talk about predictive morphology in birds
2014 | Avistar Brazil, talk about the São Paulo Marsh Antwren
2013 | Avistar Brazil, talk about the Puffbirds family
2012 | Museum of Zoology of University of São Paulo, talk at Seminar Series, Urban Birds
2012 | Avistar Brazil, talk about the Woodpeckers family
2010 | Organization of the Biological Sciences Meeting, University of São Paulo
Memberships
2017–2023 | American Ornithological Society
2018–2019 | Society of Scientific Exploration
2016–2020 | American Genetic Association
2016–2021 | Society of Systematic Biologists
2015–2022 | Society for the Study of Evolution
2015–2018 | American Association of University Women
2014–2021 | Wilson Ornithological Society
2010–2019 | Brazilian Ornithological Society
Workshops
2022 | IACUC Introduction to the Care and Use of Animals for Research, Teaching, and Testing
2022 | Cornell University, It Depends on the Lens: implicit bias in faculty search committees
2021 | Interactive High Performance Computers via the web, Louisiana State University
2021 | SEC Emerging Scholars Program
2020 | High Performance Computers II, Louisiana State University
2018 | High Performance Computers, Louisiana State University
2019 | SLIM workshop, population genetics simulation, Cornell University
2015 | Bird banding, molting and ageing, INPA
2013 | Ecological Niche Modeling, IPE, Institute of Ecological Research
2012 | R language and computation for Biologists, University of São Paulo
2011 | Bird banding, molting and ageing, CORBID
2011 | Bird survival and breeding success in the field, Brazilian Ornithological Society
2010 | Bioacoustics for Ornithology, Brazilian Ornithological Society