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Portrait of Silvia Pavan Ph.D.

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sep112@humboldt.edu

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Silvia Pavan Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

I was born and grew up in southeastern Brazil, where I completed my bachelor in Biological Sciences. After that I moved to Northern Brazil (Amazon), where I completed a MSC in Zoology. I then moved to New York City, where I completed my PhD.

  • PhD in Biology, 2016, City University of New York, USA
  • MS in Zoology, 2009, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi/Universidade Federal do Pará, Brazil
  • BS in Biology, 2007, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brazil
  • ZOOL 356 Mammalogy

I am broadly interested in biodiversity, and I work with fieldwork exploration and collections-based research to discover and describe species, and to understand species diversity and evolution. My research has been focused on small mammals, especially Neotropical marsupials and rodents. In my studies, I use distinct sources of evidence, including morphological and genomic data, to address problems/questions in systematics, biogeography and evolution. I use both traditional tools, such as the collection and analyses of anatomical data from museum specimens, and modern methods to obtain DNA sequences from historical material deposited in scientific collections

  • Pavan, SE. 2023. Patterns of phenotypic evolution and diversification in the short-tailed opossum genus Monodelphis. In N Carceres (editor), New World Marsupials, 1st ed. Springer Nature, New York, USA.
  • Abreu EF, SE Pavan, MTN Tsuchiya, BS McLean, DE Wilson, AR Percequillo, JE Maldonado. 2022. Old specimens for old branches: Assessing effects of sample age in resolving a rapid Neotropical radiation of squirrels. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 175: 107576.
  • Abreu-Jr EF, SE Pavan, MTN Tsuchiya, DE Wilson, AR Percequillo, JE Maldonado. 2020. Museomics reveals hidden diversity, phenotypic convergence, and the need of a taxonomic overhaul in tree squirrels. BMC Evolutionary Biology 20(77): 1–25.
  • Pavan, SE. 2019. A revision of the Monodelphis glirina group (Didelphidae: Marmosini), with a description of a new species from Roraima, Brazil. Journal of Mammalogy 100: 103-117.
  • Pavan, SE, AC Mendes-Oliveira, RS Voss. 2017. A new species of Monodelphis (Didelphimorphia: Didelphidae) from the Brazilian Amazon. American Museum Novitates 3872: 1-20.
  • Pavan, SE, SA Jansa, RS Voss. 2016. Spatiotemporal diversification of a low-vagility Neotropical vertebrate clade (short-tailed opossums, Didelphidae: Monodelphis). Journal of Biogeography 43: 1299-1309.
  • Pavan, SE, SA Jansa, RS Voss. 2014. Molecular phylogeny of short-tailed opossums (Didelphidae: Monodelphis): Taxonomic implications and tests of evolutionary hypotheses. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 79: 199-214.

Graduate Students

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