BraI & Phy Lab wishes you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! We ended another year with victories, we built together moments and memories that will stay forever. 2021 was a difficult year, and even among many setbacks, everything was possible when working as a team! Health, happiness and success everyone! These are… Continue reading Merry Christmas!
The BraIN & Phy team is honored to present our newest alumni, Dr. Felipe Andreazza. Since teenager, Dr. Andreazza joked with his brother that he would study agronomy to produce the best grapes so that his brother, an enologist, would be able to produce the best wines for them to enjoy it together. Surrounded by… Continue reading Profile: Felipe Andreazza
The BraIN & Phy laboratory team is pleased to announce that we have open positions for undergraduate students.The laboratory has a line of research involving target (insect pests) and non-target organisms (predators, pollinators and secondary pests), contributing to the understanding of the physiological basis of the actions of pesticides and other pollutants in terrestrial and… Continue reading Selection for voluntary internship
The 2020/2 period is over and with it the ENT 682 course โEcophysiological Interactions Between Aquatic Insects, Fish and Pollutantsโ taught by Professor Eugรชnio E. de Oliveira in partnership with Dr. Renato Ferraz. Renato Barbosa Ferraz has a degree in Animal Science and a Master in Animal Biology from the Universidade Federal de Viรงosa (UFV)… Continue reading Ecophysiological Interactions Among Aquatic Insects, Fishes and Pollutants
On the last 11th, we received the visit of Professor Carlos Maciel in the resumption of projects developed together with Professor Eugรชnio E. de Oliveira. Since 2012, professors have been working in partnership to analyze data involving the action of pollutants on target and non-target insects, such as pollinating bees. Professor Carlos Maciel, from the… Continue reading Bayesian Network
In the last few weeks, the BraIN & Phy team had the presence of photographer Rodrigo Carvalho, who photographed the insect rearing populations stablished in the BraIN & Phy laboratory. The registers were taken with the purpose of enriching the visual collection of the laboratory, facilitating their uses in papers and scientific dissemination approaches, in… Continue reading Macro photography at BraIN & Phy Lab
One of the missions of BraIN & Phy Lab is to try to combine innovative approaches that link insect physiology to all fundamental and applied knowledge of insect science. This time, our efforts have expanded to understand the impacts of the presence of the predator Belostoma anurum (Hemiptera: Belostomatidae) on the development and oxidative physiology… Continue reading “Fearing the enemy”
The BraIN & Phy team is proud of another published work, now by the PhD in Entomology Paula Daiana de Paulo, who carried out the work during her sandwich doctorate at the Institute of Agricultural Sciences (ICA-CSIC), Madrid, Spain. The cultivation of Bt soybeans and the insect pest Bemisia tabaci (MEAM1) are of great economic… Continue reading CO2 concentration on Bemisia tabaci
This Friday we will have the defense of our master student Viviana Lorena Bohรณrquez Zapata. Due to the pandemic and security guidelines, the defense will be entirely remote. Your defense will take place at 3:00 p.m (Brasรญlia time). Viviana Bohรณrquez is a Biologist by the Universidad de Caldas in Colombia and a Technologist in Water… Continue reading Dissertation Defense
Master student of the BraIN & Phy team receives outstanding work award during an oral presentation at the II Workshop Internacional de Defesa Sanitรกria. The work โImpacts of the insecticide Dimilimยฎ on non-target aquatic insects and on fishโ was developed by the students Hemerson Freitas, Sabrina Araรบjo, Maria Jรบlia Corrรชa, Viviana Bohรณrquez and Luis Salinas… Continue reading Outstanding Work Award
The mixture of different chemical compounds presents new challenges in the management of pests in different cultures. And it is from this scenario that our alumni Higor de Souza Rodrigues focused his research and highlighted its results. The work entitled โSynergism and unintended effects of the association between imidacloprid and sodium chloride (NaCl) on the… Continue reading Effects of the association of NaCl with the insecticide Imidacloprid
While some cycles begin in our team, we are also proud of those that end. The BraIN & Phy team it has honored to present our newest alumni, Wilson Rodrigues Valbon. Graduated in Agronomy from the Universidade Federal do Espรญrito Santo (UFES), Alegre campus, in 2014, Wilson started his journey at the Universidade Federal de… Continue reading Profile: Wilson Rodrigues Valbon
During the pandemic, new efforts have been made so that activities can be carried out following safety and social distancing standards. This week, we met remotely with the purpose of structuring the continuity of the lab activities. We used this moment to review standards of our insect rearing systems, the progress of students coursework activities and… Continue reading Remote activities
The Brain and Phy lab has as one of its missions the combination of innovative approaches that link insect physiology with all fundamental and applied knowledge of insect science. This time, physiological, toxicological and legislative contributions resulted in another innovative work for the team and PPG Entomology of the Universidade Federal de Viรงosa (UFV). The… Continue reading Brazilian cheeses matured in the presence of mites
This week, we had the participation of our principal investigator professor Eugรชnio Oliveira, in the โPapo de insetoโ promoted by the Instagram profile โInsetos do Sertรฃoโ (@insetosdosertao). The profile was created by Biologist Dsc. Tiago Costa Lima, researcher at Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), in order to share informative and humorous content about the world… Continue reading Papo de inseto
Part of the Brain & Phy Lab's research is focused in eco-friendly alternative/complementary tools for agricultural pest management. Today we are proud to see some more of our work being highlighted in the scientific world. Our alumni, DSc. in Entomology, Luis Oswaldo Viteri Jumbo, had his thesis chosen to represent the Graduate Program in Entomology… Continue reading CAPES Thesis Award – 2019 Edition
Recently, science has been trying to reduce risks to the environment and human health, replacing the use of insecticides with other more effective and environmentally accepted alternatives. Plantations are regularly the target of pest attacks capable of significantly affect their productivity generating large economic losses.One of the pests that has caused losses of millions of… Continue reading Publication Highlight: Research develops new biotechnological technique to combat soybean pest
Considering the spread of the coronavirus cases in recent days and following the guidelines of the Ministry of Health, we decided to postpone the intern selection process for BraIN & Phy Lab indefinitely. The decision aims to avoid any type of agglomeration and spread of contagion, preserving the health of everyone. We appreciate everybody's interest… Continue reading COVID-19
The BraIN & Phy laboratory team is pleased to announce that we have open positions for undergraduate students.The laboratory has a line of research involving target (insect pests) and non-target organisms (predators, pollinators and secondary pests), contributing to the understanding of the physiological basis of the actions of pesticides and other pollutants in terrestrial and… Continue reading Selection for voluntary internship
Ph.D. student Pedro Toledo and former postdoc Luis Viteri Jumbo, published an article trying to disentangle the ecotoxicological selectivity of clove essential oil against aphids and non-target ladybeetles. Even though plant-based biopesticides have been proposed as safer insect pest control tools, such assumptions are generally made without considering the absence of detrimental effects on sublethally-exposed… Continue reading Publication Highlight: recent research indicates the physiological basis for the clove essential oil selectivity mechanisms
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