Study path:

• Degree in Biology (2011-2014) and Master Degree (2014-2017) in Eco-Biology at the University 'La Sapienza' in Roma
• 1 year internship (2016-2017) in the AgriColture and AgriFood Canada (AAFC) research center in Ottawa, working on using Ultra-conservative elements on the solitary bees of the genus Nomada
• Won 'Formacion para Investigadores' grant to apply to the PhD program 'Biomedical and Evolutionary Biotecnology' (RD99) in 'Universitat de les Illes Balears' (2018-). Title of the PhD thesis 'Analisis genético y genomico de anfipodos del género Hyalella (Crustacea) en la cuenca del lago Titicaca (Altipiano Andino)'.

Specialization:

• Wet lab for DNA and RNA extraction, gene amplification and purification, preparation of Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) libraries and amplification of non-coding region by the use of probes.
• Phylogenetic analyses on arthropods with the use of short and long markers.
• Population genetic analyses with the use of Single-Nucleotide polymorphism (SNPs) markers.
• Use of Bioinformatic pipelines to perform the above stated analyses. Knowledge on programming languages such as: Python, Bash and R.

Publications:

• Jurado-Rivera, J. A., Zapelloni, F., Pons, J., Juan, C., & Jaume, D. (2020). Morphological and molecular species boundaries in the Hyalella species flock of Lake Titicaca (Crustacea: Amphipoda), Contributions to Zoology, 89(4), 353-372. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/18759866-bja10004
• Zapelloni, F., Pons, J., Jurado-Rivera, J.A. et al. Phylogenomics of the Hyalella amphipod species-flock of the Andean Altiplano. Sci Rep 11, 366 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-79620-4
• Zapelloni, F.; Jurado-Rivera, J.A.; Jaume, D.; Juan, C.; Pons, J. Comparative Mitogenomics in Hyalella (Amphipoda: Crustacea). Genes 2021, 12, 292. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes12020292
• Jaume, D., Zapelloni, F., Pons, J., Juan, C., & Jurado-Rivera, J. A. (2021). The Hyalella species flock of Lake Titicaca (Crustacea: Amphipoda): perspectives and drawbacks of dna-based identification, Contributions to Zoology, 90(4-5), 409-462. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/18759866-bja10021