Amanda Vieira da Silva, msc

She/her/hers | ✉ mandyvieira15@gmail.com | 🌐amandaviesi.weebly.com

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EDUCATION

2020 PhD student in Evolution and Diversity

Federal University of ABC, Brazil
Thesis: The cost of partnership between plants and floral visitors: biotic and
abiotic factors regulating floral exploration

2018 - 2020 Master in Ecology, Conservation and Wildlife Management

Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Dissertation: Web wars: males of the golden orb-web spider Trichonephila clavipes
escalate more in contests for mated females and when access to females is easier

2013 - 2017 Bachelor of Biological Sciences

Federal University of de São Paulo, Brazli
Title: The germination of Leucena leucocephala (Lam.) de Wit (Fabaceae:
Mimosoideae) is enhanced by predation by Acanthoscelides macrophthalmus
(Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae)?

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Additional education

2021 - 2021 Short-term course Introduction to programming languages (60h).

São Paulo University, Brazil

2018 - 2018 Field course Amazon Forest Ecology (240h).

National Institute in Amazon Research, Brazil

2018 - 2018 Summer course XVI Summer Course in Entomology (85h).

São Paulo University, Brazil

2017 - 2017 Short-term course in XIII Comparative Physiology (120h).

São Paulo University, Brazil

2017 - 2017 Short-term course in III Ecological School (25h).

São Paulo University, Brazil

2016 - 2016 Summer course in I Summer Course in Mycology (30h).

Botanical Institute, Brazil
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PUBLICATIONS

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Papers

1. DA SILVA AV, OLIVEIRA R, PEIXOTO PEC. 2021. Web wars: males of the golden orb-web
spider invest more in fights for mated females. BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY. v.32, 617-624

2. DA SILVA AV, ROSSI MN. 2019. When a seed-feeding beetle is a predator and also increases
the speed of seed germination: an intriguing interaction with an invasive plant. EVOLUTIONARY
ECOLOGY. v.33, 211-232
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Book chapters

1. DA SILVA AV, Araújo BL, Brunelli ES, Franzolin GN, Vaver KFT. 2020. O papel da monitoria e
do estágio docêcia na formação do professor universitário. In: Movimentos docentes: confluências
na educação, edited by Rosalen M, Carolei P. Diadema: V&V, 92-101

1. SILVA AV, Rossi MN. 2017. Comportamento reprodutivo de Acanthoscelides macrophthalmus

(Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae). In: Temas atuais em ecologia comportamental e
interações, edited by Calixto ES, Torezan-Silingardi HM. Uberlândia: Composer, 194-203

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GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS

2022 Grantship by International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI) Brazilian
Section to attend IUSSI 2022 (Ants on flowers: a meta-analysis on the ecological
cost of bodyguard ants to pollination)

2022-2023 FAPESP BEPE scholarship to visit University of Michigan

2021-2024 FAPESP doctoral research fellowship

2020-2021 UFABC doctoral research fellowship

2018-2020 CNPq master research fellowship

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PRESENTATIONS

*awarded presentations

2022 Ants on flowers: a meta-analysis on the ecological cost of bodyguard ants to

pollination (IUSSI 2022)

2022 Does pollinator body size affect pollen carryover in a buzz pollinated plant? (IV
Brazilian Symposium on Pollination)

2021 Does protective ants affect pollination of partner plants? (II Symposium on
 Ecology, Evolution and Diversity)

2021 Ants on flowers: do bodyguard ants affect the pollination of their partner plants?
(Insetos Sociais em Rede)

2020 The cost of partnership between plants and flower visitors: factors regulating the
effects of exploitation in pollination mutualisms (7th worskshop on Evolution and
Diversity)

2020 Web wars: males of the golden-orb weber spider invest more in fights for mated
and aggregate females (Animal Behavior Society Virtual Meeting)

2020 Web wars: males of the golden-orb weber spider invest more in fights for mated
and aggregate females (Behavior live)

2019 Fight for female: males of Triconephila clavipes modify their investment in defense
according to mating chances?) (XIV Brazilian Ecology Congress) * 2ndbest talk

2019 Size is not document: males of Trichonephila clavipes (Araneae: Araneidae) do not
adjust their investment in defense according to female fecundity (I Symposium
on Ecology, Evolution and Diversity)

2017 Beetle facilitates the development of one of the most invasiveness plant species
(VI UFABC Biology week) * best talk

2017 Reproductive behavior of Acanthoscelides macrophthalmus (Coleoptera:

Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae) (II Behavioral Ecology and Interactions)

2017 More love, please: describing beetles’ sexual behavior (V Annual Biology talk)

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RESEARCH POSITIONS

2017 - 2017 São Paulo University (Undergraduate student)

Project intitled: Does triclosan affect development and skin microbiome of
amphibia?

2013-2015 Butantan institute (Undergraduate student)

Project intitled: Diet of Tomodon dorsatus (Tachymenini)
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE
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Teaching assistantship

2022 Biodiversity: interactions between organisms and environment (UFABC) –

undergrad
Provided instructions to students, corrected exercises

2020 - 2023 Introduction to R (UNIFESP) – grad

Provided instructions to students, lecture about functions and loops, and
summary of the course (https://amandavieira.shinyapps.io/PPGEE)
2017 Evolution II (UNIFESP) - undergrad
Provided summary classes before exams, prepared and corrected exercises lists,
guided group activities

2017 Evolution I (UNIFESP) - undergrad

Provided summary classes before exams, prepared and corrected exercises lists,
guided group activities, stimulated discussions

2017 Biostatistics (UNIFESP) - undergrad

Provided summary classes every week, prepared and corrected exercises lists,
guided group activities, introduction to R

2017 Applied statistics to environmental sciences (UNIFESP) - undergrad

Provided summary classes every week, prepared and corrected exercises lists,
guided group activities, introduction to R

2016 Community ecology (UNIFESP) - undergrad

Provided summary classes before exams, prepared and corrected exercises lists
2016 Chemistry (UNIFESP) – undergrad

Prepared and corrected exercises lists, assistance during exams

2016 Population ecology (UNIFESP) - undergrad
Provided summary classes before exams, prepared and corrected exercises lists

2015 Genetics (UNIFESP) - undergrad

Provided summary classes before exams, prepared and corrected exercises lists,
assistance during exams

2015 Evolution (UNIFESP) - undergrad

Provided summary classes before exams, prepared and corrected exercises lists

2014 Genetics (UNIFESP) - undergrad

Provided summary classes before exams, prepared and corrected exercises lists,
assistance during exams
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SKILLS
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Coding

1. R language
Advanced level on R language
Workshops:
1. Meta-analysis in R: an introduction from metaDigitise and metafor packages
(2022)
2. RStudio and its functionalities (2022)
3. R intermediate (2022)
4. Introduction to R (2019, 2021, 2022)
5. Building figures with ggplot2 (2022)
 2. Python
Beginner level
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Fieldwork

2022 Atlantic rainforest (SP – Brazil)

Search for Chamaecrista (Fabaceae) plants and observation of pollination

2022 Caatinga (PE – Brazil)

Search for Chamaecrista (Fabaceae) plants

2018 Atlantic rainforest (SP – Brazil)

Observation of the golden orb-web spider Trichonephila clavipes
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REVIEWER

1. Behavioral ecology
2. Peer J
3. Revista Brasileira de meio Ambiente
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OUTREACH & MEDIA
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Outreach Papers

1. Happy (?) Atlantic Rainforest Day – pt-br

(https://gec.proec.ufabc.edu.br/ciencia-ao-redor/feliz-dia-da-mata-atlantica/)

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Outreach Activities

1. Biology on the street (2017)

Biology students go to the street to present their research to the public

2. Tutorial Educational Program (2017)

Program based on encourage students to do research, teach and outreach

3. Newborn hill stick test (2016)

Talk about the importance of the newborn hill stick test on a highschool

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Media

1. Ants on flowers: a meta-analysis on the ecological cost of bodyguard ants to pollination –

2022 (poster presentation for IUSSI 2022 – en)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oYcLxtqj9k)
2. Ants on flowers: do ants affect the pollination of partner plants - 2021 (talk for Insetos
Sociais em rede - en)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RNPWDUagjU&t=3s)

3. Sexual cannibalism - 2020 (outreach talk - pt - br)

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ciq0HduNKg&t=49s)

4. How spiders mate - 2020 (outreach talk - pt - br)

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTSPGbC486I)

5. Dissertation project - 2019 (outreach talk - pt - br)

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz8dOsoBMo8)