Kamila Kuabara, BEES PhD Candidate, Drexel University

Macroecology and Macroevolution of Avian Chewing Lice (Insecta: Psocodea: Phthiraptera), Parasites of Neotropical Birds (Aves)

Kamila is currently a PhD Candidate at the BEES department, in the Ornithology Lab. Kamila holds a Master’s Degree in Sciences from University of São Paulo (Brazil), and a Bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences from Universidade São Judas Tadeu (Brazil). She participated on the SIBBr project (Brazilian Biodiversity Information System) as a research technician, sorting, cataloguing, and digitizing several different orders of insects at the Museum of Zoology of University of São Paulo. Her research goals are biodiversity, taxonomy, and systematics of feather lice, ectoparasites of birds, mainly from the Neotropical region.