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I'm a second year PhD student working under Dr Jim Woolley at the Parasitic Hymenoptera Research Labs @ TAMU.
This is just a summary list of what I've been doing these days. Something more formal and/or concrete is posted at the Lattes CV and Lab web site!

Spring '09

Project	Description
Systematics of Chalcidoidea	Collaboration with the Chalcidoidea Tree of Life morphological matrix: character definition and coding using MX Mapping the evolution of biological habits over the Chalcidoidea "partial" trees Actually I'm more like messing with giant data sets and trees that look more like dandelions (or combs if you prefer) and trying to find sense in them.
NSF-PEET	Signiphoridae taxonomy Digital catalog with literature (yeah I know it's reinventing the wheel [2]) Assessment of Signiphoridae holdings at TAMU Vouchering images: standard views using optical microscopy and SEM Lucid key to species groups (Signiphora) Revision of Thysanus web interface for DEB-0730616 (AKA The TAP*)

Side projects / On Hold

Comparative inventory of tools applied to collaborative taxonomy via WWW (2008)
Molecular phylogenies of Encyrtidae (Chalcidoidea) inferred from COI, Cyt-B and 28S rDNA
Pe. Moure's Neotropical Bee Catalogue : hey, the full online version was officially released! (July '08, VIII Encontro sobre Abelhas, Ribeirão Preto, SP)
Brazilian Students Association [BRSA] Web Site : 95% done migrating to Drupal (January '09)
- yeah I still have to integrate this calendar thing, still not working
Arquivo de Textos da Bio, to be reborn for the second time in three years (Summer '09)
Chalcidoidea: Biologia, Sistemática e Classificação : A LONG DUE update since the first release (Fall '09, I hope)
Chalcidoidea and galls - Biological control of Psidium cattleianum :
- English version of the book is being revised and released some time in 2009
- Chemical defenses of Psidium cattleianum draft w/ Alessandro Angelo and Cesar Butignol
- papers are being revised again for submission (sigh)

Oh yeah and I write about 80s and 90s music for dyingdays.net although my writing has seen better days

* TAP = Tiny Ass PEET (Catanach, 2008)

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Projects

Spring '09