Current Project

• Unlocking the sensory secrets of predatory wasps: towards predictive tools for managing wasps' ecosystem services in the Anthropocene 

PI: Seirian Sumner (PI); Gavin Broad (NHM) (co-I)

team: CA Oi (named postdoc); Dr. Eyal Privman (University of Haifa) (collaborator); Dr. Alexandra Cerqueira de Araujo (Senior bioinformatitian); Yoann Pellen (PhD candidate)

funding: NERC (NE/Y001397/1)

 Other project collaborations:

• Sexual Selection in Neotropical social wasps

PI: Dr. Andre Rodrigues de Souza

funding: Fapesp (20/14464-2)

team: L Beani; CA Oi; FS Nasimento; J Lino Neto; KSC Yotoko

• The Role of Social Insects in Food Security: Lessons from Traditional Communities Across the World

PIs: Prof. Seirian Sumner and Prof. Lewis Daly 

team: CA Oi; Femi E. Benny; Thejavicko Chase

funding: UCL Grand Challende Climate Crisis

Past projects

• Asian Giants and Oak Trees – Can biotic interactions explain global distribution of the Asian Giant Hornet? (2024)

PI: CA Oi

team: Femi E. Benny; Seirian Sumner; Thejavicko Chase

funding: UCL Research Progression Grant

• Uncovering Brazilian Genomic Resources (2024)

PI: CA Oi

team: Seirian Sumner; Fabio Santos Nascimento; Alexandre Somavilla; Marco Del Lama

funding: UCL Global Engagement

• Secrets to a Successful Hunt: Integrating Genomes, Chemistry and Behaviour in Neotropical Solitary Wasps (2022- 2024)

PI: Seirian Sumner; Fabio S Nascimento

team: CA Oi

funding: NERC (NE/W004437/1) & Fapesp 

• Wasp’s up? The molecular regulation of behavioural transitions in solitary wasps (2022-2024)

PI: Seirian Sumner

funding: EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Grant agreement ID: 101028937 (10.3030/101028937)

• The evolution of caste dimorphism and reproductive plasticity in insect societies (2021- 2026)

PI: Tom Wenseleers; Fabio S Nascimento

co-I: CA Oi; RC Oliveira

funding: FWO  & Fapesp

team: T Wenselleers (PI); FS Nascimento (PI); CA Oi (co-I); RC Oliveira (co-I); A Mattens

• An Evo-devo of the evolution of division of labour in social insect (2018-2022)

PI: Tom Wenseleers; Fabio S Nascimento

co-I: CA Oi

funding: FWO (G0F8319N) & Fapesp (18/10996-0)

team: T Wenseleers (PI); FS Nascimento (PI); CA Oi (co-I); IC Nascimento; RC Oliveira; HM Ferreira; AR de Souza; RC da Silva; A Prato

• Evolution of pheromonal communication and neuroethological plasticity in social Hymenoptera (2018-2020)

PI: Dr. Fabio Nascimento

funding: Fapesp

team: FS Nascimento (PI); IC Nascimento; ACR Andrade; CA Oi (collaborator); RC Oliveira; L Valadares; AR de Souza; A Prato; RC da Silva; DS Assis; W Antonialli-Junior

• Research grant FWO, ranked as 1st place. (PI €40k) 

PI: CA Oi

funding: FWO

• Conflict and cooperation in insect societies (2013 - 2016)

PI: Dr. Fabio Nascimento & Dr. Tom Wenseleers

funding: CNPq (402661/2012-5)

team: FS Nascimento (PI); T Wenseleers; S Mateus; DA Alves; RC Oliveira; CA Oi (PhD student KU Leuven)

• The chemical crown of royalty: the origin and evolution of queen pheromones in insect societies (2014 - 2017)

PI: Dr. Tom Wenseleers

funding: FWO

team: T Wenseleers (PI); J van Zweden; R C Oliveira; FS Nascimento; CA Oi (PhD student KU Leuven)

• Biodiversity and sustainable use of bee pollinators (2006-2010)

PI: Dr. Vera Lucia Imperatriz Fonseca

Funding: Fapesp  (04/15801-0) 

(CA Oi Bsc & MSc student UFSCar)