LABORATÓRIO DE ECOLOGIA QUÍMICA DAS INTERAÇÕES INSETO-PLANTA (LEQIIP)
WELCOME
The lab is led by Professor Maria Fernanda Peñaflor and located in the Entomology Department of Lavras Federal University, Lavras, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Since 2015, the lab has been composed of several undergraduate, MSc. and PhD. students, and a postdoctoral researcher. The abbreviature LEQIIP means Laboratório de Ecologia Química das Interações Inseto-Planta, the lab name in Portuguese, and refers to L'ÉQUIPE (the team in French) because the lab spirits is team work. The lab investigates both basic and applied questions on chemical ecology of insect-plant interactions.
2024 LEQIIP team
NEWS
LEQIIP represented at ALAEQ Meeting in Buenos Aires
M. Fernanda has contributed to the program in a symposium organized by Milena Mansur y Florencia to discuss chemically-mediated plant-insect interactions in agroecosystem.
End of the day in the Meeting in Buenos Aires
Enggel do Carmo has received ALAEQ's student travel award to participate in the event!
Grad and undergraduate students from LEQIIP have presented their research in the Latin America's most important event in Chemical Ecology! It was a great event organized by Alaeq members at Universidad de Buenos Aires!
How can Chemical Ecology help biological control with entomophagous agents?
Maria Fernanda has organized a symposium about Chemical Ecology involving pest biological control agents with emerging Brazilian female scientists in the 17th Siconbiol, in Petrolina, PE, Brazil. July 2023
Thesis defenses
Lara Sales and Fernanda Andrade successfully defended their Ph.D. theses in March 2023. The theses were about (i) how biostimulants alter coffee chemical direct and indirect defenses to mealybugs; (ii) how herbivory by a phytophagous mite and the coffee leaf miner shapes chemically-mediated multitrophic interactions.
LEQIIP at Gordon Research Conference - Feb/23
Sofia Pimenta, phD student of LEQIIP, presented her thesis work in collaboration with Dr. Anjel Helms (Texas A&M University), at the Gordon Research Conference in Ventura, CA, USA!
Visit of Dr. Emma Sayer (Lancaster University) at LEQIIP - Nov/22
We had lots of fun discussing the student's projects with Emma and eating "pães de queijo" (Brazilian typical cheese rools)
Women in Science!
We were honored with Dr. Emma Sayer visit in our lab.
Brazilian Congress of Entomology
Bruna Côrrea da Silva, PhD. Student of LEQIIP went to the Brazilian Congress of Entomology in Fortaleza to present part of the work she developed for her Master dissertation (September 2022).
Undergraduate Thesis Defense
Bianca Pitaluga Magalhães has defended the work developed during her scientific trainee at LEQIIP. She got 98 out of 100! She is now a Bsc. in Biological Sciences! Good work, Bianca!