Luis Amador
Evolutionary Biology
Welcome to my website!
I am an evolutionary biologist, currently working as a postdoc at Lisa Barrow's Lab in the Department of Biology/University of New Mexico. We are studying the genetic/genomic variation of global amphibians using an approach that involves DNA sequences, geographic and ecological data, natural history traits, and phylogenies.
Education
My Ph.D. studies were realized in the most beautiful city in Chile: Valdivia. I was part of the Ecology and Evolution program at the Universidad Austral de Chile with the supervision of Dr. Guillermo D’Elía. I defended my thesis on population genomics of crayfish in January 2021 via Zoom during the pandemic. Previously I earned a master's degree in Natural Resources Management and Environment, and a bachelor's degree in Biology, both at the Universidad de Guayaquil in my home country Ecuador.
Postdoctoral experience
Right after my doctoral degree, I started to work with Guillermo D’Elía as an associated researcher at the Universidad Austral de Chile on Project Fondecyt No. 1180366 called: "Shedding light at the grey zones of the diversification of long-haired mice of the subgenus Abrothrix (Sigmodontinae): species delimitation and speciation genomics". Since March 2022 I have been happy to work with my favorite animals, the amphibians! With Dr. Lisa Barrow at the University of New Mexico, we are investigating what predicts genetic variation in global amphibians as part of her NSF Project: Determinants of amphibian genomic diversity: Integrating traits, phylogeny, and geography.
Contact:
Address: CERIA 83, 302 Yale Blvd NE, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131
E-mail: laamador@unm.edu