Juan Pascual

Juan is a passionate conservation biologist and scientific communicator. His main interests are laying in vector biology and true mosquitos (Culicidae) ecology.Juan worked as a research assistant in the Baranov's lab from August 2023 to February 2024, and is now embarking onto his PhD journey at EBD.

jpascualgdg(at)gmail.com

Education

• 2015-2019, Bachelor in Biology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

• 2020-2021, Master in Biodiversity and conservation Biology, Universidad Pablo de Olavide y Estación Biológica de Doñana 

• 2021-2022, Master in pedagogics of secondary education, Universidad de Sevilla. Specialization in Biology and Geology

Work experience

• Oct 2020 – present. Research assistant, Estación Biológica de Doñana, Spain.

• January 2020 - July 2020. Research biologist at the University of Azores, Portugal.

• September 2019-December 2019. Erasmus placement researcher, University of Cambridge, Dr. Frank Jiggins' lab.

• September 2018-June 2019. Research student placement, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

• 2017. Research intern at the Oficina Comunitaria de Observación de Aves en São Paulo, Brasil.

Selected publications

• Pascual-Gil, J., García Ruiz, O., Megías, C., Martínez-de la Puente, J., RuizLópez, M. J., Figuerola, J. Sugar diet affects survival, biochemical parameters and immunocompetence of Culex pipiens mosquitoes" (in review). Ecology.

• Arunkumar, R., Zhou, S.O. Day, J. P., Bakare, S., Pitton, S., Hsing, C., O’Boyle, S., Pascual-Gil, J., Clark, B., Chandler, R. J., Leitão, A.B., Jiggins, F. M. (2023). Recurrent loss of an immunity gene that protects Drosophila against a major natural parasite. Proceedings of the National Academy of Siences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2211019120.

• Silva, L., Balibrea, A., Borges Silva, L., Costa, A.C., Fontes, J.P.C., Gabriel, R., Gonçalves, V., Lamelas-López, L., Lima, C.G., Lopes, D.H., Martins, A.F., Molinero, M.A.G., Moura, M., Pascual, J., Raposeiro, P., Santos, S., Soares, A.O., Souto, M.S. & Borges, P.A.V. (2021). Estratégia Regional para a prevenção e controlo de espécies exóticas invasoras no âmbito do Projeto LIFE IP Azores Natura (LIFE17 IPE/PT/000010) – Relatório 3: Análise de risco e modelação do impacto das alterações climáticas nas espécies invasoras dos Açores. Universidade dos Açores, 292 pp.