| EDUCATION |
| 2019 - present | Ph.D. in Biology (EEB) (The Graduate Center at CUNY) |
| 2015 - 2017 | B.A. in Biology, magna cum laude (Rutgers University) |
| 2011 - 2014 | A.S. in Biology (Essex County Community College) |
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| SELECTED RESEARCH EXPERIENCE |
| 2015 - 2017 | Undergraduate Research Assistant, Rutgers University, "Systematics and biogeography of the banner-winged damselflies (Odonata: Polythoridae)."
Dr. Jessica L. Ware and Dr. Melissa Sanchez Herrera
| | 2016 | Undergraduate Research Assistant, American Museum of Natural History, "Assessing cryptic diversity in Leucocytozoon (Haemosporida: Leucocytozoidae) using novel nuclear markers."
Advisors: Dr. Susan Perkins and Dr. Spencer Galen
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| SELECTED WORK EXPERIENCE |
| 2020 | Teaching Assistant, Department of Biology, City College of New York
| | 2019 | Laboratory Technician, Department of Biology, New Jersey Institute of Technology (Barden Lab)
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| GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS |
| 2021 | NSF GRFP, Honorable Mention
| | 2016 | NSF REU, American Museum of Natural History (Perkins Lab)
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| PUBLICATIONS |
| Sanchez Herrera, M., Beatty, C., Nunes, R., Realpe, E., Salazar, C., & Ware, J. L. (2020). An Exploration of the Complex Biogeographical History of the Neotropical Banner-Wing Damselflies (Odonata: Polythoridae). BMC Evolutionary Biology, 20(1), 74. [Article] |
| Galen, S. C., Nunes, R., Sweet, P. R., & Perkins, S. L. (2018). Integrating coalescent species delimitation with analysis of host specificity reveals extensive cryptic diversity despite minimal mitochondrial divergence in the malaria parasite genus Leucocytozoon. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 18(1), 128. [Article] |
| Sanchez Herrera, M., Beatty, C., Nunes, R., Realpe, E., Salazar, C., & Ware, J. L. (2017). A molecular systematic analysis of the Neotropical banner winged damselflies (Polythoridae: Odonata): Phylogenetic relationships of Polythoridae. Systematic Entomology, 43(1), 56-67. [Article] |
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| SELECTED POSTERS AND PRESENTATIONS |
| 2017 | Entomological Society of America, Newport, Rhode Island. Using an Exon Primed Intron Crossing Marker to bolster tree resolution for a family of Neotropical damselfly. (Poster). Nunes, R., Sanchez Herrera, M., and Ware, J. L.
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