CURRICULUM VITAE
Adrian Antonio Garda
March, 2006

Personal Information

  • Birth: April 24, 1976, Brasília, Brasil.
  • Home address: 810 Hardin Dr., Norman, Oklahoma, 73072, USA
  • E-mail: garda@ou.edu

Main Research Interests

  • Herpetology
  • Systematics
  • Biogeography
  • Population Genetics

Education

  • 2002-Present PhD in Zoology (in progress).The University of Oklahoma, O.U., Norman, Oklahoma, USA.Dissertation Title: Systematics and Biogeography of paradoxical frogs frogs. Major Professor: Janalee P Caldwell.
  • 1999 - 2002 Masters in Cell and Structural Biology, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, UNICAMP, São Paulo, Brazil.Dissertation title: A ultra-estrutura do espermatozóide de anuros das famílias Dendrobatidae, Microhylidae e Pseudidae. Major Professor: Sônia Nair Báo. Co-Advisor: Guarino Rinaldi Colli.
  • 1995 - 1999 Bachelor in Biological Sciences, Universidade de Brasília, UnB, Brasília, DF, Brasil.

Field Experience

  • 02/02-03/02 Field assistant in Mateiros (Jalapão region), Tocantins, Brazil. Supervisors: Guarino Colli, Janalee P. Caldwell, and Laurie Vitt.
  • 12/00-01/01 Field assistant in Guajará-Mirim, Rondônia, Brazil. Supervisor: Guarino Colli.Project: "Estrutura e dinâmica da biota de isolados naturais e antrópicos de Cerrado: lições para a biologia da conservação" (Structure and dynamics of the biota of natural and man-made Cerrado isolates: lessons for conservation biology). Survey of amphibians and reptiles in natural open vegetation islands in the Amazon forest.
  • 07/00-08/00 Field assistant in Pimenta Bueno, Rondônia, Brazil. Supervisor: Guarino Colli.Project: "Estrutura e dinâmica da biota de isolados naturais e antrópicos de Cerrado: lições para a biologia da conservação" (Structure and dynamics of the biota of natural and man-made Cerrado isolates: lessons for conservation biology). Survey of amphibians and reptiles in natural open vegetation islands in the Amazon forest.
  • 11/99 Field assistant in Palmas, Tocantins, Brazil. Supervisors: Reuber Brandão and Ayrton Péres-Júnior.

Languages

  • Portuguese
  • English
  • Spanish

Scholarships, Assistanships, Honors, and Awards.

  • 02/96 - 03/98 Undergraduate research scholarship on the project: Effects of fire on the mortality of woody vegetation in central Brazil. Bolsa do Projeto RHAE.
  • Undergraduate research scholarship on the project: The ultrastructure of the Spermatozoa of frogs from the family Dendrobatidae.
  • 02/00-02/002 Masters scholarship from the Brazilian financial agency CAPES.
  • 2002 Fall Graduate Teaching Assistanship, Department of Zoology, University of Oklahoma.
  • 2003 Spring Graduate Teaching Assistanship, Department of Zoology, University of Oklahoma.
  • 2003 Adams Scholarship: Graduate Research Assistanship for the Summer. $ 2500.
  • 2003 Adams Scholarship: Academic Year Scholarship. $ 1000.
  • 2003 Lauren Hill Fund for field work support. $ 1000.
  • 2003 Capes schoolarship (Brazil). Tuition/fees and montly estipend up to 3 years.
  • 2004 Adams Schlarship: Academic Year Scholarship. $ 1000.
  • 2004 Spring Graduate Teaching Assistanship, Department of Zoology, University of Oklahoma.
  • 2004 Fall Graduate Teaching Assistanship, Department of Zoology, University of Oklahoma.
  • 2004 Award to attend the Amphibia Tree Meeting at Austin, Texas, 3-4 December 2004. $ 340.

Bibliographic Production

Full articles Published in Scientific Meetings

  1. Sato MN, Garda AA, and Miranda HS, 1998. Effects of fire on the mortality of woody vegetation in central Brazil. In: III International Conference of forest fire research and 14th conference on fire and forest, Luso. III International Conference on Forest Fire Research and 14th Conference on Fire and Forest Meteorology. v. 2, p. 1777-1784.
  2. Wiederhecker HC, Gainsbury AM, Werneck FP, Vieira GHC, Costa GC, Garda AA, Colli GR. O que influencia a distribuição local de lagartos em uma mata? VI Congresso de Ecologia do Brasil. Local: Fortaleza-CE. Período: 9 a 14 de novembro de 2003.

Talks Given in Scientific Meetings

  1. Garda AA, Costa GC, Colli GR, and Báo SN. The ultrastructure of the spermatozoa of Pseudinae (Anura, Amphibia) with a test on the hypothesis of correlated evolution between sperm ultrastructure and reproductive modes in anurans. Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists at Manaus, Brazil. June 24-July 2, 2003.

Abstracts in Scientific Meetings

  1. Biavati GM, Garda AA, and Costa GC. Dimorfismo sexual, reprodução e dieta em uma população de Pipa arrabali na Serra do Cachimbo, Pará. In: XXVI Congresso Brasileiro de Zoologia - A Zoologia nos Neotrópicos, 2006, Londrina, Paraná, trabalho 70-299.
  2. Lion MB, Garda AA, Péres JR AK, Wiederhecker HC. Estudo comparativo da diversidade de haplótipos em populações naturais e invasoras de Tupinambis merianae. In: 2º Congresso Brasileiro de Herpetologia, 2005, Pontíficia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais (PUC-Minas), Belo Horizonte - MG, 2005.
  3. Braz SV, Garda AA, Báo SN. Ultra-estrutura e caracterização do espermatozóide de Pseudis fuscus (Anura, Hylidae). In: 2º Congresso Brasileiro de Herpetologia, 2005, Pontíficia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais (PUC-Minas), Belo Horizonte - MG, 2005.
  4. Wanderley PS, Garda AA, Sebben A. Descrição da vascularização mesentérica em três espécies de Pseudis (Anura: Hylidae). In: 2º Congresso Brasileiro de Herpetologia, 2005, Pontíficia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais (PUC-Minas), Belo Horizonte - MG, 2005.
  5. Pellicano PIM, Garda AA, Sebben A. Aspectos comparativos da musculatura axial em Pipidae. In: 2º Congresso Brasileiro de Herpetologia, 2005, Pontíficia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais (PUC-Minas), Belo Horizonte - MG, 2005.
  6. Vitt LJ, Caldwell JP, Colli GR, Shepard DB, Mesquita DO, França FG, Costa GC, Garda AA. Herpetofauna of the Jalapão region of the Brazilian Cerrado. In: Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists at Tampa, FL, 2005.
  7. Costa GC, Teixeira RD, Garda AA, Colli GR, Báo SN. An ultrastructural comparative study of the sperm of Hyla and Scinax (Amphibia: Anura; Hylidae). Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists at Manaus, Brazil. June 24-July 2, 2003.
  8. Vitt LJ, Caldwell JP, Colli GR, Garda AA, Mesquita DO, and França FG.  Variation in vegetation structure on small geographic scales affects structure of Cerrado lizard assemblages.  Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists at Manaus, Brazil. June 24-July 2, 2003.
  9. Garda AA, Costa GC, Colli GR, and Báo SN. A ultra-estrutura do espermatozoide da familia Pseudidae (Anura) e suas implicações filogenéticas. In: XXIV Congresso Brasileiro de Zoologia, Itajaí, 2002. Anais do XXIV Congresso Brasileiro de Zoologia.
  10. Wiederhecker HC, Gainsbury AM, Werneck FP, Costa GC, Garda AA, Colli GR. Distribuição e Abundância de Lagartos em Região de Mata Amazônica ao Noroeste de Rondônia. In: XXIV Congresso Brasileiro de Zoologia, Itajaí, 2002. Resumos do XXIV Congresso Brasileiro de Zoologia, 2002.
  11. Costa GC, Garda AA, Báo SN, Colli GR. Estudo ultra-estrutural do espermatozóide de Phyllomedusa hypochondrialis (Anura, Hylidae). In: XXIV Congresso Brasileiro de Zoologia, Itajaí, 2002. Anais do XXIV Congresso Brasileiro Zoologia.
  12. Costa GC, Garda AA, Colli GR, Báo SN. Estudo Ultra-Estrutural do espermatozóide de Phyllomedusa hypochondrialis (Anura, Hylidae). In: 7º Congresso de Iniciação Científica da Universidade de Brasília, 2001, Brasilia. Anais do 7º Congresso de Iniciação Científica da Universidade de Brasília, 2001.
  13. Costa GC, Garda AA, Colli GR, Báo SN. Análise Ultra-Estrutural do espermatozóide de Pseudis bolbodactyla (Anura, Pseudidae). In: Jornada de Iniciação Científica JINC da SBPC, 2001, Salvador. Anais do SBPC.
  14. Garda AA, Colli GR. Aspectos da Ecologia de Hoplocercus spinosus no Cerrado do Brasil central. In: XXIII Congresso Brasileiro de Zoologia, 2000, Cuiabá, MT. XXIII Congresso Brasileiro de Zoologia. 2000. p. 529.
  15. Braz VS, Fonseca BM, Garda AA, and Brandão RA, 2000. Dieta de Pseudis bolbodactyla (Amphibia, Pseudidae) em uma represa em Pirenópolis - GO. In: XXIII Congresso Brasileiro de Zoologia, Cuiabá, MT, p. 458.
  16. Garda AA and Báo SN, 1999. Ultrastructural study of the testicular spermatozoa of Epipedobates flavopictus (Amphibia, Anura, Dendrobatidae). In: XVII Congress of the Brazilian society for microscopy and microanalysis and X Congress of the Brazilian society of Cell Biology, 1999, Santos, SP. Acta Microscopica, 8: 533-534.

Field Notes

  1. Brandão RA and Garda AA, 2000. Scinax fuscomarginatus (NCN). Predation. Herpetological Review, 31(1): 171.

Articles in Peer Reviewed Scientific Journals

  1. Costa GC, Garda AA, Teixeira RD, Colli GR, and Báo, 2004. Sperm ultrastructure of three species of Phyllomedusa (Anura; Hylidae). Acta Zoologica (Stockholm), 85: 257-262. Download PDF.
  2. Costa GC, Vieira GHC, Teixeira RD, Garda AA, Colli GR, Báo SN, 2004. An ultrastructural comparative study of the sperm of Hyla pseudopseudis, Scinax rostratus, and S. squalirostris (Amphibia: Anura: Hylidae). Zoomorphology, 123:191-197. Download PDF.
  3. Garda AA, Costa GC, Colli GR, & Báo SN. 2004. Spermatozoa of Pseudinae (Amphibia, Anura, Hylidae), with a test of the hypothesis that sperm ultrastructure correlates with reproductive modes in anurans. Journal of Morphology, 261: 196-205. Download PDF.
  4. Brandão RA, Garda AA, Braz V, and Fonseca B, 2003. Observations on the ecology of Pseudis bolbodactyla (Anura, Pseudidae) in central Brazil. Phyllomedusa, 2(1): 3-8. Download PDF.
  5. Colli GR, Caldwell JP, Costa GC, Gainsbury AM, Garda AA, Mesquita DO, Filho CMMR, Soares AHB, Silva VN, Valdujo PH, Vieira GHC, Vitt LJ, Werneck FP, Wiederhecker HC, and Zatz MG, 2003. A new species of Cnemidophorus (Squamata, Teiidae) from the Cerrado biome in Central Brazil. Occasional Papers of the Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, N.14, p.1-14. Download PDF.
  6. Colli GR, Costa GC, Garda AA, Kopp KA, Mesquita DO, Péres-Jr. AK, Valdujo PH, Vieira GHC, and Wiederhecker HC, 2003. A critically endangered new species of Cnemidophorus (Squamata, Teiidae) from a Cerrado enclave in southwestern Amazonia, Brazil. Herpetologica, 59(1): 76-88. Download PDF.
  7. Aguiar-Jr O, Garda AA, Lima AP, Colli GR, Báo SN, and Recco-Pimentel, SM, 2003. Biflagellate Spermatozoon of the Poison-Dart Frogs Epipedobates femoralis and Colostethus sp. (Anura, Dendrobatidae). Journal of Morphology, 255: 114-121. Download PDF.
  8. Vitt LJ, Caldwell JP, Colli GR, Garda AA, Mesquita DO, França FGR, and Balbino SF, 2002. Um guia fotográfico dos répteis e anfíbios da região do Jalapão no Cerrado brasileiro. Special Publications in Herpetology, Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, N.1, p.1-17. Download PDF.
  9. Scheltinga DM, Jamieson BGM, Bickford DP, Garda AA, Báo SN, and MacDonald, KR, 2002. Morphology of the spermatozoa of the Microhylidae. Acta Zoologica (Stockholm), 83: 263-275.
  10. Garda AA, Colli GR, Aguiar-Jr O, Recco-Pimentel SM, and Báo SN, 2002. The Ultrastructure of the spermatozoa of Epipedobates flavopictus (Amphibia, Anura, Dendrobatidae), with comments on its evolutionary significance. Tissue&Cell, 34(5): 356-364. Download PDF.
Accepted
  • Mesquita DO, Colli GR, Costa GC, França FGR, Garda AA, and Péres-Jr AK. At the water's edge: ecology of semi-aquatic teiids in Brazilian Amazon. Accepted to Journal of Herpetology

In Review

  • Vitt LJ, Colli GR, Caldwell JP, Mesquita DO, Garda AA and França, FGR. Lizard species richness and diversity are determined by habitat characteristics at a microgeographic scale: implications for conservation.
  • Garda AA, Biavati GM, and Costa GC . Sexual dimorphism, female fertility, and diet of Pipa arrabali (Anura, Pipidae) in Serra do Cachimbo, Pará, Brazil.

In Preparation

  • Garda AA, Mesquita DO, Costa GC, and França FGR. Ecology of three amazonian populations of Lysapsus limellum bolivianus (Anura: Hylidae).

Other Skills

  • Broad knowledge in Cerrado and Amazonian herpetofauna.
  • Photography
  • Skilled in several software such as Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, MacClade, Adobe Photoshop/Ilustrator/GoLive/Acrobat, EndNote, PAUP®, MrBayes, Systat, SAS, IgorPro, Sequencher.

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