Dr. Maria Alejandra Parreño
Research Department Life Science Systems
Technische Universität München
Hans-Carl-von-Carlowitz-Platz 2
D-85350 Freising-Weihenstephan
Room: 1.2.1.8
Phone: +41788797333
Email: alejandra.parreno(at)tum.de
ORCID: 0000-0002-1453-5693
Research interest
- Conservation Biology
- Nutritional Ecology
- Population Genetics
- Global Change Biology
- Biodiversity Sciences
My main research interest is how human activities affect biodiversity in agricultural landscapes and how we can design practices to improve conservation.
To address these questions I mainly work with insects, among them bees, fruit flies and aphids, studying their interactions with plants such as pollination and herbivory.
The main focus of my current work is:
- How do wild bees and cultured honeybees health differs based on the type of wild flowers they consume?
- How can we design better agro-ecological landscapes that support a healthy and large pollinator community?
Curriculum Vitae
| 2020-present | Post-doctoral Scientist, Plant-Insect-Interactions, Wissenschaftszentrum Weihenstephan, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany |
| 04/2015-04/2020 (expected) | PhD Ecology, Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland |
| 08/2013-01/2015 | MSc. Behavior, Evolution and Conservation, Department of Ecology and Genetics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 01/2006-11/2012 | BSc. Biology (Licenciatura), Department of Ecology and Genetics, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| For a full CV refer to my linkedin account. |
Publications
- Parreño, MA., Petchey, S., Chapman, M., Altermatt, F. et al. (2020), Improving our understanding of biodiversity through everyday experiences, People and Nature (in review)
- Liendo, MC., Parreño, MA., Pietrek, A., Bouvet, J., Milla, F., Vera, T., Cladera, J.,Segura, D. (2020), Infestation of fruit by conspecific and heterospecific females deters oviposition in two Tephritidae fruit fly species, J. Applied Entomol. (submitted)
- Parreño, MA., Schmid, B., Petchey, O. (2020), Identi fication, comparison, and analysis of hypotheses in systematic review, Basic and Applied Ecology (in preparation)
- Liendo, MC., Parreño, MA., Cladera, J., Vera, T., Segura, D. (2018), Coexistence between two fruit y species is supported by the di fferent strength of intra and interspecifi c competition, Ecol. entomo. 43 (3), 294-303
- Emmenegger, R, Rowan, R., Zuppinger-Dingley, D., Krug, C., Parreño, MA., Korf, B. (2017), Ontology and integrative research on global environmental change: towards a critical GEC science, Curr. Opin. Env. Sust., 29, 131-137
- Parreño, MA., et al. (2016), Wing shape as a taxonomic trait: separating genetic variation from host-induced plasticity in aphid parasitoids, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., doi:10.1111/zoj.12490
- Scannapieco, A, Lanzavecchia, S., Parreño, MA., Liendo, MA., Cladera, J., Spivak, M. & Palacio, MA. (2016) Individual precocity, temporal persistence, and task-specialization of hygienic bees from selected colonies of Apis mellifera, J. Apic. Sci., 60, 63–74
- Bush, A., Giménez, M., Grande, A., Morosi, L. G., Parasco, V., Parreño, M. A., et al. (2015), Synthetic crossfeeding cocultures in Yeast: computational model of autoregulation and design of a tryptophan export device, J. Synth. Biol., ID 178514
- Parreño, MA., et al. (2014), Dynamics of genetic variability in Anastrepha fraterculus (Diptera: Tephritidae) during adaptation to laboratory rearing conditions, BMC Genetics, 15:2:s14