Daniel Oliveira

Our understanding of how species will respond to climate change is often limited by a lack of knowledge regarding the physiological and genetic capacity necessary to respond to such shifts. Primarily working in salamanders, my dissertation projects integrate remote sensing, ecological data, genomics, and evolutionary experiments to develop mechanistic understandings of local adaptation and potential future climatic vulnerability.

Admittance Semester/Year and Program

Fall 2022, PhD

Education

M.S. in Biology, Clark University - 2020

B.A. in Environmental Science, Clark University - 2019

Research Lab

Dr. Ian Wang

Selected Publications

• Shaffer, B.H., E. Toffelmier, R.B. Corbett-Dig, M. Escalona, B. Erickson, P. Fiedler, M. Gold, R.J. Harrigan, S. Hodges, T.K. Luckau, C. Miller, D.R. Oliveira, K.E., Shaffer, B. Shapiro, V. Sork, I. Wang. (2022). Landscape Genomics to Enable Conservation Actions: The California Conservation Genomics Project. Journal of Heredity. esac020.

• Oliveira, D.R., B.N. Reid, S.W. Fitzpatrick. (2021). Genome-wide diversity and habitat underlie fine-scale phenotypic differentiation in the rainbow darter (Etheostoma caeruleum). Evolutionary Applications. 14:498-512.

• Belisle, B.S., A.A. Avila Paz, A. Carpenter, T. Cormier, A.J. Lewis, L.S. Menin, D.R.   Oliveira, K.N. Song, A. Szeto, E.I. Tchantouridze, K.A. Watson, M.T. Yohannes, N.A. Ahlgren. (2020). Genome sequence of Synechococcus sp. MIT S9220 and co-cultured cyanophage SynMITS9220M01. Microbiology Resource Announcements. 9:e00481-20.

Selected Presentations

• 3rd Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology, 2024 - “Environmental and developmental correlates of thermal trait variation in local ensatina salamanders”

• Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2020 - “Integrating Phenotypes and Genomes in a Fine-Scale Study of Lake-Stream Divergent Rainbow Darters (Etheostoma caeruleum)”

• Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, 2018 - “Phenotypic Differentiation matches Environmental Variation: a Potential Case for Local Adaptation in Rainbow Darters”

Selected Honors and Awards

• Center for Portuguese Studies Pinto-Fialon Fellowship

• William and Lisa Lui Fellowship for Environmental Studies

• Hastings Reservation William Simes Research Award

• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology Martens Research Award

• UC Berkeley Wildlife and Fisheries Lyman Fund

• UC Berkeley Fellowship