FABIAN CAMILO SALGADO ROA

EDUCATION

The University of Melbourne, Ph.D. in Science, 2020-Present

Universidad de los Andes, Master in Biological Sciences, 2017-2019

Universidad del Tolima, Biologist (Award for best GPA in Biology), 2011-2016

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

Research Grant extension. Causes and consequences of colour polymorphism in spiders. Holsworth Wildlife Research, Ecological Society of Australia, 2024 (AUD $5,000)

Research Grant. Drivers of colour polymorphism across the landscape: How climate influences colour diversity in the Christmas jewel spider. The Jasper Loftus-hills Memorial Awards, The University of Melbourne, 2023 (AUD $2,500)

Research Grant. Causes and consequences of colour polymorphism in spiders. Georgina Sweet Scholarship, The University of Melbourne, 2022 (AUD $7,000)

Research Grant. Evolution of melanic polymorphism in spiders. Graduate Research Excellence Grant R. C. Lewontin Award, The Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE), 2022 (USD $2,500)

Research Grant. Causes and consequences of colour polymorphism in spiders. Macbain Research Scholarship, The University of Melbourne, 2021 (AUD $1,100)

Research Grant. Causes and consequences of colour polymorphism in spiders. Holsworth Wildlife Research, Ecological Society of Australia, 2021 (AUD $10,000)

Research Grant. The role of spider colour in prey attraction: Experimental test in a species. American Arachnological Society, 2021 (US $400)

Young Research Assistant fellowship, Colciencias, 2018-2019. Is there an effect of climate change over the hybrids zones of Colombian species/subspecies? (US $ 8,000)

Seed Research Grant, Universidad de los Andes, 2018. Buscando los genes del color y midiendo el efecto de barreras geográficas en la diversificación de Gasteracantha cancriformis (Araneae:Araneidae) (US $ 1,500)

Young Research Assistant fellowship, Colciencias, 2016-2017. Nothern Andes promotes genetic differentiation in the populations of Gasteracantha cancriformis (Araneae, Araneidae) (US $ 8,000)

EMPLOYMENT

2022-2024 Teaching assistant The University of Melbourne

2019-2021 Teaching assistant and casual lecturer Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá-Colombia

2017-2020 Research assistant Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá-Colombia

2017-2019 Teaching assistant Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá-Colombia

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2024 Data analysis and thinking (Demostrator) The University of Melbourne

2023 Experimental Animal Behaviour (Group leader) The University of Melbourne

2022-2023 Analysis of biological data (Demostrator) The University of Melbourne

2022-2023 First year biology (Teaching assistant) The University of Melbourne

2022 Evolution (Teaching assistant) The University of Melbourne

2020-2021 Scientific writing (Lecturer) Universidad del Rosario Bogotá-Colombia

2020-2021 Evolutionary genetics (Demostrator) Universidad del Rosario Bogotá-Colombia

2020/2024 Bioinformatics (Lecturer) Universidad del Rosario Bogotá-Colombia

2019 Evolutionary biology (Demostrator) Universidad del Rosario Bogotá-Colombia

2019 Molecular biology (Teaching assitant) Universidad del Rosario Bogotá-Colombia

2019 DNA and evolution of Humans (Lecturer) Universidad del Rosario Bogotá-Colombia

2019 Plant physiology (Teaching assistant) Universidad de los Andes Bogotá-Colombia

2017-2018 Cell biology (Teaching assistant) Universidad de los Andes Bogotá-Colombia

CONTRIBUTION TO PROFESSION

Undergraduate thesis co-advisor

Delimitation of the cryptic lineages of Araneus bogotensis (Araneae,Araneidae). Undergraduate thesis by Daniel Garrido. Universidad del Valle 2022.

Divergence by the Andes: Vicariance of the populations of Ancylometes bogotensis (Araneae: Ctenidae). Undergraduate thesis by Andrés Gamez. Universidad del Rosario, 2019.

Thesis referee

“Caracterización genética de A. cephalotes para la isla gorgona en el contexto del pacífico oriental tropical”, presented by Alejandra López Díaz. Universidad del Valle, 2019.

Conference, meeting organisation

Organizer of I Symposium of Phylogeography and Neotropical Evolution, Bogotá-Colombia, 2018.

Main organizer of the Conference in Evolutionary Biology, “Darwin Day”. Colombian Society of Evolutionary Biology (ColEvol), Universidad del Tolima, Ibagué-Colombia, 2013-2017.

Reviewer

Editorial reviewer in Journal of Evolutionary Biology (JEB) Editorial reviewer in Revista de Biología Tropical (Journal of Tropical Biology).