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@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