Curriculum Vitae
Patricia E. Salerno
Born in Caracas, Venezuela
Dual Citizenship: Venezuela & U.S.A.
Lives & works in Tena, Ecuador.
email: patriciasalerno [at] gmail [dot] com
Current Employment
Assistant Professor | Profesor Agregado No Titular
Universidad Regional Amazónica IKIAM
Km 7 Vía Muyuna, Tena, Napo, Ecuador
Previous Employment
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Museo de Zoología, Escuela de Biología. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador
October 2018 – October 2019
Supervisors: Dr. Omar Torres-Carvajal and Dr. Santiago Ron, proyecto Arca.
Research Associate III, Biology Department. Colorado State University
Sep. 2014 – Dec. 2018
Supervisor: Dr. W. Chris Funk, Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation Genomics lab.
Coordinator and Co-instructor, Organization for Tropical Studies, Costa Rica
“Tropical Biology: an Ecological Approach”
Co-coordinator: May–July 2016, 2017, 2019
Coordinator: May–July 2018
"Ecología Tropical y Conservación"
Co-coordinator: Jan–Feb 2018
Education
1998-2006 – Licenciatura en Biología, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas Venezuela.
2007-2014 – PhD, Ecology, Evolution and Behavior Program, University of Texas at Austin.
Grants and Awards
2015
Sustainability Leadership Fellow, School of Global Environmental Sustainability, Colorado State University
2012
Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, National Science Foundation
2011
Frank and Fern Blair Fellowship Fund, UT Austin
2010
National Geographic/Waitt Grant
Carl Gottfried Hartman Fellowship, UT Austin
2009
Explorers Club Exploration Grant
Dorothea Bennett Memorial Fellowship, UT Austin
2008
Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Research, American Philosophical Society
Dorothea Bennett Memorial Fellowship, UT Austin
Scholarship
biogeography, phylogeography, phylogenetics, population genetics, population genomics, landscape genomics, conservation genomics, island biogeography, species delimitation, systematics, integrative taxonomy
Publications
for a current list of publications and citations see [google scholar profile](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=f_SY5rQAAAAJ&hl=en)
2020
Fitzpatrick SW, Bradburd, GS, Kremer CT, Salerno PE, Angeloni LM, and Funk WC. Genetic rescue without genomic swamping in replicate Trinidadian guppy populations in the wild. Current Biology, 30: 1 – 6, https:doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.11.062.
2019
Salerno PE, Páez-Vacas MI, Guayasamin JM, and Stynoski JL. Male principal investigators (almost) don’t publish with women: partialized bias in ecological and zoological publications. PLoS ONE 14(6): e0218598; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0218598.
Szűcs M, Salerno PE, Teller B, Schaffner U, Littlefield J, and Hufbauer RA. The effects of agent hybridization on the efficacy of biological control of tansy ragwort at high elevations. Evolutionary Applications, 12: 470–481.
Kozakiewicz CP, Burridge CP, Funk WC, Salerno PE, Trumbo DR, Gagne RB, Boydston EE, Lyren LM, Jennings MK, Riley SPD, Serieys LEK, VandeWoude S, Crooks KR, Carver SS. Urbanisation reduces connectivity at multiple scales among fragmented bobcat populations. Molecular Ecology, 28: 5068 – 5085.
Trumbo DR, Salerno PE, Logan K, Alldredge M, Gagne E, Kozakiewicz C, Kraberger S, Fountain-Jones N, Craft M, Carver S, Ernest H, Crooks K, VandeWoude S, Funk WC. Urbanization impacts mountain lion gene flow in the rapidly developing Front Range compared to the rural Western Slope of Colorado, USA. Molecular Ecology, 28: 4926 – 4940.
2018
Poff NL, Larson E, Salerno PE, Morton S, Kondratieff B, Flecker A, Polato N, Gray MM, Gerberich J, Zamudio K, and Funk WC. Extreme streams: species persistence and genomic change in montane insect populations across a flooding gradient. Ecology Letters, 21: 525–535.
Rojas-Runjaic FJM, Infante-Rivero EE, Salerno PE, and Meza-Joya FL. A new species of Hyloscirtus (Anura, Hylidae) from the Colombian and Venezuelan slopes of Sierra de Perijá, and the new phylogenetic position of H. jahni (Rivero, 1961). Zootaxa, 4382: 121–146.
2016
Ron SR, Venegas P, Ortega-Andrade HM, Glagliardi-Urrutia G, and Salerno PE. Systematics of Ecnomiohyla tuberculosa with the description of a new species and comments on the taxonomy of Trachycephalus typhonius (Anura:Hylidae). ZooKeys 630: 115–154.
2015
Colli GR, Hoogmoed MS, Cannatella DC, Cassimiro J, Gomes JO, Ghellere JM, Nunes PMS, Pellegrino KCM, Salerno PE, Souza SM, and Rodrigues MT. Description and phylogenetic relationships of a new genus and two new species of lizards from Brazilian Amazonia, with nomenclatural comments on the taxonomy of Gymnophthalmidae (Reptilia:, Squamata). Zootaxa 4000 (4): 401–427.
Salerno PE, Señaris JC, Rojas-Runjaic FJM, and Cannatella DC. Recent evolutionary history of Lost World endemics: population genetics, species delimitation, and phylogeography of sky-island treefrogs. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 82: 314–323.
2013
Rojas-Runjaic FJM, Salerno PE, Pauly GB, and Señaris JC. Terraranans of the Lost World: a new species of Pristimantis (Amphibia, Strabomantidae) from Abakapá-tepui in the Chimantá Massif, Venezuelan Guayana, and additions to the knowledge of P. muchimuk. Zootaxa 3686 (3): 335–355.
2012
Salerno PE, Ron SR, Señaris JC, Rojas-Runjaic F, Noonan BP and Cannatella DC. Ancient tepui summits harbor young rather than old lineages of endemic frogs. Evolution 66(10): 3000–3013. (featured in the New York Times)
Salerno PE and Pauly GB. Clutch size variation in egg-brooding Stefania. South American Journal of Herpetology 7: 47–54.
2010
Barrio-Amorós C, Salerno P, Rojas-Runjaic F, and Noonan B. Amphibia, Hylidae, Osteocephalus exophthalmus Smith and Noonan, 2001: New country record and geographic distribution map, Venezuela. Checklist 6(3): 463–464.
2009
Arrivillaga J, Salerno P and Rangel Y. Asymmetric reproductive isolation between Lutzomyia pseudolongipalpis and Lutzomyia longipalpis (species C2), Neotropical vectors of visceral leishmaniasis (Diptera: Psychodidae). International Journal of Tropical Biology and Conservation 57(1-2): 23–31.