Dr Juanita Rodriguez Arrieta
Pronouns: she,her,hers
Hymenoptera Senior Research Scientist
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CANBERRA ACT 2601 AUSTRALIA
Biography
Juanita Rodriguez is a research scientist at the Australian National Insect Collection. Her research focuses on the use of morphological and molecular data to study the systematics, diversification, evolution and historical biogeography of terrestrial arthropods. Most of her research has been dedicated to Hymenoptera, more specifically ants and spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Recent projects include the use of long read sequencing and transcriptomics to study the evolution of venoms in spider wasps.
She grew up in Bogotá, Colombia, where she obtained her B.Sc and M.Sc degrees at Universidad Nacional de Colombia. In 2014 she obtained her Ph.D. at Utah State University. She worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Auburn University between 2014-2016.
In August, 2016 she joined the Australian National Insect Collection.
Current Roles
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Curator of Hymenoptera
Australian National Insect Collection -
Principal Investigator
Environomics Future Science Platform - Biodiscovery from collections -
Principal Supervisor
CERC postdoctoral fellowship - spider wasp venoms
Academic Qualifications
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2014
Ph.D. Biology
Utah State University -
2008
M.Sc. Biology-Systematics and Taxonomy
Universidad Nacional de Colombia -
2005
B.Sc. Biology
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Professional Experiences
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2016-Present
Research Scientist, Hymenoptera Curator
Australian National Insect Collection - CSIRO -
2014-2016
Postdoctoral fellow
Auburn University -
2008-2014
Graduate research assistant
Utah State University -
2008-2014
Graduate teaching assistant
Utah State University
ORCID 0000-0001-9922-1978
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