The agreement with the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Zur Förderung Der Wissenschaften (Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science - MPG), Germany, aims to promote and deepen scientific and technological cooperation between researchers from the State of São Paulo and from Max Planck Institutes.
Using new bio-logging technology, researchers can now answer questions about the behavior, ecology and physiology of wild animals, particularly for wide-ranging or cryptic species, which have previously evaded examination. Many of these research questions are now investigated in the expanding field of Movement Ecology. Conservation scientists and practitioners are increasingly relying on …
Materials that host energetically low lying interactions with non-trivial topology have attracted a lot of attention due to the potential impact that the manipulation of their metallic topologically protected surface states (TSS) could bring to technological applications in spintronics and quantum computing. Recently, the interest towards the contribution of TSS to thermoelectricity has b…
Understanding neural circuits is more than knowing the pattern of projections and the chemical identity of a certain brain area. Sometimes neurons of the same nucleus and chemical identity project to different targets establishing parallel circuits that may be important to organize different aspects of the same behavior. A way to disentangle these parallel circuits is to look at developme…
Plant biomass, which is mostly composed of polysaccharide-rich secondary cell walls, constitutes a promising source of fermentable sugars for the production of biofuels and biomaterials. However, the presence of the phenolic polymer lignin largely precludes the release of monosaccharides during enzymatic hydrolysis of these cell wall polysaccharides in the biorefinery. Therefore, unraveli…
Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder that affects 0.7% of the worldwide population. The interactions between genetic and environment factors seem to be responsible for alterations in neurodevelopment, resulting in the manifestation of schizophrenia in late adolescence to early adulthood. The pathophysiology of schizophrenia is highly complex and involves several neurotransmission sys…
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Animals have the ability to actively select their home ranges and this choice can be determined by the set of biotic and abiotic interactions in their natural habitats. Habitat characteristics are constantly changing due to current anthropogenic changes, resulting in changes in resource availability and, consequently, in the spatial distribution of populations. Thus, understanding how ani…
The goal of this project is to investigate the thermoelectric response in candidate topologicalcrystalline insulators (TCI) to bring relevantinsights into the understanding of the organization of charge carriers in this class of materialsand exploring new routes for enhancing thermoelectric performance. To do so, we planto carry out a systematic and comparative study on bulk and thin film…
O técnico será encarregado de atividades essenciais ao desenvolvimento das atividades de pesquisa do Grupo de Pesquisa Tandem (TRG). Ela auxiliará o TRG na preparação, teste, uso e manutenção de equipamentos de pesquisa (incluindobiologgers, armadilhas fotográficas, gravadores autônomos); assistência durante o trabalho de campo; gestão de grandes conjuntos de dados de movimentos e levanta…
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Movement ecology provides insights into the specific environmental factors that influence thedistribution and habitat selection of animals. By analyzing the individual movement data of fourspecies of vultures equipped with bio-loggers in the Caatinga, we aim to assess how natural andanthropogenic landscape features affect habitat selection, and individualhome ranges
With the aid of GPS and satellite tracking technologies, this project aims to analyze spatio-temporal movement data of the endangered Lear's macaw and other four species of New World vultures in the north of the Bahia state, Brazil, within the Caatinga dry forest biome. We will derive occurrence distributions and home ranges that will be used to describe species geographic distribution an…
We plan to advance the understanding of the role of non-trivial topology in the determination of thermal transport properties. To meet our goals, we will perform a systematic investigation of thermoelectricity and heat transport at low temperatures in selected single crystals (SmB6, PbTe, and SnTe) with varying thicknesses and with controlled impurities. Careful and systematic work on the…
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