Daniela Zarate Email and Phone Number

I am a highly skilled genetic scientist and experienced bioinformatician with over 12 years of laboratory and computational experience and am interested in leveraging my skills to contribute to scientific advances in genetic research. I am currently seeking opportunities in biological research within an innovation-driven laboratory where creativity & collaboration are highly valued.Currently as an externally funded ($125K) postdoctoral research scientist with the Purcell Lab at the Department of Entomology at UC Riverside, my duties involve the conceptualization and execution of several scientific research projects that leverages a multi ‘Omics approach to study genomic evolution in social insects. Currently, I am lead author on three in-prep scientific publications expected to emerge from generated genomic (WGS, RADSeq) & transcriptomic (RNAseq) datasets.PUBLICATIONS:Zarate, D. & Purcell, J. Vespula wasps genomic architecture examined through comparative linkage mapping reveals high conservation of genomic synteny. Accepted following minor revisions. Annals of the Entomological Society of America.Zarate D, Mukogawa B, Kohn JR. Nieh, JC. Seasonal variation in defensive behavior in European and Scutellata-hybrid honey bees (Apis mellifera) in southern California. Accepted. Scientific Reports. Zarate D, Travis D, Geffre A, Nieh JC, Kohn JR. Three Decades After the Africanized Honey Bee Invasion Reached California—Where Are they Now? California Agriculture. Accepted.Zarate D, Geffre A, Kohn J, and Nieh JC. (2021) Public Service Announcement: Defensive Honey Bees: What are they and how should you react to them? Prepared for the San Diego County Honey Bee Protection Program and the California Master Beekeeper Program. https://labs.biology.ucsd.edu/nieh/papers/PSA.pdfZarate D, Lima T, Poole J, Calfee E, Burton R, Kohn J (2021) Admixture in Africanized honey bees (Apis mellifera) from Panamá to San Diego, California (U.S.A.) Ecology & Evolution. 12(2):e8580. Cavelheri HB, Lima TG, Jones NT, Zarate D, Burton R, Shurin JB. (2020) Phenotypic and transcriptional response of Daphnia to the combined effects of temperature and predation. PLOS ONE, 17(7): e0265103.v.