Center of studies on
Subterranean Biology
Cooperation
Dra. Hannelore Hoch
Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, GERMANY
Project: Description of troglobitic Hemiptera of Minas Gerais, Bahia and Rio Grande do Norte (Cixiidae and Kinnaridae).
Dr. Yoshitaka Kamimura
Department of Biology, Keio University, Yokohama. JAPAN.
Project: Conflict and sexual selection in species Neotrogla (Psocoptera: Prionoglarididae) in caves of Brazil.
Dr. Boris Sket
Department of Biology, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, SLOVENIA
Project: Diversity patterns of troglobitic species in Brazil and Slovenia
Dr. Charles Lienhard
Department of Arthropodology and Entomology I, Museum of Natural History, oute de Malagnou 1, CH-1208 Geneva, SWITZERLAND
Project: Description of Psocoptera syllipsocidae and Prionoglarididae of Brasil
Dr. Hans Klompen
Acarology Laboratory Ohio State University, Museum of Biological Diversity 1315 Kinnear Road Columbus, Ohio 43212, USA
Project: Standards and processes involved in diversification of American Opilioacariformes.
Dr. Kazunori Yoshizawa
Associate Professor, Systematic Entomology, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, JAPAN.
Project: Conflict and sexual selection in species Neotrogla (Psocoptera: Prionoglarididae) in caves of Brazil.
Dr. Cene Fiser
Department of Biology, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, ESLOVÊNIA
Project: Descrição de anfípodes troglóbios do Rio Grande do Norte.
Dra. Maja Zagmajster
Department of Biology, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, SLOVENIA
Project: Database of Brazilian subterranean fauna: assistance for conservation.
Dra. Simona Prevorcnik
Department of Biology, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, SLOVENIA
Project: Description of troglobitic isopods of Rio Grande do Norte and Bahia.
Dr. Thomas Wessener
Forschungsmuseum A. Koenig, Sektion Myriapoda, Bonn, GERMANY
Project: Description of troglobitic millipedes do Pará (Glomeridesmida).
Dr. William A. Shear
James Trinkle Professor of Biology, Hampden-Sydney College USA
Project: Description of troglobitic millipedes of Brazil.
Dr. Enrique Martínez Ansemil
Departmento de Bioloxía Animal, Bioloxía Vexetal e Ecoloxía, Facultade de Ciencias, Universidade da Coruña, Coruña, SPAIN
Project: Description Oligochaeta troglobites of Bahia and Rio Grande do Norte.
Dr. Lucio Bonato
Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Padova, Padova ITALIA
Project: Description of Geophilomorpha from Brazilian caves
Dr. Esteban Gutiérrez
Curator of Insecta (Blattaria) Research Department, Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Obispo #61 esq. a Oficios, Plaza de Armas, Habana Vieja 10100, La Habana, CUBA.
Project: Description of troglobite Blattaria of Minas Gerais.
Ana Maria Leal Zanchet
PPG Biologia: Diversidade e Manejo de Vida Silvestre UNISINOS, São Leopoldo – RS, BRAZIL
Project: Description of cave Planarians
Dr. Adalberto José dos Santos
Laboratório de Aracnologia Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Project: Description of cave Schizomida
Dr. Antônio Domingos Brescovit
Laboratório Especial de Coleções Zoológicas, Instituto Butantan, Av. Vital Brasil, 1500, CEP 05503-900, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Project: Description of cave spiders
Dr. André R. Senna
Centro Universitário de Volta Redonda (UNIFOA) Curso de Ciências Biológicas, Volta Redonda, RJ, Brazil
Project: Description of Brazilian troglobitic Cirolanidae
Dra. Aline Barcellos Prates dos Santos
Museu de Ciências Naturais, Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
Project: Additional description of Tingidae found in caves
Dr. Alessandro Ponce de Leão Giupponi
Museu Nacional-Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Dept. Invertebrados – Aracnologia, Rio de Janeiro
Project: Description of new species of Charinus (Amblypygi) found in caves
Dra. Leila Aparecida Souza
Instituto Superior de Ciências Biomédicas, Laboratório de Carcinicultura Campus do Itaperi, Universidade Estadual do Ceará/UECE, Fortaleza, CE
Project: Description of new Brazilian troglobitic species of Isopoda Styloniscidae
Dr. Márcio Bernardino da Silva
Departamento de Sistemática e Ecologia, Centro de Ciências Exatas e da Natureza, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa-PB, Brasil
Project: Description of species of Mitogoniella in Brazilian caves.
Dr. Hélcio R. Gil-Santana
Laboratório de Diptera, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Av. Brasil, 4365, 21040-360, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Project: Description of cave Hemiptera
