Mario Vallejo-Marin

Professor of Ecological Botany at Uppsala University

Contact: Plant Ecology and Evolution Program, Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University.
Uppsala, 752 36. Sweden. Email

Juan Moreira-Hernandez
(2025 to date)

Juan’s research focuses on the rapid evolution of invasive species to adapt to different pollination environments. Juan will use Mimulus as a model system in a series of experimental evolution tests and to investigate the genetic basis of changes in floral phenotype. Funding: Sven och Lilly Lawskis Fond.

Lilian Melo
(2024 to date)

Lilian’s research focuses on exploring how pollinator behaviour affects patterns of pollen transfer and male fitness in buzz pollinated species. She will conduct experiments using flight arenas and bumblebees visiting Solanum flowers. Funding: Wenner-Gren Stiftelserna.

Anna Lundgren
(2025 to date)

Anna is investigating different hypotheses on the evolutionary significance of buzz pollination. Funding: Olle Engkvist Stiftelse. Co-supervisor: Nina Sletvold.

Charlie Woodrow
(2023-2025)

Charlie used theoretical and empirical tools to study bee and flower vibrations and deploy micro-robotic actuators (“robo bees”) to study buzz pollination.
Funding: Human Frontier Science Program: Bridging robotics and pollination: Reconstructing a bee’s buzz through micro-robots.

Vanessa Marcelo (2023-2024)

Vanessa investigated patterns of pollen transfer in buzz pollinated plants. Her work builds on a recently developed model investigating how pollen placement and pollinator grooming affects pollen transfer patterns. Funding: CNPq, Brazil.

Daniela Scaccabarozzi (2023)

High speed videography to study the behaviour of bees during buzz pollination.
Funding: Human Frontier Science Program: Bridging robotics and pollination: Reconstructing a bee’s buzz through micro-robots.

Carlos Eduardo Pereira Nunes (2019-2022)

Buzz pollination: Integrating bee behaviour and floral evolution. Funding: The Leverhulme Trust

Current Post: Lecturer, Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri, Diamantina, Brazil.

David Pritchard (2019-2021)

Buzz pollination: Integrating bee behaviour and floral evolution. Funding: The Leverhulme Trust

Jurene Kemp (2019-2021)

Newton International Fellow. Evolution and function of buzz pollination: An experimental test using fluorescent nanoparticles. Funding: The Royal Society of London

Dr. Sofie Meeus (2014-2016)

Currently a Researcher at Meise Botanic Gardens, Belgium.

Genome evolution and fertility restoration during polyploid speciation. Funding: Plant Fellows

Dr. Violeta Simon-Porcar (2014-2016)

Currently a Marie Curie-Zolodowska fellow at the University of Seville.

Phenotypic variation and local adaptation in clonal vs. sexual populations: a test using introduced populations of monkey flowers. Funding: Plant Fellows

Lisette van Kolfschoten
Ph.D. (2025)

Lisette started her PhD on fig-fig wasps interactions supervised by Charlotte Jandér. She joined my lab in 2022 to conduct her a project on buzz pollination in Swedish blueberry (blåbär, Vaccinium myrtillus, Ericaceae). Funding: Uppsala University. Co-supervisors: Charlotte Jandér and Jon Ågren.

Douglas Moore
Ph.D. (2023)

Currently a postdoctoral fellow

Chemical ecology of buzz pollination. Funding: NERC: DTP-IAPETUS program. Co-supervisors: Tiina Sarkinen (Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh), Phil Stevenson (Kew), Matt Tinsley (Stirling)

Lucy Nevard
Ph.D. (2022)

Currently a data analysis for the Scottish Government

Ecology and Evolution of Buzz Pollination. Funding: NERC: DTP-IAPETUS program. Co-supervisor: Adrian Brennan (Durham University)

Anna Karen Zapata Carbonell
Ph.D. (2019)

Currently a team leader in the plant growth industry

Evolution of anther dimorphism and reproductive ecology of Solanum houstonii (Solanaceae). Funding: Consejo Quintanarroense de Ciencia y Tecnologia/Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (CONACyT), Mexico.

Pauline Pantoja
Ph.D. (2018)

Currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Universidad Federal de Goias

Ecological genomics of introduced Mimulus in the United Kingdom. Funding: Science Without Borders, Brazil.

Zarah Pattison
Ph.D. (2016)

Currently a Senior Lecturer at the University of Stirling.

Effect of changing flow regimes on the distribution and abundance of invasive riparian plants (co-supervised with Nigel Willby). Funding: Scottish Natural Heritage/Scottish Environment Protection Agency

Lislie Solis-Montero
Ph.D. (2014)

Currently a CONACyT Researcher at El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (Ecosur), Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico.

Reproductive strategies in heterantherous Solanum rostratum. Funding: Horizon PhD Studentship, University of Stirling