Dr. Camila Mazzoni
Scientist
Department of Evolutionary Genetics
Short curriculum vitae
My overarching career goal is to elevate the impact of genomics as a key tool in species conservation and biodiversity protection. I am a driven genomicist with expertise in leveraging genomics for understanding evolutionary patterns. My research group comprises a multidisciplinary team developing and applying genomic methods for non-model species. I helped establish large endeavours in biodiversity genomics, such as the Berlin Center for Genomics in Biodiversity Research (BeGenDiv), which I co-lead, and the European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA) consortium. I am also commited to training the next generation of biodiversity genomicists and to connect my research to society.
- Sloths Evolution, Speciation and Conservation
- Two-toed sloth (Choloepus ssp.) ex-situ population genomic-informed management
- Phylogeographic delineation and adaptive genomics of Tamandua tetradactyla
- Genotropics: Adaptive Genomics for Neotropical species
- Biodiversity Genomics Europe
- Powering endurance: Fuel selection in migratory bats
- Population and functional Genomics of the semi-captive Asian Elephants in Myanmar
- Evolution in Wild Populations: Determinants of Fitness and Environmental Change Responses of Spotted Hyenas
- Sea turtles Genome Project
- Green sea turtle population and conservation genomics
- Genome Evaluation Pipeline (GEP)
- Collomic: Accessing Museum Samples for Long Read Sequencing
Contributions to projects of other departments:
Urban wildlife ecology: How do animals respond to novel environments?
Movement ecology of common noctule bats in anthropogenic landscapes
Powering endurance: fuel selection in migratory bats
The effect of artificial light at night on nocturnal mammals
- Genomics methods for conservation of endangered wildlife.
- Population and Evolutionary Genomics of Neotropical vertebrate species.
- Vertebrate whole genome assembly and comparative genomics.
- Metabarcoding analysis for vertebrate species diversity assessment, including diet analysis and insects as vertebrate DNA source (iDNA).
- Bridging Genomics and Bioinformatics through development of start-to-end pipelines, such as reduced-representation methods (e.g. RAD-Seq) and MHC genotyping.
- Various Genomics methods for biodiversity-related research, as part of my work at the Berlin Center for Genomics in Biodiversity Research (BeGenDiv).
Driller M, Brown T, Currie SE, Hiller M, Winkler S, Pippel M, Voigt CC, Fickel J, Mazzoni CJ (2024): A Haplotype-resolved reference genome of a long-distance migratory bat, Pipistrellus nathusii (Keyserling & Blasius, 1839). DNA RES. doi:10.1093/dnares/dsae018
Arantes LS, Caccavo JA, Sullivan JK, Sparmann S, Mbedi S, Höner OP, Mazzoni CJ (2024): Scaling‐up RADseq methods for large datasets of non‐invasive samples: Lessons for library construction and data preprocessing. MOL ECOL RESOUR. doi:10.1111/1755-0998.13859
Bentley B, Carrasco‐Valenzuela T, Ramos E, Pawar H, Arantes LS, Alexander A, Banerjee S, Masterson P, Kuhlwilm M, Pippel M, Mountcastle J, Haase B, Uliano‐Silva M, Formenti G, Howe K, Chow W, Tracey A, Sims Y, Pelan S, Wood J, Yetsko K, Perrault J, Stewart K, Benson S, Levy Y, Todd E, Shaffer B, Scott P, Henen B, Murphy R, Mohr, Scott A, Duffy D, Gemmell N, Suh A, Winkler S, Thibaud‐Nissen F, Nery M, Marques‐Bonet T, Antunes A, Tikochinski Y, Dutton P, Fedrigo O, Myers E, Jarvis E, Mazzoni CJ, Komoroske L (2023): Divergent sensory and immune gene evolution in sea turtles with contrasting demographic and life histories. PROC NATL ACAD SCI USA 120, e2201076120. doi:10.1073/pnas.2201076120
Danabalan R, Merkel K, Bærholm Schnell I, Arandjelovic M, Boesch C, Brazzola G, Dieguez P, Dupain J, Kambale‐Vyalengerera M, Kühl HS, Hoffmann C, Lapuente J, Ngoc Thinh V, Zimmermann F, Leendertz FH, Gilbert MTP, Roos C, Mazzoni CJ, Gogarten JF, Calvignac‐Spencer S (2023): Mammal mitogenomics from invertebrate‐derived DNA. ENVIRON DNA 5, 1004–1015. doi:10.1002/edn3.436
Danabalan R, Planillo A, Butschkau S, Deeg S, Gras P, Thion C, Calvignac‐Spencer S, Kramer‐Schadt S, Mazzoni CJ (2023): Comparison of mosquito and fly derived DNA as a tool for sampling vertebrate biodiversity in suburban forests in Berlin, Germany. ENVIRON DNA 5, 476–487. doi:10.1002/edn3.398
Mazzoni CJ, Ciofi C, Waterhouse RM (2023): Biodiversity: an atlas of European reference genomes. NATURE 619, 252. doi:10.1038/d41586-023-02229-w
Theissinger K, Fernandes C, Formenti G, Bista I, Berg P, Bleidorn C, Bombarely A, Crottini A, Gallo G, Godoy J, Jentoft S, Malukiewicz J, Mouton A, Oomen R, Paez S, Palsbøll P, Pampoulie C, Ruiz‐López M, Secomandi S, Svardal H, Theofanopoulou C, de Vries J, Waldvogel A, Zhang G, Jarvis E, Bálint M, Ciofi C, Waterhouse R, Mazzoni C, Höglund J and the European Reference Genome Atlas Consortium (2023): How genomics can help biodiversity conservation. TRENDS GENET 39, 545–559. doi:10.1016/j.tig.2023.01.005
Vilaça ST, Maroso F, Lara P, de Thoisy B, Chevallier D, Arantes LS, Santos FR, Bertorelle G, Mazzoni CJ (2023): Evidence of backcross inviability and mitochondrial DNA paternal leakage in sea turtle hybrids. MOL ECOL 32, 628–643. doi:10.1111/mec.16773
Damas J, Corbo M, Kim J, Turner‐Maier J, Farré M, Larkin DM, Ryder OA, Steiner C, Houck ML, Hall S, Shiue L, Thomas S, Swale T, Daly M, Korlach J, Uliano‐Silva M, Mazzoni CJ, Birren BW, Genereux DP, Johnson J, Lindblad‐Toh K, Karlsson EK, Nweeia MT, Johnson RN, Zoonomia Consortium, Lewin HA (2022): Evolution of the ancestral mammalian karyotype and syntenic regions. PROC NATL ACAD SCI USA 119, e2209139119. doi:10.1073/pnas.2209139119
Formenti G, Theissinger K, Fernandes C, …, Mazzoni CJ, Jarvis ED, Bálint M, European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA) Consortium (2022): The era of reference genomes in conservation genomics. TRENDS ECOL EVOL 37, 197–202. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2021.11.008
Lewin HA, Richards S, Lieberman Aiden E, …, Mazzoni CJ, …, Yoder AD, Zhang G (2022): The Earth BioGenome Project 2020: Starting the clock. PROC NATL ACAD SCI USA 119, e2115635118.
doi:10.1073/pnas.2115635118
Arantes LS, Ferreira LCL, Driller M, Filho FPMR, Mazzoni CJ, Santos FR (2020): Genomic evidence of recent hybridization between sea turtles at Abrolhos Archipelago and its association to low reproductive output. SCI REP 10, 12847. doi:10.1038/s41598-020-69613-8
Arantes LS, Vilaça ST, Mazzoni CJ, Santos FR (2020): New genetic insights about hybridization and population structure of hawksbill and loggerhead turtles from Brazil. J HERED 111, 444–456. doi:10.1093/jhered/esaa024