Instituto de Investigaciones
en Biociencias Agrícolas y Ambientales
FAUBA Conicet UBA
integrantes

Staff

Florencia Palottini


fpalottini@agro.uba.ar / +54 11 5287- 0381

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Florencia-Palottini-2
https://scholar.google.com/citations?authuser=1&user=5K12e4oAAAAJ

Education

  • 02/2002-12/2008 BS Biology. Faculty of Exact and Nature Sciences, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Thesis: Research advisor: “Funcional response of Gonatocerus sp. “clade 1” (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae) aff. tuberculifemur (Ogloblin) candidate to the biological control of Homalodisca vitripennis (Germar) (Hemiptera:Cicadellidae) in USA. Research advisor: Dr. Guillermo Logarzo.
  • 01/2009-05/2014 PhD Biology. Faculty of Exact and Nature Sciences, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Thesis: “Alarm pheromone of Triatoma infestans (Heteroptera: Reduviidae). Chemical and behavioral aspects”. Research advisor: Dr. Gabriel Manrique.

Current positions

  • Associate Researcher in the Scientific and Technological Researcher Career of Conicet (CIC), at FAUBA-UBA. INBA-CONICET.

Research interests

  • Behavior, Physiology, Ecology, Learning, Chemical Ecology, and Conservation of native species.
  • Plant-insect-environment interaction.

Publications in refereed journals (last 5 years)

  • Farina, W.M.; Arenas, A.; Estravis-Barcala, M.C. and Palottini, F. (2023). Targeted crop pollination by training honey bees: advances and perspectives. Front. Bee Sci. 1:1253157. doi: 10.3389/frbee.2023.1253157.
  • Farina, W.M.; Palottini F.; Estravis Barcala M.C.; Arenas, A.; Balbuena, MS and González A. (2023). Conditioning honeybees to a specific mimic odor increases foraging activity on a self-compatible almond variety. Apidologie 54:40. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13592-023-01019-7. The first three authors contributed equally to this work (clarification stated in the manuscript).
  • Estravis Barcala M.C.; Palottini F. and Farina W.M. (2021). Learning of a mimic odor combined with nectar nonsugar compounds enhances honeybee pollination of a commercial crop. Scientific reports, 11(1):1-8. https://doi.org/ 10.1038/s41598-021-03305-9. The first two authors contributed equally to this work (clarification stated in the manuscript).
  • Estravis Barcala M.C.; Palottini F.; Macri I.; Nery D. and Farina W.M. (2021). Managed honeybees and South American bumblebees exhibit complementary foraging patterns in highbush blueberry. Scientific reports, 11, 8187. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-87729-3.
  • Marchi, I.L.; Palottini F. and Farina W.M. (2021). Combined secondary compounds naturally found in nectars enhance honeybee cognition and survival. Journal of Experimental Biology, 224(6), jeb239616. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.239616.
  • Nery D.; Palottini F.; and Farina W.M. (2020). Classical olfactory conditioning promotes long-term memory and improves odor-cued flight orientation in the South American native bumblebee Bombus pauloensis. Current Zoology, zoaa073, https://doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoaa073.
  • Estravis Barcala M.C.; Palottini F.; and Farina W.M. (2019). Honey bee and native solitary bee foraging behaviour in a crop with dimorphic parental lines. PlosOne. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0223865. The first two authors contributed equally to this work (clarification stated in the manuscript).
  • Laura Varone; María B. Aguirre; Enrique Lobos; Darío Ruiz; Stephen D. Hight; Florencia Palottini; Mariel Guala and Guillermo A. Logarzo. (2019). Mortality causes at different stages of Cactoblastis cactorum in the native range”. BioControl. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10526-019-09938-0.
  • Eduardo G.Virla, Guido A.Van Nieuwenhove, Florencia Palottini, Serguei V.Triapitsyn and Guillermo A. Logarzo. (2019). Spatial and seasonal distribution of egg parasitoids of the sharpshooter Tapajosa rubromarginata (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Proconiini) on feral Johnson grass and commercial citrus host in Argentina. Biological Control. Vol 132: 81-88. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocontrol.2019.02.004.
  • Gatica Hernández, I.; Palottini, F.; Macri, I.; Galmarini, C.R. and Farina, W.M. (2019). Appetitive behavior of the honey bee Apis mellifera L. in response to phenolic compounds naturally found in nectars. Journal of Experimental Biology 222, jeb189910. doi:10.1242/jeb.189910. The first two authors contributed equally to this work (clarification stated in the manuscript).

Grad Students

  • Total number of doctoral or master´s theses supervised: 1 as co-supervisor.
  • Total number of doctoral or master´s theses currently supervising: 1 as co-supervisor.