Diana Toro

I am a biologist from Universidad Nacional de Colombia where I become passionate about insects. I received my master’s degree in Biological Sciences at the Universidad de Los Andes thanks to a graduate teaching assistance scholarship. My master’s degree work was focused on the morphological and biological characterization of species belonging to the venomous caterpillar genus Lonomia (Saturniidae) distributed in Colombia. Thanks to the great advance in the knowledge of these insects I was awarded as the first-place in conferences at the IV Colombian Symposium on Lepidopterology. Currently, I am a graduate teaching assistant and doctoral student in the CIMPAT (Tropical Microbiology and Parasitology Research Center) at the same university. My main interest is to study of ecological interactions of medically important insects. Now, my research analyzes the differences among the venom of different species of Lonomia from a proteomic approach.

March 2023