Cristina Llopis-Belenguer
Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Valencia (Spain).
Spain

Researcher at the Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Valencia (Spain). She is a graduate in Biology with a Master’s Degree in Biodiversity: Conservation and Evolution. She is currently researching for her PhD in functional and phylogenetic diversity in fish parasite communities on a predoctoral contract (ACIF/2016/374) funded by the Valencian Department of Education and the European Social Fund (ESF).

Isabel Blasco-Costa
Natural History Museum of Geneva (Switzerland).

PhD in Biology and researcher at the Natural History Museum of Geneva (Switzerland). She researches the taxonomy, phylogeography, and evolutionary ecology of trematodes and monogeneans and is particularly interested in the life cycle of trematodes, their ecological and evolutionary interactions with their hosts, and how that influences the genetics and evolution of these parasites’ populations.

Juan Antonio Balbuena
Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Valencia (Spain).

PhD in Biology and researcher at the Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Valencia (Spain). Taking an ecology-evolution approach, he studies parasite-host relationships and other symbiotic associations from the point of view of cophylogeny, parasite community ecology, and the phylogenetic and evolutionary relationships of the genus Ligophorus.