Email:Paolucci@uwindsor.ca

Education:

Postdoctoral Fellow, GLIER, University of Windsor:  Wallast water treatment.

PhD: Departamento de Ecología, Genética y Evolución, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Topic: Environmental Impacts of introduced bivalve, Limnoperna fortunei, in the Río de la Plata Basin.. (2005-2010).

B.Sc., Biological Sciences, Departamento de Ecología, Genética y Evolución, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.(1996-2002). Thesis: “Reproductive activity of sábalo Prochilodus lineatus (Valenciennes, 1847) and other commercial and sport valuable fish species in the Lower Uruguay river, as estimated by the larval fish abundance in the drift” (in Spanish).

Journal Publications

7)Aibin Zhan, Perepelizin, P. V., Ghabooli, S., Paolucci E., Sylvester F., Sardiña P., Cristescu M. E., and MacIsaac, H.J, 2011. Scale dependent post-establishment spread and genetic diversity in an invading mollusc in South America. Diversity and Distributions (In press).

6) Paolucci E., Cataldo, D. H. and Boltovskoy D., 2011. Nueva dieta para las larvas de peces locales: consecuencias de una invasión biológica. Ciencia Hoy (Accepted)(in Spanish).

5) Cataldo D., Vinocur A., O´Farrell I, Paolucci E., Leites V. and Boltovskoy D., 2011. Interactions between the invasive bivalve Limnoperna fortunei (Dunker) and cyanobacteria in a large, subtropical reservoir (Salto Grande, Argentina). Hydrobiologia (Accepted).

4) Cataldo D., O´Farrell I, Paolucci E., Sylvester F. and Boltovskoy D., 2011. Impact of the invasive golden mussel (Limnoperna fortunei) on phytoplankton and nutrient cycling. Aquatic Invasion (Accepted).

3) Paolucci, E. M., E. Thuesen, D. H. Cataldo & D. Boltovskoy. 2010. Veligers of an introduced bivalve, Limnoperna fortunei, are a new food resource that enhances growth of larval fish in the Paraná River (South America). Freshwater Biology 55: 1831-1844.

2) Paolucci, E., D. H. Cataldo, & D. Boltovskoy. 2010. Prey selection by larvae of Prochilodus lineatus (Pisces: Curimatidae): indigenous zooplankton versus veligers of the introduced bivalve Limnoperna fortunei (Bivalvia: Mitilidae). Aquatic Ecology 44:255–267.

1) Paolucci, E., D. H. Cataldo, C. M. Fuentes & D. Boltovskoy. 2007. Larvae of the invasive species Limnoperna fortunei (Bivalvia) in the diet of fish larvae in the Paraná River, Argentina. Hydrobiologia 589:219-233.

Conference Presentations and Workshops

2010. Cataldo D., Vinocur A., Paolucci E, Leites V. and Boltovskoy D.. Efecto del mejillón dorado, Limnoperna fortunei sobre las algas del embalse de Salto Grande (Argentina) XV Congreso Ibérico de Limnología July 5th to 10th, 2010 Azores inlands, Portugal (in Spanish).

2010. Paolucci E, Perepelizin P, Zhan A, Sardiña P, Ghabooli S, Sylvester F, Cristescu M. and MacIsaac, H. Genetic structure and morphologic variation in the pest mussel Limnoperna fortunei across South America. 2010, CAISN Annual General Meeting & Conference in Victoria, BC. Canada, April 26-28, 2010.

2009. Ghabooli S., Sylvester F., Paolucci E., Sardiña P., Lejeusne C., Cristescu M. and MacIsaac, H.. Genetic Tracks of the Invasion of Limnoperna fortunei in South America, CAISN, University of Windsor, GLIER, Canada. 16th International Conference on Aquatic Invasive Species (ICAIS), Montreal, Canada. Poster presentation.

2008. Cataldo D. H., O’Farrel I., Paolucci E., Sylvester F. and Boltovskoy, D.. Impacto del mejillón dorado Limnoperna fortunei sobre el fitoplancton y los nutrientes: XIV Congreso de la Asociación Ibérica de Limnologia, Huelva, España (in Spanish).

2008. Paolucci, E. M, Cataldo D., Thuesen E. and Boltovskoy, D.. Impacto del molusco invasor Limnoperna fortunei en el crecimiento de larvas de “sábalo”, Prochilodus lineatus IV Congreso Argentino de Limnologia, Bariloche, Argentina (in Spanish).

2008. Sylvester, F., Ghabooli, S., Paolucci, E., Sardiña, P., Lejeusne, C., Cristescu, M. and MacIsaac, H.. Genetic tracks of the invasion of Limnoperna fortunei in South America. IV Congreso Argentino de Limnologia, Bariloche, Argentina. Poster presentation.

2007. Paolucci, E. M, Cataldo D., Thuesen E. and Boltovskoy, D. Impact of the planktonic larvae of the invasive Asian bivalve Limnoperna fortunei on the growth of larvae of the “sábalo”, Prochilodus lineatus (Pisces) in South America. 15th International Conference on Aquatic Invasive Species (ICAIS), Nijmegen, Holland. Poster presentation.

2005. Paolucci, E. M, Cataldo D., Fuentes C. and Boltovskoy, D.. Larvae of the invasive species Limnoperna fortunei (Bivalvia) in the diet of fish larvae in the Paraná River. III Congreso Argentino de Limnología. Oral presentation. (In spanish).

2005. Paolucci, E. M., Brown D., Calcagno J. A. (1) and Fuentes, C. Reproductive activity of sábalo Prochilodus lineatus (Valenciennes, 1847) in the Lower Uruguay River, as estimated by the larval fish abundance in the drift. III Congreso Argentino de Limnología. Poster presentation. (in Spanish).

2005. Cataldo, D. H., O´Farrel, I., Paolucci, E., Boltovskoy, D. and Sylvester, F. Effects of Limnoperna fortunei on the phytoplankton and nutrients. III Congreso Argentino de Limnología, Chascomús, Buenos Aires (Argentina), 31 October - 2 November, 2005 (in Spanish).

2005. Fuentes C., , E. M. Paolucci,, Gómez, M. I. and Espinach Ross, A. Indices of larval abundance (IAL) in the management of inland fisheries for migratory fish. III Congreso Argentino de Limnología. Póster. Oral presentation. (in Spanish).

2001. Schiariti, A, Valenzuela, A, Paolucci E M., Pájaro, M, Ehrlich, M.D and Macchi, G.J. Fecundity of the merluza común (Merluccius hubbsi) in the summer of 1998 and 2000 in the area of Isla Escondida, Patagonia Argentina. IX Congreso Latinoamericano de Ciencias del Mar (COLACMAR).16-23 Septiembre de 2001, San Andrés Isla, Colombia. Poster presentation. (in Spanish).

Honours and Scholarships

2010 ELAP scholarship, Government of Canada (internships in laboratory of H.J. MacIsaac, for 5 months at GLIER, University of Windsor).

2004-2010. Doctoral scholarship, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET).

2003-Master Fellowship of the Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores de México, Programa Multilateral “Cuauhtémoc III” SRE/CONACYT. 2003 Mexico.

2001-Academic Distinction Award, EUDEBA, Universidad de Buenos Aires.

Teaching

May 2004 - February 2005. Teaching assistant for the graduate course “Limnology”, Universidad de Buenos Aires.

2007-2009. Invited lecturer for the graduate course “Limnology”, Universidad de Buenos Aires.

Languages

English: intermediate level.
Spanish: mother language.