Projects
Understanding the genomic architecture of sedentarism in the Macaronesian blackbirds (Turdus merula)
State: Project ongoing
Sponsor: Ayuda a la movilidad del Ministerio de Educación (antiguas ayudas Salvador de Madariaga)
Reference: PRX23/00006
Period: from 2025-02-01 to 2025-06-30
Amount: € 14,885
Principal Investigator: Juan Carlos Illera
Position: I am performing this project at the Institute of Avian Research, where Professor Miriam Liedvogel is my host.
Pathogen monitoring in Cantabrian animal populations within a global change scenario
State: Project ongoing
Sponsor: Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades en colaboración con el Principado de Asturias
Period: from 2023-01-01 to 2025-06-15
Amount: € 112,000
Principal Investigator: Jaime Bosch & Juan Carlos Illera
Deciphering the role of contingency and determinism on the divergence processes in oceanic island birds (CONDET)
State: Project ongoing
Sponsor: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación. Proyectos de I+D de Generación de Conocimiento
Reference: PID2022-140091NB-I00
Period: from 2023-09-01 to 2027-08-31
Amount: € 317,500 (without overheads: € 254,000)
Principal Investigator: Juan Carlos Illera & Pere Bover
Landscape-scale gut microbiomics in a wild bird; investigating anthropogenic and ecological effects in Berthelot’s pipit & Avian viromics and anthropogenic effects in Berthelot’s pipit
State: Project ongoing
Sponsor: ARIES DTP PHD UEA / BBSRC NRPDTP PHD UEA
Period: 2024-2028
Amount:
Principal Investigator: David S. Richardson
Censo de la tarabilla canaria (Saxicola dacotiae)
State: Project ended
Sponsor: Universidad de Oviedo y la Sociedad Española de Ornitología
Reference: FUO-23-319
Period: from October-2023 to August-2024
Amount: € 16,000
Principal Investigator: Juan Carlos Illera
Rewilding
State: Project ended
Sponsor: Government of Asturias
Reference: AYUD/2021/51261
Period: from January-2021 to December-2023
Amount: € 161,100
Principal Investigator: Susana Suárez Seoane
Canary Barcode: hacia el inventariado genómico de la biodiversidad de Canarias
State: Project ended
Sponsor: Agencia Canaria de Investigación (Apoyo a la investigación María del Carmen Betancourt y Molina)
Reference: ProID2021010093
Period: from June-2021 to April-2023
Amount: € 69,933.00
Principal Investigator: Brent Emerson
Worlds within islands: deciphering the evolutionary mechanisms driving gut microbiome biogeography using an oceanic island system
State: Project ended
Sponsor: American Genetic Association
Reference: 2022 EECG Award
Period: from January-2022 to December-2022
Amount: $5,900.00 USD
Principal Investigator: Karina Montero, Mark Gillingham and Juan Carlos Illera
Deciphering the causes of a recent avian radiation in Macaronesia (FRIMA)
State: Project ended
Sponsor: Research project funded by Spanish Minister of Science
Reference: PGC2018-097575-B-I00
Period: from January-2019 to December-2022
Amount: € 211,750 (without overheads € 175,000)
Principal Investigator: Juan Carlos Illera
Especies clave para servicios ecosistémicos retroalimentados en agroecosistemas
State: Project ended
Sponsor: Research project funded by BBVA Foundation
Reference: PR[18]_ECO_0026
Period: from April-2019 to March-2021.
Amount: € 100,000
Principal Investigator: Daniel García García
Position: Associated Researcher
Research grant funded by Regional Government of Asturias
State: Project ended
Sponsor: Government of Asturias
Reference: IDI/2018/000151
Period: 2018-2020
Amount: € 123,000
Principal Investigator: Juan Carlos Illera
International Congress of the Spanish Society of Ethology and Evolutionary Ecology
State: Project ended
Sponsor: Research grant for organising scientific conferences. Funded by University of Oviedo. Year 2018
Period: 2018
Amount: € 1,375
Principal Investigator: Juan Carlos Illera
The diversity beyond Species richness to understand the structure of communities
State: Project ended
Sponsor: Spanish Minister of Economy and Competitive
Reference: CGL2014-53899-P
Period: from January-2015 to December-2018
Amount: € 144,000
Principal Investigator: Paola Laiolo & Juan Carlos Illera
Phenotypic diversification of the genus Fringilla in Macaronesia
State: Project ended
Sponsor: Mobility research grant funded by the University of Oviedo and the Bank of Santander. Year 2017
Reference: 03.01.633B.481.60
Period: from 09-05-2017 to 10-06-2017
Amount: € 2,300
Principal Investigator: Juan Carlos Illera
Research grant funded by University of Oviedo
State: Project ended
Sponsor: University of Oviedo
Period: October-2015
Amount: € 757
Principal Investigator: Juan Carlos Illera
Genetic characterization, distribution and prevalence of emergent diseases in birds in a latitudinal and altitudinal gradient in the National Park’s network
State: Project ended
Sponsor: Spanish Minister of Environment (Institution of National Parks)
Reference: 375/2011
Period: from 11-29-2011 to 11-28-2014
Amount: € 89,337.75
Principal Investigator: Juan Carlos Illera
Colonisation and diversification of the spectacled warbler in Macaronesia
State: Project ended
Sponsor: Research Project funded by the Canarian Government
Reference: SolSubC200801000201
Period: 2009-2011
Amount: € 41,620
Principal Investigator: Juan Carlos Illera
Presence of the avian malaria in the Canary Islands and Madeira archipelagos: A case study with the Berthelot’s pipit
State: Project ended
Sponsor: John and Pamela Salter Charitable Trust
Reference: R14789
Period: from 10-15-2006 to 04-14-2007
Amount: £ 1,000
Principal Investigator: Juan Carlos Illera
Factors determining the breeding success in the Canary Islands stonechat
State: Project ended
Sponsor: Research grant funded by the Spanish Ornithological Society.
Period: 2003
Amount: € 2,000
Principal Investigator: Juan Carlos Illera