Rebeca Zanini is a senior postdoctoral researcher affiliated with Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa and Nova Medical School (Portugal). She majored in Biological Sciences in 2007 at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) and obtained her PhD in Animal Biology in 2015 at the same university. Since then, she has collaborated on projects with Drosophila, Lepidoptera, and Cetartyodactila, under the scope of evolutionary biology, genetics, and epigenetics. Her current interests include developmental biology, neurogenetics, and relaxin pathways. She is part of the Worldwide Insect Peptide Collective.