Lucas Cesar Santos Cabral is an undergraduate student of Biology at Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), it's supervised by the Dr Christina Wyss Castelo Branco, and under her supervision, already published as an co-autor, an article in Hydrobiologia journal. Lucas has interest in bioinvasion and ecology in freshwater, in the present, turned its focus to the invasive rotifer Kellicottia bostoniensis. With this theme, already presented a oral session and a poster in local events, beeing awarded by the best presented work according to the theme in both events.