Mini-curriculum

Graduated in Agronomy (University of São Paulo, 1993), M. Sc in Genetics and Plant Breeding (University of São Paulo, 1996), PhD degree in Microbiology (University of São Paulo, 2000). She is researcher at Embrapa, working with molecular biology of plant microbe interaction, plant insect interaction, transgenic cotton development and cotton genetic resources. She led the project Gene silencing by RNAi as a strategy for controlling the whitefly Bemisia tabaci, from 2019 to 2023, and the international projects Cotton varieties and pest management in Tanzania (Africa-Brazil Marketplace) and Cooperation between Brazil and Tanzania in cotton genetic resources (CNPq): participated in C4+Togo (Brazilian Cooperation Agency, in the countries of Mali, Burkina Faso, Benin and Togo); International Project on GMO Risk Assessment Methodologies; Más Algodon (FAO, South America) and participates in the C_around (an Soil European Joint Project). She has 36 publications in the Web of Science; reviewed papers for 21 international journals; took part in the 2nd Meeting of the Working Group on Agricultural Biotechnology and Biosafety - Brazil/China in 2015. She was the curator of the Active Cotton Germplasm Bank in 2014 and 2015, and evaluates traditional cotton plants conserved by the Kalunga quilombola community and native Brazilian cotton.

Education

1989 - 1993

Graduação em Engenharia Agronômica

Universidade de São Paulo

Title: Caracterização e identificação de estirpes do mosaico da cana-de-açúcar na região de Piracicaba a partir de dois isolados

Obtained year: 1993

Advisor: Neusa de Lima Nogueira

1994 - 1996

Mestrado em Genética e Melhoramento de Plantas

Universidade de São Paulo

Title: Regeneração de plantas e expressão de GUS em Stylosanthes guianensis (Aubl.) Sw. via Agrobacterium.

Obtained year: 1996

Advisor: Maria Lúcia Carneiro Vieira

1997 - 2000

Doutorado em Microbiologia Agrícola

Universidade de São Paulo

Title: Efeito do BTH na expressão de isoenzimas e na interação de microssimbiontes e nematóides fitopatogênicos com plantas de soja.

Obtained year: 2000

Advisor: Elke Jurandy Bran Nogueira Cardoso

2001 - 2001

Pós-Doutorado em

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

Obtained year: 2001

Areas of expertise

1. Grande área: Biological Sciences / Área: Biotecnologia / Subárea: Plant Biotechnology / Especialidade: Conservação e Multiplicação de Germoplasma
2. Grande área: Biological Sciences / Área: Biotecnologia / Subárea: Plant Biotechnology / Especialidade: Transgenic Plants
3. Grande área: Biological Sciences / Área: Microbiology / Subárea: Microbiologia de Solo
4. Grande área: Biological Sciences / Área: Botany
5. Grande área: Biological Sciences / Área: Biochemistry / Subárea: Molecular Biology / Especialidade: Plant Molecular Biology
6. Grande área: Biological Sciences / Área: Genetics / Subárea: Plant Genetics