Mini-curriculum

Vera Quecini has a bachelor degree in Agricultural Engineering from Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz, USP, master of sciences degree in Agricultural Microbiology from Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz, USP and a PhD in Genetics and Plant Breeding from Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz, USP. She worked as a post-doctoral research assistant in Wageningen Agricultural University under the supervision of Dr. Richard E. Kendrick and Dr. Maarten Koornneef, where she studied photoperception, light signal transduction and the circadian clock in tomato and Arabidopsis. She worked as post-doctoral research assistant at the University of Missouri, Columbia, under the supervision of Dr. Emmanuel Liscum, investigating the molecular function of the NRL family NRL (NPH3-, RPT2-like), involved in phototropic responses in Arabidopsis. She worked as scientific researcher at Instituto Agronômico de Campinas, in the Genetic Resources Center and currently works as scientific researcher in the field of advanced biology, functional and structural genomics, at the National Center of Grapevine and Wine Research at Embrapa.

Education

1975 - 1982

Ensino Fundamental em

Escola Estadual de Primeiro Grau Barão do Rio Branco

Obtained year: 1982

1983 - 1986

Colégio Salesiano Dom Bosco

Obtained year: 1986

1992 - 1992

Aperfeiçoamento em Genetics

Landbowuniversiteit Te Wageningen

Title: Genetic analysis of mutants of Aspergillus niger transformed by recombinant DNA technology" / "Isolation and characterization of Aspergillus spp. mutant strains"

Obtained year: 1992

Advisor: Klaas Swart

1987 - 1991

Graduação em Engenharia Agronômica

Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz

Obtained year: 1991

1991 - 1995

Mestrado em Microbiologia Agrícola

Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz

Title: Efeito da presença do vírus do vira-cabeça" do tomateiro e de ribavirina sobre a cinética de crescimento de protoplastos do mesófilo de fumo (Nicotiana tabacum L.) em cultivo de suspensão e sobre isoformas de peroxidases, shiquimato desidrogenases e ami

Obtained year: 1995

Advisor: Darcy Martins da Silva

1995 - 1999

Doutorado em Genética e Melhoramento de Plantas

Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz

Title: Transferência direta de genes para plantas de Stylosanthes guianensis (Aubl.) Sw.

Obtained year: 1999

Advisor: Maria Lúcia Carneiro Vieira

2001 - 2004

Pós-Doutorado em

University Of Missouri Columbia

Obtained year: 2004

2000 - 2001

Pós-Doutorado em

Landbowuniversiteit Te Wageningen

Obtained year: 2001

Areas of expertise

1. Grande área: Agricultural Sciences / Área: Agronomy / Subárea: Plant Physiology / Especialidade: Fotobiologia
2. Grande área: Agricultural Sciences / Área: Agronomy / Subárea: Genetics / Especialidade: Molecular Biology
3. Grande área: Agricultural Sciences / Área: Agronomy / Subárea: Genetics / Especialidade: Biotechnology
4. Grande área: Biological Sciences / Área: Physiology / Subárea: General Physiology / Especialidade: Transdução de Sinais
5. Grande área: Agricultural Sciences / Área: Agronomy / Subárea: Genetics / Especialidade: Functional Genomics