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Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Botucatu. Instituto de Biociências (IBB) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
I hold a degree in Biological Sciences from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), where I also obtained a Masters in Genetics and Molecular Biology. I earned my Ph.D. in Plant Biology from the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), including a research internship at Texas AM University (USA). I completed postdoctoral research at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew/Queen Mary University of London, and at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP). I was a FAPESP Young Investigator Fellow (Grant 2011/22215-3; 20122017) and currently serve as a faculty member at São Paulo State University (UNESP), Botucatu campus, where I also act as tutor of the PET-Biology program and coordinate the outreach project Conexões Verdes, focused on orchid conservation. I am affiliated with the Graduate Programs in Evolution and Diversity (UFABC) and in Biological Sciences Genetics (UNESP/IBB). I coordinate a FAPESP research grant (Proc. 22/05890-3) and am part of the FAPESP Research Center for Biodiversity Dynamics and Climate Change (Proc. 21/10639-5). My research integrates cytogenetic, cytogenomic, and phylogenetic approaches to investigate the roles of hybridization, polyploidy, and genome size variation in the evolution of Neotropical plants, with a focus on Orchidaceae. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The existence of associations between cytogenetic traits, especially ploidy, and ecological traits, such as the colonization of extreme environments and habit, was initially proposed almost a century ago. However, even today, few studies assess whether such associations represent general plant trends or are the results of specific cases. Furthermore, karyotype changes affect the genome si…
Vicariant species have disjunctive distributions, causing speciation and endemism. Studies relating genetic structure with geographical distribution in plants is fundamental, allowing understand the habitat fragmentation consequences on the plant species biology and the relationship between environment and genome. However, despite the mega plant biodiversity found in the Neotropics, pract…
The existence of associations between cytogenetic characteristics, such as chromosome number and ploidy, and ecological traits, such as growth habit, was proposed almost a century ago. However, such associations may be obscured by incomplete sampling or biased by phylogenetic conservatism, making it often impossible to validate whether and at which taxonomic level(s) this hypothesis can b…
Genome size variations are considered one of the main post-zygotic reproductive barriers in plants, and when such variations are observed among populations of the same species, they may indicate an incipient speciation process. Epidendrum denticulatum (2n=52), distributed in the Atlantic Forest and Cerrado biomes, exhibits genome size variation between the two biomes, with Cerrado populat…
Hybridisation, often associated with polyploidy, plays a vital role in the evolutionary history of plants. However, in most cases, the identification of hybridisation is based on the detection of individuals with intermediate morphology, which frequently occurs when the hybrid species are already established. In this way, the opportunity to analyse the first steps of the formation of hybr…
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