I have a Bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS, a Master's degree in Genetics and Molecular Biology from the same institution, and a Ph.D. in Plant Biology from the Federal University of Pernambuco - UFPE, with a sandwich period at Texas AM University (USA). I have completed postdoctoral research at the Royal Botanic Garden, Kew/Queen Mary University of London, and the Department of Plant Biology at the State University of Campinas/UNICAMP. I am a professor at the São Paulo State University, where I work in the field of Botany. I am accredited in the Graduate Program in Evolution and Diversity at UFABC. Currently, I am coordinating a research grant from FAPESP (Process: 22/05890-3; 03/2023 to 02/2025) and I am part of the research team of the CEPID-FAPESP project "Biodiversity Dynamics and Climate Change - BioGATe" (Process: 21/10639-5). Through an integrated approach involving cytogenetics, cytogenomics, plant systematics, and comparative phylogenetic methods, the projects of my research group aim to understand the role of hybridization, polyploidy, and genome size variations in the evolution and diversification 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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