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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura (CENA) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Assistant Professor in Ecogenomics and Environmental Sustainability at the Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture, University of São Paulo (CENA-USP), in Piracicaba, Brazil. He holds a Bachelors degree and a teaching credential in Biological Sciences from São Paulo State University (UNESP), and earned his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Sciences (Biology in Agriculture and the Environment) from CENA-USP, with a research stay at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO) of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), in the Netherlands. His doctoral thesis received an Honorable Mention in the 2015 CAPES Thesis Award in Agricultural Sciences and, in 2016, was distinguished with the USP Outstanding Thesis Award. He completed postdoctoral research at CENA-USP and at the NIOO/KNAW in the Netherlands. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the University of Málaga, Spain, and an Associate Researcher at the Center for Carbon Research in Tropical Agriculture (CCARBON/USP). His research focuses on studying microbial communities in soils from different Brazilian biomes and their associations with plants, aiming to understand their functions and environmental importance, and to provide insights for harnessing soil microbiota in ecosystem maintenance, degraded area restoration, and the promotion of sustainable agriculture. In collaboration with several national and international research groups, his projects currently focus on microbiome studies, integrating ecogenomics, microbial ecology, molecular biology, and bioinformatics. In 2017, he was awarded the VALE-CAPES Award for Technology and Innovation in the Young Researcher category. He is a CNPq Research Productivity Fellow. In 2022 and 2023, he was listed among the most cited researchers at USP, and in 2025 he was elected an Affiliate Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The drought is considered one of the major problems in agricultural production in the world, since the main world's agricultural regions are affected by water stress, with a negative impact on the economy and society. Genetic breeding of crops for drought tolerance has received much attention in recent years and new research has provided information on the ability of specific soil microor…
Soil is one of the most microbiologically diverse ecosystems on Earth, hosting microorganisms that play key roles in biogeochemical cycles and agricultural sustainability. Understanding the composition and function of these microbial communities is essential for advancing sustainable agricultural practices. This internship aims to introduce the student to methodologies used in the study o…
Extreme climatic events, such as drought resulting from global warming, pose a critical challenge to agriculture, compromising the growth and productivity of essential crops such as soybean (Glycine max L.) and common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.). Water deficiency negatively affects the biochemical and physiological processes of plants, reducing photosynthesis, water-use efficiency, and o…
The Amazon, despite its high biodiversity, is under pressure from the exploitation of its natural resources.In this context, Agroforestry Systems (AFS) emerge as a sustainable alternative, with special emphasis on the cultivation of açaí (Euterpe oleracea Mart.), a species of high commercial value. Since plants rely on microbial interactions for growth, protection, and nutrition, AFS-with…
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Over the years, global agriculture has been increasingly suffering from water stress as the main regions of the world's agricultural production are affected by drought, impacting the economy and society. In this way, techniques such as the genetic breeding of crops have been gaining focus in recent times as they can develop more drought-tolerant plants. Also, new research has generated in…
A major problem in the world's agricultural production is water stress since the main agricultural regions in the world are affected by drought, causing negative impacts on the economy and society. The crop genetic improvement aimed at drought tolerance has received much attention in recent years and new research has provided information on the ability of soil microorganisms to influence …
The water stress is considered the biggest problem in the agricultural production in the world, since the main agricultural regions in the world are affected by drought, negatively impacting the economy and society. The genetic improvement of crops for drought tolerance has received much attention in recent years and new research is providing insights into the ability of specific soil mic…
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This research internship has two complementary aims: (i) to acquire hands-on training in full-length 16S rRNA gene sequencing using Oxford Nanopore's PromethION platform and the associated bioinformatics pipelines for long-read data processing, and (ii) to apply advanced metataxonomic analyses to datasets generated in Brazil from common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) grown under three droug…
One of the greatest challenges faced by global agricultural production lies in managing waterstress, particularly due to the negative impact of drought on the world's major agricultural regions,resulting in significant economic and social damages. In both natural and agricultural environments, plants simultaneously interact with a range of microorganisms, some beneficial and others pathog…
Here, we present a research internship plan abroad with the objective of directly and reliably addressing the central objectives of the candidate proposals (FAPESP 2022/00552-2), which focus on the functional processing of metagenomic sequences from rhizosphere soils, to analyze and search for possible microbial genes that help the plant withstand periods of drought. The main objective of…
Here, we present a plan for an abroad research internship, which is complementary to the ongoing postdoctoral project (FAPESP 2014/03217-3). For this internship we propose two main activities, first, use the bioinformatics platform and know-how from the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO) to analyze the data generated in our experiments conducted in Brazil, and second, we propose an a…