Mariana Shizue Gouveia Saito

PhD student in Forest Resources in the area of #8203;#8203;Urban Forestry (2020 - current) and Master in Phytopathology and Nematology from the "'Luiz de Queiroz" School of Agriculture, University of São Paulo, (2020). She completed a sandwich doctorate in the United States, at The Ohio State University and Purdue University in 2023. She graduated in Forestry from the same institution (2016), as well as a degree in Agricultural Sciences (2017). During her graduation, she carried out a Scientific Initiation project at FAPESP, with an emphasis on virus-mite vector relationships within the group of viruses transmitted by Brevipalpus, and after finishing her degree she carried out Technical Training financed by FAPESP in the same area. She is currently a doctoral student in the Forest Resources Program at ESALQ-USP, in the area of #8203;#8203;Urban Forestry and her thesis has as its main theme the witches' broom of Ipê. She has experience in the area of #8203;#8203;Phytopathology, with an emphasis on molecular genetics and virology, as well as in the areas of Education and urban forestry. She was part of the Institution's Postgraduate Association (2018-2020) holding the positions of president and financial director. He was also Student Representative of the Forest Resources program for two terms, and served on the postgraduate working group for student mental health. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)