CV Lattes
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Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Rio Claro. Instituto de Biociências (IB) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Peru
Ph.D. in Biological Sciences (area: Applied Microbiology) by the Biosciences Institute of the São Paulo State University - UNESP, Rio Claro campus - SP. being a fellow at The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and with a Research Internship Abroad (BEPE) at Emory University (Atlanta, USA). Master in Biological Sciences (area: Applied Microbiology) by the Biosciences Institute of the São Paulo State University - UNESP, Rio Claro campus - SP. with a scholarship from the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). Graduated in Biology (2010), with an emphasis on microbiology, from the Federico Villarreal National University (UNFV) - Lima, Peru. I am a mycologist interested in taxonomy, systematics, and trait evolution of fungi that live in close symbiosis with fungus-growing insects (using leaf-cutting ants as a model system). My professional goal is to understand how phenotypic characters of fungi are related to symbiosis with these insects, and I use a combination of methods of classical taxonomy, molecular microbiology, modern phylogeny, time divergence analysis, and ancestral state reconstruction to achieve my goals. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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It is well-known that many specialized parasites originated from generalist ancestors that explored several hosts. Recent findings have shown that this evolutionary process had also occurred in the opposite direction. Considered a parasite of the fungal crops cultivated by attine ants, fungi in the genus Escovopsis (Ascomycota: Hypocreaceae) are associated with colonies of these insects. …
Attine ants maintain a mutualistic relationship with fungi grown for food. Parasitic fungi from the genus Escovopsis threaten the ant mutualistic partner. Despite the importance of this genus in the biological control of leaf-cutting ants (higher-attines), few studies focused in the taxonomy and systematics of Escovopsis. Recent results from our research group (Young Research Award FAPESP…
Symbiotic interactions play an important role in the evolution of life and allow structuring of complex systems in nature. Multipartite symbiotic associations with microbes enabled the evolutionary success of fungus-farming 'attine' ants. These insects collect various substrates for feeding a mutualistic fungus, which is cultured as a food source for their colonies. The fungal genus Escov…
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