Ricardo Augusto Dante

Ricardo A. Dante is a Research Scientist A at the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) since 2010 and assigned to the Embrapa Agricultural Informatics center (Campinas, SP) since 2013. He is Principal Investigator at the Genomics Applied to Climate Change Research Center (GCCRC), which was established by Embrapa, University of Campinas (Unicamp) and São Paulo Science Foundation (Fapesp) and aims to create biotechnological solutions for the adaption of agricultural crops to stresses associated with global climate change. He is a founding member of the Joint Research Unit in Genomics Applied to Climate Change (UMiP GenClima), a technical-scientific and operational cooperation agreement between Embrapa and Unicamp established in 2012 and a precursor to the GCCRC. From 2005 to 2010, he was a Research Scientist at Alellyx Applied Genomics (acquired by Monsanto in 2008) in its sugarcane biotechnology program, which was focused on the generation of genetically modified varieties with increases in the accumulation of biomass and sucrose, tolerance to drought and resistance to herbicides and insect herbivory. He holds a PhD in Plant Sciences (Molecular Biology and Genetics; 2005) from the University of Arizona (Tucson, USA), for studies on genetic and molecular aspects of cell cycle regulation during maize endosperm development. He holds a Master's degree in Biological Sciences (Genetics; 1997) and a Bachelor of Biological Sciences (1993), both from Unicamp. His work encompasses the Molecular Biology, Biotechnology, Genomics and Plant Genetics fields. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)