Sílvia de Oliveira Dorta

She holds a degree in Biological Sciences (Bachelors and Full Licentiate) from the Centro Universitário Hermínio Ometto Uniararas (2003). She holds a Masters in Agronomy, with an emphasis on Agricultural Microbiology, from the Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz ESALQ/USP (2014), and a PhD in the same area and institution (2018). She completed postdoctoral research at the Instituto Agronômico de Campinas IAC/CCSM (2018 and 2021) and in 2024 at the Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD/France). She is currently a postdoctoral researcher with a FAPESP fellowship at the Instituto Biológico de São Paulo. She worked as an associate researcher in the Phytopathology Laboratory at Syngenta in 2020, where she also served on the Ergonomics Committee. She has experience in biotechnology, with an emphasis on plant genetic transformation and biological control of Diaphorina citri using entomopathogenic bacteria. She works in the areas of phytopathology, entomology, plant health, microbiology, genetics, and molecular biology. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)