I have a bachelor degree in Biology from Brazil at Unila. There I researched the interaction of two bacteria, Gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus and Azospirillum brasiliensis, and a fungi, Trichoderma harzianum, with the Mate plant, Ilex paraguariensis, under the direction of Cristian A. Rojas and Cleto Peres. I did my doctorate studies with Hugo Germain and Isabel Desgagne-Penix at UQTR on Transcriptomics and metabolomics of Arabidopsis in response to fungal virulence proteins. Although my PhD program was in Cellular and molecular biology, I did all the analyses of my transcriptomic and metabolomic data. I also developed a R package for selection of reference genes from transcriptomic data (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-019-6426-2), you can access it on Github too. I have collaborated in other projects throughout my PhD doing de novo transcriptome assembly and annotation. In 2018, I did an internship at Peter Solomon’s lab with Megan McDonald, where I used MinIon to sequence the genome of several isolates of the fungus Bipolaris sorokiniana, basecalled the reads and assembled them and finally aligned the new genomes to a reference to study structural changes in the chromosomes. Currently, I am a Postdoctoral fellow UQTR working with Dr. Isabel Desgagne-Penix in bioinformatics (mainly transcriptomics).