Juliana Dantas graduated in Biological Sciences from the Federal University of Viçosa (1996) with a Master's in Genetics and Breeding from the Federal University of Viçosa (1998) and a PhD in Genetics and Plant Breeding—USP-School of Agriculture Luiz de Queiroz (2004). She has experience in the field of Molecular Biology of Plants, with an emphasis on Cell Biology and Control of Gene Expression. Since 2005 she has been a researcher at Embrapa, where she works mainly on the following topics: gene expression, isolation of promoters, and plant transformation. It develops patents for regulatory sequences useful for the genetic improvement of plants.