I am Adjunct Professor 3 in Integrated Pest Management with emphasis in Host Plant Resistance in the Department of Entology of ESAL, at Lavras Federal University - UFLA. Biologist graduated at FEIS/UNESP, Campus of Ilha Solteira. I have MSc and PhD degrees in Agronomy (Agricultural Entomology) at FCAV/UNESP, Campus of Jaboticabal. I coursed Sandwich Doctorate (PDSE-CAPES) at Louisiana State University - LSU, in Baton Rouge, LA, USA. I was a Postdoc fellow (FAPESP) in the Department of Plant Protection at FCAV/UNESP. Coordinator of the CNPq research group "Constitutive and induced resistance in plants to insects" and of the Laboratory of Plant Resistance and Integrated Pest Management (LARP-MIP). Currently, I teach the courses "Integrated Pest Management" (GET105) to undergraduate students of Agronomy and "Host Plant Resistance" (PEN510) to graduate students in Entomology of UFLA. I work on the research lines: 1)Host plant resistance; 2)Induced resistance to insects with elicitors; 3)Transgenic plants and pest resistance management; 4)Integrated pest management. I am interested in the following areas: constitutive and induced plant resistance, factors and mechanisms of resistance in landrace genotypes, mutants, breeding lines, and commercial cultivars; resistant cultivars and resistance elicitors in integrated pest management; plant-insect interactions; insect resistance management; integrated pest management strategies.