Dr. Patricia Valle Pinheiro is a graduate in Agronomia from the Universidade Federal de Goiás (2001), with her Master's in Ciências Agrárias from the Universidade de Brasília (2005) and PhD in Entomology from Cornell University (2016). She has experience in Entomology focusing on the following subjects: insect-plant-pathogen interactions, vector biology, Hemiptera, insect biochemistry, insect genomics, evolution and integrated pest management, and plant resistance. Patricia is a principal investigator at Embrapa Arroz e Feijão and a professor registered in the Graduate Program in Biology of the Host-Parasite Relationship at the Universidade Federal de Goiás.