Prof. Manuel Mota

Manuel Galvão de Melo e Mota, Associate professor w/ Habilitation, Dept. Biology, University of Évora where he also directs the Nematology Lab.-MED. Undergraduate degree (¿Licenciatura¿) in Biology in 1982 (Univ. Lisboa/ FCUL), and PhD in Plant Pathology, 1992, Virginia Tech, USA. Habilitation (¿Agregação¿) in Nematology, in 2002, Univ. Évora. Visiting Associate Professor, Kyoto University, Japan (2005); Visiting Professor in UENF/ RJ, Brasil (2012) and UFV/ Viçosa (MG), Brasil, in 2017. Has been teaching a wide range of matters, from Invertebrate Biology do History of Biology, from Soil Biology (including General Nematology) to Cell Biology, Neuro-endocrine Biology, etc¿ From 2007 to 2014 directed in Évora the European MSc (Erasmus Mundus) in Nematology "EUMAINE" (http://www.eumaine.ugent.be). Has collaborated and taught at several Portuguese (ULHT, UTAD, FCUL) and foreign (Virginia Tech, USA; Univ. Nottingham, UK; U. Kyoto) universities. Specialized in Phytonematology. In 1999, as leader of a national Project team (PRAXIS), detected for the first time in Portugal and in Europe, the pinewood nematode (PWN) Bursaphelenchus xylophilus. In 2006 organized an international meeting on pine wilt disease (PWD) at the Fund. GulbenkianResearch has since then extended to other important plant parasitic nematodes (e.g. virus-vector nematodes, root lesion nematodes), as well as entomopathogenic nematodes. Among the publications, 95 peer-reviewed papers and 20 book chapters.