Carina Nascimento SilvaShe has a degree in Agricultural Engineering from the Federal University of Acre. She has a master's degree in Humid Tropic Agriculture from the Amazon Research Institute (INPA), with Phytopathology as a research line with an emphasis on biological control through the use of essential oils extracted from medicinal plants to control plant diseases. She is currently a PhD student in Phytopathology at the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco, in the line of biological control research in the Bacteriology laboratory - LAFIBAC. She is currently working on the use of yeasts as biocontrollers for scale rot caused by bacteria from the Burkholderia spp complex.