Leonardo is a Ph.D. candidate in the Pilon-Smits lab, working on Selenium metabolism in plants. The research aims to improve our understanding of plant Se metabolism, with important implications in agriculture, medicine, and industry. He is particularly interested in understanding how and why Selenium hyperaccumulator species can uptake, metabolize and accumulate toxic levels of Selenium.
Dean’s Graduate Diversity Fellowship
Biology Department, Colorado State University. Fort Collins, CO/USA.
Dean’s Graduate Diversity Fellowship. Biology Department, Colorado State University. Fort Collins, CO/USA. Reference: Lisa Angeloni (Lisa.Angeloni@colostate.edu), Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies.