Ph.D. and Master degree in Plant Biotechnology at the Federal University of Lavras, Brazil, 2014 to 2020. Internship at the Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Guelph, CA 20219 - 2020. Research focused on Coffea spp. flowering induction toward the connection between environment, gene expression, hormone regulation, and their association to flowering induction pathways, mainly related to the gene family phosphatidylethanolamine-binding proteins (PEBPs). Currently as a Postdoctoral Researcher Associate since 2021 at the Institute of Plant Breeding Genetics and Genomics, University of Georgia, USA, works with conventional and molecular plant breeding to improve peanuts for aflatoxin resistance. Has experience with photosynthesis efficiency, yest-two hybrid, Arabidopsis transformation, CRISPR-Cas9, tissue culture, plasmid construction and cloning, bioinformatics for transcriptome and genomic analysis, field, greenhouse, and laboratory experiments and statistical analysis, R and Python. Also, assist undergraduate and graduate students in their research, reviewed multiple high impact journals, was nominated as full member of the Sigma XI Society in 2025, member of the National Association of Plant Breeder (NAPB) since 2023, member of the American Peanut Research, and Education Society since 2024. Have 24 publications in peer reviewed journals, attended several national and international conferences as poster and oral presentations.
Ph.D. and Master degree in Plant Biotechnology at the Federal University of Lavras, Brazil, 2014 to 2020. Internship at the Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Guelph, CA 20219 - 2020. Research focused on Coffea spp. flowering induction toward the connection between environment, gene expression, hormone regulation, and their association to flowering induction pathways, mainly related to the gene family phosphatidylethanolamine-binding proteins (PEBPs). Currently as a Postdoctoral Researcher Associate since 2021 at the Institute of Plant Breeding Genetics and Genomics, University of Georgia, USA, works with conventional and molecular plant breeding to improve peanuts for aflatoxin resistance. Has experience with photosynthesis efficiency, yest-two hybrid, Arabidopsis transformation, CRISPR-Cas9, tissue culture, plasmid construction and cloning, bioinformatics for transcriptome and genomic analysis, field, greenhouse, and laboratory experiments and statistical analysis, R and Python. Also, assist undergraduate and graduate students in their research, reviewed multiple high impact journals, was nominated as full member of the Sigma XI Society in 2025, member of the National Association of Plant Breeder (NAPB) since 2023, member of the American Peanut Research, and Education Society since 2024. Have 24 publications in peer reviewed journals, attended several national and international conferences as poster and oral presentations.