CV Lattes
Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde (CCBS) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
graduate at Ciências Biológicas from Universidade de São Paulo (1972), master's at Biological Oceanografy from Universidade de São Paulo (1975) and ph.d. at Biological Oceanografy from Universidade de São Paulo (1980). Has experience in Botany, acting on the following subjects: barra bonita, água doce, carboidratos extracelulares, anabaena spiroides and microcystis aeruginosa. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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This proposal focuses on microalgae physiology and biotechnology, starting from test tubes towards scaling up, in search for robust microalgae and their products that may be of commercial interest. Our goal is to identify strains that present high biomass yields and produce intracellular biomolecules with antioxidant, antibacterial, lipid, carbohydrate, amino acid, fatty acid, phytosterol…
The purpose of the project is to begin a germplasm bank, cryopreserved in liquid nitrogen, of freshwater microalgae (phytoplanktonic, but also thycoplanktonic, benthic and sub-aerial which may be cultivated and frozen), in order to maintain the biodiversity of these organisms, along with a database of information on the species. The first step to achieve this intent is to isolate clones t…
Cyanobacteria of Barra Bonita Reservoir, which is formed by the junction of Piracicaba and Tietê Rivers comprising an area of circa 384 km2, produce yearly a huge biomass not yet specifically quantified. A great part of this biomass, when dies, suffers decomposition liberating huge amounts of DOM. On the other hand, live cells release, also, high amounts of DOM through active and/or passi…
The Barra Bonita reservoir is formed by the junction of the Piracicaba and Tietê rivers with a total area of 384 Km2 . It is the first of a series of six big reservoirs located at the medium Tietê basin, which has an area of approximately 33,000 Km2 and a population of 5,000,000 inhabitants. It is located 250 km far from the city of São Paulo, capital of the São Paulo State with 15,000,00…
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The microalgae of the class Chlorophyceae have extensive ecologic importance and remarkable diversity in fresh water habitats. However, the understanding and corrected identification of their members demand more studies. As bacteria, the traditional species concept do not apply to much of the group, and even molecular biology methods present limitations to achieve it. Thus, it has been pr…
The hypothesis Baas-Becking (1934) has corroborates the cosmopolitan view of distribution of microorganisms for decades, saying that all organisms are in all environments, and the medium responsible for selecting them. Although biodiversity studies bring information on the occurrence of taxa included in the various existing phytoplankton groups in nature, studies on the dispersion and dis…
The rbcL gene has been widely used for phylogeny of green algae, and is one of the potential markers for DNA barcoding these algae. However, for the complete amplification of the rbcL many studies using various combinations of primers, and even gene fragments, failures in the amplification may occur due to the presence of introns. From rbcL sequences obtained from Genbank and sequences ob…
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Future scientific and biotechnological exploitation of microalgae and cyanobacteria will be critically dependent on the availability of genetically and functionally stable master stock-cultures. Whilst historically maintenance by serial transfer has been the method of choice by research scientists and culture collections, as the number of strains held ex situ increase the logistic and cos…
This project proposes the use of traditional methods of taxonomy and analysis of sequences of the 18S rDNA, ITS2 and rbcL of species of freshwater microalgae family Selenastraceae. The main objective is to provide a basis for taxonomic identification of these organisms, whose biodiversity is currently scattered in "complex" Ankistrodesmaceae / Selenastraceae / Chlorellaceae / Oocystaceae,…
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| 38 / 9 | Completed scholarships in Brazil |
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