CV Lattes
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Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Araçatuba. Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária (FMVA) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Graduated from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Sao Paulo (1989), Master of Veterinary Science, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (1992) and Ph.D. in Animal Reproduction at the University of São Paulo (1995). He is currently Professor (Biochemistry), at UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista Julio de Mesquita Filho, having previously been professor at the University of São Paulo (1995-1997) and scientist at the Joint FAO / IAEA Programme in Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture (2003 to 2005). Coordinates the Laboratory of Animal Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of UNESP - Araçatuba, part of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Collaborating Centre for Animal Genomics and Bioinformatics. Active in different fields of biotechnology, particularly in: livestock breeding and selection assisted by molecular markers and diagnosis of infectious and parasitic diseases in animals using nucleic acid analysis methods. In the context of technological innovation, over the past 20 years has participated in the start up of three biotechnology companies in Brazil, specialized in genomics applied to animals, plants and humans. He has extensive international experience in the field of Biotechnology, maintaining active professional network accumulated during several technical visits, participation in conferences and professional activities abroad. Active member of the International Society of Animal Genetics (ISAG) and International Embryo Transfer Society (IETS). In Brazil, was Treasurer of the Brazilian Society of Embryo Technology (SBTE) for two terms (96/97 and 98/99) and its President (2008/2010). In 2010 completed an MBA at Fundacao Getulio Vargas in Sao Paulo, in the area of Business Strategic Management. Member of the National Biosafety Technical Commission (CTNBio) of the Ministry of Science and Technology during the 2010/2015 and 2020/2022. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) is the main aquaculture species in Brazil and the second most produced in the world. This species features high quality meat and great adaptation to a diversity of production systems. Tilapia production chain is the fastest growing sector within aquaculture and its annual growth rate has been of 10% for the past decade in Brazil. It is also believed th…
Domestic cattle descend from the extinct Auroch (Bos primigenius) and are divided into two subspecies that interbreed: (1) the humpless taurine cattle (Bos primigenius taurus) and (2) the humped zebu (Bos primigenius indicus). Evidences from archaeological and DNA analyses support that Eurasian taurine and zebu cattle have arisen from separate centres of domestication ~8,000 years BC in F…
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Taurine (Bos tauru) and zebu (Bos indicus) cattle have established a close relationship with humans about ten thousand years ago when they were domesticated. Bovine milk and meat are very important for the nutrition and subsistence of billions of people. While zebu is extremely adapted to (sub-)tropical climates and resistant to infectious and parasitic diseases, taurine cattle are more p…
Deleterious variants (delVars) are alterations in the DNA sequence that can cause partial or total loss of gene function. The domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris) has low genetic variability and high frequency of delVars. The accumulation of deleterious mutations makes the dog an excellent model for the study of human physiology and disease. Tools for genomic analyses, such as the SNP (s…
All animal species carry a genetic load of disadvantageous allelic variants. Those that are lethal occur only in the heterozygous state while those non-lethal can reduce the fitness of homozygous individuals for the variant. The long-term destiny of these mutations in outbred species is to decrease in frequency, due to negative selection, and disappear. However, in livestock populations t…
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Crossbreeding is a promising strategy to overcome the global challenge of supplying food to over 9 billion people by 2050. Crossbred animals usually combine favorable traits from their purebred ancestors, and in many cases their performance exceeds the parent average. This phenomenon, known as heterosis or 'hybrid vigor', is a genetic dominance effect, best expressed when the parental all…
Inbreeding has been suggested as a cause of reduced reproductive performance in cattle. This negative relationship is known as 'inbreeding depression', and evidence supporting this hypothesis comes from studies of association between reproductive measures and estimates of the inbreeding coefficient (F). Traditionally, the inbreeding coefficient is calculated based on expectations from ped…
Brazil occupies the first place in the ranking of beef exporting countries, and projections for the sector show an annual growth of 2.0 %for the next ten years. Thus there is a clear need for research to lead to the development of technologies that provide effective increases in livestock productivity. Initiatives such as the sequencing of the bovine genome and the Hap Map project, rise t…
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