Rodrigo Mendes - Team
Office of the Deputy Head of: Research and Development
Role: Deputy Head of Research Center
Date of Hire: 01/12/2010
Registration: 349701
Mini-curriculum
Rodrigo Mendes is the Head of Research and Development Department at Embrapa Environment, where works as researcher at the Laboratory of Environmental Microbiology. He is also a lecturer and PhD supervisor at Agricultural Microbiology Graduate School of University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. He graduated as agronomist from the University of Sao Paulo with specialization in Biotechnology, where developed his first research on interactions between microbial communities and plants (FAPESP grant). Conducted his PhD (CNPq and FAPESP grants) at the Department of Genetics of University of Sao Paulo, with a period as a guest researcher (CAPES grant) at the Laboratory of Phytopathology of Wageningen University, The Netherlands. Worked as a researcher at CanaVialis/Monsanto on the sugarcane breeding program and as associated researcher (Postdoctoral Fellow - NWO grant) at the Laboratory of Phytopathology, Wageningen University. He was a visiting scientist at Lausanne University, Switzerland, at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA, at the Rothamsted Research, UK, and a visiting professor at the Isaac Newton Institute, University of Cambridge, UK. Mendes is the executive secretary of the international research program "Back to the Roots" [http://backrootsproject.wix.com/backroots] and his research focuses on soil and plant microbial communities to understand how the rhizosphere microbiome promotes plant development and protection [http://rrmendess.wix.com/rdgmendeslab].
Education
1994 - 1996
Ensino Médio em
Escola Técnica Estadual Trajano Camargo
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Obtained year: 1996
1994 - 1997
Escola Técnica Estadual Trajano Camargo
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Obtained year: 1997
1998 - 2002
Graduação em Engenharia Agronômica
Universidade de São Paulo
Title: Fungos Endofíticos de Soja: isolamento, caracterização e avaliação da interação com o hospedeiro.
Obtained year: 2002
Advisor: Aline Aparecida Pizzirani-Kleiner
2003 - 2008
Doutorado em Agronomia (Genética e Melhoramento de Plantas)
Universidade de São Paulo
Title: Diversidade e caracterização genética de comunidades microbianas endofíticas associadas à cana-de-açúcar
Obtained year: 2008
Advisor: Aline Aparecida Pizzirani-Kleiner
2009 - 2010
Pós-Doutorado em
Wageningen University
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Obtained year: 2010
Areas of expertise
- Grande área: Biological Sciences / Área: Microbiology / Subárea: Microbiologia Agrícola
- Grande área: Biological Sciences / Área: Microbiology / Subárea: Molecular and Microorganism Genetics