Rodrigo Mendes - Team
Office of the Deputy Head of: Research and Development
Sector: Research Group
Date of Hire: 01/12/2010
Registration: 349701
Mini-curriculum
Rodrigo Mendes is research scientist at Embrapa Environment and professor in the Agricultural Microbiology Graduate School at the University of São Paulo. Former Head of Research and Development Department at Embrapa Environment (2015 to 2022). Graduated in Agronomic Engineering with Ph.D. in Genetics and Plant Breeding from the University of São Paulo, Brazil. He worked as a researcher at CanaVialis/Monsanto and at Wageningen University (NWO Postdoctoral Fellow). He was a visiting researcher at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, United States, at Rothamsted Research, United Kingdom, and at the Isaac Newton Institute at Cambridge University, United Kingdom. Member of the scientific advisory board of the Promise Program (NIOO-KNAW), Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and executive secretary of the International Research Program "Back to the Roots". His research focus on soil and plant microbial communities to understand how the rhizosphere microbiome promotes plant growth and protection.
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