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GRATTAPAGLIA, Dario
Researcher, Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
Dario Grattapaglia is a senior research scientist at EMBRAPA Genetic Resources and Biotechnology since 1995 and holds a joint appointment as Professor in the Genomic Sciences and Biotechnology Program of the Catholic University of Brasília since 2000. Forest engineer from the University of Brasília in 1985, he received his Ph.D. in Genetics (co-major in Forestry) at North Carolina State University in 1994. His research interests include forest tree genetics, genomics and breeding of fast growing eucalypts, population genetics and conservation of tropical trees and genomic technologies applied to breeding practice. Architect and project leader of the public-private Brazilian Network of Applied Eucalyptus Genomic Research (Genolyptus Project) and co-PI of the International Eucalyptus Genome Sequencing Project, he was elected fellow of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences in 2012