201 Bond Life Sciences Center

1201 Rollins St

University of Missouri

Columbia, MO 65211

Email: ac9db@missouri.edu

Education

2018 – Present – PhD in Biochemistry (Molecular Biology)

Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR) – Curitiba, PR – Brazil

Current research focus: Nitrogen-fixing bacteria and plant interaction.

2016 – 2018: M. S. in Soil Science

Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR) – Curitiba, PR – Brazil

Thesis: Macroinvertebrate diversity in Amazonian Anthropic Soils

2009– 2015: B.S. – Agronomic Engineering

São Paulo State University (UNESP)– Registro, SP – Brazil

Final term project: Identification of earthworms used as biomarkers of soil contamination.

Publications

Morgante, P.G., Conrado, A.C. and Santiago, P.S., 2015. Molecular Identification of the Earthworm Amynthas Gracilis. Biophysical Journal, 108(2), p.395a.

Conrado, A.C., Arruda, H., Stanton, D.W., James, S.W., Kille, P., Brown, G., Silva, E., Dupont, L., Taheri, S., Morgan, A.J. and Simões, N., 2017. The complete mitochondrial DNA sequence of the pantropical earthworm Pontoscolex corethrurus (Rhinodrilidae, Clitellata): Mitogenome characterization and phylogenetic positioning. ZooKeys, (688), p.1.

James, S.W., Bartz, M.L., Stanton, D.W., Conrado, A.C., Dupont, L., Taheri, S., Silva, E.D., Cunha, L. and Brown, G.G., 2019. A neotype for Pontoscolex corethrurus (Müller, 1857)(Clitellata). Zootaxa, 4545(1), pp.124-132.

Nadolny, H., Santos, A., Demetrio, W., Ferreira, T., Maia, L.D.S., Conrado, A.C., Bartz, M., Garrastazu, M., Silva, E.D., Lavelle, P. and Baretta, D., 2020. Recommendations for assessing earthworm populations in Brazilian ecosystems. Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira, 55.

Demetrio, W.C., Conrado, A.C., Acioli, A.N., Casadei Ferreira, A., Bartz, M.L., James, S.W., da Silva, E., Maia, L.S., Martins, G.C., Macedo, R.S. and Stanton, D.W., 2021. A “Dirty” Footprint: Macroinvertebrate diversity in Amazonian Anthropic Soils. Global Change Biology.