<p> CURRICULUM VITAE Maria Alice Neves March, 2006</p><p>PERSONAL INFORMATION Born 17/12/1973, Londrina, PR, Brazil Languages: Portuguese, English, Spanish, Italian</p><p>CONTACT INFORMATION Institute of Systematic Botany The New York Botanical Garden 200th St. & Kazimiroff Boulevard Bronx, New York 10458-5126 Phone: 718 817 8613 E-mail: [email protected]</p><p>EDUCATION 2003- PhD student, City University of New York and New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY, USA. Advisor: Roy E. Halling. 1998-2000 Masters degree in Biotechnology, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil. Advisor: Margarida Mattos de Mendonça. 1991-97 Licensee degree in Biological Science, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil. Advisor: Clarice Loguercio Leite. 1991-96 Bachelor degree in Biological Science, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil. Advisor: Clarice Loguercio Leite.</p><p>TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2001-03 Temporary professor of the Department of Cell Biology, Embryology, and Genetics at Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil.</p><p>PUBLICATIONS</p><p>LOGUERCIO-LEITE, C.; SOUZA-CRUZ, P. B.; NEVES, M. A. & REIS, M. M. 2003. Wood decay caused by a white-rot, Trametes villosa (Fr.) Kreisel (Basidiomycetes, Fungi), in Eucalyptus viminalis Labill and Myrcia rostrata DC. (Myrtaceae). Biotemas, 16(2): 7-16.</p><p>GERBER, A. L.; NEVES, M. A. & LOGUERCIO-LEITE, C. 1999. Perenniporia Murr. (Basidiomycotina) - some species from Southern Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Botânica, 22 (2): 185-193.</p><p>NEVES, M. A. & LOGUERCIO-LEITE, C. 1999. Cultural characteristics and taxonomy of some polypores (Aphyllophorales) from Santa Catarina Island, SC, Brazil. Mycotaxon, 70: 193-203.</p><p>EVENTS ATTENDANCE 2005 Northeast Mycological Foray – NEMF. Mont Alto, PA, 11-14 Aug.</p><p>1 2005 Poster - Congreso Latinoamericano de Micología. Brasília, DF, Brazil, 1-5 Aug. 2004 Poster - Annual Meeting, Mycological Society of America. Asheville, NC, USA, 15-21 Jul. 2003 Peck Foray. Albany, NY, USA, 19-21 Sep. 2003 Poster - Síntese do conhecimento de Boletales no Brasil. 54º Congresso Nacional de Botânica, Belém/Ananindeua, PA, Brasil, 13-18 Jul. 2001 Oral presentation - Studi micologici nell'Isola di Santa Catarina, sud del Brasile. VIII Convegno Taxa e cenosi fungine nell'area del mediterraneo, Campo di Giove, Italy, 20-23 Set. 2000 Poster - Comparative studies on commercial isolates of Agaricus blazei Murrill from Brazil. International Symposium – More quality of life by means of biotechnology - the bioconversion of renewable raw materials, GBF Institute. Hannover and Braunschweig, Germany, 25-29 Sep. 2000 Poster - Comparative studies on six commercial isolates of Agaricus blazei from Brazil. 44th Meeting of the Mycological Society of Japan, Kinki University. Nara, Japan, 19-23 May. 1998 Poster - Wood-decay macrofungi (Basidiomycetes) on Santa Catarina Island. Third Latin American Biodegradation & Biodeterioration Symposium, UFSC. Florianópolis, SC, Brazil, 27-30 Apr. 1997 Poster and oral presentation - Estudos de culturas dicarióticas fúngicas (Basidiomycetes) na Ilha de Santa Catarina, SC, Brasil. VII Santa Catarina State Seminar of Scientific Introduction, UFSC/UDESC. Florianópolis, SC, Brazil, 13-14 Oct. 1996 Poster - Políporos xilófilos da Ilha de Santa Catarina, SC, Brasil: Novas citações com estudos de cultura. II Latin American Congress of Mycology, Instituto Pedro Kourí. Havana, Cuba, 23-26 Oct. And others.</p><p>COURSES 1999 Biotechnology of Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms. Brazilian Argentinean Center of Biotechnology, Universidad Nacional del Sur. Bahía Blanca, Argentina, 23 aug-10 sep. 1997 Transformation of Plants and Metabolic Engineering, 22-26 sep. UFSC, Florianópolis, Brasil. 1994 Taxonomy of Ectomycorrhizae Fungi, 14 oct. UFSC, Florianópolis, Brasil.</p><p>SCHOLARSHIP 2003- Doctors fellowship, CAPES. 2003 Doctors fellowship, CNPq (four months) 1998-00 Masters degree, CAPES. 1995-97 Bachelor degree – Introductory Research, BIP/UFSC, PIBIC/CNPq. 1994-95 Bachelor degree – Introductory Research, DAP/UFSC.</p><p>SOCIETY AFFILIATIONS</p><p>2 Mycological Society of America, Sociedad Latino-Americana de Micología, Torrey Botanical Society</p><p>EXTRA CURRICULUM ACTIVITIES 2005 Professor of the workshop ‘Agaricoid fungi: identification, classification, and distribution’. UFSC. Florianópolis, 25-29 Jul. 2001 Member of the examining board, graduation monograph Biodiversidade de fungos poróides xilófilos na Unidade de Conservação Ambiental Desterro (UCAD), Ilha de Santa Catarina, SC, Brasil. UFSC. Florianópolis, 16 Jul. 2000 Member of the examining board, graduation monograph Respostas morfo-fisiológicas in vitro sob diferentes situações nutricionais e de temperatura de culturas dicarióticas de Phellinus (Quélet). UFSC. Florianópolis, 15 Aug.</p><p>3</p>