During my undergraduate study, I have worked on endophytic fungi from mangrove and bioprospecting of enzymes. I learned how to work with fungal culture on various artificial media (such as potato dextrose agar) with diverse filamentous fungi, including Thrichoderma, Penicillium, Trichophyton and Paecilomyces. I also learned how to extract enzymes such as amylase, cellulase and pectinase. Also, I was a volunteer trainee working for producing the innoculants that are antagonistic to pathogenic fungi. During this period, I have tested various pathogenic fungi as biocontrol agents of Rhizoctonia solani on potato (Alfredo et al., 2009). During the year 2010-2013, I was a master’s student. My master and PhD’s studies were supported by the Program of Systematic and Evolution at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte/UFRN, Brazil. Before starting fieldwork and morphological and molecular analyses, I have attended the classes and seminar series such as phylogenetics, systematics, evolution, population genetics, phylogeography, fundamentals of taxonomy for zoology and botany, and mycological sciences.

Taxonomy and systematic of gasteroid fungi; • Fungus taxonomy and systematic; • Phylogeny and evolution of gasteroid fungi; • Fungus phylogeny and evolution; • DNA barcode approach of fungus; • Biodiversity, distribution and ecology of fungus.