Daniela De Lima Gabriel

Biography

"Daniela de Lima Gabriel was born in Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil, on April 12, 1979. She attended the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro between 1996 and 1999, where she was awarded a degree in Plant Biology. During her first undergraduate year, she was initiated in Plant Taxonomy, especially on the classification of seaweeds, by Dr. Yocie Yoneshigue-Valentin. The following semesters were spent discovering different aspects of algal reproduction, culture and taxonomy. Later, she worked on reproductive isolation of Bromeliaceae with Dr. Tania Wendt while teaching lab classes of flower identification. In 2000, after finishing her Undergraduate thesis on Genetic transformation of rice supervised by Dr. Vânia Pádua, she began teaching Chemistry and Biology for High School students. She moved to the Archipelago of the Azores, Portugal, in 2002, to conduct research in classical and molecular taxonomy of Red Algae, and, since 2005 she has also been working with the Seaweed Lab at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA. In 2008 she defended her Ph.D. thesis on the Phylogeny of the Order Nemastomatales (Rhodophyta), wrote under the supervision of Dr. Ana I. Neto and Dr. Suzanne Fredericq. After her graduation, she worked for the Azorean Government developing Outreach and Education projects throughout the Archipelago. Meanwhile she had been dedicating part of her time to the study of seaweeds, taking part in projects in Europe and USA. Her posdoctoral research project started in 2011 and is focused on the Phylogeny of the red algae belonging to the Peyssonneliales. She is also interested in studying morphological and developmental features that help distinguishing the members of species-complexes, especially among algal taxa involving alternation of generation between gelatinous and crustose phases. Her other areas of interest are biodiversity and ecological monitoring."

Research Interest

She is interested in studying morphological and developmental features that help distinguishing the members of species-complexes, especially among algal taxa involving alternation of generation between gelatinous and crustose phases. Her other areas of interest are biodiversity and ecological monitoring