Dr. Juliano de Bastos Pazini is an Agricultural Engineer
graduated from the Federal University of Pampa. He received his Master and PhD
in Plant Protection, with respective dissertation and thesis defended in the
area of concentration in Entomology, by the Postgraduate Program in Plant
Protection, of the Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel) (CAPES Concept 6). He
has extensive experience in the area of Agronomy, with emphasis on
Agricultural Entomology, working mainly in the integrated management of
arthropod pests in agricultural crops, such as irrigated rice, soybeans and
fruit trees, in the following lines of research: chemical control, toxicity of
phytosanitary products on natural enemies and pollinators, levels of economic
and control damage, plant resistance and remote sensing techniques and spatial
statistics applied to monitoring.
Dr. André Cirilo de Sousa Almeida has a degree in Agronomy
from the Instituto Federal Goiano - Campus Urutaí in 2012, a master's degree in
Plant Production from the State University of Goiás in 2015 and a PhD in
Agronomy (Phytosanitary) from the Federal University of Goiás in 2020. He is
currently an Agricultural Engineer at the Instituto Federal Goiano - Campus
Urutaí. Professor of the Professional Master's Degree in Plant Protection,
Member of the Entomological Society of Brazil. He has experience in the area of
Agronomy, with an emphasis on Agricultural Entomology, working mainly on the
following topics: Integrated Pest Management, Plant Resistance to Insects,
Induction of resistance in plants to insects, insect-plant interaction, and
electronic monitoring of the feeding behavior of pentatomid bugs through the
EPG (Electrical Penetration Graph) technique.
Prof. Dr Anderson Rodrigo da Silva received his PhD in Statistics and Agricultural Experimentation from
Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Brazil. He is a professor at Instituto Federal
Goiano, Brazil, carrying on researches focused on modeling spatial distribution of
agricultural pests and detection and quantification of plant diseases through image
processing. He has published more than 100 articles and a few books on
applied statistics.
