Daniel Carvalho

Daniel Carvalho

PhD Student, CV

  • Cohort PhD Students
  • Tenure 2015-2019
  • Now Postdoc, Federal University of Minas Gerais

Daniel was born and raised in Salvador, Bahia, the third-largest city in Brazil. He earned his BSc in Biological Sciences (2012) from Catholic University of Salvador and his MSc in Genetics and Biodiversity (2014) from Federal University of Bahia. His previous research experience includes work on Complex Networks Analyses Bioinformatics, Mitochondrial Evolution, and Human Genetics. On Fall 2015, he joined the Schnable Lab as a PhD student where is using comparative genomics tools to investigate the parallel evolution of C4 photosynthesis in Panicoid Grasses.

Recent Publications

  • Raju SKK, Atkins M, Enerson A, Carvalho DS, Studer AJ, Ganapathysubramanian B, Schnable PS, Schnable JC (2020) Leaf Angle eXtractor - A high throughput image processing framework for leaf angle measurement in maize and sorghum. Applications in Plant Sciences doi: 10.1002/aps3.11385
  • Carvalho DS, Nishimwe A, Schnable JC (2020) IsoSeq transcriptome assembly of C3 panicoid grasses provides tools to study evolutionary change in the Panicoideae. Plant Direct doi: 10.1002/pld3.203 bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/689356
  • Carvalho DS, Schnable JC, Almeida AMR (2018) Integrating phylogenetic and network approaches to study gene family evolution: the case of the AGAMOUS family of floral genes. Evolutionary Bioinformatics doi: 10.1177/1176934318764683
  • Zhang Y, Ngu DW, Carvalho D, Liang Z, Qiu Y, Roston RL, Schnable JC (2017) Differentially regulated orthologs in sorghum and the subgenomes of maize. The Plant Cell doi: 10.1105/tpc.17.00354