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Ana Letycia Basso Garcia

    • About Me:

      I am Brazilian, living in a small town in Brazil. I am plant geneticist🧬🌱 passionate about travelling and discovering new places and things. I write poetry and I have a cat 😺 and little tortoise 🐢.

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      I am a agronomist who specialized in plant genetics. I am motivated to make agriculture sustainable and to provided food and energy to everybody. I am passionate about travelling and discovering new places, as well as observe nature. In my free time, before the pandemic, I used to hike and discover waterfalls. However, nowadays, I talk with my cats, my little tortoise, and with people. Besides that, I also enjoy writing poetry, and I am motivated in learning to play the guitar.

    • My Typical Day:

      I wake up, take a shower, and have breakfast (Eggs or bread and a coffee). I am currently working from home. I do most of my job on the computer. I get to work in the computer at 9am, where I start by looking at my to-do list and always start with my hard and most fun task, which is analyzing some data or making plots. Then I have lunch with my family, and have a 10 minutes nap. In the afternoon it’s back to the computer to interpret some of the results I got in the morning. Sometimes I am able to write a report about that o have an online meeting with my lab mates to discuss the results. look at my results. I stop working formally at 6 pm.

    • What I'd do with the prize money:

      I would spend the money to develop an online game to teach students about genetics. The game would be bilingual, allowing English and Portuguese speaker students to play and learn.

    My CV

    • Education:

      • Local School in Brazil for primary, elementary, and high school
      • Federal University of Goiás (Brazil)
      • Kirkwood Community College (USA)
      • University of São Paulo (Brazil)

    • Work History:

      • Graduate Research Fellow (rice genetics) at Embrapa Rice and Beans – Brazil
      • Undergraduate Intern (seeds) at Dow AgroSciences Seeds and Biotechnology – Brazil

    • Current Job:

      Graduate Research Fellow at the Laboratory of Bioinformatics at the University of São Paulo – Brazil

    • My Interview

      • How would you describe yourself in 3 words?

        Geek Plant Geneticist

        What did you want to be after you left school?

        Scientist

        Were you ever in trouble at school?

        No

        Who is your favourite singer or band?

        Chris Cornell

        What's your favourite food?

        Barbecue

        If you had 3 wishes for yourself what would they be? - be honest!

        Stop diseases, make everybody rich and know every place in the world

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