CT Agricultural Experiment Station
Friday, April 12, 2019 1:00 PM Buckman Theater
“Small Things Considered: The Impact of Plant Viruses on Wine Production”
Dr. da Silva is an Assistant Agricultural Scientist II, Department of Plant Pathology and Ecology at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station (CAES). He is a plant pathologist with an expertise is in the fields of diagnoses, bioinformatics, and molecular biology. He uses state of the art technologies (e.g., high throughput sequencing) to study the biology and ecology of viruses infecting fruit crops. Dr. daSilva received his B.Sc.. from Universidade Federal de Viçosa (Brazil) in 2010, M. Sc. in Plant Health from LSU in 2013, and Ph. D. in Plant Pathology from Cornell University in 2018.
The top two priorities of his current research program are to develop and improve molecular diagnostics for plant viruses and to investigate plant-virus-vector interactions with the ultimate goal of translating findings into virus disease management. He is currently investigating the incidence, prevalence, and genetic diversity of grapevine viruses in the state of Connecticut.
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