Michelle D'Souza
Research and Innovation, Global Agriculture
McCain Foods Limited
Participates in 1 Session
With expertise in establishing research priorities, leading innovation, and forging strategic partnerships, Michelle helps to drive research and innovation outcomes that enhance sustainability and industry competitiveness at McCain. As a molecular ecologist associated with the Centre for Biodiversity Genomics at the University of Guelph, ON, Michelle brings 10+ years of expertise in DNA-based ecological assessments and biodiversity management with proficiency in managing international partnerships between academia, industry, and NGOs. Working alongside the International Barcode of Life Consortium, she has forged partnerships with several global networks, providing institutional support for research projects in Costa Rica, Ghana, Honduras, Lebanon, South Africa, the US, and the UK.
Sessions in which Michelle D'Souza participates
Thursday 5 September, 2024
Time Zone: (GMT-03:00) Brasilia
Sessions in which Michelle D'Souza attends
Tuesday 3 September, 2024
Time Zone: (GMT-03:00) Brasilia
A Mission for Planetary Biodiversity - Paul Hebert (Plenary)
2:00 PM -
3:00 PM |
1 hour
DNA barcoding: unraveling biotic interactions in community ecology I
4:30 PM -
6:30 PM |
2 hours
- Prof Magda Bou Dagher Kharrat (Chair)
- Mailyn Adriana González Herrera (Chair)
- Sven Weber (Presenter)
- Arnaud GOULPEAU (Presenter)
- Micaela Hellstrom (Presenter)
- Andrea Desiderato (Presenter)
- Claudia Bruschini (Presenter)
- Jessica Castellanos-Labarcena (Presenter)
- Fedor Čiampor (Presenter)
- Ross Stewart (Presenter)
- Chenxi Liu (Presenter)
- Pritam Banerjee (Presenter)
Wednesday 4 September, 2024
Time Zone: (GMT-03:00) Brasilia
DNA is All Around - Kristine Bohmann (Plenary)
8:30 AM -
9:30 AM |
1 hour
DNA barcoding: unraveling biotic interactions in community ecology II
9:30 AM -
11:00 AM |
1 hour 30 minutes
Advances in bioinformatics and computational bottlenecks for DNA barcoding and metabarcoding analysis
11:30 AM -
1:00 PM |
1 hour 30 minutes
Building, auditing and curating DNA barcode reference libraries
4:30 PM -
6:30 PM |
2 hours
- Filipe Costa (Chair)
- Pete Hollingsworth (Chair)
- Gunnhild Marthinsen (Presenter)
- Axel Hausmann (Presenter)
- Torbjørn Ekrem (Presenter)
- Adele Bordoni (Presenter)
- Marcos Teixeira (Presenter)
- Leonardo Chacón (Presenter)
- Maria Gonzalez (Presenter)
- Eduardo Eizirik (Presenter)
- Janine Baxter (Presenter)
- eDNAqua-Plan Consortium (Presenter)
Thursday 5 September, 2024
Time Zone: (GMT-03:00) Brasilia
Scaling advanced methods for biodiversity assessments I
9:30 AM -
11:00 AM |
1 hour 30 minutes
Poster session
4:30 PM -
6:30 PM |
2 hours
- Sungmin Kim (Presenter)
- Bráulio Silva (Presenter)
- Physilia Chua (Presenter)
- Oscar Doré Ahossou (Presenter)
- Martha Valdez-Moreno (Presenter)
- Philip Francis Thomsen (Presenter)
- Georgi Bonchev (Presenter)
- Youri Lammers (Presenter)
- Jiri Vihavainen (Presenter)
- Nathalie Smitz (Presenter)
- Lucas Sire (Presenter)
- Ivona Kautmanova (Presenter)
- Arnaud GOULPEAU (Presenter)
- Tomasz Mamos (Presenter)
- Stephanie J. Swenson (Presenter)
- Rodrigo Domingues (Presenter)
- Michal Grabowski (Presenter)
- Johnson Chan (Presenter)
- Fátima Yedith Camacho-Sánchez (Presenter)
- Tomasz Rewicz (Presenter)
- Ricardo Morelli (Presenter)
- Javiera Sanchez (Presenter)
- Leonardo Chacón (Presenter)
- Denise Silva (Presenter)
- Guilherme Costa Baiao (Presenter)
- Miguel Angel Reyes-Lopez (Presenter)
- Filipe Costa (Presenter)
- M. A. Thanuja Fernando (Presenter)
- eDNAqua-Plan Consortium (Presenter)
- Rayssa de Almeida Viana (Presenter)
- João Bráullio Sales (Presenter)
- Marcia Anjos (Presenter)
- Ian Hogg (Presenter)
- Luiz Filipe (Presenter)
- Bianca Paiva (Presenter)
- Uswa Sajid (Presenter)
- Amanda Saraiva da Conceição (Presenter)
- Alexander Edwards (Presenter)
- Kerly Melo Pereira (Presenter)
- Adriana Iglesias-Vásquez (Presenter)
Friday 6 September, 2024
Time Zone: (GMT-03:00) Brasilia
Planning the mission to monitor biodiversity on a planetary scale
9:30 AM -
11:00 AM |
1 hour 30 minutes