Ana Delaunay Caperta

Ana D. Caperta is an Assistant Professor at Instituto Superior de Agronomia (ISA), Universidade de Lisboa, since 2019. She completed the PhD in Biology at ISA by ULisboa, Master in Plant Production – Plant Breeding in 1996 by ISA/ULisboa, and Graduation in Agronomic engineering – Plant Breeding in 1993 by ISA/ULisboa. She has received various awards including three Postdoctoral fellowships by FCT on plant reproduction. She was an Assistant Professor at Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Lisboa (2001-2013). As a Researcher of Program Ciência 2008, she implemented a research line in Plant Reproduction and Conservation at ISA. Ana D. Caperta collaborated on curricular units from the 3 cycles at ISA and in the MSc on Biotechnology in the University Eduardo Mondlane (Mozambique). She is affiliated in the Society of Experimental Biology, Sociedade Portuguesa de Botânica, and is a consultant for Flora On (flora-on.pt) and eHaloph databases (sussex.ac.uk). She is the Associate Editor on Botany for Revista de Ciências Agrárias (scap.pt). She led several national and international research projects. Ana D. Caperta curates a Limonium (sea lavenders) collection at ISA. In her professional activities she interacted with 34 collaborator(s) with co-authorship of scientific papers. In her curriculum Ciência Vitae the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural output are: sexual reproduction and apomixis in Limonium; halophytes; chromatin; chromosomes; conservation; ecology; epigenetics; Flora of Portugal; flow cytometry; geographical distribution; grazing; habitat management; halophyte; heat stress; heterostyly; karyological polymorphisms; Limonium; meiotic abnormalities; micro and mega-sporogenesis and gametogenesis; microtubules; morphometry; nature protection; Orchidaceae; Plumbaginaceae; pollen-stigma dimorphism; population genetics; polyploidy; reproduction; reproductive biology; reproductive success; salt-marsh; systematics; taxonomy. Ana D. Caperta has translated basic research findings into conservation practice and as such she gave expert advice on Limonium to Instituto da Conservação da Natureza e Florestas (ICNF), is a Specialist for Limonium for the Red Data Book for vascular plants in Portugal, and has collaborated with Municipalities and ICNF on Limonium and halophytes conservation. She gave scientific support to artistic work (catarinaleitao.net/project-tag/systema-naturae). Caperta’s studies received press coverage in newspaper Público and in SIC Notícias TV channel.