BIOTA-FAPESP
BIOTA-FAPESP research projects - Thematic Projects
(The complete publication is available at: www.fapesp.br/biota/pasta_biota.pdf)
In nine years, the BIOTA-FAPESP Program has supported 80 major research projects, trained 150 science Masters and 90 PhD students, produced and stored information on approximately 12,000 species and managed to link and make available data from 35 major biological collections.
This effort is summarized in 548 articles published in scientific journals. In addition to this, the researchers have published 16 books and two atlases. In 2001, the program launched an open-access electronic peer-reviewed journal, Biota Neotropica (www.biotaneotropica.org.br), to report original research on biodiversity in the Neotropical region.
The journal is becoming an international reference in its area and it is indexed by the Zoological Record, CAB International, Directory of Open Access Journals and the Scientific Electronic Library Online/SciELO. In 2002 the program began a new venture called BIOprospecTA (www.bioprospecta.org.br), in order to search for new compounds of economic interest – extracts and pure compounds from plants, microorganisms, marine organisms and other natural sources – which has already submitted patents for 3 new drugs.
- Geographic Limits and Causal Agents of Diptera Endemism in the Atlantic Forest
Dalton de Souza AMORIM
Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Languages of Ribeirão Preto / University of São Paulo (USP)
- Bioprospection in Fungi: The Search of Lead Compounds for Drug Design and Enzymes for Pharmaceutical and Industrial Applications
Jairo Kenupp BASTOS
Ribeirão Preto School of Pharmaceutical Sciences / University of São Paulo (USP)
- Conservation and Sustainable use of Cerrado and Atlantic Forest Diversity: Chemical Diversity and Potential Drugs Prospection– Phase II
Vanderlan da Silva BOLZANI
Chemistry Institute / Paulista State University (Unesp)
- Embryogenetic Studies as a Basis for Strategies of Reproduction and Conservation of Tree Species
Eny Iochevet Segal FLOH
Institute of Biosciences / University of São Paulo (USP)
- Biodiversity and Sustainable use of Pollinators, with Emphasis on Bees
Vera Lúcia Imperatriz FONSECA
Institute of Biosciences / University of São Paulo (USP)
- Survey and Biology São Paulo State of Benthic Freshwater Insects and Oligochaetes
Cláudio Gilberto FROEHLICH
Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Languages of Ribeirão Preto / University of São Paulo (USP)
- Atlantic Ombrophylus Dense Forest: Floristic Composition, Structure and Functioning within the “Serra do Mar” State Park
Carlos Alfredo JOLY (Biology Institute / State University of Campinas (Unicamp)
Luiz Antonio MARTINELLI (Center of Nuclear Energy in Agriculture / University of São Paulo (USP)
- Biodiversity and Functional Activities of Microorganisms from Mangrove of São Paulo State
Itamar Soares de MELO
Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa)
- Atlantic Forest Aromatic in São Paulo State: Chemical Composition of Volatile Oils and Biological Activity Analysis
Paulo Roberto Hrihorowitsch MORENO
Chemistry Institute / University of São Paulo (USP)
- Fauna and Flora of Remnant Forest Fragments in Northwestern São Paulo State: Basis for Biodiversity Conservation Studies
Orlando NECCHI Junior
São José do Rio Preto Institute of Biosciences , Language Studies and Exact Sciences / Paulista State University (Unesp)
- Bioprospection of the Brazilian Arthropods Fauna Searching for Leader Drugs for Rational Development of Novel Pharmaceuticals and Pesticides
Mario Sérgio PALMA
Institute of Biosciences / Paulista State University (Unesp)
- Biosphere-Atmosphere Interaction (phase 2) : Cerrado and Land use Changes
Humberto Ribeiro da ROCHA
Institute of Astronomy, Geophysics and Atmospheric Science / University of São Paulo (USP)
- Search for Potential Antitumoral, Antioxidant, Antiinflammatory, Antidiabetic, Acetylcholinesterase and Mieloperoxidase Inhibitory natural compounds from Cerrado and Atlantic Forest
Dulce Helena Siqueira SILVA
Araraquara Chemistry Institute / Paulista State University (Unesp)
- Sustainable use of the Brazilian Biodiversity: Chemical and Pharmacological Prospection on Higher Plants
Wagner VILEGAS
Araraquara Chemistry Institute / Paulista State University (Unesp)
- Native and Cultivated Passifloras in Brazil. Pharmacognostic, Phytochemical and Pharmacological Evaluations Concerning Popular Uses and Development of Local Phytomedicines
Massayoshi YOSHIDA
Chemistry Institute / University of São Paulo (USP)
- Evolution of the Southeastern Brazilian Reptile Fauna from Cretaceous: Paleontology, Phylogeny and Biogeography
Hussam El Dine ZAHER
Zoology Museum / University of São Paulo (USP)