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Francisco José do Nascimento Carrapiço
• Born October 23, 1951 in Lagos, Portugal
Departamento
de Biologia Vegetal
Faculdade de Ciências da Universiddade
de Lisboa (FCUL)
Centro de Biologia Ambiental
Bloco C2 - Campo Grande
1749-016 LISBOA
PORTUGAL
Phone.: +351 21 7500381 (ext. 22145)
Fax: +351 21 7500048.
email: fcarrapico@fc.ul.pt
home page (The Azolla Page): http://azolla.fc.ul.pt
1986-7 Postdoc in the Arizona State University (Tempe, USA)
• Monitor of Department of Plant Biology (FCUL) (1975-1976);
• Assistant of Department of Plant Biology (FCUL) (1976-1985);
• Assistant Professor of Department of Plant Biology (FCUL) (1985-);
• Invited Professor of Botany in the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lisbon (1986-1992).
• Member of the FCUL Board Direction (Academic Area) (1990-1995).
• Researcher of the Environmental Biology Center (1994-) and member of the executive commission (1996-2000)
• PhD supervisor of 4 thesis on Azolla. Master thesis supervisor on Azolla management, one on astrobiology and education, one on symbiomics and education and 2 in symbiosis and evolution.
• Symbiomics - Azolla-Anabaena symbiotic system: NBF, developmental biology and Azolla management
• Plant cell and developmental biology: light and electron microscopy studies
• Symbiosis and evolution
• Teaching Symbiosis
• Astrobiology and education
• Botany
• Cell Biology
• General Biology -- Look to a fine example
• Training course on Biofertilizer for Rice Production (post graduate course). Tamil Nadu Agriculture University, India - invited professor.
Related Activities
• Member of the People to People Citizen Ambassador Program since 1990. Involved in an international botanical team headed by Prof. Frank B. Salisbury of Utah State University (USA) that visited the former Soviet Union in 1990.
• Member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 1992.
• Member of the Society for Scientific Exploration since 1996.
• Member of the International Symbiosis Society since 1997. Secretary since 2003 until 2009.
• Portuguese member of the Steering Committee of the CYANOFIX Program (European Science Foundation).
• Member of the Organizing Committee and Local Organizer of the Final Symposium on “Cyanobacterial Nitrogen Fixation: from Molecules to Ecological Systems” of the European Science Foundation-CYANOFIX” – Tomar (Portugal) - September 25-29, 2002.
• Invited member of the Darwin Azolla Project team- "Paleoecology and biogeochemistry of the freshwater fern Azolla and its importance in global biogeochemical cycles". Utrecht University, Holland (2006-2009).
Languages
• Portuguese: speaking, reading and writing - excellent
• English: speaking and writing - good; reading- excellent
• French: speaking and writing - good; reading- excellent
• Spanish: speaking and writing - poor; reading- good
"Le petit prince traversa de désert et ne recontra
q'une fleur. Une fleur à trois pétales, une fleur de rien de tout...
- Bonjour, dit le prince.
- Bonjour, dit la fleur.
- Où sont les hommes? demanda poliment le petit prince.
La fleur, un jour, avait vu passer une caravane:
- Les hommes? Il en existe, je crois, six ou sept.
Je les ai aperçus il ya des années. Mais on ne sait jamais où les trouver.
Le vent les promène. Ils manquent des racines, ça les gêne beaucoup."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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