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Juçara Bordin

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My name is Juçara Bordin. I was born in 1978 in Caxias do Sul, in the south of Brazil. Since I was a child I was always in touch with nature because I helped my parents with some work on the farm. My brother and I liked to walk in the woods, find pine nuts and swing on the trees! My first contact with mosses was when we collected mosses to use as floor mats in our playhouses!

I decided to study Biology because I liked plants. However, I only became interested in bryophytes after graduation. Dr. Ronaldo Wasum (in memoriam) my adviser and I started to develop a project about biomonitoring using bryophytes, but we discovered that none of us knew how to identify the species. We also discovered that no bryologists were working in the south of Brazil. So, Dr. Ronaldo encouraged me to go to São Paulo to do an internship at the Instituto de Botânica de São Paulo with Dr. Olga Yano to learn how to identify species. He also advised me to become a bryologist to work in our state as no one here was working with bryophytes.

In 2006 I moved to São Paulo to start my Master’s under the guidance of Dr. Olga Yano. My dissertation was a floristic study of urban bryophytes from the municipality of Caxias do Sul and we discovered 50 new occurrences for the state of Rio Grande do Sul! In São Paulo, I met Dr. Denilson Fernandes Peralta who also encouraged me to continue my studies.

For my Doctorate, also supervised by Dr. Yano, I studied the family Fissidentaceae for Brazil and we described a new species: Fissidens pseudoplurisetus Bordin, Pursell & Yano. During my Doctorate I had the opportunity to go to the Antarctic for the first time to study the bryophytes from that continent, later participating in eight more scientific expeditions to the Antarctic and one to Patagonia.

In 2012 I returned to Rio Grande do Sul and now I am an adjunct professor at the Universidade Estadual do Rio Grande do Sul. I am a professor in the Biology and Pedagogy degree and also in the Graduate Program. I advise undergraduate and master’s students and co-advise doctoral students at other Institutions.

My main line of research is floristics and taxonomy aiming to know and protect species and biodiversity, especially in the south of Brazil. However, with the assistance of two undergraduate students, we started the development of two new lines of research: bryophytes applied to phytoremediation and the study of the bioactive compounds of bryophytes, both with the help of researchers in the fields of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Physiology. We have learned a lot about these new areas and how important bryophytes are, not only for biodiversity as a whole, but also for their potential uses.

I’m also involved in teacher training projects, Environmental Education, Science dissemination and teaching, especially with the use of digital games. I joined the group that developed a digital game about Brazilian Biomes and another game about bryophytes of Brazilian Pampa for children and young students. The games are available for Android at:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.LLG.JornadaBiomas

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.LLG.JornadaBriofitasPampa

I am very grateful to God for guiding me on this journey and also to my family who is my safe haven! I hope to be able to inspire and contribute to the increase of of new scientists, and especially see further involvement from girls and women! I strongly believe that we have to spread knowledge outside the University, to schools, teachers, students and encourage these young students to be interested in nature, in the conservation of biodiversity and also in bryophytes!

Publications:

DE OLIVEIRA TEIXEIRA, TAMARA POLIANA; ALKIMIM FARIA, ALLAN LAID; BORDIN, JUÇARA; CARVALHO-SILVA, MICHELINE, Phylogeny and Morphology Of Fissidentaceae Schimp. in the South Atlantic Islands and Description of a New Species. CRYPTOGAMIE BRYOLOGIE. , v.43, p.2022v43a1 – 2022v43a1, 2022.

KLEGIN, CHRISTCHELLYN; MOURA, NEUSA FERNANDES; OLIVEIRA DE SOUSA, MATHEUS HENRIQUE; FRASSINI, RAFAELE; ROESCH’ELY, MARIANA; BRUNO, ALESSANDRA NEJAR; BITENCOURT, THAIS CARDOSO; FLACH, ADRIANA; BORDIN, JUÇARA Chemical Composition and Cytotoxic Evaluation of the Essential Oil of Phyllogonium viride (Phyllogoniaceae, Bryophyta). CHEMISTRY & BIODIVERSITY. , v.18, p.e2000794 – e2000794, 2021.

LINHARES, BRUNO DE ANDRADE; BORDIN, JUÇARA; NUNES, GUILHERME TAVARES; OTT, PAULO HENRIQUE Breeding biology of the American Oystercatcher Haematopus palliatus on a key site for conservation in southern Brazil. Ornithology Research. , v.1, p.1 – 7, 2021.

BORDIN, JUÇARA; DEWES, TALITA DA SILVA; FERNANDES PERALTA, DENILSON; FERRI, MARIEL; DA ROCHA DA ROSA, BÁRBARA. New occurrences of bryophytes species in Southern Brazil: bryodiversity still scarcely known. CHECK LIST, JOURNAL OF SPECIES LIST AND DISTRIBUTION. , v.16, p.915 – 926, 2020.

PERALTA, D. F.; BORDIN, JUÇARA; VALENTE, D. V.; CAMARA, P. A. S.; STECH, M. A new moss family for Brazil: Gigaspermaceae (Bryophyta). HOEHNEA (SÃO PAULO). , v.47, p.1 – 4, 2020.

RODRIGUES, C. K.; LUPCHINSKI JUNIOR, E.; ETHUR, E. M.; SCHEIBEL, T.; BUHL, B.; BORDIN, J. Evaluation of the antimicrobial activity of ethanol extracts from Orthostichella rigida (Mull. Hal.) B.H Allen Magill (Bryophyta) on pathogenic microorganisms. JOURNAL OF MEDICINAL PLANT RESEARCH. , v.14, p.98 – 104, 2020.

BORDIN, J.; VALENTE, D. V.; PERALTA, D. F.; CAMARA, P. A. S. Sphaerocarpos muccilloi E. Vianna (Sphaerocarpaceae, Marchantiophyta): a critically endangered species recollected in Rio Grande do Sul Brazil and Sphaerocarpos texanus Austin a new record to Brazil. RODRIGUÉSIA (IMPRESSO). , v.71, p.2 – 5, 2020.

CÂMARA, PAULO E.A.S.; SOARES, ABEL E.R.; HENRIQUES, DIEGO KNOP; PERALTA, DENILSON FERNANDES; BORDIN, JUÇARA; CARVALHO-SILVA, MICHELINE; STECH, MICHAEL. New insights into the species diversity of Bartramia Hedw. (Bryophyta) in Antarctica. ANTARCTIC SCIENCE. , v.1, p.1 – 8, 2019.

BORDIN, JUÇARA; PERALTA, DENILSON FERNANDES; YANO, OLGA. Lectotypification of Fissidens minutipes (Müll.Hal.) Broth. and synonymisation of F. termitarum (Herzog) Pursell. JOURNAL OF BRYOLOGY. , v.1, p.1 – 4, 2018.

BFG – The Brazil Flora Group; BORDIN, JUÇARA. Brazilian Flora 2020: Innovation and collaboration to meet Target 1 of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC). RODRIGUÉSIA (IMPRESSO). , v.69, p.1513 – 1527, 2018.

BORDIN, J. HERBÁRIO DR. RONALDO WASUM DA UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DO RIO GRANDE DO SUL – LITORAL NORTE, RIO GRANDE DO SUL (HERW). Unisanta Bioscience. , v.4, p.257 – 260, 2015.

BORDIN, J.;YANO, O. Fissidens ecuadorensis, F. steerei and F. yucatanensis, new records from Brazil. Tropical Bryology. , v.34, p.89 – 92, 2012.

MAZZONI, A. C.; LANZER, R.; BORDIN, J.; SCHAFER, A.; WASUM, R.. Mosses as indicators of atmospheric metal deposition in an industrial area of southern Brazil. Acta Botanica Brasílica (Impresso). , v.26, p.553 – 558, 2012.

BORDIN, J.;YANO, O. Considerations about Fissidens taxa (Fissidentaceae) widely spread in Brazil. Boletim do Instituto de Botanica (Sao Paulo). , v.21, p.125 – 131, 2011.

BORDIN, J.; PURSELL, R.A.; YANO, O. Fissidens pseudoplurisetus sp. nov. (Fissidentaceae, subgenus Aloma), from the Atlantic Forest, Brazil. The Bryologist (College Station, TX). , v.114, p.785 – 789, 2011.

YANO, O.; PERALTA, D. F.; BORDIN, J. Mosses from the States of Alagoas, Bahia, Pernambuco and Sergipe, Brazil, deposited in the SP herbarium. HOEHNEA (SÃO PAULO). , v.37, p.211 – 265, 2011.

PERALTA, D. F.; BORDIN, J.; YANO, O. Briófitas dos estados do Ceará, Maranhão, Paraíba, Piauí e Rio Grande do Norte (Brasil). HOEHNEA (SÃO PAULO). , v.36, p.387 – 415, 2009.

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Published Book Chapters:

BORDIN, JUÇARA. Fissidentaceae In: Flora do Distrito Federal.1 ed.Brasília: Embrapa, 2017, v.1, p. 1-12.