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## Meet the editors

Dr. Rafael Trindade Maia studied Biological Sciences at the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco, Brazil. He received a master´s degree in Genetics, Conservation, and Evolutionary Biology from the National Institute of Amazonian Research, Brazil, in 2008, and a Ph.D. in Animal Biology from the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil, in 2013. He is currently an adjunct professor at the Center for the Sustainable Devel-

opment for Semiarid (CDSA), Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG), Brazil. He has experience with population genetics, bioinformatics, molecular docking, and modeling and molecular dynamics of proteins. He works in science and biology education. Dr. Maia also leads the Computational and Theoretical Biology (CTB) and Education in Sciences and Biology (ESB) research groups.

Magnólia A. Campos is a biologist with a master's degree in Agronomy/Plant Breeding from the Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil, and a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences/Molecular Biology from the University of Brasília. She has five years of experience in genomic sciences as a postdoctoral researcher at the Federal University of Lavras/Agronomic Institute (IAC), Brazil. Since 2008, she has been a professor at the Federal University

of Campina Grande (UFCG), Brazil. She has experience in plant biotechnology, working mainly on genomics, bioinformatics, tissue culture and plant cells, genetic transformation of plants, study of gene expression during plant-microbe interactions, and expression of heterologous proteins in bacteria.

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