Licenciatura in Biology. Science College of the University of Lisbon, Portugal (2001)

Awards:

University of Chicago. Committee on Evolutionary Biology. Hinds Fund (2005)

Travel award. Research Coordination Network: A Phylogeny for Kingdom Fungi. National Science Foundation (2005)

Travel Award. Committee on Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago (2005)

Fulbright Commission Award (2004/2005)

Visiting scholarship. Field Museum of Natural History (2004)

Best Young Mycologist Poster Presentation - XIV Congress of European Mycologists. Yalta, Crimea, Ukraine (2003)

Current Research:

I'm using Mediterranean serpentine oak forests as a model for studying how ectomycorrhizal fungi have adapted to long -term environmental stress.

Publications:

Branco, S. M. Macrofungal community of an ultramafic Quercus rotundifolia Lam. woodland from northeastern Portugal. Submitted to Cryptogamie Mycologie.

Branco, S. M. Macrofungal community of a Quercus pyrenaica Willd. woodland from the northeast Portugal. Submitted to Cryptogamie Mycologie.

Branco, S. M. 2002. Inventariação Preliminar de Comunidades Macrofúngicas em Matas da Serra de Sintra. Revista de Biologia, 20:179-190.