Nielson F. C. Franca

Graduated in Biology, at Federal Institute of Education, Science, and Technology of Rio Grande do Norte (IFRN). Master in Systematic and Evolution in the Post Graduate Program in Systematic and Evolution, at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). Currently, I'm a student of Ph.D. in the Post Graduate Program in Comparative Biology, at the University of São Paulo (USP). In my graduation, I participated in a research group that defended the study of GIS to improve the technical formation to the students of the technical course fisheries resources; In my master's degree, I studied the ontogeny and systematics of the penaeid shrimps, and currently, I develop my Ph.D. project with molecular systematics and morphological analyses of the freshwater crabs.