Helbert is a biologist graduated from Federal University of São João del Rey, and holds a master’s and Ph.D. in Agricultural Microbiology from Federal University of Viçosa (UFV). He has experience in many research approaches of rhizospheric growth promoting fungi and plants, as well as factors that influence such establishment. He has worked in fungal isolation, characterization, molecular identification, tests of potential and mechanisms of plant growth promotion, including inoculation assays of fungal isolates. He also held a position as a postdoctoral researcher at the Population Biology of Plant Pathogens Laboratory of the Department of Plant Pathology at UFV, where he conducted studies of genotypic and phenotypic characterization of pathogens, including detection of mutations related to resistance to fungicides.
