Office Location
Animal Sciences
1675 Observatory Drive, Office 446
Madison WI, 53706
I am from São Paulo State in Brazil, but I lived since I was 9 years old in Curitiba, Paraná, where I got my DVM degree in 2014 at Federal University of Paraná. At the same university, I got my M.S. (2017) and Ph.D. (2021) degrees in Animal Science, working mostly with animal breeding and quantitative genetics focused on beef cattle. I also did part of my Ph.D. in Australia as visitor scholar at the University of Queensland, in Brisbane. I changed my research focus when I came to the UW-Madison. I worked my first year with survival in Jersey cattle, and now my research is related with resilience in dairy cattle, focusing mostly in evaluate how rumination and behavior can be correlated with more resilient and more efficient cows. In my spare time, I like to watch movies, ride my bicycle around town, and explore new places in Madison with my husband.
Selected Peer Reviewed Articles
BM Nascimento, CW Wolfe, KA Weigel, and F Peñagaricano (2023) Effects of type traits, inbreeding, and production on survival in US Jersey cattle. Journal of Dairy Science (forthcoming)
BM Nascimento, R Carvalheiro, RA Teixeira, LT Dias, and MRS Fortes (2022) Weak genotype x environment interaction suggests that measuring scrotal circumference at 12 and 18 mo of age is helpful to select precocious Brahman cattle. Journal of Animal Science, 100:skac236.
BM Nascimento, GF Silva, R Carvalheiro, RA Teixeira, and LT DIAS (2020) Alternative adjustment of scrotal circumference for growth traits in Nellore cattle. Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia, 49:e20190183.
Tamioso, PR, LT Dias, RA Teixeira, BM Nascimento, GF Silva, and JV Portes (2015) Environmental and genetic effects of reactivity traits in Île-de-France x Texel crossbred lambs. Acta Scientiae Veterinariae, 43:1289.
BM Nascimento, A. L. Somavilla, LT Dias, and RA Teixeira (2014) Environmental and genetic effects on weight and visual score traits at postweaning in Suffolk sheep. Tropical Animal Health and Production, 46:1265-1269.
Tamioso, PR, LT Dias, RA Teixeira, BM Nascimento, GF Silva, and JV Portes (2014) Reatividade e desempenho em cordeiros cruzados Suffolk x Île-de-France. Ciência Rural, 44:2258-2264.
Selected Conference Proceedings
BM Nascimento, RA Teixeira, and LT Dias. (2018) Ranking correlation among breeding values of Nelore bulls for scrotal circumference adjusted to different growth traits. In: 55ª Reunião Anual da Sociedade Brasileira de Zootecnia, Goiânia, GO, Brazil.
BM Nascimento, GF Silva, RA Teixeira, and LT Dias. (2017) Adjustment of scrotal circunference for growth traits in Nelore cattle. In: 54ª Reunião Anual da Sociedade Brasileira de Zootecnia, Foz do Iguaçu, PR, Brazil.
BM Nascimento, GF Silva, RA Teixeira, and LT Dias (2017) Genetic correlation among age at first calving and scrotal circunference adjusted for growth traits in Nelore cattle. In: 54ª Reunião Anual da Sociedade Brasileira de Zootecnia, Foz do Iguaçu, PR, Brazil.
BM Nascimento, LT Dias, and RA Teixeira (2016) Selection criteria for sexual precocity and growth traits in Nelore bulls. In: 1st International Meeting of Advances in Animal Science, Jaboticabal, SP, Brazil.