André Geremia Parise

Quod bonum est tenete

A bit biologist and a bit writer

In this website, you will find some information about me and my literary and scientific adventures.

Be welcome and be my guest!

About me

I was born in Italy and raised in Brazil, in the paradisiac Island of Santa Catarina. Son of two worlds, I follow two paths at the same time: science and literature.

In science, I obtained a bachelor’s degree in biological sciences at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (Florianopolis, SC, Brazil), and a master’s degree in plant physiology at the Federal University of Pelotas (Pelotas, RS, Brazil). I'm currently doing my PhD at the University of Reading (Reading, UK).

I study the cognitive capacities of organisms without neurons, particularly plants, fungi, and their symbioses, to understand how they perceive, interact, and survive in the environment.

Besides, I dedicate myself to literature. After all, science and fantasy are almost the same, aren’t they? From the time being, I have published a book of short stories which addresses the folklore of Southern Brazil: Fifteen Hexes.

And what else comes ahead...?

Literature

Quinze Embruxos

“Quinze Embruxos is a necessary book. A celebration of the stories that justify the name ‘Island of Magic’. […] To the native, it is a nostalgic dive into the heritage left by our ancestors, a nostalgia that hits the chest of who wanders in the city looking for the vestiges of the time of witches, of fulgent snakes of fire. […] To the many foreigners and Brazilians captivated by Florianopolis, it is an alert to cherish all this culture that justifies the enchantment they feel.”

Ana Luiza Leite Bado, MSc

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Science

A bit of my scientific production…

If you wish to check my full curriculum, please visit my Lattes curriculum here!

Scientific articles

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Marder M, Parise AG. (2024). Extending cognition: a vegetal rejoinder to extensionless thought and to extended cognition. Plant Signaling & Behavior, 19(1): 2345984. https://doi.org/10.1080/15592324.2024.2345984

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Parise AG, Marder M. (2023). Extended Plant Cognition: a critical consideration of the concept. Theoretical and Experimental Plant Physiology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40626-023-00281-5

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Parise AG, Oliveira TFC, Debono M-W, Souza GM. (2023). The electrome of a parasitic plant in a putative state of attention increases the energy of low band frequency waves: a comparative study with neural systems. Plants, 12(10): 2005. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants12102005

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Reissig GN, Oliveira TFC, Parise AG, Costa AVL, Posso DA, Rombaldi CV, Souza GM. (2023). Approximate Entropy: a promising tool to understand the hidden electrical activity of fruit. Communicative & Integrative Biology, 16(1): 2195236. https://doi.org/10.1080/19420889.2023.2195236

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Costa AVL, Oliveira TFC, Posso DA, Reissig GN, Parise AG, Barros WS, Souza GM. (2023). Systemic signals induced by single and combined abiotic stimuli in common bean plants. Plants, 12(4): 924. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants12040924

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Parise AG, Gubert GF, Whalan S, Gagliano M. (2023). Ariadne's thread and the extension of cognition: a common but overlooked phenomenon in nature? Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10: 1069349. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.1069349

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Parise AG, de Toledo GRA, Oliveira TFC, Souza GM, Castiello U, Gagliano M, Marder M. (2022). Do plants pay attention? A possible phenomenological-empirical approach. Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, 173: 11-23 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2022.05.008

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Reissig GN, Oliveira TFC, Costa AVL, Parise AG, Pereira DR, Souza GM. (2021). Machine learning for automatic classification of tomato ripening stages using electrophysiological recordings. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 5: 696829. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2021.696829

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Reissig GN, Oliveira TFC, Oliveira RP, Posso DA, Parise AG, Nava DE, Souza GM. (2021). Fruit herbivory alters plant electrome: evidence for fruit-shoot long-distance electrical signaling in tomato plants. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 5: 657401. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2021.657401

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Parise AG, Bertoli SC, Souza GM. (2021). Belowground interactions affect shoot growth in Eucalyptus urophylla under restrictive conditions. Plant Signaling & Behavior, 16(9): 1927589. https://doi.org/10.1080/15592324.2021.1927589

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Parise AG, Basso LF, de Oliveira RP, Reissig GN. (2021). Localised photosynthetic pigments in the node of a holoparasitic plant: support for shoot growth? Acta Botanica Brasilica, 35(4): 698-702. https://doi.org/10.1590/0102-33062020abb0302

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Parise AG, Reissig GN, Basso LF, Senko LGS, Oliveira TFC, de Toledo GRA, Ferreira AS, Souza GM. (2021). Detection of different hosts from a distance alters the behaviour and bioelectrical activity of Cuscuta racemosa. Frontiers in Plant Science, 12: 594195. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.594195

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Parise AG, Gagliano M, Souza GM. (2020). Extended cognition in plants: is it possible? Plant Signaling & Behavior, 15(2): e1710661. https://doi.org/10.1080/15592324.2019.1710661

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de Toledo GRA, Parise AG, Simmi FZ, Costa AVL, Senko LGS, Debono M-W, Souza GM. (2019). Plant electrome: the electrical dimension of plant life. Theoretical and Experimental Plant Physiology, 31: 26-46. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40626-019-00145-x

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Caddah MK, Parise AG, Espíndola A, Rohden R, Chagas RL. (2017). O herbário FLOR: patrimônio da sociedade catarinense. UNISANTA Bioscience, 6(5): 21-26.

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Parise AG, Pinho LC. (2016). A new species of Stenochironomus Kieffer, 1919 from the Atlantic Rainforest in southern Brazil (Diptera: Chirononomidae). Aquatic Insects, 37(1): 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1080/01650424.2015.1115078

Book chapters

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Parise AG. (2022). Prefácio. In: Perez DG et al. (orgs). Sporum: dispersando curiosidades científicas. Florianópolis: Imprensa Universitária da UFSC. pp. 6-12.

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Reissig GN, Galviz Fajardo YC, Parise AG, Ribeiro RV, Souza GM. (2022). Experimental evidence for fruit memory and its applications to post-harvest physiology and technology: an overview. In: Lüttge U, Cánovas FM, Risueño M-C, Leuschner C, Pretzsch H. (eds). Progress in Botany Vol. 83. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. pp. 291-314. doi: 10.1007/124_2022_59

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Reissig GN, Parise AG, Posso DA, Costa AVL, Vergara LP, Oliveira TFC, Rombaldi CV. (2021). From the plant to the body: phytochemicals and their bioactivity for humans. In: Yildiz G, İzli G. (eds). Bioactive Compounds and their Importance. Hauppauge (USA): Nova Science Publishers. doi: 10.52305/AFDL7660

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Parise AG, de Toledo GRA. (2021). Bean: Phaseolus vulgaris. In: Vieira P, Gagliano M, Ryan JC (eds). The Mind of Plants. Santa Fe (USA): Synergetic Press. pp. 31-40.

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Parise AG, Dreschler-Santos ER. (2017). Cordyceps: uma história de zumbis. In: Freitas RHA et al. (orgs). Sporum: dispersando curiosidades biológicas. Florianópolis: Imprensa Universitária da UFSC. pp. 15-20.

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Parise AG, Caddah MK, Fiaschi P. (2017). Nomes científicos: para que tanto palavrão? In: Freitas RHA et al. (orgs). Sporum: dispersando curiosidades biológicas. Florianópolis: Imprensa Universitária da UFSC. pp. 5-14.

Books organised or published

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Perez DG, Parise AG, Voltolini LL, Miguel LG, Serigheli LFC, Hubner LJ, Freitas RHA (orgs). (2022). Sporum: dispersando curiosidades científicas. Florianópolis: Imprensa Universitária da UFSC. ISBN: 978-85-8328-102-3.

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Freitas RHA, Hofmann PRP, Parise AG, Winter BB, Geisler EF, Marconi PB (orgs). (2017). Sporum: dispersando curiosidades biológicas. Florianópolis: Imprensa Universitária da UFSC. ISBN: 978-85-64093-67-6.