Team:USP-Brazil/Team

Students

Gabriel Lencioni Lovate

Mireia Mitter

Juliane "Nandy" Fernandes

Henrique “Ocarina” D’Ambrosio Retti

Gabriel Lovate Mireia Mitter Juliane Fernandes Henrique Retti

5th year Pharmacy and Biochemistry Undergrad
Age:
22
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I’m from: Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil
Fields of interests or expertise: Design of genetic circuits and biosensors
Favourite molecule: 3,7-dimethylxanthine

2nd year Biotechnology MSc
Age:
23
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I’m from: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Fields of interests or expertise: Bioproduction, biopolymers, sustainable bioeconomy
Favourite molecule: Ethyl butyrate

4th year Biomedical Sciences Undergrad
Age:
21
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I’m from: Sorocaba, São Paulo, Brasil
Fields of interests or expertise: Molecular parasitology
Favourite molecule: RNA

3rd year Biological Sciences Undergrad
Age:
19
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I’m from: São Paulo, Brazil.
Fields of interests or expertise: Molecular Biology, Mathematical Biology, Synthetic Biology, Ecology, and others.
Favourite molecule: Pikachurin.

Tiago Lubiana

Fabio Mello

Ga Il Kim

Cesar Prada

Tiago Lubiana Fabio Mello Ga Il Kim Cesar Prada

4th year Biomedical Sciences Undergrad
Age:
21
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I’m from: Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Fields of interests or expertise: Bacterial secretion systems, neuroscience, not dying
Favourite molecule: Ethanol

2nd year Biomedical Sciences Undergrad
Age:
20
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I’m from: Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Fields of interests or expertise: Molecular biology, DNA repair and R-loops
Favourite molecule: Crystal Violet

2nd year Biomedical Sciences Undergrad
Age:
21
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I’m from: Seoul, South Korea
Fields of interests or expertise: Synthetic biology, immunology and bioplastic
Favourite molecule: Dopamine

Ph degree student
Age:
27
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I’m from: Bucaramanga, Santander, Colombia
Fields of interests or expertise: Bioprospection, Bioinformatics
Favourite molecule: RNA, our life ancestor

Felipe Buson

Karent Romero

Lucas "Nabuco" dos Reis

Fernando Marcon

Felipe Buson Karent Romero Lucas dos Reis Fernando Marcon

3rd year Biological Sciences Undergrad
Age:
20
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I’m from: Brasília, DF, Brazil
Fields of interests or expertise: Biological computation and genetic circuits
Favourite molecule: DNA, but starting to like RNA a lot

2nd year Biotechnology MSc
Age:
23
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I’m from: Bogotá, Cundinamarca, Colombia
Fields of interests or expertise: Microbial diversity, environmental microbiology
Favourite molecule: MaSp 1

3rd year Biological Sciences Undergrad
Age:
22
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I’m from: São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Fields of interests or expertise: Science, life, nature, the cosmos.
Favourite molecule: DNA

Master degree student
Age:
26
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I’m from: São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Fields of interests or expertise: Bioinformatics/computational
Favourite molecule: Dopamine

Renato Corrêa

Guilherme Lima

Kauan Ribeiro

Natália Takiguthi

Renato Corrêa Guilherme Lima Kauan Ribeiro Natália Takiguthi

Master degree student
Age:
27
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I’m from: Araras, SP, Brazil
Fields of interests or expertise: Genomics, comparative genomics, transcriptomics, mycology
Favourite molecule: Xylanase

5th year Pharmacy-Biochemistry Undergrad
Age:
25
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I’m from: São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Fields of interests or expertise: Biopharmaceutical production processes
Favourite molecule: L-Asparaginase!

Last year Pharmacy-Biochemistry Undergrad
Age:
25
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I’m from: Far far away in São Paulo borders
Fields of interests or expertise: Using synthetic biology to create all sorts of programmable therapeutics, mainly focused on cancer therapy
Favourite molecule: Icosahedral capsids of virion particles

3rd year of Psychology
Age:
22
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I’m from: São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Fields of interests or expertise: Confectionery, Neurosciences, Clinical Psychology, Entrepreneurship, Martial Arts
Favourite molecule: Dopamine


Advisor

Instructor

Cauã Westmann

William Cenens, Ph.D

Cauã Westmann William Cenens

Master's degree
Age:
26
Facebook page
I’m from: São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Fields of interests or expertise: Interface between Systems and Synthetic Biology
Favourite molecule: A double-stranded DNA

Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Chemistry
University of São Paulo

From: Belgium
Alma mater: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium


PI's

Prof. Shaker Chuck Farah, Ph.D

Prof. Rafael Silva Rocha, Ph.D

Prof. Shaker Chuck Farah, Ph.D Prof. Rafael Silva Rocha, Ph.D

Professor, Institute of Chemistry
University of São Paulo

From: Canada
Alma mater: University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Professor, Faculty of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto
University of São Paulo

From: Brazil
Alma mater: Federal University of Pará, Pará, Brazil