DNA Technology and Plant Molecular Biology Expert (1306)
Expertise
DNA technology and DNA profiling of people.
DNA and RNA manipulations.
PCR sequencing technology and machines.
DNA profiles and DNA paternity suites.
Plant molecular biology, such as sugarcane
Experience
Professor of the Biotechnology Department 2000 – Present
Teaching and supervision of undergraduate and graduate students.
Design and coordination of projects submitted to funding agencies such as FAPESP and CNPq.
Research Assistant, Pharmaceutical Sciences Department, San Paulo 2000l
Supervision of undergraduate and graduate students.
Execution of experiments related to the Principal Investigator projects.
Technical Director and co-owner of DNAVIDA – DNA Paternity Exams Lab. 1999 - 2004
Supervision of activities related to the analysis of DNA profile of clients.
Technical responsibility over results of the exams.
Guidance to partner labs and clients over specific and related issues of DNA paternity exams.
General management of the company routine activities.
Honors & Publications
Selected Publication Titles (last 5 years)
Molecular evaluation of the incidence of Ehrlichia canis, Anaplasma platys and Babesia sp in thrombocytopenic and non-thrombocytopenic dogs from Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.
Evaluation of monocot and eudicot divergence using the sugarcane transcriptome.
Analysis of hypermethylation in the RPS element suggests a signal function for inverted repeats in de novo methylation.
Quantitative analysis of the expression of ABC-transporter genes in Aspergillus nidulans by Real-Time RT-PCR.
Biosynthesis of secondary metabolites in sugarcane.
The contribution of 700,000 ORF sequence tags to the definition of the human transcriptome.
Identification of human chromosome 22 transcribed sequences with ORF expressed sequence tags.
Biosynthesis of secondary metabolites in sugarcane.
Languages
Fluent in Portuguese and English and Speaking knowledge of German.
Education
Ph.D. Molecular Biology, Institute of Chemistry – University of São Paulo, Brazil & Department of Applied Genetics, University of Osnabruck, Germany
B.S. Biology Institute of Biosciences – University of São Paulo, Brazil
Post-doctoral Training, Plant Molecular Biology, Biology Department, University of Leeds, UK
Post-doctoral Training, Molecular Biology of Development, Department de Morphology, Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, Brazil