DNA Technology and Plant Molecular Biology Consultant

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 %u2013 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 %u2013 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 %u2013 University of São Paulo, Brazil & Department of Applied Genetics, University of Osnabruck, Germany
• B.S. Biology Institute of Biosciences %u2013 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