Student Members

Brenda Clara Moreira

Federal University of São Carlos/UFSCar
Undergraduate Student
Biotechnology

     At first sight, Brenda is apparently introverted, but in reality she is full of skills - she was the protagonists of our crowndfunding video. She actively participated in efforts to raise funds to enable us enter the competition as well as during the stages of formation and consolidation of the Brasil-SP team and project design.

Camila Bramorski

University of São Paulo/USP
Undergraduate Student
Physical and Biomolecular Sciences

     She gives helps in many areas of the project but mainly with the financials and with the wiki webdesign and construction. She is responsible for recording the weekly group reunion and for making some jokes.

Danilo Keiji Zampronio

University of São Paulo/USP
Undergraduate Student
Physical and Biomolecular Sciences

     Wet lab slave. Working on the assemblies and experimental strategies with enthusiasm. Also participated in the wiki, presentation and poster construction and design. And more importantly, he was responsable for receiving the boxes he loves so much.

Guilherme Engelberto Kundlatsch

Federal University of São Carlos/UFSCar
Undergraduate Student
Biotechnology

     He is working at Biology Molecular lab with our circuit construction and characterization and at Microbiology lab studying our chassis. His great capacity of thinking in new outlandish ideas helps us with our project. Directly from a cold land, he is a boy as young as synthetic biology. Better known as Yoshi, he is carrying our team to give 1 UP in iGEM.

Jonathan Ballico de Moraes

Federal University of São Carlos/UFSCar
Undergraduate Student
Biotechnology

     He is working in the Microbiology and Molecular Biology lab. Our star at Dodgeball Biotechnology Team. Never miss the target, with a ball or a pipette. With his foresaw abilities, he can see our kidney sensing winning the iGEM competition.

Luciano Zane Filho

Federal University of São Carlos/UFSCar
Undergraduate Student
Biotechnology

     Luciano is best known as "Dode", a nickname from a wonderful sweet made with milk, but he looks more like a mad scientist. We have an Einstein on our team working on Microbiology and Molecular Biology wet lab.

Mariana Trevisan

Federal University of São Carlos/UFSCar
Undergraduate Student
Biotechnology

     Mariana is working in Molecular Biology with lab circuit construction and supporting experiments at Microbiology lab. She hates tidying her bedroom, preferring to devote all her time to study and practice synthetic biology.

Matheus Pedrino Gonçalves

Federal University of São Carlos/UFSCar
Undergraduate Student
Biotechnology

     He's working in Microbiology, with the determination of sporulation and characterization, and Molecular Biology wet lab. He's always organizing our tasks and handling the financial part. He does some magic to help us out, after all, he's our Harry Potter!

Monique Gasparoto Freitas

University of São Paulo/USP
Researcher

     Monique holds a degree in Physical and Biomolecular Sciences and is a huge iGEM enthusiast. She had a blast participating on iGEM in 2012 and now is helping out the Brasil-SP team to take the best out of this experience!

Pedro Medeiros

University of São Paulo/USP
Undergraduate Student

     Has a degree in Biological Sciences and is currently pursuing a degree in Pharmacy-Biochemistry
Intern in the chemical industry. Among his personal interests are general applications of new technologies in society, biotechnology, crowdsourcing projects, open development and anything that could bring more freedom, independence, social development and improvement in crucial aspects, such as energy, potable water, fuels, food and, mainly, education. He believes science and technology as a way to improve and unite companies' activities, environmentally correct practices and social initiatives toward a better world. Currently working in the establishment of the first DIYbio and Biohacking group in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Victor Rabesquine

University of São Paulo/USP
Undergraduate Student
Physical and Biomolecular Sciences

     He tried to help a bit in many areas, especially in financial, but no employment answered him, so he decided to cosplay… Now he’s been working with synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials.

André Schraider Maizel

University of São Paulo/USP
PhD Student
Statistical Physics

     André is a physicist that works with everything, except physics...

Bruno Ono

University of São Paulo/USP
Masters Student
Physical and Biomolecular Sciences

     Bruno is also known as Kuririn, but, as far as we know, he is not looking for any Dragon Ball. Now he works with Photodynamic Therapy in Biophotonics laboratory at São Carlos Institute of Physics - USP.

Célio Dias Santos Júnior

Federal University of São Carlos
Master Student
Evolutionary Genetics and Molecular Biology

     He's working to introduce some freshmen to hard job on Molecular Biology lab, sometimes is good have someone to do those boring research steps. His work focus in enzymes optimization, with bench approaches to directed in vitro evolution of an aromatic amino acid ammonia-lyase derived from an in silico metagenome and consensus sequences chimerization process, through DNA shuffling and also error-prone PCR.

Fernando Takeshi Tanouye

University of São Paulo/USP
Master Student
Physical and Biomolecular Sciences

     Participant of the modeling trio, together with André and Pedrão. Enjoys playing science and do cool things with others, like iGem. Currently studies folding of ideal triangular proteins that exists only in his imagination.

Ivan Rosa e Silva

University of São Paulo/USP
PhD Student
Physical and Biomolecular Sciences

     He has been involved with biobricks assemblies design and wet lab experiments (also for the InterLab Study).
He is currently studying Trypanosoma brucei spliceosome as part of his PhD tesis project.

Laís Canniatti Brazaca

University of São Paulo/USP
Masters Student
Physical and Biomolecular Sciences

     She currently works in the Nanomedicine and Nanotoxicology group developing biosensors for medical applications. Her main contribution to our project was in the biosafety and characterization areas.

Laís Ribovski

University of São Paulo/USP
Masters Student
Physical and Biomolecular Sciences

      A team leader, it is unbelievable the amount of things she can do in a short time. She carried out the characterization experiments, all kinds of bureaucracies, sponsorships, wiki programming and also has been working on biosensor development for medical and environmental purposes at Nanomedicine and Nanotoxicology Group (GNano) in her masters.

Pedro Henrique Moreira Pessoa

State University of New York at Albany
PhD student
Statistical Physics

      Recently graduated in Molecular Sciences at University of Sao Paulo. Pedrao (an natural nickname) already had his adventures in many fields from Statistical Mechanics models in Psychology an Sociology to harder Theoretical Physics. Including Board Games Design, Computational Technics in arts and, of course, Syntethic Bology. He tries to work and every project where he thinks his knowledge will be helpfull. Pedro is currently getting his PhD in Albany-NY. Helped organize the "Jamboré".

Raissa Ferreira Gutierrez

University of São Paulo/USP
Masters Student
Physical and Biomolecular Sciences

     She works together with Danilo in the Molecular Biology Lab to optimize and perform the biobricks assemblies and also helped in the elaboration of poster, presentation and a little bit of wiki. Currently, she is studying a protein involved in the ribosome biogenesis. She is always happy with a smile on her face.

Otto Werner Heringer

University of São Paulo/USP
Undregraduate Student
Chemistry

     An veteran iGEMer trying to push foward the initiative on brazillian universities. Helped organize the "Jamboré" and is trying to something on microfluidics on the iGEM project this year. Helped, as many, in the traditional iGEM last week wiki rush.

Teresa Cristina Leandro de Jesus

University of São Paulo/USP
Postdoc
Physical and Biomolecular Sciences

     She has been helping in the Molecular Biology Lab and with the biobricks assemblies. She studies nuclear proteomics of Trypanosoma.

Ana Paula Ulian de Araújo

University of São Paulo/USP
Professor

     She is an expert in Biomolecular Sciences and her main area of research is the human septins. Also teaches Molecular and Cellular Biology to undergraduate courses at University of São Paulo. She is very excited in supervising our iGEM project.

Cleslei Fernando Zanelli

State University of São Paulo/UNESP
Professor

     Although Cleslei looks like a Hollywood pop star, he is actually a Professor. He is currently working in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology fields, with emphasis in metabolism of mRNA and translational control of gene expression using yeast as biological model.

Francis de Morais Franco Nunes

Federal University of São Carlos
Professor of Genetics with expertise in genomics and transcriptomics.

     What a researcher in bee genetics would be doing at iGEM? Perhaps the buzz of synthetic biology 'BEEwitched' him, or maybe he was literally stung by this cutting edge Science.

Cristina Kurachi

University of São Paulo/USP
Professor

     She is a professor at University of São Paulo and her main research is in biophotonics area.
She has great experience in interaction between light and biological systems and also is helping us with the detection device.

Professor Flavio Henrique Silva

Federal University Of São Carlos
Professor
     Dr. Henrique-Silva's lab has a tradition in applied research, such as metagenomics and prospecting of genes with biotechnological interest. He is the current Coordinator of the Postgraduate Course in Evolutionary Genetics and Molecular Biology at UFSCar. He has encouraged students to participate in activities that provide international experiences and dissemination of scientific knowledge to the population.

Iêda Maria Martinez Paino

University of São Paulo/USP
Postdoctoral
Ph.D. in Biosciences Applied to Pharmacy, Hematology Area.

     She is involved in the characterization of parts by flow cytometry.
Her research interests are Nanomedicine and Nanotoxicology, investigation of the interactions between nanoparticles/ nanomaterials and graphene with normal and cancer cells for cytotoxicity and genotoxicity evaluation in vitro for cancer treatment.

Paulo Teixeira Lacava

Federal University of São Carlos
Professor of Basic and Applied Microbiology with expertise in biotechnology process applied to environment.

     Works with Agricultural Microbiology, Environmental Microbiology, Microbial Ecology, Plant-Microorganism Interaction and Microbial Biological Control. Guided us toward Bacillus subtilis Sporulation and Spores Germination.

Richard Charles Garratt

University of São Paulo
Professor at University of Sao Paulo

Currently PhD. Richard Charles Garratt is a professor at University of São Paulo. He has experience mainly in areas such as structural biology using crystallographic techniques and molecular modeling. He is also a member of the Sao Paulo State Science Academy and the Brazilian Science Academy.

Prof. Dr. Valtencir Zucolotto

University of São Paulo/USP
Professor

     Professor Zucolotto – nickname: Xuxa - is one of the most famous advisors at IFSC-USP. Currently, Prof Zucolotto works in the development of nanomaterials and biosensors for diagnosis and therapy and also investigates the toxic effects of nanocomposites against living cells and tissues. Dr Zucolotto kindly provided the infrastructure of the Nanomedicine and Nanotoxicology group for our characterization experiments.

Alexandre Lopes

University of São Paulo/USP

     He has advised and supported our team on microfabrication procedures.

Ana Laura de Lima

University of São Paulo/USP

     Ana has helped our team in design and art areas.

Juliana Cancino Bernardi

University of São Paulo/USP

     Juliana supported our team on characterization experiments.

Marcelo Carreño

University of São Paulo/USP

     He has advised and supported our team on microfabrication procedures. Website

Wagner Correr

University of São Paulo/USP

     Wagner helped with flow cytometry files conversion.