Team:Sao Carlos-Brazil/Team

Team Members

Students

Giovanna Christe
Meet Giovanna!
  • Name: Giovanna Christe
  • Year: Senior
  • Major: Biotechnology
  • Study area: Physiology and Metabolism
  • Role in iGEM: Team Leader and Human Practices member
  • Fun fact: Her car is green.
Katiane Tostes
Meet Katiane!
  • Name: Katiane Tostes
  • Year: Senior
  • Major: Biotechnology
  • Study area: Conditional knockout , Autophagy and Mitochondrial inheritance
  • Role in iGEM: Human Practices
  • Fun fact: Her little sister calls her Kakati, everyone in college found out and started to relate her with the Kcat in Biochemistry classes.
Ideli Zanesco
Meet Ideli!
  • Name: Ideli Zanesco
  • Year: Senior
  • Major: Biotechnology
  • Study area: Natural Products in breast cancer therapy
  • Role in iGEM: Human Practices
  • Fun fact: She has lived in so many places that she is incapable of answering the question "where are you from?"
João Pedro do Valle Alvarenga
Meet João!
  • Name: João Pedro do Valle Alvarenga
  • Year: Junior
  • Major: Engineering Physics
  • Study area: Chaotic dynamical systems and Cryptography
  • Role in iGEM: Mathematical modeling
  • Fun fact: He can move his ears.
Samuel Pratavieira de Oliveira
Meet Samuel!
  • Name: Samuel Pratavieira de Oliveira
  • Year: Senior
  • Major: Biotechnology
  • Study Area: Production of enzymes in solid state fermentation in packed bed bioreactor
  • Role in iGEM: Marketing, Human Practices
  • Fun fact: He loves to play Just Dance with friends.
Lucas Santos de Oliveira
Meet Lucas Oliveira!
  • Name: Lucas Santos de Oliveira
  • Year: Senior
  • Major: Biotechnology
  • Study Area: Microbiology and isolation of bacteria for biotechnological application
  • Role in iGEM: Visual Identity, Social Media and Wiki
  • Fun fact: Hair is not truly White.
Fernando Souza
Meet Fernando!
  • Name: Fernando Souza
  • Year: Senior
  • Major: Biotechnology
  • Study Area: Bioinformatics, Biogeography, and Heterologous expression of industrial interest compounds
  • Role in iGEM: Project design and development
  • Fun fact: He was born in São Carlos, Brazil. The team was named after the city.
Lucas Boldrini
Meet Belle!
  • Name: Isabelle Taira Simões
  • Year: Senior
  • Major: Biotechnology
  • Study Area: Molecular biology of filamentous fungi, bone regeneration biomaterials, Stratospheric Experimentation
  • Role in iGEM: Project Design and Development, Wet Lab
  • Fun fact: She knows how to do a handstand.
Lucas Boldrini
Meet Boldrini!
  • Name: Lucas Boldrini
  • Year: Senior
  • Major: Biotechnology
  • Study Area: Ancestral Protein Reconstruction, Astrobiology/Stratospheric Experimentation
  • Role in iGEM: Project Design and Development, Wet Lab
  • Fun fact: He knows every sovereign state capital of the world.
Bruno Batista
Meet Bruno!
  • Name: Bruno Batista
  • Year: Senior
  • Major: Biotechonology
  • Study area: Synthetic BIology in 2G ethanol.
  • Role in iGEM: Project design and development.
  • Fun fact: I forget to apply DNA Polymerase to my PCR reaction.
Lida Dubraska Manrique Pérez
Meet Lida!
  • Name: Lida Dubraska Manrique Pérez
  • Year: Senior
  • Major: Biological Science
  • Study Area: Studies of nanotechnology and nanomaterials applied in Bladder Cancer as possible treatments.
  • Role in IGEM: Human Practices and Marketing.
  • Fun fact: She is from Venezuela but considers herself more brazilian that most brazilians.
Luana Menezes
Meet Luana!
  • Name: Luana Menezes
  • Year: Senior
  • Major: Computer Engineering
  • Role in iGEM: Wiki Front-End Designer
  • Study area: Web and Embedded Systems
  • Fun fact: Addicted to acid-flavored bubble gum.
Herson Sanabria de Melo
Meet Herson!
  • Name: Herson Sanabria de Melo
  • Year: Senior
  • Major: Engineering Physics
  • Study area: Plasma physics
  • Role in iGEM: Mathematical modeling
  • Fun fact: I like to listen to Vaporwave.

Instructors and Advisors

Dr. Francis de Morais Franco Nunes
Meet Francis!
  • Name: Dr. Francis de Morais Franco Nunes
  • Year: PhD
  • Major: Biology
  • Study Area: Genetics, Genomics and Developmental Biology
  • Role in iGEM: Primary PI (Professor instructor)
  • Research and development projects: A systems genetics view of nutrition-modulated life span and aging
Otavio Henrique Thiemann
Meet Otavio!
  • Name: Otavio Henrique Thiemann
  • Year: PhD
  • Major: Molecular Biology
  • Study area: Structural Biology of parasites and novel viruses
  • Role in iGEM: Secondary PI (Professor instructor)
  • Research and Development projects: Structural biology of viruses capsids, Kinetoplastidae parasites and Free-living amoebas. Phylogenetics and Ancestral Sequence Reconstruction
Ana Carolina Souza Ramos de Carvalho
Meet Carola!
  • Name: Ana Carolina Souza Ramos de Carvalho
  • Year: PhD
  • Major: Astrobiology
  • Study Area: Microbiology, extremophilic yeast under marcian condition
  • Role in iGEM: Instructor
  • Research and development projects: Co-culture of extremophilic yeasts with baker's yeast under extreme conditions similar to Mars
Murilo Leão Pereira
Meet Murilo!
  • Name: Murilo Leão Pereira
  • Year: MSc.
  • Major: Biomolecular Physics
  • Study Area: Molecular and structural biology
  • Role in iGEM: Advisor
  • Research and development projects: Biophysical characterization of RAD51 and paralogues of Trypanosoma brucei
Marlon Breno Zampieri Lima
Meet Marlon!
  • Name: Marlon Breno Zampieri Lima
  • Year: Senior
  • Major: Biotechnology
  • Study Area: Immunology, genetics and applied biochemistry of superbugs
  • Role in iGEM: Advisor
  • Research and development projects: Molecular and genetic analysis of virulence and resistance profiles of microorganisms, for the development of diagnostic and therapeutic methods.