Role in iGEM: Team Leader and Human Practices member
Fun fact: Her car is green.
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.
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?"
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
