Team Members
Students
![Giovanna Christe](https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2019/8/89/T--Sao_Carlos-Brazil--Team-Giovanna.jpg)
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](https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2019/d/df/T--Sao_Carlos-Brazil--Team-Katine.jpg)
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](https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2019/4/46/T--Sao_Carlos-Brazil--Team-Ideli.jpg)
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](https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2019/f/fb/T--Sao_Carlos-Brazil--Team-Jo%C3%A3o.jpg)
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](https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2019/3/33/T--Sao_Carlos-Brazil--Team-Samuel_1.jpg)
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](https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2019/6/6f/T--Sao_Carlos-Brazil--Team-Lucas_Oliveira.jpg)
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](https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2019/0/0a/T--Sao_Carlos-Brazil--Team-Fernando.jpg)
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](https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2019/1/16/T--Sao_Carlos-Brazil--Team-Belle_.jpg)
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](https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2019/1/17/T--Sao_Carlos-Brazil--Team-Lucas_Boldrini.jpg)
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](https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2019/8/87/T--Sao_Carlos-Brazil--Team-Bruno_.jpg)
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](https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2019/1/17/T--Sao_Carlos-Brazil--Team-Lida_.jpg)
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](https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2019/b/b4/T--Sao_Carlos-Brazil--Team-Luana.jpg)
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](https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2019/7/78/T--Sao_Carlos-Brazil--Team-Herson_.jpg)
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](https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2019/9/9e/T--Sao_Carlos-Brazil--Team-Francis.jpeg)
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](https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2019/1/11/T--Sao_Carlos-Brazil--Team-Otavio.jpeg)
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](https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2019/c/c3/T--Sao_Carlos-Brazil--Team-Carola.jpg)
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](https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2019/6/68/T--Sao_Carlos-Brazil--Team-Murilo.jpeg)
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](https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2019/4/4a/T--Sao_Carlos-Brazil--Team-Marlon.jpg)
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.