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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura (CENA) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Ernani Pinto is a pharmacist (FCF-USP/1998) and completed his PhD in Biochemistry, Institute of Chemistry (IQ-USP), University of São Paulo, in 2002. He worked as a consultant analyst in the evaluation of the bioanalytical part of bioequivalence reports for generic pharmaceutical registration for the General Management of Pharmaceuticals (GGMED) of ANVISA (in 2002, under the coordination of Prof. Dr. Silvia Storpirtis and Marcia Martini Bueno). He was Associate Professor at FCF-USP from 2003 to 2019. He was Deputy Coordinator of the Pharmacy Area at CAPES for the four-year period 2013/17. He was a visiting researcher at Uppsala University (1 year, sandwich doctorate, Sweden, 2000) and at Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Visiting Professor, Germany, from 2004 to 2010, for short periods) with agreements via STINT and CAPES-DAAD, respectively. He is currently Full Professor and Dean (term 2022-2026) of the Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture (CENA-USP), Campus Luiz de Queiroz-USP in Piracicaba / SP. He has published/has more than 170 articles in journals indexed in international and specialized databases. He is a toxicologist and works in the area of environmental toxicology and agricultural inputs, impacts on water quality, metabolomics and proteomics, with an emphasis on analysis of cyanotoxins, peptides, natural products from cyanobacteria and microalgae. He also investigates drug compounding, biological and biopharmaceutical products. He has experience in the quality and potability of water for human consumption and partnerships with water and wastewater treatment plants (WTPs and WWTPs). He is an associate researcher at the Center for Carbon Research in Tropical Agriculture (CCarbon), one of the Research, Innovation and Dissemination Centers (CEPID) supported by FAPESP. It works in partnership with the company Spektra Scientific-Regulatory Solutions in the application of toxicology to control cross-contamination in Pharmaceutical Industries using calculation of permitted daily exposure (PDE - Permitted Daily Exposure) and use of in silico tools as an alternative method to the use of animals for the toxicological prediction of agricultural products, their handling products and metabolites. He coordinates projects in the areas of environmental toxicology and ecotoxicology, natural products from microorganisms, mass spectrometry, toxicity of agricultural products, and water quality in reservoirs, WTPs and WWTPs. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture (CENA/USP) presents this Annual Plan for the Application of the Institutional Technical Reserve (RTI/2025) in accordance with FAPESP guidelines. The investments proposed herein comply with item 7 of the RTI regulations, prioritizing collective research infrastructure, with a direct impact on the execution of projects funded by the Foundation an…
The increase in nutrients (artificial eutrophication), especially phosphates and nitrogen compounds, in aquatic ecosystems, particularly in lentic systems, provides a favorable environment for the excessive growth of aquatic plants and phytoplankton (algae, microalgae, and cyanobacteria). The excess of phytoplankton and plant matter in water bodies not only triggers a chain reaction leadi…
The quality of the captured water to supply the Drinking Water Treatment (DWT) is compromised by the presence of humic substances and phytoplankton, which alter its organoleptic parameters. To overcome this drawback, DWTs mostly use chlorinated oxidants to remove these compounds, however, toxic and carcinogenic compounds may form, such as trihalomethanes (THMs) and haloacetic acids (HAAs)…
CENA/USP, Specialized Institute and Integration Body of the University of São Paulo, had, in December 2020, its own body of 32 Professors hired in RDIDP. With regard to professors in RDIDP, there are 9 Professors (27.2%), 12 Associate Professors (36.4%) and 12 PhD Professors (36.4%), working in three Scientific Divisions. Among the Associate Professors, seven are MS 5.3 Professors. These …
CENA/USP, Specialized Institute and Integration Body of the University of São Paulo, had, in December 2020, itsown body of 32 Professors hired in RDIDP. With regard to professors in RDIDP, there are 9 Professors (27.2%), 12Associate Professors (36.4%) and 12 PhD Professors (36.4%), working in three Scientific Divisions. Among theAssociate Professors, seven are MS 5.3 Professors. These Pro…
The increase of nutrients (artificial eutrophication) especially phosphate and nitrogen compounds in aquatic ecosystems, especially in lentic systems, provides a favorable location for the over development of aquatic plants and phytoplankton (algae, microalgae, and cyanobacteria). The excess of phytoplankton and plant matter in water bodies, in addition to causing a chain reaction, causes…
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The occurrence of cyanobacterial blooms in water sources and the release of cyanotoxins, such as microcystins, pose a significant public health risk, especially in low-flow river regions where water becomes more stagnant. This project aims to investigate the presence of cyanobacteria and toxins in the Piracicaba River, focusing on low-flow areas and periods following the opening of the Sa…
Spectroscopic data obtained from remote sensing and laboratory analyses will be integrated to develop a model capable of monitoring and predicting the characteristics of raw water and its behavior during treatment stages. The raw data collected by the floating device will be processed using multivariate analysis tools. It is expected that the identified patterns will facilitate the accura…
This project aims to develop an autonomous system for remote water analysis in real time that allows obtaining parameters that can be correlated with the occurrence of chemical species and different species that make up the phytoplankton of interest, such as emerging contaminants and cyanobacteria. Therefore, the general objective of this postdoctoral proposal is to develop a device that …
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With the worldwide reduction of fish stocks in oceans and freshwater, the aquaculture activity is gaining more importance and prominence in the world scenario for offering quality fish. However, in freshwater environment, changes in environmental conditions caused by fish farming may modify the composition of primary producers such as cyanobacteria, which in certain situations produce met…
Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) encompass a constant challenge in environmental, economical and biosafety issues due to several impacts caused in the affected ecosystems by them, in particular that ones involving the production of phycotoxins. Seafood contamination has commonly led to human poisoning and also to expressive losses in the fisheries and aquaculture industries, printing a current…
Some cyanobacterial species can produce different types of bioactive peptides (cyanopeptides), such as aeruginosins, cyanopeptolins, microginins, microviridins, anabaenopeptins and microcystins. Microcystins are well known in the scientific literature as hepatotoxins that inhibit phosphatases type 1 and 2A. Microginins are reported as inhibitors of the angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) …
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This study aims to evaluate the toxicity of a natural organophosphate (guanitoxin), produced by the cyanobacterial strain ITEP-024 (Sphaerospermopsis torques-reginae), combined with synthetic organophosphates (malathion and trichlorfon) in specimens of Oreochromis niloticus and Danio rerio. The hypothesis is that the association of these compounds will cause additive/synergistic effects (…