Graduated in Biological Sciences; Master's and Doctorate in Genetics and Evolutionary Biology obtained at the Institute of Biosciences of the University of São Paulo (Brazil). He attended Short Programs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA). He is currently a PqC-6 Research Scientist, Collaborating Researcher at the Institute of Advanced Studies at USP, Master/Doctoral Supervisor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of São Paulo and Supervisor at the lato sensu postgraduate course at the Superior School of the Butantan Institute. Former member of the Research Council of the Butantan Institute. He conducts scientific research in the field of Health, with emphasis on Population Genetics, Microevolution of pathogen-vector mosquitoes, Epidemiology, Parasite-Host Interaction and Endosymbiosis. He carries out Science Communication in these fields as well. He has experience in techniques such as Molecular Biology, Geometric Morphometrics, Mathematical Modelling and Statistics. Research Gate RG Score in the top 7 percent. He is a fellow Mensa Society, which gets together people with the highest Intellectual Quotient in the world (top 2 percent ). (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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This project brings together the Instituto Butantan's Laboratory of Parasitology and Museum of Public Health with Emory University's Department of Environmental Sciences and Program in Portuguese to examine the past and present of mosquito and other insect-borne infections in São Paulo. Such a study is particularly relevant to scholars at Emory University because of its leading position i…
The contemporary profusion of descriptive data of genomes of medically-interesting insects have reinforced the demand for the knowledge of the function of their genes. The investigation of the genetic features of mosquito vectors have received particular attention because it can enhance vector control methods and the development of genetically-modified mosquitoes. In this context, we prop…
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Mosquitoes (Culicidae) are vectors of pathogens that cause severe diseases, many of them still without vaccine available. To minimize the impact on public health, the main measure still is the control of vector mosquitoes. The microevolution of mosquitoes can be fast and act as obstacles to vector control, reason why this biological process has been much studied. Traditionally, population…
Aedes aegypti is a mosquito vector of several pathogens, being the most important vector of dengue viruses in Brazil. This insect is synantropic, highly adapted to the urban environment and has exhibited resistance to insecticides, which is particularly problematic to public health. Nowadays, it has grown the search for fundamental genes of this species which may be useful for the elabora…
Wolbachia pipientis is an obligate intracellular alfa-proteobacteria, endosymbiont in arthropods and nematodes inherited by the mother through the generations. The presence of these bacteria in the germ tissues changes the reproduction of the host, inducing parthenogenesis, males feminization, males killing, cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI) and changes of fitness. Some molecular mechanism…
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Recent studies have shown that the mitochondrial genome is one of the most useful indicators for resolving phylogenetic relationships in insects. In addition, the 37 genes inside it can be used for phylogenetic reconstruction, since it does not require very much computational time to run analyses and reach statistically reliable conclusions. Thus, the objective of this internship is to an…
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