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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Física (IF) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Full Professor at Physics Institute of the University of São Paulo. Graduate at Fisica from Universidade Federal do Ceará (1992), master's at Physic from Universidade Federal do Ceará (1995) and ph.d. at Physic from Universidade Federal do Ceará (1999). Has experience in Physiology, focusing on Physiology of Organs ans Systems, acting on the following subjects: pulmao, crackle, biologia celular, monte carlo and microscopia optico magetico de oscilacao. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The aim of this project is to create a platform to manipulate and isolate particles and blood cells, through the integration on a chip of microfluidics and microelectronics using LTCC fabrication techniques. The purpose of the platform would be to isolate (AU)
This is a multidisciplinary project between physics and medicine whose main focus is to characterize and understand the dynamics of three types of cardiac cells, or cardiomyocytes: (1) the human iPS, (2) the neonate of rat WT (wild type), and (3) neonate rat KO-CPR3. These cardiomyocytes are currently used as experimental models for research aimed at understanding of heart disease and hea…
One of the fundamental problems of cell mechanics can be designed around the mechanisms that are responsible for the rheological properties of cells and these properties are determined by genotype and phenotype, in addition to their metabolic activity. It is known that some of these properties are governed by entropic dynamics of its fibers, but the physical basis for this theory, in the …
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The objective of this project is to study the influence of mechanical stretching on Ca2+ transport across the cell membrane. To do this, we will develop a statistical mechanical model that provides the transmembrane Ca2+ flux as a function of the substrate stretching for two transport proteins, namely an ion channel, and the Na+/Ca2+ exchanger, NCX. This statistical mechanical model will …
In this project we will investigate, using computer simulations, the reverse electrowetting-on-dielectric process (REWOD). These systems are paramount to present day technology, since it is expected to achieve kinetics to electric energy conversion with a high power density and at small scales. To properly simulate these systems, we will use algorithmic optimizations found by Girotto \tex…
Among the several problems considered when studying the rheological properties of living cells, we can cite the mechanical characterization and the response of cardiac cells, or cardiomyocytes, a theme with strong scientific appeal and few papers found in the literature. It is known that the active regulation of cell forces during adhesion plays an important role in determining the size, …
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The aim of my PhD project is to study the dynamics of cotransport. Currently, the most accepted and used model to explain the cotransport mechanism is the rocker-switch model. However, not all cotransporters can be explained by this model, since it was discovered that some of them use a twisting elevator-like mechanism of transport. Thus, in the present project, we propose in collaboratio…
The aim of my master's project is to study transport processes across the cell membrane through the development of statistical mechanical models for two transport proteins. The first transport protein is the lactose permease of Escherichia coli (LacY), a symporter protein responsible for the transport and metabolism of lactose in the bacterium E. coli. The second is the sodium-calcium exc…
The relationship between rheological properties of eukariotic cells and their most abundant proteic constituent, the F-actin, is an outstanding question in cellular mechanics. In this context, the experimental and theoretical study of actin polymeric networks was proposed as a Master Project. In this project, the experimental part consists in the rheological characterization of F-actin an…
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