bachelor's at Bacharelado Em Ciências Biológicas from Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (1984), master's at Agronomy from Universidade de São Paulo (1987) and doctorate at Agronomy from Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (1994). Has experience in Microbiology, focusing on Industrial Microbiology and of Fermentation, acting on the following subjects: pectinase, bacillus, pectinases, thermoascus and aspergillus. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The microbiota is an abundant source of genes for industrial application. In forty years of work, we have assembled a collection of diverse genomes, metagenomas and consortia. Among these data, we have metagenomas from forest soils, sugarcane and eucalyptus cultivation soils, rumen, filter cake, and ecosystems in different stages of recovery from mining activity (Sabará, MG); sequenced ge…
Sugarcane bagasse and straw, with almost 280 million tons produced in the 2019/2020 sazon, are viable lignocellulosic materials for a biotechnology utilization technology depending on availability. Despite already having an important economic use in the generation of energy in the plants themselves, there are still surpluses that allow alternative use. The research group of the Associated…
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Urea, a nitrogenous compost present in the environment, from agricultural pesticides or as a metabolite excreted by living organisms, can contaminate raw materials, processes and products, making up a residue that compromising the quality of final products. In alcoholic beverages, mainly the spirits, the reaction of ethanol with urea during storage can generate ethyl carbamate, a neurotox…
Lignocellulosic biomass can be an alternative renewable source to obtain biofuels, paper and other value-added compounds. Biomass deconstruction methods for these purposes generate a black liquor rich in lignin with polluting problem. However, itcan serve as raw material to obtain products of commercial and industrial importance. p-coumaric acid is one of the phenolic compounds resulting …
Pentose fermentation is an essential step to improve yield of ethanol and organic acid production from plant biomass. In view of this, many efforts have been directed to the hydrolysis of hemicellulosic material and the consequent fermentation of D-xylose derived from this process. However, studies in metabolic engineering have shown that Saccharomyces cerevisiae, even when modified for p…
The processing of lignocellulosic biomass to obtain sugars (hexoses or pentoses) involves several steps, as the separation of lignin by chemical processes in which results in the production of aromatic compounds such as ferulic acid (4-hydroxy-3-methoxycinnamic acid) that has high value added, as well as its derivatives. In previous work the research group of the Laboratory of Biochemistr…
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The fermentation of pentoses is an essential step to improve the production yield of ethanol and organic acids from the degradation of plant biomass. In view of this, many efforts have been made to hydrolyze the hemicellulosic material and the consequent fermentation of pentoses derived from this process. However, the large contingent of hemicellulose has been little used in fermentative …
Cellulose from lignocellulose biomass, is the most abundant polysaccharide in the plant kingdom. Cellulose is a linear homopolymer composed of residues of D-glucose linked by ²-1,4 glycosidic bonds. This polymer has attracted attention since its enzymatic hydrolysis results in fermentable sugars which can be directly converted to second-generation bioethanol and cellulases are key enzymes…
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