Daniel Giddings Vassao

has a B.Sc. in Chemistry from the University of Sao Paulo (2001), with laboratorial experience in Natural Product Chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Massuo Jorge Kato (1999-2001). Has obtained his Ph.D. in Biochemistry in the Institute of Biological Chemistry, Washington State University, USA, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Norman G. Lewis, working with the biosynthesis of natural products (2008). After a period as a post-doc in this same lab, has started in 2010 further post-doctoral training in the Department of Biochemistry of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, German, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Jonathan Gershenzon. Since 2011 leads the research group "Detoxification & Mode of Action" in the same Department. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)