Henrique Marques Barbosa de Souza

"Dr. Henrique Marques-Souza is an assistant Professor of the Department of Biochemistry and Tissue Biology at the University of Campinas - UNICAMP. He is an Agricultural Engineer by the University of Londrina, Master in Sciences by the Center of Nuclear Energy in Agriculture, of the University of São Paulo and Ph.D. by the University of Cologne, Germany. Prof. Marques-Souza did a postdoc at the University of California, Berkeley, as a Research Associate of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His carrier has been dedicated to understand the role of gene regulatory networks controlling cell fate decisions in animal development and regeneration by the use of technologies such as RNAi interference, Genome Editing (CRISPR-Cas9) and transcriptome analysis. Currently, the main focus of Prof. Marques-Souza's lab is to develop biotechnological solutions to control agricultural pests and diseases." (Source: Lattes Curriculum)