Rafael Rahal Guaragna Machado

Bachelor (emphasis in Genetics\Biochemistry) and Degree in Biological Sciences by the Institute of Biosciences, Letters and Exact Sciences - IBILCE, State University of São Paulo "Júlio de Mesquita Filho'' (UNESP) in São José do Rio Preto. Associate since 2015 to Brazilian Society of Virology (SBV) Developed his basic internship, duration of 300 (three hundred) hours, in the area of Molecular Biology, with the work entitled "Learning basic techniques in molecular biology", under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Paula Rahal , in the Genomic Studies laboratory, under the supervision of the Department of Biology. He was a fellow monitor of the discipline of Microbiology at IBILCE/UNESP, for one semester (60 hours). radio "No Mundo dos Microbios", information and dissemination organs of the postgraduate program in microbiology at IBILCE/UNESP, within the extension project entitled "Integração Educação-P Microbiology-Extension survey''. In addition, he developed the Scientific Initiation project, entitled "Investigation of Arboviruses in Chiroptera", financed by the FAPESP agency and participated in studies related to the evaluation of natural and synthetic compounds in the replication of the hepatitis C virus (HCV), in vitro. Trained in short-term research activities (40 hours) in the laboratory coordinated by Prof. Dr. João Gustavo Pessini Amarante-Mendes, at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences IV (USP-SP), with an emphasis on studies on the molecular control of cell death in cancer and the immune system. She defended her Course Completion Thesis (TCC) with the work entitled "Investigation of Hepadnaviruses and Coronaviruses in Bats", under the guidance of Profa. Dr. Cíntia Bittar Oliva. He is currently developing a Direct Doctorate (FAPESP scholarship) at the Laboratory of Clinical and Molecular Virology, Department of Microbiology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences II, University of São Paulo (USP/ICB), with the project entitled "Zika virus in puerperal women and newborns : seroepidemiology and molecular characterization", under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Edison Luiz Durigon. In addition, she was a PAE scholarship holder in the undergraduate course "Basic and applied microbiology to veterinary medicine", taught by Profa. Dr. Ana Márcia de Sá Guimarães, during 2018. She held a short-term internship at the Unité des Virus Émergents - (UVE), Faculté des Sciences Médicales et Paramédicales, at the Aix-Marseille Université, in Marseille, France, coordinated by Prof. Dr. Xavier de Lamballerie. Since the beginning of 2021, I assumed the position of Visiting Pre-doctoral Fellow, at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB), working at the World Reference Center of Emerging Viruses and Arboviruses (WRCEVA), under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Scott C. Weaver. This position is part of the Research Internship Abroad Scholarship (BEPE), which was granted by FAPESP. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)