Luís Guilherme Mansor Basso

Luis Basso is an associate professor at the Physical Sciences Laboratory of the State University of Northern Rio de Janeiro Darcy Ribeiro (UENF), Campos dos Goytacazes (Brazil), a member of the Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry Group and the Nanoscience Research Group (https://nanobiotec.uenf.br/) at the same institution, and serves as a permanent professor in two postgraduate programs at UENF, Natural Sciences (PGCN) and Biociences and Biotechnology (PGBB). Luis holds an academic degree in Physics (2006), an M.Sc. degree in Physics (2014) and Ph.D. degree in Physics (2014) from the University of São Paulo (Sao Carlos Physics Institute, Brazil). He completed a one-year research internship at the University of Chicago (USA, 2011-2012) during his PhD and was a Visiting Research Scholar at North Carolina State University (USA, 2016). He also conducted postdoctoral research at the University of California San Diego (USA) for two years (2017-2019) and at the University of São Paulo (Ribeirão Preto, Brazil) for four years (2014-2017, 2019). He has experience in Physics, with emphasis on Soft Matter Physics, Molecular Biophysics, and Nanotechnology, working mainly on the following topics: 1) experimental and computational biophysics of biological membranes; 2) membrane proteins and viral, anticancer, and antimicrobial peptides; and 3) nanoparticles for biomedical applications. Research in his laboratory is focused on understanding the interplay between structure, dynamics and function of membrane proteins, peptides, and membranotropic drugs in cell membrane models, comprehending the dynamic structure and thermodynamics of biological membrane phase transitions, and developing magnetic nanoparticles functionalized with biocompatible compounds for the inactivation of viruses and tumor cells by magnetic hyperthermia. For further information, visit his personal website at https://sites.google.com/uenf.br/luisbasso/. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)