Uelinton Manoel Pinto

He is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Food and Experimental Nutrition at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences - University of Sao Paulo. Previously he worked as an Assistant Professor at the Federal University of Ouro Preto (2011 to 2015) where among other functions was the Vice-Director of the School of Nutrition. He graduated as a Food Engineer at the Federal University of Viçosa where he also pursued his Master's in Agricultural Microbiology. He has received his Ph.D. in Microbiology from Cornell University, under the supervision of Dr. Stephen C. Winans developing work in the model organism Agrobacterium tumefaciens. He has experience in the areas of Food Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Biochemistry and Food Science. His current interest is in the understanding of quorum sensing regulation on pathogenicity of food borne microorganisms as well as its role in food deterioration and its control. In 2016 he became an Associate Researcher in the Food Research Center, one of the Centers for Research, Innovation and Diffusion from FAPESP. He was a Research Fellow at the Harvard Medical School at the Laboratory of Prof Laurence Rahme working with quorum sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa with a scholarship for Visiting Professor from CAPES. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)