CV Lattes
Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Biologia (IB) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Master's student in Genetics of Microorganisms at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), carries out research activities at the Genetics and Bio-Energy Laboratory (LGE). Carla has experience in the field of genetics and metabolic engineering, more specifically in the production of compounds of economic interest in microorganisms, as well as in the production of yeast-based biosensors. Carla has extensive laboratory experience and has been granted two FAPESP scholarships: for undertaken scientific initiation (undergraduate research) and masters. Recently, Carla had a six months internship opportunity at the Alper Lab, at The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), a reference in the yeast metabolic engineering field. Carla graduated in Biological Sciences at UNICAMP in 2018, having performed one year of her undergrad studies at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), in Belgium. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Over the last few decades, the demand for renewable energy has fueled efforts by research institutions and industries to produce hemicellulosic (or second generation) (E2G) ethanol. However, the economic viability of this process depends on the development of commercial strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae capable of converting five carbons sugars into ethanol, besides tolerating stresses …
Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeasts are largely employed on the development of strains applied on industrial production of chemicals, such as renewable fuels. In this context, yeasts adapted to industrial conditions - industrial yeasts - are considered adequate backgrounds due to their tolerance to many different kinds of stresses inherents to different processes. Even though S. cerevisiae ye…
Yeasts adapted to industrial conditions - industrial strains - are considered appropriate platforms for the development of commercial strains applied to the production of chemicals derived from renewable raw materials, in particular biofuels, such as the second generation ethanol (2G ethanol). The metabolic engineering of these yeast strains stands out as one of the most straightforward a…
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