Mell Kimberly Damini

Graduating in Biotechnological Engineering from Faculdade Estadual Júlio de Mesquita Filho, UNESP Assis - SP. She was a gold medalist at the OBA, Brazilian Astronomy Olympiad, in 2016. She worked at the Junior Company, Biotec Júnior, as an advisor in 2020 and the following year, as director of the Commercial Relations department. In 2021, she interned at the IPBEN laboratory (Bioenergy Research Institute) coordinated by prof. Dr. Pedro de Oliva Neto. In 2022, she developed a scientific initiation in the area with a FAPESP scholarship on the topic "Development of a methodology for extracting RNA and protein from yeast". Furthermore, in 2023, she participated in research developed at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Tocantins with the theme "Obtention and characterization of 5'-phosphodiesterase from the main grains produced in Brazil". With this, she acquired great knowledge in the area of bioprocesses, yeast cultivation and fractionation, autolysis and enzymatic hydrolysis techniques, enzyme characterization, Kjeldahl and HPLC methodologies. Currently, she is developing a project at CNPEM with a FAPESP grant on the topic "Development of CRISPR-Cas9 tools for the study of mitochondrial structure by expansion microscopy". (Source: Lattes Curriculum)