Mariana Rodrigues da Silva

She is currently a Mid-Level Technological Development Analyst in the Cellular and Structural Biology area, in the Non-Membranous Organelles Group at the Brazilian Biosciences National Laboratory (LNBio) of CNPEM. She obtained her Masters degree from the Nanoparticle-Cell Interactions Laboratory at the Institute of Biology, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), through the Graduate Program in Molecular and Morphofunctional Biology at UNICAMP, in the field of Biochemistry and Cell Biology. Her research, funded by FAPESP, focused on nanoparticle-cell interactions, cytotoxic and molecular analyses (immunofluorescence, western blotting, cell proliferation, particle internalization), with an emphasis on quantitative analysis of cellular images from fluorescence and confocal microscopy (High-Content Analysis), using software tools (CellProfiler, Cellpose), programming (Python), and supervised machine learning. She has experience as a Scientific Initiation student in the Nanoparticle-Cell Interactions Laboratory at UNICAMP and in the Human Tissue Culture Laboratory at the Brazilian Biosciences National Laboratory (LNBio/CNPEM) through the PIBIC program, with projects in in vitro toxicology, alternative methods to animal testing, and high-content image analysis. She holds a Bachelors degree in Biological Sciences from UNICAMP (2022) and a technical degree in Food Technology from the UNICAMP Technical High School (2016). (Source: Lattes Curriculum)