Mariana Severo Ramundo

Graduated in Biological Sciences: Microbiology and Immunology from UFRJ, she obtained her Ph.D. in 2016 from the Graduate Program in Sciences (Microbiology) at the Paulo de Góes Institute of Microbiology, UFRJ (CAPES Concept 7). Between 2016 and 2019, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the National Cancer Institute, applying bioinformatics tools for the analysis of large-scale sequencing data of solid tumors, especially from the upper digestive tract. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Tropical Medicine from 2020 to 2022, in a research project that integrated basic research with public health and used next-generation sequencing to search for biomarkers of disease progression in endemic diseases caused by arboviruses, particularly DENV and CHIKV (PITE/FAPESP-bioMeriéux). She also worked as a FAPESP postdoctoral fellow in a study aimed at investigating, using Systems Biology approaches, the early molecular mechanisms involved in the progression of patients to chronic joint disease post-Chikungunya. She participated in projects involving the sequencing and analysis of genomes of emerging viruses such as SARS-CoV2 and Monkeypox. She is currently a faculty member in the Department of Clinical Medicine, Discipline of Clinical Immunology and Allergy at the Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)