Taimá Naomi Furuyama

Bachelor in Biological Sciences from the Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp), Campus Diadema. She was a Laboratory Analyst at the Institute of Immunogenetics (Igen), of the Associação Fundo de Incentivo à Pesquisa (AFIP), where she used Molecular Biology techniques to identify HLA genes for transplantation of solid organs and hematopoietic stem cells, mainly. She completed the Specialization Course in Molecular Biology and Fundamentals of Cytogenetics at the São Paulo Institute of Research and Health Education (IPESSP). She completed the Academic Master's Degree at the Graduate Program in Infectology at Unifesp, Campus São Paulo, Escola Paulista de Medicina, where she developed a mathematical and computational modeling project of the transmission bottleneck during the establishment of HIV-1 infection. She accomplished an Academic Doctorate at the same Graduate Program at Unifesp where she studied variations in the mutational rate of the HIV-1 virus from NGS data generated by a single-cycle replication experiment. At the moment, she is developing her post-doctoral project in the Laboratório de Virologia (LVR) do Centro de Desenvolvimento e Inovação (CDI) do Instituto Butantan (IB). The project comprises the implementation of a viral biobank and the development of a computer system to control the storage, identification and reporting of virus samples (São Paulo Research Foundation/FAPESP, Brasil, process number #2024/08272-4). (Source: Lattes Curriculum)