Vitor Hugo Balasco Serrão

Bachelor in Biomolecular and Physics Sciences at University of Sao Paulo (2010) with the research project for the human Septins structure determination (FAPESP) at the Structural and Molecular Biology Laboratory - Physics Institute of Sao Carlos (IFSC-USP). Master in Biomolecular Physics (CAPES, 2013), with the project involving the structural studies of protein complexes in selenocysteine incorporation pathway in bacteria. For 2 years, he was Assistant Professor at the Physics Department - Federal University of Sao Carlos (DF-UFSCar). He completed his Ph.D. (IFSC, 2017) with the project to study the interactions of macromolecular complexes through biophysical analysis and obtaining structural models using transmission electron microscopy techniques (CNPq / FAPESP / CAPES / CsF-SWE) with a period with Prof. Marin van Heel at Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands. He was Louis Perry Jones Postdoctoral Fellow at Prof. Charles J. Weitz Laboratory at the Department of Neurobiology - Harvard Medical School (HMS, USA) and between 2018-2021, he was a Banting Research Fellow at Prof. Jeffrey E. Lee lab. from the Department of Medicine and Pathobiology - University of Toronto (UofT, Canada) in collaboration with Utrecht University. Currently, he is the Director of the Biomolecular Cryo-Electron Microscopy Facility from the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry - University California, Santa Cruz (USA).He has experience in Biophysics and Biochemistry, with emphasis on Molecular Biology and Structural Biology in the fields of crystallography and Transmission Electron Microscopy with Single Particle Analysis. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)