Marco Túlio Pardini Gontijo

Marco Gontijo believes that science and education change the world. Marco is starting his Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics and Microbiology at Duke University, North Carolina. He majored in Food Engineering at the Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil, attended the University of Lorraine, France, as an exchange student in Biotechnology, and earned a MSc in Genetics and Molecular Biology from the State University of Campinas, Brazil. His research and teaching interests include biochemistry, bioinformatics, cell biology, and microbiology. Marco is affiliated with the Duke School of Medicine, an interdisciplinary and collaborative environment benchmark of scientific discoveries to improve human health. Marco received several national and international merit scholarships. He authored four research papers and collaborated on six other articles and two book chapters. He also served in various research assistant roles, including undergraduate research assistant (2015 - 19), research assistant (2020 - present), and other teaching assistant positions (2014 - 15; 2019; 2020). (Fonte: Currículo Lattes)