B.S. in Pharmacy, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, 1990
Ph.D in Organic Chemistry, Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil, 1997
Postdoctoral in Biochemistry, University of São Paulo, São Carlos, Brazil, 1997 - 1998
Postdoctoral in Natural Products, Harvard Medical School, USA, 2006 - 2007
PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences (Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Ribeirão Preto - University of São Paulo, FCFRP-USP). She is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the Federal University of Amazonas (FCF - UFAM) and is undertaking a post-doctoral internship with support from the Amazonas Research Support Foundation (FAPEAM).
Project: Defensive microbial symbiosis in colonies of stingless bees native to the Amazon, with the aim of characterizing and advancing the understanding of microbial symbiotic interactions mediated by specialized metabolites, potentially involved in collective or individual defense processes in two stingless bee species native to the Amazon.
She has a degree in Pharmacy-Biochemistry from FCFRP-USP (2017). She is currently working on a PhD project entitled "Small molecules involved in microbial symbiosis in stingless bees Tetragona clavipes". The work consists of isolating actinobacteria present in stingless bees of the species T. clavipes in order to select strains that have biological activity against entomopathogens and human pathogens. Their chemical profile is then studied, using spectroscopic and spectrometric techniques to isolate and structurally elucidate the compounds present. The aim is to understand the chemical ecology present in this system and infer a possible biotechnological and pharmacological application.
He has a bachelor's degree in Pharmacy-Biochemistry from FCFRP-USP (2019). He conducted his master's research within the group, assessing the antimicrobial potential of certain Streptomyces strains isolated from fungus-farming ants, and is currently working on a doctoral project titled "Prospecting for antimicrobial compounds from soil microbiomes." The main objective is to isolate soil microorganisms using the iCHIP (isolation CHIP) technique from different biomes in Brazil, in order to evaluate the production of new antimicrobial compounds.
He has a bachelor's degree (2018) and a master's degree in Chemistry (2023), both from the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS). He is currently developing a PhD project entitled “Actinobacteria associated with the stingless bee Melipona quadrifasciata and specialized metabolites involved in defensive symbiosis”, with the aim of investigating the possible defensive symbiotic interactions between the bee M. quadrifasciata and the symbiotic actinobacteria, through the isolation and identification of the natural products produced by these microorganisms. In addition, the aim is to correlate these metabolites with their possible ecological and biological functions, with the aim of understanding the chemical ecology of this system and inferring possible biotechnological and pharmacological applications for these compounds.
She holds a Bachelor's degree in Biomedical Sciences with an emphasis on Health Biotechnology from FMRP-USP (2020). Currently, she has a technical support scholarship linked to the project "Discovery of antibiotics from environmental microorganisms of Brazil." She is interested in studies for the prospecting of microorganisms capable of biotransforming environmental contaminants. In this field, she has elaborated a project to pursue postgraduate research in LQMo.
She has a bachelor's degree in Chemistry from the Federal Institute of Brasilia (IFB) (2023). She is currently developing a master's project entitled “Prospecting for antibiotic natural products in soil microbiomes”, which aims to identify antibiotic natural products from microbial strains isolated from soil in the Cerrado-Mata Atlântica ecotone using the iCHIP technique, prioritizing the isolation of new compounds capable of inhibiting the growth of some human pathogens.
He has a bachelor's degree in Pharmacy-Biochemistry from FCFRP-USP (2021). He is currently pursuing a Master's project titled "Actinobacteria associated with the stingless bee Scaptotrigona depilis". The project aims to investigate the correlation between specialized metabolites produced by actinobacteria associated with the stingless bee Scaptotrigona depilis, through the isolation and identification of natural products produced by these microorganisms. Additionally, we seek to correlate these metabolites with their possible ecological and biological functions, aiming to understand the chemical ecology of this system and infer potential biotechnological and pharmacological applications.
Undergraduate student in pharmacy at FCFRP-USP. She will begin to develop the scientific initiation project titled “Chemical study of the actinobacteria Streptomyces sp. CM17 associated with the stingless bee Melipona scutellaris”, the objective of which is to cultivate the actinobacteria, isolate bactericidal and fungicidal compounds present in its extract and identify them. This study makes it possible to better understand the symbiotic relationships between bees and microorganisms and to discover antimicrobial compounds that have pharmacological and biotechnological potential.
Undergraduate student in Pharmacy at FCFRP-USP. Currently, he is a scientific initiation student in the laboratory and is developing the project entitled: "Prospection of antimicrobial compounds from microorganisms isolated from soil", which aims to identify compounds with antimicrobial characteristics produced by bacterial strains from the soil in the transition zone between the Cerrado and Mata Atlântica biomes.
Undergraduate student in pharmacy at FCFRP-USP. Currently conducting a scientific initiation project in the laboratory entitled: "Prospecting inhibitors of pyocyanin biosynthesis from microorganisms isolated from different biomes in Brazil", which aims to prospect possible molecules capable of inhibiting the virulence factor of the pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa, pyocyanin, in bacteria originating from the transition zone between the Cerrado and Atlantic Forest biomes.
Undergraduated student in pharmacy at FCFRP-USP. He is currently a scientific initiation student at the laboratory and is developing a project entitled: Biological activities of environmental microbial strains", which aims to test and evaluate the antimicrobial, antiparasitic and antineoplastic activity of extracts obtained from numerous microbial strains from various Brazilian biomes. In addition, the project aims to organize the large amount of existing data on microbial strains at LQMo, helping to maintain this data for possible future projects.
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