Samantha Helen Paulino

Biologist from PUC Campinas (2019). Worked on several projects of Animal Nutrition and Plant Morphology at the Institute of Animal Science and Pastures (IZ) of Nova Odessa; in addition to experience in seed quality acquired in internship at the Central Laboratory of Seeds and Seedlings (LCSM) of CATI, an associate member of the International Seed Testing Association (ISTA) and in the Seed Solutions laboratory at BASF, where she performed activities related to seed treatment and quality management (ISO 17025 and IN 42). Currently a master's student at the Unicamp's Laboratory of System Biology, where she is studying the flowering pathway in sugarcane, aiming the development of transformed cultivars, through Agrobacterium tumefaciens, with delayed flowering.

Luiza Oliveira Romão 

Undergraduate student in Biological Sciences at University of Campinas (UNICAMP). Former student at the Programa de Formação Interdisciplinar Superior (ProFIS), also at UNICAMP. Currently is developing a scientific initiation project that aims to evaluate and establish the functional enrichment of sugarcane gene networks. Is interested in bioinformatics, genetics, molecular biology and public education.

Christiane Campos

Biologist from the State University of Piauí (2022), specialist in Natural Sciences, their Technologies and the World of Work from the Federal University of Piauí (2022). Technical Degree in Informatics from the Federal Institute of Piauí (2017). Worked in Scientific Initiation with the analysis of a common bean gene family using bioinformatics tools. Master's student in Genetics and Molecular Biology at the State University of Campinas, working with metatranscriptomic analysis of the sugarcane rhizosphere at high levels of atmospheric CO2.

Flávia de Carvalho André

Has graduation in Biological Sciences by Universidade Metodista de Piracicaba (2013). Experience in Molecular Biology and Plant Biotechnology. Was recearcher in Monsanto, working mainly with tissue culture and genetic transformation. Nowadays is researcher in Centro de Tecnologia Canavieira. In his Master studies investigates the role of siRNAs and its targets in Solanum lycopersicum

Raphael Agostin Leite Cristofaro 

Has experience in Artificial Intelligence applied to Structural Biology and Petrophysics problems. Master of Science (2014) by the Federal University of ABC and funded by CAPES, worked in protein-ligand molecular docking software development and experimentation. Was funded by SET-F/CNPq (2015) in a data analysis project for the oil industry and since then develops Machine Learning applications through a technical cooperation term with Petrobras. PhD student in Genetics and Molecular Biology, investigates supervised learning of gene transcription patterns.

João Ricardo Vieira Manechini

Bachelor in Biological Sciences (2014) by Centro Universitário "Barão de Mauá" (Ribeirão Preto, SP) and Master of Science (2017) by FCAV - Unesp (Jaboticabal, SP), worked in several projects for sugarcane breeding at IAC's Sugarcane Center, using molecular markers for population genetics studies and germplasm bank management. In his PhD, worked with RNA-Seq data analysis and bioinformatic approaches for the study of photoperiodic flowering induction in sugarcane.

Ana Cuenca

Luana Walravens Bergamo

Dr. Bergamo has PhD and master degree in Genetics and Molecular Biology and bachelor´s degree in Biological Sciences. She studied insects´ populations of economic importance to investigate how the variability was distributed and infer the evolutionary process involved. In our lab she worked with sugarcane microbiota responses to stress conditions. Is interested in studying evolution, diversification, adaptation, population genetics and phylogeography. Besides research, she is also interested in education, teaching undergraduate and graduate classes, and student orientation.

Pedro Henrique Cardoso Almeida

Undergraduate student in Biological Sciences at University of Campinas (UNICAMP). He has developed a scientific initiation project that aimed to investigate the differences between rhizospheric community dynamics of sugarcane and sorghum in response to drought. Is interested in bioinformatics and molecular biology.

Leonardo Alves

Has graduation in Biology and Ms. in Biotechnology by Londrina’s State University and PhD in Genetics and Molecular Biology by advising of Dr. Renato Vicentini. He has studied enzymes production by microorganisms, coffee fruit’s proteomics, models plants transformation by Agrobacterium and transgenic events analyses at Parana’s Agronomic Institute. His PhD thesis aimed an approach by using RNAseq of sugarcane’s genes from sugars metabolic pathways differentially expressed under circadian control in response to extended night.

Victor Marques de Oliveira Gambarini

Undergraduate in Ocean Science and Technology at UNIFESP, with master degree in Bioinformatics at UNICAMP. He has studied metatranscriptome of sugarcane rhizosphere subjected to water stress.

Guilherme Targino Valente

Undergraduate in Biological Science at Mato Grosso do Sul State University (2005), master degree and PhD in Genetics at University of Sao Paulo State (2007-2013). Guilherme worked on organization and evolution of animal genomes using cytogenetics and bioinformatics approaches. His thesis focuses in use machine learning to predict protein-protein interaction networks to study vertebrates sex determination. Moreover, he has some expertise in molecular evolution and NGS analysis.

Natália Faraj Murad

Bachelor in Biological Science by the Federal University of Lavras (2011), during the graduation was a colleger of PIBIC/CNPq for three years working on projects related to the analysis of gene expression data and mixed models. Natalia has Masters in Genetics and Molecular Biology in which she worked in the field of Systems Biology related to the inference of gene regulation networks using a Bayesian approach.

Lucas Canesin

In his Masters developed a project that involved the construction of biological networks correlating ncRNAs and coding genes, also investigated the possible evolutionary relationships between these two different classes of genetic elements. The student has earned bachelor’s degree from UEL (Universidade Estadual de Londrina) and have previously developed projects at Biotechnology Lab/IAPAR (Instituto Agronomico do Paraná). Experienced with ocratoxigenic filamentous fungus manipulation, plant molecular biology, tissue culture and bioinformatics.

Raphael de Souza Mattos

Graduated in Biological Sciences from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas (2006). Finished his masters dissertation focused on plant microRNAs and bioinformatics. Participates in large projects along side several brazillian universities, funded by FINEP, FAPESP and CNPq. In his PhD investigated the microRNA regulation, gene regulation networks, systems biology and synthetic biology. Besides bioinformatics and genetics, has experience in the fileds of ecosystems biology and morphology.

Rodrigo Marcondes

Undergraduate in Computer Sciences at Universidade Estadual de Campinas (2013). Experience in Bioinformatics and Genetics. During the graduation was an intern at Central Laboratory of High Performance Technologies (LaCTAD/UNICAMP). Developed his Masters studies with the project: "Development of a method for haplotyping (allelic variation) of genes from datas of new generation RNA-seq and application in sugarcane".

Elton Melo

Undergraduate in Biological Sciences from Universidade Paulista (2010). Experience in Molecular Biology, Genetics and Physiology of Plants. During the graduation was an intern at Alellyx Applied Genomics, working mainly with sugarcane culture. After graduation he worked at Monsanto in Brazil in the area of Plant Breeding with soybean. In his Master studies investigated "The role of allosteric regulation in the metabolism of sucrose in sugarcane"