Luciana Machado, PhD 

lmachado@usp.br

Luciana raised in Valença, small town in Rio de Janeiro. She received her undergraduate degree in Physical Therapy in Rio de Janeiro. She earned her Master degree in Biochemistry with Prof. Martha Sorenson and Ph.D. degree with Prof. Fábio Almeida at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She received postdoctoral training in the laboratories of Drs. Wolfgang Peti and Rebecca Page at Brown University and University of Arizona, and a second postdoctoral training in the laboratory of Prof. Frederico Gueiros Filho at University of São Paulo. She earned her Young Investigator grant from FAPESP, developed in the Institute of Bioscience at University of São Paulo and continues at Institute of Chemistry of UNICAMP.

Hobbies: play volleyball, dark chocolate, wine and cheese, read books and watch movies.

Something interesting/unique about you: I like to make photobook of my family and closest friends. And, I would love to make a short movies (I have some ideas and draft).