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Our team

Our Bioinformatics Laboratory is led by Professor Rafael Dias Mesquita and brings together PhD, MSc and undergraduate researchers. The laboratory also maintains a scientific and technical cooperation agreement with the startup RioGen Tecnologias LTDA.

Principal investigator

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Biochemistry | Bioinformatics | Genomics | Transcriptomics | Gene and protein annotation

Rafael Dias Mesquita

Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry / Institute of Chemistry / UFRJ

PhD researchers

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Bioinformatics | Protein modelling | Rational drug design | Molecular dynamics

Vicente Salgado Pires

PhD candidate, Graduate Programme in Biochemistry (PPGBq – UFRJ)

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Bioinformatics | Genomics | Oncology | Scientific research

Bernardo Saraiva Velozo

PhD candidate, Graduate Programme in Biochemistry (PPGBq – UFRJ)

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Biology | Bioinformatics | R&D | Oncology | Genomics | Transcriptomics | Machine learning

Márcio Wilson Dias de Brito

PhD candidate, Graduate Programme in Computational and Systems Biology (BCS – IOC/Fiocruz)

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Protein modelling | Genomics | Transcriptomics | Molecular dynamics

Nilton Silva

PhD candidate, Graduate Programme in Biochemistry (PPGBq – UFRJ)

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Biotechnology | Biochemistry | Enzyme prospecting

Victória Gabriela da Silva Trindade

PhD candidate, Graduate Programme in Biological Systems Engineering (PPGESB – UFRJ)

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Biomedicine | Biochemistry | Molecular Biology | Oncology | Multi-omics marker prediction

Sabrina Atella Barreira

PhD candidate, Graduate Programme in Computational and Systems Biology (BCS – IOC/Fiocruz)

MSc researchers

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Biotechnology | Biochemistry | Microbiology | Enzyme prospecting

Gabriel Stamato Nunes

MSc candidate, Graduate Programme in Biochemistry (PPGBq – UFRJ)

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Systems biology | Genome-scale metabolic modelling | Metabolic engineering

Caroline Azevedo de Araújo

MSc candidate, Graduate Programme in Biochemistry (PPGBq – UFRJ)

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Bernardo Macedo Quadros

MSc candidate, Graduate Programme in Biological Systems Engineering (PPGESB – UFRJ)

Undergraduate researchers

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Genomics | Metabolic modelling | Bioinformatics | Target protein prospecting

Ana Beatriz de Almeida Moura

Undergraduate researcher — BSc in Biophysics (UFRJ)

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Nicole Maísa dos Santos Pires

Undergraduate researcher — BSc in Biotechnology (UFRJ, Duque de Caxias)

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Mycaele Cristine da Annunciação Pereira

Undergraduate researcher

Partnership

RioGen Tecnologias LTDA.

Scientific and technical cooperation

Former members

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PD Postdoc · PhD PhD · UG Undergraduate research