Rafael Silva-Rocha, PhD, Assistant Professor
Bachelor degree in Biological Sciences at the Universidade Federal do Pará, Brazil (2003-2007), PhD in Molecular Biology at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain (2007-2011). He worked as a post-doctoral researcher at Víctor de Lorenzo’s lab in Madrid (2011-2012) in Systems and Synthetic Biology and on the development of genetic tools for environmental bacteria. He then worked as a post-doctoral researcher at Tie Koide’s lab at the Riberão Preto Medical School (2013-2014). Since 2015, he works as Assistant Professor in the Cell and Molecular Biology department of the Riberão Preto Medical School, performing research on Molecular Biology of Microorganisms with special focus in Synthetic Biology, gene regulation mechanisms, bioinformatics and modelling of gene regulatory networks.
Letícia Magalhães Arruda, PhD Bachelor degree in Biochemistry at the Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Brazil (2005-2009), PhD in Biochemistry at the Ribeirão Preto Medical School-USP, Brazil (2010-2015). She currently works on intramolecular signaling in transcriptional factors during allosteric regulation and on the engineering of new expression systems for bacteria.
Gerardo Ruiz Amores, PhD studentEngineer degree in Biotechnology at the Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas (2007) and Master degree in Biochemical Sciences at the Universidad Autónoma de México (2012). He works on the construction and characterization of synthetic promoters with engineered logic in Escherichia coli, with main interest on the relationship between cis-regulatory architecture and single-cell behavior.
Ananda Sanches Medeiros, Undergraduate studentStudent of Biomedical Sciences at the Ribeirão Preto Medical School-USP, Brazil, since 2014. She currently works on the compression of cis-regulatory logic into short DNA fragments for synthetic promoter engineering in Eschericha coli.
