Biography

I am a Brazilian Biomedical scientist with more than ten years of experience in Microbiology/Biotechnology research environment.

My experiences are relied on molecular diagnosis of Equine encephalitis and Rabies viruses (RNA viruses), and bioinformatics applied to phylogeny, molecular epidemiology.

As a Ph.D. candidate, it granted to me by the Brazilian agency, CAPES a full scholarship at Life Sciences Institute of University of Michigan (one year), where I gained major experience in Microbiology and characterization of microbial specialized metabolites by analytical techniques.

After dedicating on a volunteer postdoctoral research within Dr. Cristina Paiva de Sousa’s Group in Brazil I started working at Dr. Krista Wigginton’s Laboratory as a postdoctoral fellow. There, I had the opportunity to serve the community by efforts on monitoring the SARS-CoV-2 and development detection pipelines for other viral pathogens (Influenza A, Monkeypox, and Respiratory syncytial virus) in Southeast Michigan wastewater systems.

Currently, I hold a position of Assistant Professor of Biology at Graceland University.
From a general point of view, my research at graduate/postdoctoral levels significantly contributed to the mitigation and search for compounds which are effective against important public health pathogens and neglected diseases.