Prof. Dr. Arthur Gruber
Veterinarian with PhD in Biochemistry at the Institute of Chemistry of USP in 1994. Prof. Gruber used to work in the field of molecular biology and genomics of protozoan parasites of genus Eimeria. Since 2002, he started to work with Bioinformatics including the development of tools for DNA and protein sequence analysis, and the world's first automatic parasite diagnosis system based on digital image processing. Prof. Gruber and his group has developed several tools such as TRAP (for tandem repeat quantification and classification), EGene (pipeline generation platform for automated sequence processing and annotation) and GenSeed-HMM (software for seed-driven progressive assembly). Since 2015, Prof. Gruber has dedicated his work to the development of bioinformatic approaches for viral discovery and characterization. He is professor at USP since 1996 and is Associate Professor at the Dept. of Parasitology of the Institute of Biomedical Sciences since 2005.
Prof. Dr. Manja Marz
Studied Biology, Mathematics and Computer Science at Leipzig University, Darmstadt University and University of Edinburgh. PhD in Computer Science at Leipzig University in 2009. Prof. Marz works on RNA Bioinformatics, Viruses and Aging by developing wet lab experimental design and in silico computational tools and algorithms. Fascinated by new fields of research and tiny organisms as viruses, she is founder of the European Virus Bioinformatics Center. Her work on viruses is very broad: from viruses of ground water to clinically relevant pathogens and their interactions with other microorganisms in human. In all of her works she works systematically and tries to combine the work with new advances, such as machine learning, new sequencing methods or nucleotide modification analysis. Prof. Marz is full professor for Bioinformatics since 2012 and group leader at Leibniz Institute for Age Research: Fritz Lipmann Institute.
Prof. Dr. Robson Francisco de Souza
PhD in Biochemistry from the University of São Paulo (2007) with postdoctoral degree from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI / NIH / USA). Bachelor in Molecular Sciences from the University of São Paulo (1996) and Master of Science (Biotechnology specialty) from the University of São Paulo (2000). He has experience in multidisciplinary areas, with emphasis on Molecular Evolution, working mainly on the following topics: sequence analysis, comparative genomics, protein evolution and phylogeny. He is Assistant Professor of the Department of Microbiology of the Institute of Biomedical Sciences since 2012.
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Last update: October 20, 2019
