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. Bas E. Dutilh
PhD in Bioinformatics for Medical Sciences at Radboud University Nijmegen in 2007. Prof. Dutilh works with bioinformatics, including metagenomics, tool development, virus discovery, comparative genomics, biostatistics, and experimental design. He is fascinated by the dynamics in microbial genome evolution and how it shapes the interactions of microbes with each other and with their environment. Phenomena like horizontal gene transfer and micro-diversity are of great importance not only in microbial genome evolution, but also in microbial ecology and medicine. To understand these phenomena requires new tools and technologies, as well as well-designed experiments. His work consists of studying these phenomena from different angles, the analysis of large-scale datasets, as well as collaborating with microbial ecologists, evolutionary and medical microbiologists to interpret our results. Prof. Dutilh is Assistant Professor on Bioinformatics at the Utrecht University, Netherlands.
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: March 22, 2017
