About me

I am Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Kansas Medical School, and a Research Associate at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). I have a PhD in Morphological Sciences at UFRJ, under the main supervision of Dr. Rodrigo Nunes da Fonseca. My thesis' title is Glycosylation across biological boundaries: from developmental biology to metabolic adaptations in Earth and space, and it was co-developed under the supervision of Wagner Dias and Adriane Todeschini (UFRJ), and Cassandra Extavour at Harvard University. I have a Master's degree in Biophysics from UFRJ under the main supervision of Dr. Wagner Dias, and a cum laude bachelor's degree in Genetics from UFRJ.

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The general line of my research is curiosity driven, and mainly focus on understand how metabolic processes work during homeostasis, diseases and evolution. More specifically, I am interested in:

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• How post-translational modifications (PTMs) regulate biochemical pathways

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• What are the conserved/divergent mechanisms of PTMs among different species

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• How metabolism behaves under variations in PTMs signaling.​

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Find more about each of these topics here

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Here is a link to my CV