Education 

• 08/2021 - 05/2023: Postdoctoral fellow at the The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory - MIT, United States

  • Supervisor: Dr Myriam Heiman

• 07/2018 - 07/2021 : Postdoctoral fellow at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research - MIT, United States

  • Supervisor: Dr David M Sabatini  *** postdoc interrupted due to the closure of the Sabatini lab.

• 08/2015 - 05/2018: Research associate/Postdoctoral fellow at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) Research Institute, Canada

  • Supervisor: Dr Kym Boycott / Dr Alex Mackenzie / Dr Marc Ekker 

• 03/2012 - 10/2015: PhD in Genetics and Molecular Biology at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil

  • Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Paulo Arruda

• 09/2013 - 03/2014: Visiting PhD student at the Structural Genomics Consortium of the University of Oxford, UK

  • Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Wyatt Yue

• 03/2009 - 12/2011: BSc in Biological Sciences - Molecular Biology at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil

  • Honours' project supervisor: Prof. Dr. Paulo Arruda

Fellowships 

• Post-doc:

  • 08/2022 - 06/2023: Hereditary Disease Foundation postdoctoral fellowship award

  • 04/2020 - 04/2022: Pew Latin American fellowship award;

  • 04/2017 - 03/2020 : CIHR Fellowship award ;

  • 08/2015 - 03/2017: Post-doctoral fellowship from (CHEO) Research Institute, Care 4 Rare project; 

Scholarships 

• PhD:

  • PhD Scholarship at University of Campinas from FAPESP (Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo), Brazil

  • PhD Scholarship at University of Oxford - Research Internship (BEPE) from FAPESP (Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo), Brazil

• BsC:

  • Honours' in Molecular Biology - Scientific Initiation Scholarship from FUNCAMP (Fundação de Desenvolvimento da Unicamp) , Brazil

Awards

·      2022   Postdoctoral fellowship award -  Hereditary Disease Foundation (HDF), New York - NY, United States, 2022

·      2021   Scientista Award in recognition of outstanding performance and excellence in scientific research in life sciences at the Whitehead Institute – Dimensions Sciences, Washington-DC, United States

·      2020   Whitehead spirit award – Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge-MA, United States

·      2019    Pew Latin American Fellow award (2020-2022) - The Pew Charitable Trusts, Philadelphia-PA, United States

·      2018    Best Oral Presentation at the 10th Postdoctoral research day - University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine, Ottawa-ON, Canada.

·      2017    ZDM10 trainee award – Zebrafish Disease Models Society, ZDM10 conference. San Diego-CA, United States of America.

·      2017    Best oral presentation at the Brain Health Research Day – University of Ottawa. Ottawa-ON, Canada.

·      2017    CIHR Postdoctoral fellow (2017-2020). 

·      2016    Garrod Symposium Trainee Award – The Garrod Association. Halifax-NS, Canada. Platform presentation.

·      2016    Best Oral Presentation at the Postdoctoral research day - University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine, Ottawa-ON, Canada.

·      2015    Doctorate degree in Genetics and Molecular Biology – University of Campinas (Unicamp), Campinas-SP, Brazil.

·      2015    Honourable mention – best poster, XXXI FeSBE Annual Meeting.

·      2014    Best Oral Presentation, Advanced Topics in Genomics and Cell Biology (ATGC 2014). Campinas-SP, Brazil

·      2012    SBBq Award - Best Poster, XLI Annual Meeting of The Brazilian of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Society (SBBq), Brazilian of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Society (SBBq).

·      2012    First place in 2012 PhD admission exam at UNICAMP Graduate Program in Genetics and Molecular Biology.

·      2011    SBBq Award - Best Poster, XL Annual Meeting of The Brazilian of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Society (SBBq), Brazilian of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Society (SBBq).

·      2012    Bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences focused in Molecular Biology, State University of Campinas – Unicamp.

·      2011    Gold Medal - 2011 iGEM (International Genetically Engineered Machine competition) Regional Americas competition, Massachusetts Institute of Technology-MIT.

·      2009    Honourable mention for best posters in Structural Bioinformatics area at  X-Meeting 2009, Brazilian Association for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (AB3C).

·      2008    Darcy Fontoura de Almeida Student Award, Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica (LNCC).

·      2007    1st place at the 4th Brazilian Young Physicists' Tournament (IYPT-Brasil),, IYPT-Brasil.

·      2006    Finalist at 3th Brazilian Young Physicists' Tournament (IYPT-Brasil),, IYPT-Brasil.

·      2005    Honourable Mention at the National Literature award “Assis Chateaubriand”, Fundação Assis Chateaubriand (FAC).