Research Groups

Instituto de Química Research Groups

Biochemistry Department

• Glaucia Mendes Souza – Sugarcane genomics, functional genomics and regulatory networks
• Carlos Takeshi Hotta – Alternative models for the study of sugarcane regulatory networks
• Sandro Marana – Cellulolytic Enzymes for processing of biomass
• Pio Colepicolo – Biofuels and Bio-based chemicals from Algae
• Walter Ribeiro Terra and Clelia Ferreira – Plant pests and control
• João Carlos Setubal – Genomics of Microorganisms for Biofuels and Biomass Processing
• Armando Casas Mollano – Epigenetic gene regulation in plants
• Flavia Vischi Winck – Integrative analysis of omics data and molecular physiology of microalgae

Fundamental Chemistry Department

• Alcindo Aparecido dos Santos – Organic synthetic chemistry for bio-based chemicals
• Flávio Maron Vichi – Fuel Cells, mesostructures and ceramic materials
• Leandro Helgueira de Andrade – New synthetic enzymes isolated from biomass-degrading microorganisms
• Liane Marcia Rossi – Catalists development for synthesis of alcohols and polyols for bio-based chemistry
• Luiz Henrique Catalani – Polymers from biomass
• Massuo Jorge Kato – Biodiversity and metabolomics
• Rômulo Augusto Ando – Ionic liquids for gas absorption
• Pedro Henrique Cury Camargo – Fuel cells and nanocatalysis
• Pedro Vidinha – Biobased chemicals

Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Research Groups

• José Gregório Cabrera Gomez, Luiziana Ferreira da Silva and Marilda Keico Taciro – System analysis and engineering of bacterial metabolism to the development of bioproducts
• Gabriel Padilla e Wellington Araújo – Metagenomics as source of lignocellulolytic enzymes and other bioproducts from microrganism-plant association
• Elisabete José Vicente – Production of PHA from agroindustrial residues
• Heloiza Ramos Barbosa – Diazotrophic bacteria interactions with sugarcane

Instituto de Biociências Research Groups

• Marie Anne Van Sluys – Sugarcane genomics and transposable elements
• Marcos Silveira Buckeridge – Mechanisms of Sugarcane Cell-wall hydrolysis

Instituto de Matemática e Estatística Research Groups

• Alan Mitchel Durham, João Eduardo Ferreira, Roberto Marcondes Cesar Jr., Ronaldo Fumio Hashimoto, André Fujita and Júnior Barrera – Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Escola Politécnica Research Groups

• Claudio Augusto Oller do Nascimento – Modeling and chemical process optimization