PhD students

Fernanda Leonel Silva - lattes

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Fernanda is a PhD student in Chemistry at the University of Brasília (UnB), specializing in the field of bioactive peptides. Her current research focuses on the conjugation of phenolic acids to peptides and the evaluation of their antioxidant activity, examining in particular the interactions of these peptides with microglial cells as part of a sandwich doctoral placement at the Institute for Research and Innovation in Health (i3S), Porto, Portugal. She also holds expertise in peptides derived from human proteins, with emphasis on the characterization of their antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory properties.

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João Bueno Nunes - lattes

João is a PhD student at the University of Brasília (UnB) in the field of organic chemistry/biochemistry. He graduated in chemistry at UnB in 2019 and worked on two Scientific Iniciation Programs (PIBIC) in 2018 and 2019. In these projects, he worked with the synthesis and purification of peptides, as well as processing of O-glycans from human plasma followed by mass spectral analysis. He is currently working in the optimization of the Chim peptide series.

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Alan Ribeiro Mól - lattes

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Alan is working with mass spectrometric analyses of N-glycans in Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation, incorporating novel subtypes and controls in our predictive platform.

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Wanessa Félix Cabral

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Wanessa is a PhD student working on the mass spectrometric characterization of plasma N-glycans in a mouse model submitted to parasitic infections.