Undergraduate students
Ana Julia Aparecida Ramos: her project aims to develop a microfluidic sensor for the determination of melatonin 一 also known as the “sleep hormone” 一 in medicines, given melatonin’s growing popularity as a tool for combating insomnia.
Henrique Meisegeier Larine: having joined the group in 2021, Henrique works in the designing and simulating of a lateral flow device in software, aiming to optimize said device, which is used in the laboratory, without the use of materials and reagents for such.
Master students
PhD students
Leonardo Santos Alexandre: his research consists of the evaluation of changes in metabolism caused by coronavirus delta variant’s peptides and spike protein using zebrafish animals models. In addition, Leonardo’s work also englobes evaluating the anti-inflammatory effects of the low power laser in the treatment of animals sensitized by the disease’s proteins.
Postdoctoral students
Eduardo Luiz Rossini: began his postdoctoral work in 2021, which involves the improvement of neonatal triage for innate diseases. The neonatal triage is considered one of the greatest advances in preventive medicine, because the early diagnosis of diseases reduces or eliminates irreversible sequels that could occur if they were not detected early on, even for rare diseases. Thus, Eduardo’s project aims to develop low cost neonatal triage devices that can overcome the irreproducibility problems of the currently used method. For that a microfluidic device in paper is fabricated, in which the plasma is separated from the blood. This creates dried plasma spots, which are analyzed by mass spectrometry, gold pattern for neonatal triage, through paper spray ionization, allowing the simplification of the analytical procedure, performing direct, fast and cheaper analysis, without the need of time consuming and laborious stages of sample preparation.
Manoel J. A. Lima: his research proposes a new strategy for the performance of d-SPE using in line magnetic NPs in a flow analysis system involving a mesofluidic plataform. The procedure will be completely automatic and the microfluidic platform will include a module composed by fluid manipulators, electromagnets for the management of the magnetic NPs and detections systems. As an application (prove of concept), a method for the multiplexed determination of aflatoxin M1, antibiotics (sulfonamides and tetracyclines) and mastitis diagnosis in milk will be developed.
Mariana Bortholazzi Almeida: her work involves the identification of biomarkers related to the human health using omic analysis and the development of strategies for fast and low-cost diagnoses.