People

Rodrigo M. Corder, PhD 

Rodrigo Corder is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Parasitology at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo, and an Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Global Faculty Fellow at Imperial College London. His research integrates mathematical modeling of infectious diseases and genetic strategies for vector control to generate evidence that supports strategic decision-making in public health policy. He earned his PhD in Sciences from the Institute of Biomedical Sciences at the University of São Paulo in 2021 and subsequently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, from 2021 to 2023.

Master students

Fernanda de Oliveira Busato

Fernanda earned her Bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences from Vila Velha University in 2018, where she conducted research at the Immunobiology Laboratory from 2015 to 2018. Her work focused on gestational tolerance and cellular immunology, particularly cytotoxic and immunological assays on trophoblast cells. Following her undergraduate studies, she worked as a laboratory technician from 2019 to 2020, gaining expertise in various experimental protocols. Currently, she is pursuing a master’s degree in the Graduate Program in Bioinformatics at ICB-USP, conducting research in computational biology with a focus on the genomic analysis of malaria parasites.

Catarina Maria Stanischesk Molnar

Graduated in Biological Sciences (Bachelor’s and Teaching degrees) from the University of São Paulo (USP), with a scientific initiation at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences (USP) (2021–2022), funded by a CNPq scholarship, in the project ‘Dissecting the role of the IRE1a pathway in SARS-CoV-2 infected cells.’ Currently pursuing a Master’s degree in the Graduate Program in Pathogen-Host Interaction Biology at ICB-USP, focusing on the mathematical modeling of Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis infection dynamics in rodents and its epidemiological implications.

Undergraduate students

Kawan Santana

Undergraduate student in Applied and Computational Mathematics with a specialization in Biological Sciences at the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, University of São Paulo (IME-USP). Holds a technical degree in Informatics from the Federal Institute of Mato Grosso do Sul (IFMS).

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Alumni

Carlos Augusto Prete Junior, PhD: Postdoc (2024-2025) → Assistant Professor, State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil