Luis Felipe Santos Mendes
Background: bachelor’s degree in Biomolecular Physics in the São Carlos Physics Institute (IFSC) – University of São Paulo (USP) in 2011 and Ph.D. in Physics Applied in Medicine and Biology in the Faculty of Philosophy, Science and Letters of Ribeirão Preto – USP in 2018. As a graduate student, he was guest student in the New Biochemistry Department of the University of Oxford-UK (supervision of Prof. Dr. Anthony Watts), in the Chemistry Department of NCSU-USA (supervision of Prof. Dr. Alex I. Smirnov) and Laboratory of Physical Chemistry – ETH Zurich (supervision of Gunnar Jeschke).
Research project: Elucidating the mechanism of action of soluble (GRASP55 and 65) and integral membrane (p24/TMED family) proteins in the early secretory pathway using crystallographic and non-crystallographic structural biology approaches / Exploring Metazoan-specific protein paralogy by going back to the past using Protein Ancestor Sequence Reconstruction
Contact: luis.felipe.mendes@usp.br (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2657-0274)
Thirupathi Reddy Soudherpally
Background: Batchelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree from Osmania University in 2006. Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Chemistry at Kakatiya University and awarded in 2008. After Ph.D. in “synthesis and physicochemical properties of neuronal lipids ” and graduated in 2014. Research Associate in membrane biophysics at Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB).
Research project: Since 2018, I have been persuing my research on “intrinsically disordered human GRASP proteins” at USP Ribeirão Preto, as a FAPESP postdoctoral fellow.
Contact: thiruchem637@gmail.com (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1857-231X)
Bruno Zoccaratto Favarin
Background: Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry at the Faculty of Philosophy Sciences and Letters of Ribeirão Preto (2011). Master in Chemistry – University of São Paulo / FFCLRP from the University of São Paulo (2014), Master in International Educational Program (master) – Latin American Federation of Biophysical Societies (2014). PhD in Chemistry at the University of São Paulo (2018).
Research project: Biophysical studies of the structure-function correlation of the TNAP enzyme in interaction with membrane models.
Contact: bruno_favarin@hotmail.com (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9067-3417)
Mariana Batista Bunoro
Background: bachelor’s degree in Biomolecular Physics (2010) and Master degree in Applied Physics (2013) from the São Carlos Physics Institute – University of São Paulo (IFSC – USP). Ph.D. in Chemistry from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in 2016. Her research focuses on the application of computer simulations to study protein dynamics, stability and conformational flexibility, especially using molecular dynamics simulations, enhanced sampling simulations and free energy calculations.
Research project: Exploring large scale conformation transitions and free energy profiles of Proton Coupled Oligopeptide Transporters
Contact:mariana.batista@usp.br (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-