Marilene Hohmuth Lopes, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
Dr. Marilene Hohmuth Lopes graduated in Biological Sciences at the Universidade Bandeirante de São Paulo in 1999. Then she completed her doctorate in Oncology in 2004 at the Antônio Prudente Foundation, at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, and was a postdoctoral fellow at same institution from 2005 to 2008. She was appointed as a Young Researcher at the São Paulo branch of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research from 2008 to 2011. In 2011, she was named assistant professor in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences (ICB) of the University of São Paulo (USP). Still in 2011, she established her research laboratory to study stem cells in the context of neural development and brain cancer at the same department at ICB-USP. In 2016, she spent a gap year at the University of Western Ontario, working with Dr. Marco Prado, Principal Researcher in Neuroscience at the Robarts Research Institute. In 2019, she was appointed associate professor in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at ICB-USP.
Camila F. L. Fernandes
Graduate Student
Camila has a bachelor degree in Biological Sciences from the Universidade Federal da Bahia (2017), with a sandwich degree at the University of Glasgow (Scotland, UK) in Molecular and Cellular Biology (2014-2015). She joined the Graduate Program in Systems Biology (ICB-USP) in 2018, currently pursuing a PhD at LNCT, under Professor Marilene H. Lopes. Her PhD project focuses on investigating the function of the Stress Inducible Protein 1 (STI1), partner of the cellular prion protein, on pluripotency and self-renewal of pluripotent stem cells and on the initial development of mammals.
Maria Clara da Silva Souza
Graduate Student
Holds a bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences from the University of São Paulo. She started her PhD in Systems Biology (USP) in 2022. Her project focuses on the development of 3D models of patient-derived glioblastoma organoids, and brain organoids derived from induced pluripotent stem cells, with the aim of investigating the effect of cellular prion protein on the invasion capacity of glioblastoma cells into brain organoids.
Rodrigo Nunes Alves
Graduate Student
23 years. Graduated in Pharmacy and Biochemistry in Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas da Univsersidade de São Paulo (FCF-USP). Currently studying in his PhD project the role of the prion protein, CD44 and extracellular vesicles in glioblastoma stem cell phenotype modulation, in the Systems Biology Program at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences of the University of São Paulo (ICB-USP).
João Pedro Alves de Araújo
Graduate Student
joaop.alvesdearaujo21@gmail.com
Graduated in Veterinary Medicine from the University Center of the Octávio Bastos Education Foundation-UNIFEOB (2021). Master’s student at the Graduate Program in Systems Biology at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences at the University of São Paulo (ICB-USP, SP). Studies the effect of extracellular vesicles derived from neural precursors on the differentiation of glioblastoma stem cells with differential PrPC expression.
Samuel Ribeiro Soares
Graduate Student
Graduated in biomedical sciences by the University of São Paulo (USP). Master’s student under the Graduate Program in Systems Biology at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences (ICB-USP). Currently studying the impacts of STI1 modulation in WNT canonical signaling using embryonic stem cell model.
Bárbara P. Coelho, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Rebeca P. Iglesia, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Mariana Brandão Prado
Ph.D.
Jenny Andrea Arévalo Romero
Ph.D.
Lilian Cruz
Ph.D.
Maria Isabel Melo-Escobar
M.Sc.
Cainã Max Couto da Silva
M.Sc.