Group of Molecular Biotechnology (GBM)

Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Alessandro Silva Nascimento

Secretariat Office:
Elizabete dos Santos Ribeiro – secretaria_gbmifsc.usp.br
Phone:  +55 16 3364-8072

Site: www.ifsc.usp.br/biotecmol

Comprising two faculty / researchers, the Molecular Biotechnology group conducts interdisciplinary research in the field of molecular biology, biophysics and biotechnology, using a wide range of experimental and computational techniques. In the group the mechanisms of action of proteins are studied, with emphasis on proteins associated to cellulose degradation for the generation of second generation biofuels (Bioenergy) and on transcription factors of the family of Hormonal Nuclear Receptors (Molecular Endocrinology). The group has an interdisciplinary environment that contains physicists, chemists, biologists and pharmacists, and collaborations with engineering and medical groups in Brazil and abroad. The group is one of the collaborators protagonists of Brazilian bioenergy programs, with participation in the National Institute of Science and Biotechnology for Bioethanol (INCT), the Center for Biological and Industrial Processes for Biofuels (CeproBio / FP7), and the Thematic Energy Pole Renewables and the Environment (poleTErRA), a unit of NAP in Bioenergy and Sustainability of USP..