Joel Nunes Leite Junior

Biography

PhD student in the Interunit Postgraduate Program in Bioinformatics at the University of São Paulo (USP) under the supervision of Professor Dr. Marie-Anne Van Sluys, investigating the role of long non-coding RNAs in an experiment on the interaction of sugarcane with pathogenic and beneficial microorganisms, with a current FAPESP scholarship. He holds a bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences - Genetics Modality from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He was a volunteer monitor for the General Biology discipline for the 1st period of his undergraduate degree in biology, having done his scientific initiation internship at the Laboratory of Plant Molecular Biology, at UFRJ, under the supervision of Professor Dr. Paulo Cavalcanti Gomes Ferreira, whose project consisted of using plants with altered cell cycle during the association with beneficial and pathogenic bacteria, analyzing the expression profile of microRNAs, where he was a PIBIC / CNPq scholarship holder from July 2018 to