OUR TEAM
Get to know a little more about the participants that make up our research group.
felt Iole Nogueira Belangero
Principal Investigator
felt Belangero is a biomedical doctor, Master and Doctor in Human Genetics from the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) with an internship at the University of Pennsylvania (USA) and a Post-Doctorate from the Department of Psychiatry at UNIFESP. She is a researcher and leader. of Psychiatric Genetics research group.
She is an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Morphology and Genetics at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP). Were Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Structural and Functional Biology at Escola Paulista de Medicina (UNIFESP) in 2014 to 2019, is Coordinator of the Genetics Area of the Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Clinical Neurosciences (LINC) at UNIFESP and gives Genetics and Biorepository Area of the National Institute of Developmental Psychiatry.
Sintia has focused on investigating the genetic and epigenetic mechanisms that contribute to the neurodevelopment and/or neuroprogression of psychiatric disorders, showing direct applications to the field of mental health. She has been analyzing large-scale genetic and epigenetic data from patients with schizophrenia, post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and other mental illnesses to identify the genetic factors that underlie mental disorders and their symptoms/dimensions in children and adults.
She has extensive experience in human genetics with specific expertise in mental health and is particularly interested, in addition to finding markers, in understanding the pathophysiology, progression and response to treatment and specifically how trauma and adverse life experiences interact with the genome, transcriptome and epigenome.
Marcos Leite Santoro
visiting professor
Graduated in Biological Sciences - Medical Modality at UNESP-Botucatu (São Paulo State University Júlio de Mesquita Filho). He completed his master's and doctorate in the Discipline of Genetics, at the Department of Morphology and Genetics at UNIFESP, with a focus on Psychiatric Genetics and large-scale genomic analysis.
During his PhD, he conducted a 1-year research internship at the MRC - Social, Genetics & Developmental Psychiatry Center at Kings College London, where he deepened his knowledge in bioinformatics and large-scale data analysis.
In 2016, he started his postdoctoral work at the Department of Psychiatry at UNIFESP, where he investigates the transcriptome and genomic variants in a longitudinal cohort of children and adolescents at risk for psychiatric diseases. He worked as a visiting researcher for 1 year at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT and at the Massachusetts General Hospital with a FAPESP grant, investigating new predictive models for psychiatric diseases.
is currently visiting professor at the Graduate Program in Structural and Functional Biology at UNIFESP, where he carries out research, supervision and teaching activities in bioinformatics. His main areas of expertise are bioinformatics, genetics and psychiatric genetics.
Vanessa Ota
Post-Doctoral / Technician
Vanessa Ota is currently hired as an administrative technician, biomedical position, in the Discipline of Genetics of the Department of Morphology and Genetics of the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP). He also does his post-doctorate in the field of psychiatric genetics at the Postgraduate Program in Psychiatry and Medical Psychology at UNIFESP.
He obtained his doctorate in 2015 and a master's degree in 2011 from the Graduate Program in Structural and Functional Biology at UNIFESP. He graduated in Biological Sciences - Medical Modality at UNIFESP in 2008. He is a member of the Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Clinical Neurosciences (LiNC) at UNIFESP.
His area of expertise involves genetics, gene expression and epigenetics in psychiatric disorders, mainly schizophrenia and first-episode psychosis. In her postdoctoral project, she investigates changes in gene expression associated with the incidence and remission of psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents.
Carolina Muniz
postdoctoral fellow
Graduated in Biomedicine from the Fluminense Federal University, she obtained a master's degree from the Postgraduate Program in Structural and Functional Biology at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) and the doctor's by the Postgraduate Program in Psychiatry and Medical Psychology at UNIFESP, in which she is currently developing her post-doctorate. During his doctorate, he spent nine months at the Division of Human Genetics at Psychiatry Department at Yale University (USA), to learn bioinformatics tools applied to psychiatric genetics.
He has experience in genetics, mainly in psychiatric genetics, with an emphasis on molecular biology and genomics. Currently, investigate genetic, epigenetic and molecular markers that may be associated with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Amanda Bugiga
PhD student
Graduated in Biological Sciences, in the Bachelor and Licentiate modalities, at the Institute of Biosciences of the Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (UNESP) in 2016. During her graduation, she developed two scientific initiations in the areas of Histology and Microbiology, in the Departments of Morphology and Instituto of Biotechnology at UNESP, respectively. In addition, she was an intern at the Centro de Integração Empresa Escola (CIEE) in Molecular Biology at the Laboratory of Molecular Diagnosis of Botucatu. She worked as a laboratory technician in the area of Genetics for a period of 2 years at the Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Clinical Neurosciences (LiNC) of the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP). She is currently a PhD student in Genetics at Graduate Program in Structural and Functional Biology at UNIFESP and studies the gene expression profile on a large scale in women with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), victims of sexual violence.
Danilo Micali
PhD student
Biomedical, graduated from the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) in 2014. Since his graduation, he has been very interested in studying the interaction of the environment with epigenetic mechanisms. In his master's degree at the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at UNIFESP, he evaluated the role of histone deacetylase sirtuin-1 (SIRT1) in the progression of melanoma. She is carrying out her doctorate at the Department of Morphology and Genetics at UNIFESP and is evaluating how traumas suffered by women in childhood and adolescence later affect their babies through the analysis of methylome of placentas. He is currently at Columbia University in New York, conducting part of his research in collaboration with local researchers.
Adrielle Martins
Master's student
Graduated in Biomedicine from Universidade Paulista (2017), with a degree in molecular biology, she was a student of Scientific Initiation at the Genetics Laboratory of the Federal University of São Paulo from 2015 to 2017, where she worked in genetics applied to orthopedic disorders. She is currently a Master's student at the Federal University of São Paulo in the Psychiatry and Medical Psychology program. Has experience in Genetics and Molecular Biology with emphasis on Bioinformatics.
Joy Rose
Master's student
Graduated in Biomedicine in 2019 from Universidade Paulista - UNIP, PROUNI scholarship holder. She was a Scientific Initiation student at the Molecular Pathology Laboratory at the USP School of Medicine (FMUSP), for 1 year and 6 months, where she developed a project with an animal model to evaluate nitrite intake in metabolic syndrome. She was an intern at the Laboratory School of Clinical Analysis at UNIP, performing the processing and evaluation of samples in the Clinical Analysis sectors for 1 year. She is currently a Master's student at the Graduate Program in Psychiatry and Medical Psychology at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) and is investigating the impact of early trauma suffered by women on the microRNA (miRNA) expression profile in their blood. and in the umbilical cord blood of their children.
Matheus Rodrigues
Scientific research
Graduating in Health Informatics (EPM/UNIFESP) and scientific initiation student in the group. He is currently analyzing, in the First Psychotic Episode cohort, the Polygenic Risk Score and its relationship with the response to treatment with risperidone.
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