Dr. Ana Tereza Vasconcelos is a research fellow at CNPq (level 1B), a researcher at the National Laboratory for Scientific Computing, an tenured professor in the Department of Genetics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and a scientist of the State of Rio de Janeiro. She participated in the creation of the Brazilian Association of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (AB3C) and became its first president. She is the coordinator of the Laboratory of Bioinformatics (LABINFO) and Computational Genomics Unit Darcy Fontoura de Almeida (UGCDFA) at LNCC/MCTI. She is also the coordinator of the International Associated Laboratory (CNRS) in the area of bioinformatics.
She has experience in the area of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology with accomplishments on the following topics: genomics, development of mathematical methods and computational tools applied to genomics, and the annotation of genomes. She has collaborated with other institutions and has coordinated several national, regional, and international networks, such as the National Genome Network. Dr. Ana Tereza is responsible for the general coordination of the project and for planning with the other collaborators. Along with other researchers from the Laboratory of Bioinformatics (LABINFO), she participates in the analysis of results, the orientation of students, and the writing of articles.
Our team has two specialized technicians: Ms. Alexandra Gerber and Ms. Ana Paula de Campos Guimarães, who work exclusively on the UGCDFA. These technicians were trained to operate all of the equipment that is operational in the UGCDFA and are responsible for the preparation and sequencing of libraries.
The PhD researchers, Luciane Ciapina, Marisa Nicolas, Kary Ocaña, Fabiola Marques, Rafael Guedes, Guilherme Loss, Joseane Carvalho and Nathalia Cavaleiro have experience in bioinformatics and genomics and are responsible for genome, transcriptome and metagenome sequencing data analysis, the guidance of students, and the writing of articles.
Luiz Gonzaga and the system analysts, Rangel Celso de Souza, Alex Sandro Mundstein, Oberdan Cunha, and Vicente Calvo are responsible for the assembly, annotation, and comparison of the generated sequencing data, as well as the adaptation of the software SABIA to the data formats that are created by the next-generation sequencing platforms.