Guilherme Oliveira, PhD

About

Graduated in Biological Sciences from UFMG (1990). Obtained his PhD from the Dept. of Biology at Texas A&M University, USA (1995) and then was for a short period a post-doc at the Dept. of Pathobiology, Vet. School, Texas A&M University, Dept. of Biology, University of York, UK and FIOCRUZ-Minas. He is currently a Senior Researcher at The Vale Technology and previously at the Institute  René Rachou - FIOCRUZ-Minas.

Dr. Oliveira is the leader of the Biodiversity and Biotechnology group at ITV-DS. He is also a visitin scientist at the Bioinformatics Graduate Program of the UFMG.

He is a member of the Brazilian Societies for Genetics and Parasitology, former President of the Brazilian Association for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology and former member of the Board of Directors of the International Society for Computational Biology. He is currnetly a member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the international Barcode of Life consortium - iBol.

Dr. Oliveira's main interests are in molecular biology, genomics and bioinformatics the mining environment and the amazon and of Schistosoma mansoni, the parasite that causes schistosomiasis. He is also involved in genomics an computational analysis of structural and functional genomics data of many different species.