Dyoni Matias de Oliveira

Pesquisador Assistente no VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, na Universiteit Gent, Bélgica (2020-atual). No grupo de pesquisa do Prof. Wout Boerjan, trabalha com Biologia de Sistemas para a descoberta de novos genes envolvidos no metabolismo de fenólicos em plantas, usando edição de genoma mediada por CRISPR/Cas9 e metabolômica por espectrometria de massas. Graduado em Ciências Biológicas pela Universidade Estadual de Maringá (2013), com Mestrado (2016) e Doutorado (2020) em Biologia Celular e Molecular pela Universidade Estadual de Maringá, com período sanduíche na University of York (Centre for Novel Agricultural Products/CNAP), e treinamento na University of Cambridge (Departamento de Bioquímica), Inglaterra (2018-2019). A tese foi desenvolvida em bioquímica de plantas recebendo Menção Honrosa no Prêmio CAPES de Tese 2021, por investigar a estrutura da parede celular de gramíneas e os mecanismos moleculares envolvidos no metabolismo de fenólicos em resposta ao estresse salino. É Editor Assistente da Plant Physiology, uma das mais importantes revistas em Biologia de Plantas. Também atua como revisor para revistas científicas de alto impacto (como Science Advances, New Phytologist, Plant Physiology, Plant Biotechnology Journal). Desenvolve pesquisa em Bioquímica e Biologia Molecular de plantas, com ênfase em biologia de sistemas, arquitetura e composição de parede celular, metabolômica e identificação estrutural de metabólitos e sacarificação enzimática.

Post-doctoral Scientist at the VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, at Universiteit Gent, Belgium. In the research group of Dr Wout Boerjan, I work with the identification of new genes/enzymes in phenolic metabolism via CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome engineering and metabolite identification by state-of-the-art mass spectrometry-based techniques. Graduated in Biology at the State University of Maringá (2013), Master degree (2016) and PhD (2020) in Cell and Molecular Biology at the State University of Maringá with a sandwich period at CNAP (Center for Novel Agricultural Products) at the University of York, United Kingdom (2018-2019). The PhD thesis was developed in plant biochemistry unravelling the grass cell wall structure and compositional shifts underlying salt stress. I have worked with heterologous expression of enzymes at the National Bioethanol Science and Technology Laboratory - CTBE, Campinas (2012); with protein chemistry and proteomics at the Butantan Institute, São Paulo (2014); chemical characterization of the cell wall of transgenic plants in the Laboratory of Plant Genetics and Biotechnology of Embrapa Agroenergia, Brasília (2017); and training in Polysaccharide Analysis by Carbohydrate gel Electrophoresis (PACE) at the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge/United Kingdom (2019). I have developed my skills in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, with emphasis on plant biochemistry and molecular physiology, cell wall architecture and composition, metabolomics, enzymatic saccharification and application of High throughput techniques for the analysis of plant cell walls.