Mariana Silva Dos Santos
Mariana Silva Dos Santos
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Bio: Mariana received her PhD in Pharmaceutical sciences from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil (2014). In 2011 she joined the CEMBIO as part of her sandwich doctorate to investigate early biomarkers for canine leishmaniasis through metabolomics. In 2015, she joined the Metabolomics Science Technology Platform at the Francis Crick Institute in London and is working on the development and application of LC-MS methods for metabolomics and lipidomics research. Her current postdoctoral project, in collaboration with Mycobacterial Metabolism and Antibiotic Research Laboratory, aims to unveil protein function in M. tuberculosis and to understand their role during infection through a multi-disciplinary approach including metabolomics, cell-biology and enzymology. She is also involved in metabolomics studies of COVID-19, cancer, host-microbe interactions, drug mechanism-of-action elucidation, retina development and lipid biosynthesis. Her research interests include LC-MS based metabolomics and lipidomics for untargeted, targeted and labelling incorporation studies as well as M. tuberculosis protein function and metabolism.