Dr. Thiago Costa Ferreira Gomes
Former PhD Student
Thiago’s doctoral research focused on cellulolytic enzyme dynamics and cellulose structure. He developed Cellulose-Builder, a widely-used toolkit for building crystalline cellulose structures for molecular dynamics simulations, published in the Journal of Computational Chemistry (2012).
Interests
- Cellulolytic Enzymes
- Cellulose Structure
- Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Education
- PhD in Chemistry
Unicamp, Brazil
Publications
(2016).
Evolution of xylan substitution patterns in gymnosperms and angiosperms.
Plant Physiology, 171(4), 2418-2431.
(2014).
The pattern of xylan acetylation suggests xylan may interact with cellulose microfibrils as a twofold helical screw in the secondary plant cell wall.
The Plant Journal, 79(3), 492-506.
(2012).
Cellulose-Builder: A toolkit for building crystalline structures of cellulose.
Journal of Computational Chemistry, 33(14), 1338-1346.
(2011).
Molecular basis of the thermostability and thermophilicity of laminarinases.
The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 115(24), 7940-7949.
Prof. Dr. Munir Salomão Skaf
Full Professor & Principal Investigator
Full Professor at IQ Unicamp working on computational biophysical chemistry, molecular dynamics simulations, and theoretical chemistry.