Dr. PEDRO ISMAEL DA SILVA JUNIOR | Molecular Biology |Best Researcher Award
Dr. Pedro Ismael da Silva Junior holds a degree in Biological Sciences from the Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters of Ribeirão Preto – USP (1979) and completed his Doctorate at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences-USP (2000). He currently serves as a Scientific Researcher (PqC-VI) and Manager at the Laboratory for Applied Toxinology at the Butantan Institute. Dr. da Silva specializes in Protein Chemistry, focusing on Biochemistry, with a research emphasis on bioactive molecules of toxins and hemolymph of invertebrates. His expertise includes liquid chromatography, peptide and organic molecule synthesis, mass spectrometry, and microbiology. He has published extensively and supervised numerous masters’ and doctoral theses in these areas.
profile:
🎓 Education:
Degree in Biological Sciences, Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters of Ribeirão Preto – USP (1979). Doctorate at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences, USP (2000)
🏢 Current Position:
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- Scientific Researcher (PqC-VI) and Manager at the Laboratory for Applied Toxinology, Butantan Institute
🔬 Research Interests:
Protein Chemistry, focusing on Biochemistry, Study of bioactive molecules of toxins and hemolymph of invertebrates, Antimicrobial, antiviral, and antitumoral activities, Purification, characterization, and synthesis of bioactive molecules, Techniques: liquid chromatography, peptide and organic molecule synthesis, mass spectrometry, microbiology
📚 Publications and Supervision:
Author of numerous publications, Supervisor of master’s and doctoral theses in related areas
Publication:📝
- Title: The CMS experiment at the CERN LHC
Authors: CMS Collaboration
Journal: Journal of Instrumentation
Year: 2008
Volume: 3
Issue: August
Pages: 1-334
Citations: 12,546*
- Title: Combined Measurement of the Higgs Boson Mass in pppppp Collisions at s=7\sqrt{s} = 7s=7 and 8 TeV with the ATLAS and CMS Experiments
Authors: CMS Collaborations
Journal: arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.07589
Year: 2015
Citations: 1,900*
- Title: Performance of the CMS muon detector and muon reconstruction with proton-proton collisions at s=13\sqrt{s} = 13s=13 TeV
Authors: CMS Collaboration
Journal: Journal of Instrumentation
Year: 2018
Volume: 13
Issue: 6
Article: P06015
Citations: 1,474
- Title: Constraints on the spin-parity and anomalous HVVHVVHVV couplings of the Higgs boson in proton collisions at 7 and 8 TeV
Authors: V Khachatryan, AM Sirunyan, A Tumasyan, W Adam, T Bergauer, …
Journal: Physical Review D
Year: 2015
Volume: 92
Issue: 1
Article: 012004
Citations: 1,211*
- Title: Observation of ttˉHt\bar{t}HttˉH Production
Authors: AM Sirunyan, A Tumasyan, W Adam, F Ambrogi, E Asilar, T Bergauer, …
Journal: Physical Review Letters
Year: 2018
Volume: 120
Issue: 23
Article: 231801
Citations: 1,063*
- Title: Observation of the diphoton decay of the Higgs boson and measurement of its properties
Authors: V Khachatryan, AM Sirunyan, A Tumasyan, W Adam, T Bergauer, …
Journal: The European Physical Journal C
Year: 2014
Volume: 74
Pages: 1-49
Citations: 1,023
- Title: Mapping the human genetic architecture of COVID-19
Authors: Writing group Writing group leaders Pathak Gita A. 6 Andrews Shea J. 7 Kanai …
Journal: Nature
Year: 2021
Volume: 600
Issue: 7889
Pages: 472-477
Citations: 752
- Title: Precision luminosity measurement in proton–proton collisions at s=13\sqrt{s} = 13s=13 TeV in 2015 and 2016 at CMS
Authors: CMS Collaboration
Journal: Springer Open
Year: 2021
Citations: 749
- Title: Measurement of ttˉt\bar{t}ttˉ production with a veto on additional central jet activity in pppppp collisions at s=7\sqrt{s} = 7s=7 TeV using the ATLAS detector
Authors: ATLAS Collaboration
Journal: arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.5015
Year: 2012
Citations: 658
- Title: Searches for third-generation squark production in fully hadronic final states in proton-proton collisions at s=8\sqrt{s} = 8s=8 TeV
Authors: V Khachatryan, AM Sirunyan, A Tumasyan, W Adam, E Asilar, T Bergauer, …
Journal: Journal of High Energy Physics
Year: 2015
Volume: 2015
Issue: 6
Pages: 1-65
Citations: 584*