The research developed by the Laboratory of Structural Biology and Protein Engineering focuses on functional and structural characterization of proteins with emphasis in proteins with potential for biomedical and biotechnological applications.

Our projects involve the use of expression systems for recombinant protein production, protein purification, biochemical and molecular functional assays, genetic manipulation of trypanosomatids, characterization of proteins in solution (circular dichroism, fluorescence, DLS, nanoDSF, thermophoresis microscale) and determination of the three-dimensional structure of proteins.

The team has extensive experience in Molecular Biology, Protein Biochemistry, Structural Biology and X-ray Crystallography.