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Daniel is an Associate Professor II of Biochemistry (Livre-Docente, MS 5.2) with expertise in mass spectrometrybased proteomic analysis (shotgun proteomics) and in silico systems biology, applied to clinical and preclinical models related to psychiatric disorders.He is an elected member of the General Faculty Bench of the Unicamp's University Council (CONSU) (20252027); between 20232025, he was the most voted MS5 faculty representative at CONSU. He served as one of the Coordinators of the Biology Area at FAPESP (20182025) and as a Member of the CNPq Advisory Committee, CA-BF (20222025). He was elected Affiliate Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (20172021) and of the São Paulo State Academy of Sciences (20192023). He was Faculty Advisor to the Office of the Vice President for Research at Unicamp (20172021) and Head of the Department of Biochemistry and Tissue Biology (20222024).He established the Laboratory of Neuroproteomics in 2014, after returning from Germany, where he worked for two years as Principal Investigator at LMU Ludwig Maximilians Universität München (20122014). Daniel graduated in Biology (2003) and earned his PhD in Biochemistry (2008) at Unicamp. His postdoctoral training took place at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Germany (20082010) and at the University of Cambridge, UK (20102012), where he also led the Mass Spectrometry Group at the Cambridge Centre for Neuropsychiatric Research (CCNR). During the same period, he was a consultant for Psynova Neurotech Ltd. Daniel is a Founding Member of BrProt (2012) and served as a Board Member of BrMass (20142023). He was elected to the Council of the Human Proteome Organisation (20152017) and has been part of the Steering Committee of the Human Brain Proteome Project since 2015, serving as its Chair in 2023.He is Associate Editor of npj Schizophrenia (Nature), serves on the editorial boards of eight other scientific journals, and is permanent editor of the book series Proteomics, Metabolomics, Interactomics and Systems Biology (Springer-Nature, USA). He has delivered more than 60 oral presentations at international conferences, including as Plenary Speaker, Keynote Speaker, and Chair. His metrics include H-index 40 (ISI) and H-index 52 (Google Scholar), with more around 10,000 citations (Scholar).

Research activities

Expertise in mass spectrometry-based proteomics (shotgun proteomics) and systems biology in silico, employed to clinical and pre-clinical models for psychiatric disorders.

Teaching activities

Professor of biochemistry and proteomics

Extension activities

Courses on molecular characterization of diseases and mass spectrometry.

Selected Publications

martins-de-souza D; Maccarrone G; Ising, M; Kloiber, S; Lucae, S; Holsboer, F; Turck, Christoph W; Blood mononuclear cell proteome suggests Integrin and Ras signaling as critical pathways for antidepressant treatment response. Biological Psychiatry (1969), v.3223, p. 86-89, 2014 [ doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2014.01.022 ]

Crunfli, Fernanda; Carregari, Victor C.; Veras, Flavio P.; Silva, Lucas S.; Nogueira, Mateus Henrique; Antunes, André Saraiva Leão Marcelo; Vendramini, Pedro Henrique; Valença, Aline Gazzola Fragnani; Brandão-teles, Caroline; Zuccoli, Giuliana Da Silva; Reis-de-oliveira, Guilherme; Silva-costa, Lícia C.; Saia-cereda, Verônica Monteiro; Smith, Bradley J.; Codo, Ana Campos; De Souza, Gabriela F; Muraro, Stéfanie P.; Parise, Pierina Lorencini; Toledo-teixeira, Daniel A.; martins-de-souza D; Et.Al; Morphological, cellular, and molecular basis of brain infection in COVID-19 patients. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, v.119, p. e2200960119-, 2022 [ doi:10.1073/pnas.2200960119 ]

Nascimento, Juliana Minardi; Saia-cereda, Verônica M.; Zuccoli, Giuliana S.; Reis-de-oliveira, Guilherme; Carregari, Victor Corasolla; Smith, Bradley J.; Rehen, Stevens K.; martins-de-souza D; martins-de-souza, Daniel; Proteomic signatures of schizophrenia-sourced iPSC-derived neural cells and brain organoids are similar to patients' postmortem brains. Cell and Bioscience, v.12, p. 1-, 2022 [ doi:10.1186/s13578-022-00928-x ]

Reis-de-oliveira, Guilherme; Carregari, Victor Corasolla; Sousa, Gabriel Rodrigues Dos Reis De; martins-de-souza D; martins-de-souza, Daniel; OmicScope unravels systems-level insights from quantitative proteomics data. Nature Communications, v.15, p. 6510-, 2024 [ doi:10.1038/s41467-024-50875-z ]

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