Mauricio Menegatti Rigo is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Computer Science at Rice University. He's interested in bioinformatics, immunology, and protein structural biology. He is developing computational tools and algorithms to predict the binding mode of ligands and small peptides to protein receptors involved in immunological responses. His work has applications on cancer immunotherapy, vaccine development, and autoimmunity.
Education
PhD, Bioinformatics and Immunology, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS, Brazil) (2015)
MS, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS, Brazil) (2011)
BS, Biomedicine, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS, Brazil) (2008)
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