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Felipe dos Santos Maraschin was born on the first of December 1980 in Santo
Angelo, State of Rio Grande do Sul (RS), Brazil. He attended school in Escola
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de 1 e 2 Graus da URI in Santo Angelo and went to high school in Colegio
Anchieta in Porto Alegre. In 1998 he started the study of Biological Sciences at
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in Porto Alegre. From
August 1998 he started research training in the Microbiology Department of
UFRGS under supervision of Dr. Gertrudes Corção. In September 1999 he
joined the Plant Molecular Biology research group of Dr. Giancarlo Pasquali at
the Centro de Biotecnologia of UFRGS. In 2002 he obtained his BSc in Biology
with specialization in Molecular and Functional Cell Biology. As an MSc student,
from April 2002 onwards he was involved in the project “Micropropagation,
genetic transformation and analysis of genes involved in alkaloid biosynthesis in
Psychotria brachyceras” as part of the Graduate Program in Cellular and
Molecular Biology at UFRGS under Dr. Pasquali’s supervision. In April 2004 he
obtained his MSc degree in Cell and Molecular Biology from UFRGS. In
January 2004 he was invited to participate in the PhD joint project “Ubiquitous
events in auxin and jasmonic acid signal transduction” between the Molecular
and Developmental Genetics and the Plant Cell Physiology sections at the
Institute of Biology of Leiden University under the supervision of Dr. Remko
Offringa and Prof. Dr. Johan Memelink. Working on this project Felipe lived in
Leiden, the Netherlands, from May 2004 to December 2008 and now he lives in
Porto Alegre, Brazil.
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