Ayslan Castro Brant, Ph.D.
- Center for Cancer Research
- National Cancer Institute
- Building 560, Room 11-2
- Frederick, MD 21702-1201
- 301-846-6894
- ayslan.castrobrant@nih.gov
RESEARCH SUMMARY
Ayslan Castro Brant earned his Ph.D. in genetics from Rio de Janeiro Federal University (UFRJ), Brazil, under the mentorship of Dr. Miguel Moreira, Brazilian National Cancer Institute (INCA) and co-mentorship of Dr. Zhi-Ming Zheng (HIV DRP). His work is focused on understanding how SARS-CoV-2 synthesizes its subgenomic RNAs (sgRNAs) for virus replication. Recently Ayslan received a travel award from and was invited to serve as a session co-chair at the International Papillomavirus Conference (IPVC2020) in Barcelona.
Areas of Expertise
1) molecular genetics 2) RNA biology 3) reverse transcription 4) virology 5) cancer biology 6) next-generation sequencing and transcriptome analysis