Profile
Jose Brandao-Neto
My CV
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Education:
School & Uni – Brazil / Work – BR and UK…..CHAT WITH ME!!!…… PET DEWORMING, SALIVA, FLATLINING or BALDNESS…..If you’re curious to see proteins and drug molecules go to my prize pledge section!!
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Qualifications:
Computer programming/ Electronics/ Physics/ Control Systems/ Structural Biology/ Medicinal Chemistry/ Business for Biosciences
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Work History:
Internships at Uni in electronics for electrochemistry and chemistry/ Physicist in Biology Experiment/ Pharma Company/ Crystallography and Chemistry/ Market Research and Business Plans
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About Me:
I work at Diamond, the Particle Accelerator Ring that Produces electromagnetic radiation for materials science in the UK, near Oxford (infrared, visible, ultraviolet and x-rays). Outside work I like travelling, cycling and volunteering in social organisations. I love talking to people, finding out about their work and helping out.
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We use X-Rays because they are waves of a similar size to the distance between atoms in materials (about 0.1nm, or one ten-millionth of a milimeter). If X-Rays are shone on a material, it will diffract as it comes out – exposing the order inside the material and in many cases (not all…) allowing one to understand where the atoms inside the material are. It’s like a microscope-cum-jigsaw, where you get the info but it comes out scrambled.
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My Typical Day:
Home > school run > frazzle 600 samples with x-rays for/with other people > (school) > home
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Home: quick jog, breakfast for family, kids at school. Work: *1* set the lab up twice for two different users on that day or *2* fix things that broke the previous day in the equipment or *3* improve things for the next lots of scientists – including doing research on finding a new drug against schistosomiasis, which affects 200 million people in the world. Back to home. Rinse. Repeat.
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What I'd do with the prize money:
*** YOU CAN CHOOSE IT IN THE CHATS!! Press “READ MORE” below!!! *** In short: to produce really nice models people can hold of proteins and chemical molecules in a kit showing how they interact with each other for demonstrations about what modern drug discovery research is about.
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The most exciting thing that's happened this year in my research area:
Google Deepmind is paving the way for a new way to determine protein structures. *** Vote for me! See my prize pledge! ***
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My latest work:
How proteins want to do chemistry.
And lining up my new book, whose title will be Adventures in Artificial Intelligence and Structural Biology – Tips, Tricks and Music from Proteins, coming out to Amazon Kindle soon as a D.J. Protein and D.J. DNA Excellent Science Books Series (I’ll post a link here when ready).
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My favourite misconception about my area of science:
Protein crystals are made up of one single protein.