Biographical Sketch

Dr. Frederico Gerlinger Romero completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Mogi das Cruzes and obtained his PhD degree from the University of Sao Paulo. During his first postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sao Paulo/Sao Paulo, Brazil, under the supervision of Dr. Ubiratan Fabres Machado, he investigated acute muscle contraction and microRNAs. By employing molecular genetic techniques in conjunction with muscle contraction analyses, he finding interesting relationship between the muscle mass in diabetes model. He then joined the laboratory of Dr. Aaron P Russell at the Centre for Physical Activity and Nutrition Research (C-PAN), Deakin University/Melbourne, Australia, to complete his second postdoctoral training with a focus on microRNA extraction methods in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) mouse.

Dr. Gerlinger-Romero has kept focus in skeletal muscle as well as muscle contraction and metabolism. During the last years, his main research line is skeletal muscle physiology and metabolism as well as genes and microRNAs involved on mechanisms of synthesis and degradation of proteins in skeletal muscle.

Keywords

Muscle contraction, Protein synthesis, Protein degradation, muscle metabolism.

Research Activities

Dr. Gerlinger-Romero has publications about supplementation, insulin resistance and muscle metabolism and he also has a book chapter.