Pedro Leão Email and Phone Number

Pedro Leão was awarded a Ph.D. in Microbiology (2018) by the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). He is a former visiting professor at the Department of Microbiology at UFRJ, a former FSE Fellow at the Faculty of Science and Engineering at RUG and now works as a postdoc researcher at the Baker Lab at the Marine Science Institute from the University of Texas at Austin. Pedro has a background exploring ultrastructure characteristics from prokaryotes in environmental samples using a vast range of microscopy techniques. He is currently working on a project describing the phylogenetic and metabolic diversity of Asgard archaea in deep-sea sediment samples from Guaymas Basin. In the future, Pedro would like to combine microscopy and bioinformatics techniques to unfold the diversity of prokaryotes on environmental samples, and explore the evolutionary history of ultrastructural features.