Molecular Physiology and Evolution of Insect Digestive Systems

Walter R. Terra has a B.sc in biology and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, and is now Senior Professor of Biochemistry at the University of São Paulo. He is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and the recipient of the National Medal of the Scientific Merit. He was head of the Biochemistry Department, vice-director of the Institute of Chemistry of the same University and has been the General Secretary of the Brazilian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology since 1992. Professor Terra is member of the editorial board of the leading journals of his area of expertise and was ad hoc adviser of most funding agencies in Brazil and some from abroad like NIH and NSF (USA) and Wellcome Trust (UK). His papers deal with the molecular physiology of insect digestion, including the 3D analysis of chosen midgut proteins and evolution. He has published about 200 papers that were cited more than 11580 times, has an H index of 61 according to Google Scholar and he was listed among the top 2% of the scientists of the world according to a rank published by PLoS Biology, October 2020.
Clelia Ferreira has a B.sc in biology and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, and is now Professor of Biochemistry at the University of São Paulo. She was coordinator of graduate studies in biochemistry of the University of São Paulo and was ad hoc adviser of many of the leading journals of her area of expertise and of most funding agencies in Brazil. Professor Ferreira has a distinguished 1A Research Grant from the Brazilian National Research Council (CNPq). Her papers deal mainly with the effect of noxious plant glycosides on insect digestive enzymes and with the active site of glycosyl hydrolases using both kinetics and active site mutagenesis technologies. She has published about 107 papers that were cited more than 6260 times and has an H index of 42 according to Google Scholar.

Carlos P. Silva graduated in Biological Sciences from the Federal University of Ceará (1986), master's degree in Biochemistry from the Federal University of Ceará (1990), doctorate in Biological Sciences (Biochemistry) from the University of São Paulo (1994) and post-doctorate from the Department of Biology and Biochemistry at the University of Bath, England (2002). He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the Center for Biological Sciences at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil). He held the position of Coordinator of the Graduate Course in Biology at UENF (2003-2005), Head of the Department of Biochemistry at UFSC (2010-2012), Coordinator of the Postgraduate Program in Biochemistry at UFSC (2014- 2016). He has experience in the areas of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, with emphasis on Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Insects, acting mainly on the following themes: Digestion in Insects and Crustaceans, Coleoptera, Bruchinae, Hemiptera, Lepidoptera, Decapoda, Entomophagy and Pest Control.

Walter R. Terra 擁有巴西聖保羅大學的生物學學士學位和生物化學博士學位，目前是該大學的生物化學高級教授。他是巴西科學院的成員，也是國家科學功績獎的獲得者。他曾擔任生物化學系主任、該大學化學研究所副所長，自1992年以來一直擔任巴西生物化學與分子生物學學會的總秘書。Terra 教授是其專業領域主要期刊的編輯委員會成員，並曾擔任巴西及一些國外機構（如美國的 NIH 和 NSF，以及英國的 Wellcome Trust）的臨時顧問。他的研究論文主要探討昆蟲消化的分子生理學，包括選定中腸蛋白質的三維分析及其演化。他已發表約200篇論文，引用次數超過11580次，根據 Google Scholar 的資料，他的 H 指數為61，並在2020年10月由 PLoS Biology 發布的排名中被列為全球前2%的科學家。

Clelia Ferreira 擁有巴西聖保羅大學的生物學學士學位和生物化學博士學位，目前是該大學的生物化學教授。她曾擔任聖保羅大學生物化學研究所的研究生課程協調員，並曾擔任許多主要期刊的臨時顧問以及巴西大多數資助機構的顧問。Ferreira 教授獲得巴西國家研究委員會（CNPq）頒發的1A研究獎助金。她的研究主要集中在有害植物糖苷對昆蟲消化酶的影響，以及利用動力學和活性位點突變技術研究糖苷水解酶的活性位點。她已發表約107篇論文，引用次數超過6260次，根據 Google Scholar 的資料，她的 H 指數為42。

Carlos P. Silva 於1986年在塞阿拉聯邦大學獲得生物科學學位，1990年獲得生物化學碩士學位，1994年在聖保羅大學獲得生物科學（生物化學）博士學位，並於2002年在英國巴斯大學的生物學與生物化學系完成博士後研究。目前，他是巴西聖卡塔琳娜聯邦大學生物科學中心生物化學系的副教授。他曾擔任 UENF 生物學研究生課程的協調員（2003-2005）、UFSC 生物化學系主任（2010-2012）、UFSC 生物化學研究所研究生課程的協調員（2014-2016）。他在生物化學和分子生物學領域擁有經驗，特別是在昆蟲的生物化學和分子生物學方面，主要研究主題包括昆蟲和甲殼類動物的消化、鞘翅目、豆象科、半翅目、鱗翅目、十足目、昆蟲食性及害蟲控制。