Prof. Dr. Flavio Henrique-Silva completed his Ph.D. in Biological Sciences (Biochemistry) at the Institute of Chemistry of the University of São Paulo in 1996. He is a full professor at the Federal University of São Carlos, where he has worked since 1992. He works in the area of biochemistry, with an emphasis on molecular biology. He is the coordinator of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LBM) and the coordinator of the "Molecular Biotechnology" research group. He supervises works in plant and insect pest biotechnology, cellulases and glycosyl hydrolases in general, cysteine peptidase inhibitors, peptidases, metagenomics, and prospecting for genes of biotechnological interest.