Kayo Bianco is an Employment Quality Laboratory Analyst at the National Institute of Quality Control in Health. He earned a Bachelor's degree in Biotechnology from the State University of Rio de Janeiro in 2012, a Master's degree in Health Surveillance from the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in 2015, and a PhD in Health Surveillance from the National Institute of Quality Control in Health in 2019. He is also a member of the Fiocruz Genomic Network, the COVID-19 Monitoring Network in Wastewater (REMONAR), and the One Health Surveillance Culture Collection (CCVSU), as well as Curator of the MultiLocus Sequence Typing database (PubMLST/University of Oxford) for molecular characterization of Proteus spp. He has experience in Microbiology, Epidemiology, and Molecular Biology, with an emphasis on the genomics of viruses, bacteria, and archaea.