Affiliation: Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.

Otávio Guilherme Gonçalves de Almeida earned his Bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Currently, he is engaged in a PhD project in the field of microbial ecology. His main interests are concentrated in topics related to quorum sensing, metagenomics, transcriptomics, bioinformatics applied to microbiology, and microbial interactions in food.