User:Pedro Coutinho

Pedro M. Coutinho obtained a Licenciatura in Chemical Engineering (Biotechnology Branch) in 1989 at the Instituto Superior Técnico from the Technical University of Lisbon. He pursued his studies to obtain a PhD degree in Chemical Engineering with Peter Reilly at the Iowa State University in 1996. Here he performed structure-function relationship studies on glucoamylase to support a number of protein engineering efforts on this enzyme. For his Post-Doc, he moved in 1997 to the CERMAV in Grenoble and in 1998 to the AFMB in Marseille where he worked with Bernard Henrissat on flexible sugar-protein docking and with whom he created the database on Carbohydrate-Active Enzyme, CAZy in September 1998. From 1999 to 2002 he pursued his career as Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon. In late 2002 he moved back to Marseille to become a Professor at the Biotechnology Engineering program of ESIL, as a member from the University of Provence. He pursues his research activities within the Glycogenomics research group AFMB, centered on the development of CAZy and its applications in Genomics.