From CAZypedia
Pedro M. Coutinho obtained a
Licenciatura in
Chemical Engineering (Biotechnology Branch) in 1989 at the
Instituto Superior Técnico from the
Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal. He pursued his studies to obtain a PhD degree in
Chemical Engineering with
Peter Reilly in 1996 at the
Iowa State University, USA. 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, France to work with
Bernard Henrissat (
external link) with whom he created in September 1998 the database on Carbohydrate-Active Enzyme,
CAZy. From 1999 to 2002 he started his academic career as Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the
Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon. In late 2002 he settled in Marseille as a Professor at the
University of Provence, where he teaches courses ranging from Bioinformatics to Applied Biocatalysis at the
Biotechnology Engineering program of
ESIL and at the
Master on Bioinformatics, Structural Biology and Genomics from the
Faculty of Sciences in Luminy. He pursues his research activities within the
Glycogenomics research group from the
AFMB, centered on the development of
CAZy, the curation of sequence, structure and biochemical information in the database, and the development of original tools for Genomics and Metagenomics.
