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Joao Paulo Kitajima, Docteur en Informatique [Grenoble, France], is a Bioinformatics researcher and was one of the coordinators of the bioinformatics Laboratory at the Institute of Computing in Unicamp, J.P. Kitajima graduated in Computer Science at the University of Brasilia, getting a master degree in Computer Science at the Rio Grande do Sul
Federal University and Ph.D. in Informatics at the Institute National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG), France. Kitajima held positions at the University of Brasilia in 1995 and at the Minas Gerais Federal University from 1996 to 1998. He advised master students and was responsible for courses related to Operational and Parallel Systems. He has been working
since 1999 in a variety of Genome and transcriptome projects, assembling bacterial genomes in silico(e.g. Xylella fastidiosa responsible for Pierce's Disease), clustering sequences of transcript genes (e.g. Schistosoma mansoni, a human parasite) and giving support for the annotation of the sequences generated by these projects. He was involved in genome project of the bacteria Xylella fastidiosa and Xanthomonas and, more recently, in collaboration with the Washington University, the
Agrobacterium tumefaciens bacteria. Kitajima is co-founder of Alellyx Applied Genomics, a private initiative targeted to solve agricultural problems using genomic technology.