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Giovanna Cavalcante

@giologia.bsky.social
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Brazilian researcher with a special interest in human genetics and mitochondria. Postdoc at Energy Metabolism Lab (USP), investigating Parkinson’s disease. (she/her)

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Giovanna Cavalcante @giologia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Excited to share a major milestone from my postdoctoral research: our new preprint is now live on bioRxiv! 🧠 Read the preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Mitochondrial Metabolism and Calcium Handling in Parkinson's Disease hiPSC-derived Astrocytes
Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder worldwide, and mutations in the LRRK2 and PRKN genes are among the most common familial causes of the disease. In neurodeg...
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Giovanna Cavalcante @giologia.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
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Giovanna Cavalcante @giologia.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Out now! The work by Ana Gabrielle Bispo, a former Master student under my supervision at UFPA, published at Parkinsonism & Related Disorders www.prd-journal.com/article/S135... a huge “thank you!” to all collaborators to this work!
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medRxivpreprint @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
MOLECULAR ANALYSIS OF MITOCHONDRIAL COMPLEX I IN THE RESPONSIVENESS TO LEVODOPA IN PARKINSON'S DISEASE www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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medRxivpreprint @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Novel mitochondrial variants associated with Parkinson's disease reveal a high heteroplasmy-weighted polygenic risk score in Brazilians www.medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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#NeuroDegeneration preprints @prepub-neurodegen.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
mtDNA-Network: a web tool to explore mitochondrial variant profiles in complex diseases #NeuroDegeneration 🧪🧠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Giovanna Cavalcante @giologia.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Check it out! 🥰
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