Acknowledgements

We would like to deeply thank our PIs, advisors and former team members for all the hard work invested in the project and confidence in our work. To all of you: thank you very much!

We also need to thank all the researchers who gave their time and facilities so that we could carry out various stages of the Cellulopolis project:

Prof. Hernane Barud’s team

Prof. Hernandes Carvalho´s team

Prof. Carmen Versissima´s team

Prof. Marcelo Brocchi´s team

Prof. André Damasio and Fernanda Lopes de Figueiredo

BioSmart Nanotechnology

HB Biotec

Laboratory of Genomics and Bioenergy (LGE)

Without you all this would have been nothing more than the brainchild of undergraduate students.

A special thanks to our advisor Giovana Makluf, always very helpful and critical in helping us to polish the project into the little jewel it is today.

And finally, a huge thank you to everyone who helped us in our funding campaigns or helped us in any other way. The DNA of this project carries the contribution of each and every one of you.