| Personal Details |
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| Name: Marcelo Urbano Ferreira |
| Date of Birth: 29 May 1964 |
| Nationality: Brazilian |
Adress: Departamento de Parasitologia, ICB II
Universidade
de São Paulo
Av.
Prof. Lineu Prestes, 1374
05508-900
São Paulo (SP), Brazil |
| Telephone no.: 55-11-3091-7417 |
| e-mail adress: muferrei@usp.br |
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| Education |
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| University: |
Degre: |
Date: |
| University of São Paulo |
Medical Doctor |
1988 |
| University of São Paulo |
MSc. (Parasitology) |
1993 |
| University of São Paulo |
PhD (Parasitology) |
1997 |
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| Positions held |
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Dates:
1998-2001 |
Description of post:
Associate Professor and Head of the Section of Parasitology,
Faculty of Medicine of São José do
Rio Preto, Brazil. |
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| 1999-2001 |
Attending physician, Tropical Medicine Clinic,
Hospital de Base de São José do Rio
Preto, Brazil. |
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| Present position and current activities |
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| Since 1990. Assistant Professor of Parasitology, Institute
for Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo,
Brazil. Duties: teaching Medical Parasitology, supervision
of graduate students, research. |
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| Publications - please cite your five
best publications |
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| Ferreira MU, Ribeiro WL, Tonon AP,
Kawamoto F & Rich SM. (2003) Sequence diversity and
evolution of the malaria vaccine candidate merozoite surface
protein-1(MSP-1) of Plasmodium falciparum. Gene
304: 65-75. (link) |
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| Ferreira MU, Nair S, Hyunh TV, Kawamoto F & Anderson
TJC. (2002). Microsatellite characterization of Plasmodium
falciparum from cerebral and uncomplicated malaria
patients in southern Vietnam. Journal of Clinical Microbiology
40:1854-1857. (link) |
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| Silveira LA, Dorta ML, Kimura EAS, Katzin AM, Kawamoto
F, Tanabe K & Ferreira MU (1999). Allelic diversity
and antibody recognition of Plasmodium falciparum merozoite
surface protein 1 during hypoendemic malaria transmission
in the Brazilian Amazon Region. Infection and Immunity
67: 5906-5916. (link) |
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| Rich SM, Ferreira MU & Ayala FJ (2000). The origin
of antigenic diversity in Plasmodium falciparum. Parasitology
Today 16: 390-396. (link) |
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| Ferreira MU, Kimura EAS, Souza JM & Katzin AM (1996).
The isotype composition and avidity of naturally acquired
anti-Plasmodium falciparum antibodies: differential patterns
in clinically immune Africans and Amazonian patients.
American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 55:
315-323. |
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| Previous experience in malaria research |
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1990-92: Field studies on malaria immunology in the
Amazon Basin of Brazil (Rondônia State), under the
supervision of Prof. Luiz Hildebrando Pereira da Silva
and Ereney Plessmann Camargo. These studies included clinical
and epidemiological aspects of malaria.
1992-95: Laboratory studies on malaria immunology at the
University of São Paulo under the supervision of
Prof. Alejandro Miguel Katzin. Development of antibody
assays to evaluate IgG subclass distribution and avidity
of malarial antibodies.
1995-97: Molecular studies on antigenic diversity of Plasmodium
falciparum, including both field work in Southeast-Asian
countries (under the supervision of Dr. F. Kawamoto, Nagoya
University School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan) and laboratory
work (under the supervision of Prof. K. Tanabe, Osaka
Institute of Technology, Osaka, Japan)
1998-to date: Field and laboratory studies on antigenic
diversity of malaria-vaccine candidates (mostly MSP-1
and MSP-2) in the Amazon Basin of Brazil. Main focus:
analysis of patterns of antigenic diversity at the population
level and its impact on immune
recognition of antigens. Supervision of two PhD theses
and five MSc. dissertations. Teaching: Molecular Epidemiology
of Malaria to graduate students and Parasitology to Medical
Students. |
