Emmanuel Dias Neto

Currrículo Lattes
Birth: March 29, 1967 in Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
Citizenship: brazilian
Language Fluency: english, portuguese
Address:
Department of Psychiatry
Faculty of Medicine - University of São Paulo
P.O. Box 8091
05403-010 São Paulo - SP - Brazil
Telephone +5511 3069.7267
Telefax: +5511 3062.9029
e-mail: emmanuel@usp.br
Education:
Bachelor in Biology, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil (1985-1990)
MSc in Molecular Biology, Fiocruz, Brazil (1991-1993)
PhD in Biochemistry, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil (1993-1997)
Pos-doc in Cancer Genetics, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Res., Brazil (1997-1999)
Professional Experience:
Deputy-director, Laboratory of Neurosciences, HCFMUSP, Brazil (Since 2002)
Staff Scientist, Laboratory of Neurosciences, HCFMUSP, Brazil (2001)
Staff Scientist, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Brazil (1999-2001)
Senior biotechnologist. Fiocruz, Belo Horizonte, Brazil (1996-1997)
Current Research Projects:
1. Molecular Genetics
Investigations of molecular markers for Schizophrenia, Alzheimer disease, Bipolar disorder and epilepsy.
Investigation of polymorphisms in genes involved with neurogenesis in DNA from individuals with Schizophrenia.
Investigation of gene expression in cell cultures and animal models for Alzheimer disease.
Investigation of gene expression in brain samples derived from normal and Schizophrenia subjects.
2. Genomics
Planning, execution and coordination of Transcriptome and genome projects of organisms such as Schistosoma mansoni,Taenia solium, Human cancer tissues and Xylella fastidiosa.
Editorial Activity:
Assistant Editor for Human Genetics, Genetics and Molecular Biology (Since 2002)
Selected publications:
- Verjovski-Almeida S, DeMarco R, Martins EA, Guimaraes PE, Ojopi EP, Paquola AC, Piazza JP, Nishiyama MY, Kitajima JP, Adamson RE, Ashton PD, Bonaldo MF, Coulson PS, Dillon GP, Farias LP, Gregorio SP, Ho PL, Leite RA, Malaquias LC, Marques RC, Miyasato PA, Nascimento AL, Ohlweiler FP, Reis EM, Ribeiro MA, Sa RG, Stukart GC, Soares MB, Gargioni C, Kawano T, Rodrigues V, Madeira AM, Wilson RA, Menck CF, Setubal JC, Leite LC, Dias-Neto E - Transcriptome analysis of the acoelomate human parasite Schistosoma mansoni. Nat Genet 35:148-57, 2003. [ PubMed ]
- Helena Paula Brentani, Otávia L Caballero, Anamaria A Camargo, Aline M da Silva, Wilson A da Silva Jr, Emmanuel Dias Neto, Marco Grivet, Arthur Gruber, Pedro EM Guimaraes, Winston Hide, Christian Iseli, C. Victor Jongeneel, Janet Kelso, Maria Aparecida Nagai, Elida PB Ojopi, Elisson C Osorio, Eduardo MR Reis, Gregory J Riggins, Andrew JG Simpson, Sandro Souza, Brian J Stevenson, Robert L Strausberg, Eloiza H Tajara, Sérgio Verjovski-Almeida, HCGP/CGAP annotation and sequencing consortium - The generation and utilization of a cancer oriented representation of the human transcriptome, using expressed sequence tags Proccedings of the National Academies of Sciences (USA) 100:13418-13423, 2003. [ PubMed | Download ]
- AA Camargo, HPB Samaia, Emmanuel Dias Neto, DF Simão, IA Migotto, MRS Briones, FF Costa, MA Nagai, S Verjovski-Almeida, MA Zago, LEC Andrade, H Carrer, HFA El-Dorry, et al., - The contribution of 700,000 ORF sequence tags to the definition of the human transcriptome Proccedings of the National Academies of Sciences (USA) 98:12103-12108, 2001. [ PubMed | Download ]
- Andrew JG Simpson, Reinach, FC, Arruda, P, Abreu, FA, Acencio, M, Alvarenga, R, Alves, LMC, Araya, JE, Baia, GS, Baptista, CS, Barros, MH, Bonaccorsi, ED, Bordin, S, Bové, JM, Briones, MRS, Bueno, MRP, Camargo, AA, Camargo, LEA, Carraro, DM, Carrer, H, Colauto, NB, Colombo, C, Costa, FF, Costa, MCR, Costa Neto, CM, Coutinho, LL, Cristofani, M, Emmanuel Dias Neto, et al., - The genome sequence of the plant pathogen Xylella fastidiosa Nature 406:151-157, 2000. [ PubMed | Download ]
- Emmanuel Dias Neto, Ricardo G Corrêa, Sergio Verjovski-Almeida, Marcelo RS Briones, Maria A Nagai, Wilson da Silva Jr, Marco A Zago, Silvana Bordin, Fernando F Costa, Gustavo H Goldman, Alex F Carvalho, Adriana Matsukuma, Gilson S Baia, David H Simpson, Adriana Brunstein, Paulo SL Oliveira, Phillip Bucher, C Victor Jongeneel, Michael O’Hare, Fernando Soares, Ricardo R Brentani, Luis FL Reis, Sandro J Souza, Andrew JG Simpson - Shotgun sequencing of the human transcriptome with ORF expressed sequence tags Proccedings of the National Academies of Sciences (USA) 97:3491-3496, 2000. [ PubMed | Download ]