Osvaldo PompÃlio De Melo Neto
Professor
Molecular biology and Bioinformatics
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
Brazil
Biography
Osvaldo Pompílio de Melo Neto has a Bachelor's Degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Brasil, a Master's Degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Brasil and a PhD in Biological Sciences from the University of Brasil. He is currently a researcher at the Aggeu Magalhães Research Center, a unit of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Recife, Pernambuco.
Research Interest
Biochemistry, with emphasis in Molecular Biology, and Protozoology of Parasites, acting mainly in the following subjects: Regulation of the gene expression in Trypanosomatids
Publications
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Azizi H, Romão TP, Charret KS, Padmanabhan PK, de Melo Neto OP, Müller-McNicoll M, Papadopoulou B. RNA secondary structure and nucleotide composition of the conserved hallmark sequence of Leishmania SIDER2 retroposons are essential for endonucleolytic cleavage and mRNA degradation. PloS one. 2017 Jul 13;12(7):e0180678.
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de Sá Cavalcanti FL, Mendes-Marques CL, dos Santos Vasconcelos CR, de Lima Campos T, Rezende AM, Xavier DE, Leal NC, de-Melo-Neto OP, de Morais MM, Leal-Balbino TC. High frequency of OXA-253-producing Acinetobacter baumannii in different hospitals in Recife, Brazil. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 2017 Jan 1;61(1):e01309-16.
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do Nascimento NA, Ferreira LM, Romão TP, da Conceição Correia DM, dos Santos Vasconcelos CR, Rezende AM, Costa SG, Genta FA, de-Melo-Neto OP, Silva-Filha MH. N-glycosylation influences the catalytic activity of mosquito α-glucosidases associated with susceptibility or refractoriness to Lysinibacillus sphaericus. Insect biochemistry and molecular biology. 2017 Feb 28;81:62-71.
