Dawidson Assis Gomes
Associate Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Immunology
University of Minas
Brazil
Biography
He holds a bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences (1998-2002), a master's degree (2002-2003) and a Ph.D. (2003-2006) in Biochemical and Molecular Pharmacology from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) with a sandwich period at the Department of Internal Medicine - Yale University 2004-2006), postdoctoral degree from the Department of Internal Medicine - Yale University (2006-2008) and the Department of Physiology and Biophysics - UFMG (2008). He is currently a professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Immunology at UFMG. It is a team of founders of the ICB-UFMG (CAPI) image acquisition and processing center and the multiuser equipment laboratory of the Department of Biochemistry and Immunology. He has experience in the field of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Parasitology, Neurosciences, Pharmacology and Physiology mainly studying signal transduction pathways capable of regulating functions such as: cell death, cell proliferation and differentiation in tumor cells and stem cells. It studies how receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) translocate to the nucleus to generate calcium signals. It also studies the interactions of nanocomposites for various biotechnological applications, tissue and organ engineering. He was a Fellow of Fogarty-National Institutes of Health (NIH), deputy head of the Department of Biochemistry and Immunology for two terms (2013-2015, 2015-2017) and vice-director of CAPI (2013-2015, 2015-2017). Colsultor Ad-Hoc of CNPq, CAPES and FAPDF. He is currently Visiting Assistant Professor at Yale University USAand director of the CAPI (CAPI) . I fight for quality teaching and research!
Research Interest
Mechanism of action of animal toxins, Calcium signaling, Calcium signaling, Nuclear calcium signaling, Study of intracellular calcium-dependent cell proliferation and death, Hepatic physiology, Pathophysiology of Stem Cells, Tissue Engineering, Nanotechnology, Cancer Biology, Study of Paraccocidioidiomycosis, Nuclear calcium signaling, Calcium signaling in liver cells.
Publications
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Gomes DA, Rodrigues MA, Leite MF, Gomez MV, Varnai P, et al. (2008) c-Met must translocate to the nucleus to initiate calcium signals. Journal of Biological Chemistry; 283 : 4344-4351.
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GUATIMOSIN S., AMAYA MJ, GUERRA MT, AGUIAR CJ, GOES A. M, et al. (2008) Nuclear calcium Regulates Cardiomyocyte Function. Cell Calcium (Edinburgh); 44 : 230-242.
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Soliman EM, Rodrigues MA, Gomes DA, Sheung N, Yu J, et al. (2009) Intracellular calcium signals regulate growth of hepatic stellate cells via specific effects on cell cycle progression. Cell calcium; 45 : 284-292.
