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Marcio J Pocas-Fonseca


Marcio J Pocas-Fonseca

University of Brasilia, Brazil

Biography

Marcio J Pocas-Fonseca: B.Sc. in Biological Sciences (University of Brasilia-Brazil), M. Sc. in Molecular Biology (1994) and PhD in Molecular Biology from the University of Brasilia in a joint program with the Vienna University of Technology (Austria, 2000). Associate Professor at the Department of Genetics and Morphology, University of Brasilia since 1997. Post-doctoral fellow in Molecular and Microorganisms Genetics at the Institute of Chemical Engineering Vienna University of Technology from August 2006 to October 2007. Post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Microbiology of the University of Delhi South Campus (January-March 2014; November 2014 - March 2015). Expertise and focused on gene structure, function and regulation for cellulolytic and pathogenic fungi, with emphasis in epigenetics. 23 full papers in international indexed journals, 09 book chapters, 02 patents on biotechnology, 13 M.Sc. dissertations as supervisor, 03 PhD thesis as supervisor.

Abstract

Abstract : The epigenetic down regulation of Cryptococcus neoformans major virulence phenotypes is induced by histone deacetylases inhibitors