Research Projects

Area of Concentration: Bioinformatics

Research Line – Comparative Genomics

Biosynthetic Genes and Bioactive Natural Products of Amazon Cyanobacteria: frontiers in biotechnology

Coordinator: Maria Paula Cruz Schneider

Starting date: 01/2010

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Realgene: legal Amazon network of genomic research

Coordinator: Spartaco Astolfi Filho

Starting date: 01/2002

Funding:  National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq – Portuguese Acronym)

Academic Cooperative Network for Studies and Development of Tools for Structural and Functional Genomics

Coordinator: Vasco Ariston de Carvalho Azevedo

Starting date: 01/2013

Funding:  Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES – Portuguese Acronym) – Computacional Biology

Research Line - Assembly and annotation of genomes

Metagenomic and Data Mining Approaches for the Evaluation of Presence of Cyanotoxins in Recreational Waters and in Fishing-producer and Seafood Reagions in the State of Pará

Coordinator: Maria Paula Cruz Schneider

Starting date: 03/2014

Funding:  State of Pará Research Support Foundation (FAPESPA – Portuguese acronym) - (Official Notice 006/2014 – Research Funding Program – FAPESPA’s Thematic Projects)

Pangenomic Analysis of Emerging Pathogenous Corynebacteria

Coordinator: Artur Luiz da Costa da Silva

Starting date: 09/2013

Funding:  National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq)- (Research Funding)

Development of Living-Bacterial Vaccines for Veterinarian Interests through Deletion of Virulence Genes

Coordinator: Vasco Ariston de Carvalho Azevedo

Starting date: 01/2011

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Studies of the Interactome and the Exosome in Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis for Research of New Therapeutic Goals

Coordinator: Adriana Ribeiro Carneiro

Starting date: 01/2014

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Functional Studies of the Alternate Sigma Factors of the Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis Bacterium

Coordinator: Vasco Ariston de Carvalho Azevedo

Starting date: 01/2010

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Natural Environments as Reservoirs of Resistance to Last Resort-Antibiotics

Coordinator: Artur Luiz da Costa da Silva

Starting date: 01/2012

Funding:  National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) - (Call for Projects MEC/MCTI/Capes/CNPq/Faps No. 61/2011)

Prospecting of the Biotechnological Potential of the Exiguobacterium antarcticum Psychotrophic Bacterium: study of new proteins involved in the adaptation to cold

Coordinator: Maria Paula Cruz Schneider

Starting date: 04/01/2010

Funding:  Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) - (Special Projects)

Reconstruction and Modeling of Metabolic Pathways in Genome Scale of the Cianobacteria Microcystis aeruginosa SPC777

Coordinator: Maria Paula Cruz Schneider

Starting date: 22/12/2013

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The Origin of the Tetrapod Limb: conserved and derived cis-regulation of hox genes in vertebrates

Coordinator: Maria Paula Cruz Schneider

Starting date: 01/2012

Funding: National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) – International Cooperation (Bilateral Treaty)

Use of the Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans as an alternate Model of infection and Selection of Mutant Linage of Different Pathogenic Species of Corynebacterium

Coordinator: Vasco Ariston de Carvalho Azevedo

Starting date: 01/2011

Funding:  Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) – Research Pro-Rectorate

Research Line – Molecular Modeling

Application of Hybrid Methods (QM/MM) in the Studies of the Effect of the Medium in Chemical and Biochemical Processes for Natural Amazon Products

Coordinator: Jerônimo Lameira Silva

Starting date: 01/2006

Funding:  Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) – Special Projects

Network of Scientific and Technological Innovation in Amazon Health (NETWORK)

Coordinator: Paulo Pimentel de Assumpção

Starting date: 01/2010

Funding:  Funding Authority for Studies and Projects (FINEP – Portuguese Acronym) - (Financial Support)