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Luiz Carlos Junior Alcantara
Summary
I am a Researcher at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ). I am too visiting researcher of the Dept. of Genetics of the University Federal of Minas Gerais (UFMG). I hold a degree in pharmacy from the Federal University of Ouro Preto (1992), masters degree in Biochemistry from the Ribeirão Preto Medical School of the University of São Paulo (1994) and a PhD in Cell and Molecular Biology from the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (2002). I had too 3 postdoctoral fellows, the last one being held at the National Cancer Institute, at the US National Institutes of Health. I have experience in Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics of Human Retroviruses (HIV and HTLV) and Human Arboviruses (Chikungunya, Zika, Dengue, Yellow Fever and Oropouche), working mainly on the following topics: Genomic surveillance, molecular epidemiology and evolution of viruses Human polymorphisms in human virus host genes, Clinical-epidemiological correlations in human viruses, Development of new bioinformatics tools for the study of human / host virus genes.