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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Artes, Ciências e Humanidades (EACH) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Biologist with a Masters and PhD in Psychobiology from the Federal University of São Paulo, specializing in Psychopharmacology, Neurochemistry, and Sleep. Postdoctoral training in Molecular Genetics of Sleep at Stanford University (USA). Currently an Associate Professor at the School of Arts, Sciences, and Humanities at the University of São Paulo (USP). Supervisor in the Graduate Programs in Neuroscience and Behavior and Cultural Studies at USP. Current research focuses on the Genetics of Circadian Rhythms and Sleep, the Physiology of Normal and Pathological Sleep, as well as Sleep and Culture, and the Development of Sleep Technology. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Glutamate is the most excitatory neurotransmitter in the central nervous system and it is involved in the initiation and maintaining of waking and rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep. Homer proteins act in the trafficking and/or clustering of metabotropic glutamate receptors, and polymorphisms in the HOMER1 gene have been associated with phenotypes related to glutamate signaling dysregulation.…
The objective of this study is to evaluate the alterations in sleep and circadian parameters during the ageing process. The study sample comprises volunteers older than 18 until 90 years of age that answered the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and the Horne & Ostberg circadian preference questionnaire. We observed that the shift to morningness with increasing age is associated wit…
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Individual differences in sleep duration, sleep onset and sleep offset, and preference for certain schedules in order to perform daily activities are associated with so-called chronotype. Studies about chronotype bring up the problem of the adaptation of individuals to the temporal organization of society and its implications for human health and productivity. The molecular circadian timi…
In 36 years, the history of the basis of circadian rhythmicity was a history of a quickly and successful scientific investigation. The research in the field went from some vaguely indications of a genetic regulation of rhythmic behavior in flies to a wide view of the molecular control of these rhythms in rodents and man. Molecular studies in mammals and in humans have shown that variation…
Os ritmos circadianos exibem como função do ciclo claro-escuro, uma alternância de alças de retro-alimentação transcricionais e traducionais, positivas e negativas, envolvendo vários genes conhecidos como relógio. Os genes period (Per 1-3) possuem uma expressão rítmica e são importantes para uma função normal do relógio biológico. Mutações nesses genes relógios são conhecidas por modulare…
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O candidato a bolsa irá se juntar inicialmente a parte do projeto relacionada à investigação do envolvimento da proteína príon com a insônia e outros distúrbios de sono em humanos (parte B, sub-item 2 do projeto de pesquisa). A proteína príon está envolvida com um grupo de doenças em humanos e animais caracterizadas principalmente por uma degeneração encefálica esponjiforme. Entre estas d…