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PERSONAL INFORMATION
- Full Name: Cláudia
Portes Santos Silva
- Place of birth: Rio de Janeiro
- Nationality: Brazilian
- Address:
Fundação
Oswaldo Cruz
Laboratorio de Avaliaçao e Promoção da Saúde
Ambiental (LAPSA)
Av. Brasil 4365 - Manguinhos
Rio de Janeiro, RJ - 21045-900
Brazil
- Telephone: +55
(21) 25984378 ext. 139
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Fax: +55(21) 25606474
ext. 3
- E-mail: cpsantos@ioc.fiocruz.br
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UNIVERSITY
EDUCATION
1982:
BSc/Lic. Biological Sciences, Universidade Santa Úrsula, RJ,
Brazil.
1989:
MSc, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - Museu Nacional, RJ, Brazil.
Thesis:
[Revision of the genus Aspidodera Railliet & Henry, 1912
(Nematoda: Heterakoidea) with new synonyms and a key to the species.]
1997:
PhD, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Biofísica
Carlos C. Filho, RJ, Brazil
Thesis:
[Studies on Atriaster heterodus Lebedev & Paruchin, 1969:
redescription, ultrastructure, nutrition, spermatogenesis and vitellogenesis,
including the redescription of Polylabris tubicirrus (Paperna
& Kohn, 1964) (Monogenea: Polyopisthocotylea), both species parasites
of Diplodus argenteus (Val., 1830) (Osteichthyes: Sparidae).]
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ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Universidade Santa Úrsula
- Auxiliary Professor, 12/84-04/91
- Universidade Santa Úrsula
- Assistant Professor/Researcher, 05/91-07/93
Lectures on Helminthology
and Modern Concepts of Biological Research
- Universidade Santa Úrsula
- Adjunct Professor/Researcher, 08/93-07/97
Lectures on Helminthology
and Modern Concepts of Biological Research
- Universidade Santa Úrsula
- Senior Professor/Researcher, 08/97-11/01
Lectures on Helminthology,
Imunopathology of schistosomiasis and Fundamental Biology for the
undergraduates in Biological Sciences and on Ichthyoparasitology for
post-graduate students of an MSc Course on Biological Oceanography.
- Universidade Presbiteriana
Mackenzie - Adjunct Professor/Researcher, 11/01- 09/02
Faculdade de Ciências
Biológicas, Exatas and Experimentais.
- Fundação
Oswaldo Cruz - Senior Researcher (Pesquisador Adjunto), 09/02 - present.
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ADMINISTRATION
Head of the Departamento
de Biologia Animal, Universidade Santa Úrsula, May, 1991-July,
1993
Coordinator of a Technical Course on Research on Parasite Biology and
a Specialized Technical Course on Parasite Biology and Biotecnology, 2009 to Present.
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MAIN
RESEARCH INTERESTS
As a young
worker, I had the good fortune to study with Dr Herman Lent and other
members of the Travassos school of parasitology, which is well known
throughout the world. Dr Lent especially showed me how interesting taxonomic
studies on nematodes can be. Later, at the Institute of Oswaldo Cruz,
I was infected by the icthyoparasitology 'bug', and when I started studying
marine monogeneans, I simply fell in love with them! However, in addition
to fish parasites, I have also worked on a variety of parasites, ranging
from minute, gut-less trematodes from bats to large ascaridoid nematodes
from whales. Although, my investigations have mainly been taxonomic,
I have also been involved with electron microscopy, cytochemistry and
histochemistry. In recent years, I have become interested in the enormous
biodiversity of the Neotropical region and especially marine parasitology
along the coast of Brazil, where my main interests are focused on the
parasites of wild fishes of economic importance and/or with a potential
for mariculture.
Nowadays, at
the Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, I am also working, together
with the LAPSA team, on schistosomiasis, using my taxonomic experience
to help identify the different larva digeneans found in the same molluscan
intermediate host. Educational programmes with which I am involved also
focus on human and environmental health.
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SCIENTIFIC
VISITS
- Internship, Departamento
de Helmintologia, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, with Prof. Amilcar
Arandas Rêgo, 1981-1983.
- Visiting Researcher, Laboratório
de Helmintos Parasitos de Peixes, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, with Dr Anna
Kohn, 1990-1995
- Visiting Researcher,Laboratory
of Helminthology, Instituto de Biologia, Universidad Nacional Autônoma
de México, with Drs Rafael Lamothe-Argumedo and Margarida Bravo-Hollis,
June, 1990.
- Visiting Researcher, Naturhistorisches
Museum Wien, with Dr Helmut Sattman, Head of the Department of Invertebrates,
October, 1995.
- Visiting Researcher, The
Natural History Museum, London, August, 1997 to work with Dr David Gibson,
Head of the Parasitic Worms Division.
- Visiting Researcher, The
Natural History Museum, London, August, 1998 to work with Dr David Gibson,
Head of the Parasitic Worms Division.
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LIST
OF PUBLICATIONS and CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
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