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2023

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Microbiology

D-Index
69
Citations
14106
World Ranking
2097
National Ranking
21

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Microbiology in Brazil Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Microbiology in Brazil Leader Award

Overview

Marcio L. Rodrigues is affiliated with the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant focus on subfields such as Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology, Microbiology, and Plant Science.

The scientist's work covers a variety of topics, particularly emphasizing fungal infections and studies, antifungal resistance and susceptibility, extracellular vesicles in disease, galectins and cancer biology, nail diseases and treatments, bacterial infections and vaccines, as well as studies on chitinases and chitosanases.

Research papers authored or co-authored by Marcio L. Rodrigues include:

  • Fungal diseases as neglected pathogens: A wake-up call to public health officials, 2020, PLoS neglected tropical diseases
  • Extracellular Vesicles in Fungi: Past, Present, and Future Perspectives, 2020, Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
  • Cryptococcus extracellular vesicles properties and their use as vaccine platforms, 2021, Journal of Extracellular Vesicles
  • Protective effect of fungal extracellular vesicles against murine candidiasis, 2020, Cellular Microbiology
  • Extracellular Vesicles Regulate Biofilm Formation and Yeast-to-Hypha Differentiation in Candida albicans, 2022, mBio

The scientist has published in multiple venues, with repeated contributions to:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) - 18 publications
  • mBio - 6 publications
  • Microbiology Spectrum - 5 publications
  • Journal of Fungi - 5 publications
  • Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology - 4 publications

Marcio L. Rodrigues has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Leonardo Nimrichter
  • Flavia C. G. Reis
  • Haroldo César de Oliveira
  • Lysangela R. Alves
  • Joshua D. Nosanchuk

In addition to journal articles, this researcher has contributed to book publications, notably in the book Fungal Extracellular Vesicles published by Springer Science+Business Media in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Extracellular Vesicles Produced by Cryptococcus neoformans Contain Protein Components Associated with Virulence

    Marcio L. Rodrigues;Ernesto S. Nakayasu;Debora L. Oliveira;Leonardo Nimrichter

  • The capsule of the fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans

    Oscar Zaragoza;Marcio L. Rodrigues;Magdia De Jesus;Susana Frases

  • Vesicular Polysaccharide Export in Cryptococcus neoformans Is a Eukaryotic Solution to the Problem of Fungal Trans-Cell Wall Transport

    Marcio L. Rodrigues;Leonardo Nimrichter;Débora L. Oliveira;Susana Frases

  • The Still Underestimated Problem of Fungal Diseases Worldwide.

    Fausto Bruno dos Reis Almeida;Márcio Lourenço Rodrigues;Carolina Coelho

  • EVpedia: a community web portal for extracellular vesicles research

    Dae-Kyum Kim;Jaewook Lee;Sae Rom Kim;Dong Sic Choi

  • Vesicular transport in Histoplasma capsulatum: an effective mechanism for trans-cell wall transfer of proteins and lipids in ascomycetes

    Priscila Costa Albuquerque;Ernesto S. Nakayasu;Marcio L. Rodrigues;Susana Frases

  • Fungal diseases as neglected pathogens: A wake-up call to public health officials

    Marcio L. Rodrigues;Marcio L. Rodrigues;Joshua D. Nosanchuk

  • Compositional and immunobiological analyses of extracellular vesicles released by Candida albicans

    Gabriele Vargas;Juliana D. B. Rocha;Debora Leite Oliveira;Priscila Costa Albuquerque

  • Extracellular Vesicles from Cryptococcus neoformans Modulate Macrophage Functions

    Débora L. Oliveira;Célio G. Freire-de-Lima;Joshua D. Nosanchuk;Arturo Casadevall

  • Characterization of yeast extracellular vesicles: evidence for the participation of different pathways of cellular traffic in vesicle biogenesis.

    Débora L. Oliveira;Ernesto S. Nakayasu;Ernesto S. Nakayasu;Luna S. Joffe;Allan J. Guimarães

  • The Multifunctional Fungal Ergosterol

    Marcio L. Rodrigues;Marcio L. Rodrigues

  • Antimicrobial activity of Croton cajucara Benth linalool-rich essential oil on artificial biofilms and planktonic microorganisms

    W. S. Alviano;R. R. Mendonca-Filho;D. S. Alviano;H. R. Bizzo

  • Human antibodies against a purified glucosylceramide from Cryptococcus neoformans inhibit cell budding and fungal growth.

    Marcio L. Rodrigues;Luiz R. Travassos;Kildare R. Miranda;Anderson J. Franzen

  • Extracellular vesicle-mediated export of fungal RNA

    Roberta Peres da Silva;Rosana Puccia;Marcio L. Rodrigues;Marcio L. Rodrigues;Débora L. Oliveira

  • Vesicular transport across the fungal cell wall.

    Arturo Casadevall;Joshua D. Nosanchuk;Peter Williamson;Peter Williamson;Marcio L. Rodrigues

  • Vesicle-associated melanization in Cryptococcus neoformans.

    Helene C. Eisenman;Susana Frases;André M. Nicola;Marcio L. Rodrigues

  • Self-Aggregation of Cryptococcus neoformans Capsular Glucuronoxylomannan Is Dependent on Divalent Cations‡

    Leonardo Nimrichter;Susana Frases;Leonardo P. Cinelli;Nathan B. Viana

  • Identification of a New Class of Antifungals Targeting the Synthesis of Fungal Sphingolipids

    Visesato Mor;Antonella Rella;Amir M. Farnoud;Ashutosh Singh

  • Potential Roles of Fungal Extracellular Vesicles during Infection.

    Luna S. Joffe;Luna S. Joffe;Leonardo Nimrichter;Marcio L. Rodrigues;Marcio L. Rodrigues;Maurizio Del Poeta;Maurizio Del Poeta

  • Biology and pathogenesis of Fonsecaea pedrosoi, the major etiologic agent of chromoblastomycosis.

    André L.S. Santos;Vanila F. Palmeira;Sonia Rozental;Lucimar F. Kneipp

  • Extracellular Vesicles in Fungi: Past, Present, and Future Perspectives.

    Juliana Rizzo;Marcio L. Rodrigues;Marcio L. Rodrigues;Guilhem Janbon

  • EVpedia: A community web portal for extracellular vesicles research

    D.-K. Kim;J. Lee;S. R. Kim;D.-S. Choi

Frequent Co-Authors

Leonardo Nimrichter
Leonardo Nimrichter Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Arturo Casadevall
Arturo Casadevall Johns Hopkins University
Susana Frases
Susana Frases Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Celuta S. Alviano
Celuta S. Alviano Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Marilene Henning Vainstein
Marilene Henning Vainstein Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Joshua D. Nosanchuk
Joshua D. Nosanchuk Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Luiz R. Travassos
Luiz R. Travassos Federal University of Sao Paulo
Maurizio Del Poeta
Maurizio Del Poeta Stony Brook University
Igor C. Almeida
Igor C. Almeida The University of Texas at El Paso
Ernesto S. Nakayasu
Ernesto S. Nakayasu Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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