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  • 2001 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Pedro L. Oliveira is affiliated with the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Their research primarily focuses on agricultural and biological sciences, with significant contributions also made in medicine.

The main areas of study within their work include insect science, public health, environmental and occupational health, materials chemistry, immunology, and molecular biology. These fields intersect notably with specialized topics such as insect symbiosis and bacterial influences, mosquito-borne diseases and control, invertebrate immune response mechanisms, insect and pesticide research, crystallization and solubility studies, trypanosoma species research and implications, and X-ray diffraction in crystallography.

Their recent scholarly output includes the following publications:

  • Poor Unstable Midgut Microbiome of Hard Ticks Contrasts With Abundant and Stable Monospecific Microbiome in Ovaries, 2020, Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
  • A physiologic overview of the organ-specific transcriptome of the cattle tick Rhipicephalus microplus, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Coxiella Endosymbiont of Rhipicephalus microplus Modulates Tick Physiology With a Major Impact in Blood Feeding Capacity, 2022, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Beyond the eye: Kynurenine pathway impairment causes midgut homeostasis dysfunction and survival and reproductive costs in blood-feeding mosquitoes, 2022, Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
  • Repurposing the orphan drug nitisinone to control the transmission of African trypanosomiasis, 2021, PLoS Biology

Frequent collaborators include Vivek Das, Anne-Lucie Teillout, Israël M. Mbomekallé, Firasat Hussain, and Itabajara da Silva Vaz.

The scientist's work often appears in venues such as The Cambridge Structural Database, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Frontiers in Physiology, Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Scientific Reports. These publications reflect the interdisciplinary and varied nature of their research output.

Pedro L. Oliveira has been recognized with a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2001.

Best Publications

  • Characterization of heme as activator of Toll-like receptor 4.

    Rodrigo T. Figueiredo;Patricia L. Fernandez;Diego S. Mourao-Sa;Bárbara N. Porto

  • Adaptations against heme toxicity in blood-feeding arthropods

    Aurélio V. Graça-Souza;Clarissa Maya-Monteiro;Gabriela O. Paiva-Silva;Glória R.C. Braz

  • Neutrophil activation by heme: implications for inflammatory processes.

    Aurélio V. Graça-Souza;Maria Augusta B. Arruda;Marta S. de Freitas;Christina Barja-Fidalgo

  • Genome of Rhodnius prolixus, an insect vector of Chagas disease, reveals unique adaptations to hematophagy and parasite infection

    Rafael D. Mesquita;Raquel J. Vionette-Amaral;Carl Lowenberger;Rolando Rivera-Pomar

  • Blood Meal-Derived Heme Decreases ROS Levels in the Midgut of Aedes aegypti and Allows Proliferation of Intestinal Microbiota

    Jose Henrique M. Oliveira;Renata L. S. Gonçalves;Flavio A. Lara;Felipe A. Dias

  • An insight into the transcriptome of the digestive tract of the bloodsucking bug, Rhodnius prolixus.

    José M. C. Ribeiro;Fernando A. Genta;Marcos H. F. Sorgine;Raquel Logullo

  • Haemozoin in Schistosoma mansoni.

    Marcus F Oliveira;Joana C.P d'Avila;Christiane R Torres;Pedro L Oliveira

  • Haem detoxification by an insect.

    Marcus F. Oliveira;José R. Silva;Marílvia Dansa-Petretski;Wanderley de Souza

  • Tracing heme in a living cell: hemoglobin degradation and heme traffic in digest cells of the cattle tick Boophilus microplus.

    F. A. Lara;U. Lins;G. H. Bechara;P. L. Oliveira

  • A missing metabolic pathway in the cattle tick Boophilus microplus.

    Glória R.C. Braz;Heloisa S.L. Coelho;Hatisaburo Masuda;Pedro L. Oliveira

  • Aedes aegypti peritrophic matrix and its interaction with heme during blood digestion.

    Valéria Pascoa;Pedro L. Oliveira;Marı́lvia Dansa-Petretski;José R. Silva

  • Structural and morphological characterization of hemozoin produced by Schistosoma mansoni and Rhodnius prolixus

    Marcus F. Oliveira;Stefan W. Kycia;Ariel Gomez;Aaron J. Kosar

  • Identification of the Aedes aegypti peritrophic matrix protein AeIMUCI as a heme-binding protein.

    Martin Devenport;Patricia H Alvarenga;Li Shao;Hisashi Fujioka

  • HeLp, a Heme Lipoprotein from the Hemolymph of the Cattle Tick,Boophilus microplus

    Clarissa M. Maya-Monteiro;Sirlei Daffre;Carlos Logullo;Flavio A. Lara

  • A new intracellular pathway of haem detoxification in the midgut of the cattle tick Boophilus microplus: aggregation inside a specialized organelle, the hemosome.

    Flavio Alves Lara;Ulysses Lins;Gabriela Paiva-Silva;Igor C. Almeida

  • A Coxiella mutualist symbiont is essential to the development of Rhipicephalus microplus

    Melina Garcia Guizzo;Luís Fernando Parizi;Rodrigo Dutra Nunes;Renata Schama

  • Antioxidant role of Rhodnius prolixus heme-binding protein. Protection against heme-induced lipid peroxidation.

    Marílvia Dansa-Petretski;José M.C. Ribeiro;Geórgia C. Atella;Hatisaburo Masuda

  • A Heme-binding Protein from Hemolymph and Oocytes of the Blood-sucking Insect, Rhodnius prolixus ISOLATION AND CHARACTERIZATION

    Pedro L. Oliveira;John K. Kawooya;José M.C. Ribeiro;Terrance Meyer

  • Hydrogen peroxide detoxification in the midgut of the blood-sucking insect, Rhodnius prolixus.

    Marcia Cristina Paes;Mariana Borges Oliveira;Pedro L. Oliveira

  • Haemozoin formation in the midgut of the blood-sucking insect Rhodnius prolixus

    Marcus F. Oliveira;José R. Silva;Marı́lvia Dansa-Petretski;Wanderley de Souza

Frequent Co-Authors

José M. C. Ribeiro
José M. C. Ribeiro National Institutes of Health
Igor C. Almeida
Igor C. Almeida The University of Texas at El Paso
Patrícia Azambuja
Patrícia Azambuja Fluminense Federal University
Eloi S. Garcia
Eloi S. Garcia Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
Wanderley de Souza
Wanderley de Souza Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Sergio T. Ferreira
Sergio T. Ferreira Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Walter R. Terra
Walter R. Terra Universidade de São Paulo
Roderic Guigó
Roderic Guigó Pompeu Fabra University
Russolina B. Zingali
Russolina B. Zingali Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
George Dimopoulos
George Dimopoulos National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

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