Editorial Board Member - JAR
LUIS CLAUDIO NASCIMENTO DA SILVA
Department of Parasitary BiologyCeuma University
Rua dos Castanheiros Jardim Renascença 65075120 - São Luís
Brazil
BIOGRAPHY:
Dr. Luis Claudio Nascimento da Silva is presently working as a Guest research at Department of Biology, Section of Functional Genomics of University of Copenhagen (KU). He also worked as Professor and Coordinator of Graduate Specialization in Molecular Diagnostic at Pernambuco Faculty of Health (FPS, Recife, Brazil). He had studied Biomedical Science and completed his MSc and PhD in Biological Sciences in Federal University of Pernambuco (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, UFPE) and then his took a postdoc position at KU. His research has been focused on genetic of bacteria and biomedical applications of natural products (secondary metabolites, essential oils, lectins) especially from Caatinga plants (Semi-arid biome from Brazil). He is member of the Editorial board of Frontiers in Microbiology as Guest associate editor of the Research topic “New frontiers in the search of antimicrobials agents from natural products”. He also served as Referee for various International Journals including Frontiers in Microbiology, Molecules, Journal of Medicinal Plant Research and European Journal of Medicinal Plants).
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
His research interests includes: (1) The investigation of control mechanism of bacterial chromosome replication; (2) Development of compounds that target the DNA synthesis machinery; (3) Anti-virulence and anti-infective compounds; (4) Antibiotic resistance modulators; (4) Natural products from plants.
Other Editorial Board Members - JAR
Suresh G. Joshi
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Drexel University
United States
Jianxun Song
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Texas A&M University
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Jean Carlet
World Alliance Against Antibiotic Resistance (WAAAR)
France
GEORGE DINOS
Department of Biochemistry
University of Patras
Greece
EUGENE A. CIOFFI
Department of Pharmacology
College of Medicine
University of South Alabama
United States
ZHANG XUE-HONG
School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
China
Zafar K. Khan
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Drexel University
United States
ELENA A. USACHEVA
Department of Pathology
University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
United States
JANAK PADIA
Center of Biomolecular Therapeutics
University of Maryland
United States
ASIF ALI
Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research (AcSIR)
India