Dr
Oliveiro
Freitas Neto
Academic Record
2012. PhD degree in Veterinary Medicine at The Agronomic Science and Veterinary School –
University of São Paulo State (FCAV-Unesp), Jaboticabal-SP, Brazil. Thesis: Role of flagellum in the
pathogenicity of Salmonella enterica subespecie enterica serovar Gallinarum biovar Gallinarum*
2009-2010. Visiting PhD student at “School of Veterinary Medicine and Science of The University of Nottingham – UK (UNOTT)”.
2008. MSc degree in Veterinary Medicine at FCAV-Unesp.
2006. BVSc - Bachelor of Veterinary Science at FCAV-Unesp
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Research record
2010-Present. Since I returned from UK in December 2010, I have put efforts to establish a strong net of collaboration in different fields of knowledge.
I consolidated collaboration with Prof. Berchieri´s group (Epidemiology, infection and control of avian salmonellosis at FCAV-Unesp), with
Prof. Barrow´s group (Immunobiology of salmonellosis – at Vet. School of UNOTT), Prof. Gebreyes´s group (Molecular epidemiology of animal pathogens at
The Ohio State University, US) and with the genomics and computational biology group from Oswaldo Cruz foundation in Brazil (CEBio-Fio Cruz).
Upon Ph.D award (2012) I completed a two years postdoctoral stay (2012-2014) at FCAV-Unesp working on vaccine development. In parallel, I was invited to teach
Molecular Biology and start supervising students of the Postgraduate programme in Veterinary Medicine of the mentioned institution.
2014-2018. Selected for a permanent position for teaching Avian Diseases at the Department of Veterinary Sciences, Agronomic Sciences Centre,
Federal University of Paraíba (DCV-UFPB), Areia-PB, Brazil.
2018-present. Selected for permanent position of Associate Professor in Avian Diseases at the Department of Veterinary Medicine Preventive, Veterinary School,Federal University of Minas Gerais (DMVP-UFMG), Belo Horizonte-MG, Brazil.
Since then I started building my own research team and was able to apply for research grants.
My current research interest has four interconnected themes: (i) The deep investigation of immunobiology of avian salmonellosis; (ii) Development of an affinity column for the recovery of Salmonella enterica from complex environments for the purposes of proteomic and transcriptomic studies; (iii) Search for bacterial peptides to be used in ovo injection to early stimulate immune responses of chicks to enteric Salmonella; (iv) Or to be inserted in live recombinant Salmonella vaccine candidates.
Development of an affinity column for recovery of Salmonella enterica from complex environments for purposes of proteomics and transcritomics analyses.