José Júnior França de Barros

Graduated in Pharmacy-Biochemistry from the State University of Paraíba-UEPB (1998), he has a Masters and Doctorate in Sciences (Microbiology and Immunology) from the Paulo de Góes Institute of Microbiology-Federal University of Rio de Janeiro-UFRJ (1999-2005). He was a consultant in Molecular Biology at the Pan American Foot-and-Mouth Disease Center (OPS/WHO). He is currently a Researcher in Public Health at the Molecular Virology Laboratory (LVM) of the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz-IOC-Fiocruz-RJ (Ministry of Health-MS / Brazil), acting as a Virologist. Coordinator and professor of Virology at Escola Politécnica de Saúde Joaquim Venâncio-EPSJV (2017-2019) and of the Technical Course in Biotechnology (CTB) of the IOC. He is a guest professor, course coordinator and advisor in the Postgraduate Program in Microbiology at Fundação Técnico-Educacional Souza Marques (FTESM). He is Quality Manager at the LVM Laboratory and a member of the Internal Commission for the Development of the Career Plan and Positions in Science, Technology, Production and Innovation in Public Health at Fiocruz (CIPCSP). He has experience in extracting and preparing plant extracts for the evaluation of their antimicrobial activity and in the detection of aflatoxins in foods (Grains / Cereals and seeds), by means of chromatographic techniques. In Virology, he develops research projects in the following viral families: Orthomyxoviridae (purification and kinetic characterization and specificity of viral neuraminidase and lectins), Picornaviridae (viral persistence in an animal host, generation of new variants and molecular epidemiology), Flaviviridae (mutations in the virus of hepatitis C associated with clinical course of infection, hepatocarcinogenesis and therapeutic response and phylogenetic analysis), Hepadnaviridae (Occult infection and gene recombination). His studies also involve the development and/or improvement of viral diagnostic methodologieshttp://lattes.cnpq.br/10826610...

March 2025