Camila Valle (camila.valle@childrens.harvard.edu)

Education
B.S. on Biomedicine – Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, concluded on February 2004.

Master in Biological Sciences (Biophysics) - Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, under supervision of Dr. Rosalia Mendez Otero, concluded on March 2006. Dissertation entitled: “Bone marrow cells promote neuroprotection and regeneration in a model of rat optic nerve crush”.

PhD in Biologial Sciences (Physiology) – Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, under supervision of Dr. Rosalia Mendez Otero, since March 2006; to be concluded on February 2010.

Academic Experience
2007 to present – Laboratories for neuroscience research in neurosurgery, under supervision of Dr. Larry Benowitz

2003 – Sonda Laboratory, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, under supervision of Dr. Franklin Rumjanek (225 hours).

2001 to present – Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, under supervision of Dr. Rosalia Mendez Otero.

2000/01 – Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Cardiology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, under supervision of Dr. Regina Goldenberg (360 hours).

Foreign Language
ENGLISH: Sociedade Brasileira de Cultura Inglesa, 1993 to 2000, total of 820 hours.
Diploma on Cambridge University: First Certificate in English, 2000.

FRENCH: Escola Parque – 1993 to 1999.
“Centre Mediterraneen d’ Études Françaises”, Cap D’Ail, France, 1996 – total of 45 hours.

Scholarships and awards
March/2006 to present - Brazilian Education Ministry Graduate Scholarship - CAPES

September/2006 – Award for the best scientific work presented as poster in the 1st International Symposium on Stem Cells. Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.

September/2006 - Honourable mention for photo on stem cells in scientific work presented as poster in the 1st International Symposium on Stem Cells. Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.

August/2006 – Honourable mention in scientific work presented as poster in the XXI Brazilian Experimental Biology Societies Federation Symposium.

March/2004 - Febrauary/2005 - Brazilian National Research Council Graduate Scholarship – CNPq

August/2003 – Abstract selected for competition in the XVIII Brazilian Experimental Biology Societies Federation Symposium.

January/2002 - January/2004 - Brazilian National Research Council Undergraduate Scholarship – CNPq

Publications
Full papers
Mendez-Otero R, Zaverucha-do-Valle C, Gubert F, Freitas GR, Santiago MF. Regulation and function of neurogenesis in the adult vertebrate brain (2005). Braz J Med Biol Res. 38(10):1553-9.

Abstracts
Society for Neuroscience, Atlanta, USA, 2006. Title1: Bone marrow cells promote neuroprotection and regeneration in a model of rat optic nerve crush. Title 2: Influence of bone marrow cells and global ischemia on neural stem cells in adult rats.

1st International Symposium on Stem Cells, Salvador, Brazil, 2006. Title1: Bone marrow cells promote neuroprotection and regeneration in a model of rat optic nerve crush. Title 2: Influence of bone marrow cells and global ischemia on neural stem cells in adult rats.

XXI Federação das Sociedades de Biologia Experimental. FeSBE, Águas de Lindóia, Brazil, 2006. Title1: Bone marrow cells promote neuroprotection and regeneration in a model of rat optic nerve crush. Title 2: Influence of bone marrow cells and global ischemia on neural stem cells in adult rats.

XX Federação das Sociedades de Biologia Experimental. FeSBE, Águas de Lindóia, Brazil, 2005. Title: The 9-O-acetyl GD3 ganglioside expression in the adult central nervous system: standard condition and injury response.

III International Symposium on Extracellular Matrix, Angra dos Reis, Brazil, 2004. Title 1: A subpopulation of SVZ neural stem cells express the 9-O-acetyl GD3 ganglioside. Tiltle 2: The 9-O-acetyl GD3 ganglioside expression in the adult central nervous system: standard condition and injury response.

Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, USA, 2003. Title: The ganglioside 9-O-acetyl GD3 is expressed by a subpopulation of SVZ cells that contains NSCs.

XVIII Federação das Sociedades de Biologia Experimental. FeSBE, Águas de Lindóia, Brazil, 2003. Title 1: Phenotypic characterization of Jones + subventricular cells from adult rats. Title 2: Enriched neural stem cells using the 9-O-acetyl ganglioside. Both under poster format.

VI Jornada Científica do Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2003. Title 1: Phenotypic characterization of Jones + subventricular cells from adult rats. Title 2: Enriched neural stem cells using the 9-O-acetyl ganglioside.

XVII Reunião Anual da Federação de Sociedades de Biologia Experimental, Salvador, Brazil, 2002. Title: Is the ganglioside 9-O-acetyl GD3 a marker for stem cells in the adult nervous system?

XXIII Jornada de Iniciação Científica da UFRJ – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2001. Title: Bone marrow stromal cells in the treatment of chronic infarcted myocardium.

Courses
“Neurobiology of Depression” - XXI Reunião Anual da Federação de Sociedades de Biologia Experimental (FeSBE), Águas de Lindóia, SP – August 2006.

“Image, action and imagination” - XX Reunião Anual da Federação de Sociedades de Biologia Experimental (FeSBE), Águas de Lindóia, SP – August 2005.

“Stem Cell and Cellular Therapy” - Chaire Unesco - UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, RJ – December 2004.

“Cellular and molecular aspects of nervous system ontogenesis” - XIX Reunião Anual da Federação de Sociedades de Biologia Experimental (FeSBE), Águas de Lindóia, SP– August 2004.

“Tissue Bioengineering: the medicine of the future?” - XVII Reunião Anual da Federação de Sociedades de Biologia Experimental (FeSBE), Salvador, BA– August 2002.

“Basic and applicant pharmacology” - IV Semana de Biomedicina, Rio de Janeiro, RJ – August 2002.

“From the genome sequences to the future of genetic medicine” – Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Botucatu, SP – October 2001.

“Genomic and post-genomic” – III Semana de Biomedicina, Rio de Janeiro, RJ – August 2001.