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ERNESTO

FEDERICO MOREIRA

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research

interests

The study of cellular and

molecular regulation of cell differentiation in the embryonic retina.

professional

experience

Wilmer

Eye Institute at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Baltimore, MD 2001

- present

Title:

Post-doctoral fellow

1997-2001

National Eye Institute, National Institutes

of Health.Bethesda,

MD 1997-2001

Title:

Post-doctoral

fellow

education

University

of Buenos Aires, School of Medicine Buenos Aires,

Argentina ;

Buenos Aires, Argentina 1990-1996

School of Medicine, Doctor of Medicine (M.D.)

Montgomery

College ;

Rockville, MD 1987-1989

Science and English Courses

University

of the District of Columbia; ;

Rockville, MD 1986

English as a second language (ESL) studies

additional

education

09-12/2003

Biomedical Communications course: Grants, papers and presentations.

2001-2002 Fundamental concepts in Microscopy: light, phase

contrast, polarized, Fluorescent and confocal microscopy. The

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Department of

Anatomy and Cell Biology.

09-12/1999 NIH/Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences

(FAES). TRAC16M course. Expression, detection, & purification

of recombinant Proteins.

Preparing scientific images for publication and display. Center

for Information Technology, National Institutes of Health,

Bethesda, MD.

Using Photoshop for acquiring scientific images. Center for

Information Technology, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda,

MD.

03-05/1998 NIH/Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences

(FAES) TRAC III course- Recombinant DNA Methodology II. Use

of eukaryotes and specialized methods.

08-12/1997 NIH/Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences

(FAES) TRAC II course- Recombinant DNA Methodology I

02-08/1996 E.R. Emergency Room Rotations General Surgery, OB/GYN,

Ophthalmology, Urology.

1994 Internal Medicine Courses Regulation of the acid/base

internal medium Diabetes, Emergencies. Diabetic cetoacidosis

Boehringer-Mannheim, Argentina, Buenos Aires

publications

Rodriguez,

I.R., Mazuruk, K., Jaworski, C., Iwata, F., Moreira,

E.F.

and Kaiser-Kupfer, M.I. Novel mutations in

the XLRS1 gene may be caused by early Okazaki fragments

sequence replacement. (1998) Invest Ophthalmol & Vis

Sci. 39:1736-1739,

Acharya,

S., Rodriguez, I.R., Moreira, E.F., Midura, R.J., Misono, K.,

Todres, E., and Hollyfield, J.G. SPACR:

a novel interphotoreceptor matrix glycoprotein in human

retina that interacts with hyaluronan. (1998) J. Biol.

Chem. 237(47): pp31599-31606.

Moreira, E.F., Jaworski,

C. and Rodriguez, I.R. Cloning of a novel member of the reticulon

gene family

(RNT3):

gene structure and chromosomal localization to 11q13. (1999) Genomics. 58:73-81.

Provencio,

I., Rodriguez, I.R., Jiang, G., Par Hayes, W., Moreira,

E.F.,

Rollag, M.D.

A novel human opsin

in the inner retina. (2000) J. of Neuros. 20 (2):

600-605.

Rodriguez,

I.R., Moreira, E.F., Bok, D., and Kantorow, M. Osteonectin/SPARC

secreted by RPE and localized

to the outer plexiform layer of the monkey retina. (2000)

Invest

Ophthalmol & Vis Sci. 41(9): 2438-2444.

Moreira

EF, Jaworski C, Li A, Rodriguez IR. Molecular

and biochemical characterization of a novel oxysterol

binding protein (OSBP2) highly expressed in retina. (2001) J Biol

Chem. May 25; 276(21): 18570-8.

Jaworski

CJ, Moreira EF, Li A, Lee R, Rodriguez IR. A

family of 12 human genes

containing oxysterol-binding

domains. (2001) Genomics Dec; 78(3): 185-96.

Moreira

EF and Adler R. Regulation of amacrine cell differentiation

in the chick embryo by follistatin

an activin and BMP-7 inhibitor. (Manuscript

in preparation).

Moreira EF and Adler R. Molecular regulation

of retinal lamination in the chick embryo. (Manuscript

in preparation).

ABSTRACTS

Mazuruk, K, Moreira, E.F. and Rodriguez, I.R. The

EBF/OLF1 factor is differentially expressed

between the macula and

peripheral retina: cloning of the human

cDNA and the gene. Association for research in vision and

Ophthalmology

(ARVO),

1998.

Moreira, E.F., Jaworski, C., Mazuruk,

K., and Rodriguez, I.R. Cloning of a

novel retina-expressed gene homologous

to the neuroendocrine-specific protein

(NSP) family.

Association for research in vision and

Ophthalmology (ARVO), 1998.

Kantorow,

M., Sage, E.H., Moreira, E.F., and Rodriguez, I.R. Increased

expression

of SPARC in cataractous human

lenses and monkey macula RPE. Association

for research in vision and Ophthalmology

(ARVO), 1999.

Provencio, I., Jiang,

G., Rodriguez, I.R., Moreira, E.F., Hayes, W.P., and

Rollag, M.D. Identification

of a candidate human circadian photoreceptor.

Association for

research in vision and Ophthalmology

(ARVO), 1999.

Rodriguez, I.R., Moreira,

E.F., Sage, E.H., and Kantorow, M.

Localization

of SPARC to the outer plexiform

layer of

the monkey retina and secretion by

the macular RPE. Association for research

in vision and Ophthalmology

(ARVO), 2000.

Moreira, E.F., Jaworski,

C., Lee, J.W., and Rodriguez, I.R. Cloning of

a novel retina specific oxysterol binding

protein (OSBP2). Association for research

in vision

and Ophthalmology (ARVO),2000.

Jaworski,

C., Moreira, E.F., Rodriguez, I.R. Bioinformatics and data

maning

reveal a multi-gene family of oxysterol

binding proteins: cDNA sequence and

characterization of two novel members, OSBP-5 and OSBP-8.

Association for research

in vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO),

2000.

Moreira, E.F. and Adler, R. Effects

of the activin family of growth factors

on retinal development in

ovo. Association

for research in vision and Ophthalmology

(ARVO), 2002.

Coblentz, FE, Li, A, Moreira,

EF, Fariss, RN and Rodriguez, IR. Intracellular

localization of oxysterol

binding proteins

(OSBPs) in cultured human RPE cells.

Association for research in vision

and Ophthalmology (ARVO), 2003.

Moreira, EF and Adler, R. Regulation

of amacrine cell differentiation in

the chick embryo by follistatin

an activin

and BMP-7 inhibitor. Association for

research in vision and Ophthalmology

(ARVO), 2003.

Moreira EF and Adler R.

Molecular regulation of retinal lamination in

the chick embryo.Association

for research

in vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO),

2004.

Moreira EF and Adler R. Transcription

factor changes associated with inhibition

of amacrine cell differentiation

in activin loss-of-function experiments.

Association for research in vision

and Ophthalmology (ARVO), 2005.

presentations

4/29/99 LMOD, NEI, NIH, Bethesda, MD

A novel oxysterol binding protein (OSBP2) with retina specific expression.

11/29/01 Wilmer Eye Institute Research Discussions

A novel oxysterol binding protein (OSBP2) with retina specific expression.

03/22/02 Wilmer Research Meeting Speaker

Effects of the activin family of growth factors on retinal development in ovo.

03/20/03 Wilmer Research Meeting Speaker

Regulation of amacrine cell differentiation in the chick embryo by follistatin

an activin and BMP-7 inhibitor.

04/09/04 Wilmer Research Meeting Speaker

Molecular regulation of retinal lamination in the chick embryo.

memberships

& special interest groups

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology

(ARVO)International Society for Eye Research (ISER)Developmental biology research interest group (DBRIG)

at Johns Hopkins UniversityVisual Neuroscience Training Program (VNTP) student-fellow

committee (2003-2004)

honors

& awards

Laboratory Instructor at the Department of Physiology,

University of Buenos Aires, ArgentinaFellow at the form the Fogarty Foundation, National

Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USAFellow at the Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University,

School of MedicineGrant awarded from the Knights Templar Eye Foundation

for the period 2003-2004 to study retinal cell differentiation

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