Regina Celia Bressan Queiroz de Figueiredo
Aggeu Magalhães Research Institute/FIOCRUZ, Brazil
Biography
Regina Figueiredo is a research leader at the Microbiology department in Aggeu Magalhães Research Institute. She obtained her PhD in Molecular and Cell Biology from Oswaldo Cruz Institute in 2000. Her Lab focuses on the prospection of natural products such as essential oils, plant extracts, lectins, lichens compounds against pathogenic microorganisms, including Trypanosomatids protozoa as Trypanosoma cruzi and the different species of Leishmania. She is also interested in study the mechanisms of cell death induced by drugs on parasitic Trypanosomatids.
Abstract
Abstract : The prospection of essential oils as chemotherapeutic agents against Trypanosomatid parasites