Jair Lage de Siqueira-Neto Research Interests: Discovering new chemotherapies to treat: Host-parasite interactions Microbiome / Natural products Chagas DiseaseLeishmaniasis Human African Trypanosomiasis
Core Expertise Screening Assay Development High Content Screening (visual-based assays) Kinetoplastid-caused diseases (Biology and animal models)
SSPPS Screening Platform (4 th floor) Envision ATS Biomek FX ImageXpress Robotic Arm
In vivo Imaging System (IVIS)
Proposed Collaborations with SSPPS Faculty Targeting T. cruzi CYP51 (Larissa Podust) Screening of Natural Products (Bill Gerwick) Functional High-Content screening (Geoffrey Chang) Lead optimization for HAT (Dionicio Siegel)