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Marcelo Bento Soares, PhD
Soares Marcelo 

Professor of Pediatrics, Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine
Rachelle and Mark Gordon Endowed Prof and Director CBE Program, Children's Memorial Research Center

mbsoares@childrensmemorial.org

2300 Children's Plaza
Box 220 Room C.575
Chicago, IL 60614
Phone: (773) 755-6378
Fax: (773) 755-6551 

 

 

Education  
   Year1987 
1986 
1982 
1978  
DegreePost-doctoral
Ph.D. with distinction 
M.S.
B.S.
InstitutionColumbia University, New York, NY 
Columbia University, New York, NY
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) 
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)  

 

 

Work Experience   
   Period                  Description  Organization 
  2006 - Present Scientific Director, Falk Brain Tumor Center  Children’s Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL 
  2005 - Present Professor of Pediatrics Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 
  2005 - Present Director, Cancer Biology & Epigenomics Program Children’s Memorial Research Center, Chicago, IL 
  2006 - 2007 Director, Graduate and Postgraduate Training Program Children’s Memorial Research Center, Chicago, IL 
  2002 - 2005 Professor of Pediatrics, Physiology & Biophysics, Biochemistry, Orthopaedics The University of Iowa, IA 
  2001 - 2002 Professor of Pediatrics, Physiology & Biophysics, and of Biochemistry The University of Iowa, IA
  1998 - 2001 Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Physiology & Biophysics, with tenure The University of Iowa, IA 
  1997 - 1998 Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Physiology & Biophysics The University of Iowa, IA 
  1996 - 1997 Associate Professor of Neuroscience (in Psychiatry), with tenure Columbia University, NY 
  1994 - 1997 Research Scientist V New York State Psychiatric Institute, NY 
  1989 - 1996 Assistant Professor of Neurogenetics (in Psychiatry) Columbia University, NY 
  1987 - 1989 Assistant Professor University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

 

 

Recent Publications 
  Bonnet A., Iannuccelli E., Hugot K, Benne F., Bonaldo MF., Soares M.B., Hate F., Tosser-Klopp G. (January, 2008). A pig multi-tissue normalised cDNA library: large-scale sequencing, cluster analysis and 9K micro-array resource generation. BMC Genomics: 9:17.

Yamasaki C, Murakami K, et al. (January, 2008). The H-Invitational Database (H-InvDB), a comprehensive annotation resource for human genes and transcripts. Nucleic Acids Research: 36(Database issue):D793-9.

Postovit, L-M., Costa, F.F., Bischof, J.M., Seftor, E.A., Wen, B., Seftor, R.E.B., Feinberg, A.P., Soares, M.B. and Hendrix, M.J.C. (July, 2007). The commonality of plasticity underlying multipotent tumor cells and embryonic stem cells. J Cell Biochem: 101(4):908-17.

Reyes-Prieto, A., Hackett, J.D., Soares, M.B., Bonaldo, M.F. and Bhattacharya, D. (December, 2006). Cyanobacterial contribution to algal nuclear genomes is primarily limited to plastid functions. Current Biology: 16: 2320-2325.

Chun, C, Scheetz, T, Bonaldo, M, Brown, B, Clemens, A, Crookes-Goodson, W, Crouch, K, DeMartini, T, Eyestone, M, Goodson, M, Janssens, B, Kimbell, J, Koropatnick, T, Kucaba, T, Smith, C, Stewart, J, Tong, D, Troll, J, Webster, S, Winhall-Rice, J, Yap, C, (June, 2006). An annotated cDNA library of juvenile Euprymna scolopes with and without colonization by the symbiont Vibrio fischeri. BMC Genomics: 7:154.

Segal, J.P., Stallings, N.R., Lee, C.E., Zhao, L., Socci, N.D., Viale, A., Harris, T.M., Soares, M.B., Childs, G., Elmquist, J., Parker, K.L. and Friedman, J.M. (April, 2005). Use of laser-capture microdissection for the identification of marker genes for the ventromedial hypothalamic nucleus. Journal of Neuroscience: 25(16): 4181-4188.

Wang, D., Huang, J., Xie, H., Manzella, L. and Soares, M.B. (January, 2005). A robust two-way semi-linear model for normalization of cDNA microarray data. BMC Bioinformatics: 6(1): 14.

Bonaldo, M., Bair, T., Scheetz, T., Snir, E., Akabogu, I., Bair, J., Berger, B., Crouch, K., Davis, A., Eyestone, M., Keppel, C., Kucaba, T., Lebeck, M., Lin, J., Melo, A., Rehmann, J., Reiter, R., Schaefer, K., Smith, C., Tack, D., Trout, K., Sheffield, (October, 2004). 1,274 full-open reading frames of transcripts expressed in the developing mouse nervous system. Genome Research: 14: 2053-2063.

Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA, et al. (October, 2004). The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC). Genome Research: 14(10B):2121-7.

Imanishi, T., Itoh, T., et al. (June, 2004). Integrative annotation of 21,037 human genes validated by full-length cDNA clones. PloS Biol.: 2(6): E162.

Laffin, J.J.S., Scheetz, T.E., Bonaldo, M.F., Reiter, R.S., Chang, S., Eyestone, M., Abdulkawy, H., Brown, B., Roberts, C., Tack, D., Kucaba, T., Lin, J.J-C., Sheffield, V.C., Casavant, T.C., and Soares, M.B. (April, 2004). A comprehensive nonredundant expressed sequence tag collection for the developing Rattus norvegicus heart. Physiol. Genomics: 17: 245–252.

Scheetz, T.E., Laffin, J.J., et al. (April, 2004). High-throughput gene discovery in the rat. Genome Research: 14: 733-741.

Scheetz, T.E., Zabner, J., Welsh, M.J., Coco, J., Eyestone, M., Bonaldo, M.F., Kucaba, T., Casavant, T.C., Soares, M.B., and McCray, P.B. (March, 2004). Large-scale gene discovery in human airway epithelia reveals novel transcripts. Physiol. Genomics: 17: 69-77.

Verjovski-Almeida, S., DeMarco, R., et al. (October, 2003). Transcriptome analysis of the acoelomate human parasite Schistosoma mansoni. Nature Genetics: 35(2):1-10.

Strausberg, R.L, Feingold, E. A., et al. (December, 2002). Generation and Initial Analysis of more than 15,000 Full-Length Human and Mouse cDNA Sequences. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA: 99(26):16899-903. 

 

 

Awards/Honors  
  2006 – 2007 - Rachelle & Mark Gordon Endowed Prof in CBE Hope Award, Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation

2001 - Leadership Award, University of Iowa Macular Degeneration Center

1987 – 1989 - Career Development Fellowship Award from the Brazilian National Research Council

1982 – 1986 - Scholarship for Graduate Studies (Ph.D. degree), LASPAU and the Brazilian National Research Council

1979 – 1982 - Scholarship for Graduate Studies (Master of Science degree), Brazilian National Research Council

1977 – 1979 - Scholarship for Undergraduate Research, Brazilian National Research Council  

 

 

Professional Service  
  2005 - Present Society for Neuroscience

2003 - Present Member, American Association for Cancer Research

2001 - Present Co-Founder TRANSCRIPTOME Conference Series

2000 - Present Member, Steering Committee, Korean Genome Project

1999 - Present Member, Steering Committee, Ludwig Cancer Institute/FAPESP Human Cancer Genome Program

1998 - Present Organizer, Banbury Center Meeting: “Full-length cDNA Cloning: A Workshop on Problems and Solutions”, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, March 23rd-25th.

1995 - Present Member, American Society of Human Genetics

1994 - Present Member, Human Genome Organization

1993 - Present American Association for the Advancement of Science

1992 - Present Founder, Integrated Molecular Analysis of Gene Expression (I.M.A.G.E.) Consortium

1994 - 1998 Member, Genome Study Section/National Center for Human Genome Research/NIH  

 

 

Curriculum Vitae  
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