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

Year		Degree		Institution
1987		Post-doctoral		Columbia University, New York, NY
1986		Ph.D. with distinction		Columbia University, New York, NY
1982		M.S.		Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
1978		B.S.		Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

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

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.

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

Period		Description
2008 - Present		Member, Gene
1999 - Present		Member, Functional and Integrative Genomics
1998 - Present		Member, Physiological Genomics
1996 - 2007		Member, Genome Research

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