Gilmar Ribeiro Jr
Laboratory of pathology and molecular biology · Fiocruz-BA
Biography
Gilmar Ribeiro-Jr holds an undergraduate degree in Biological Sciences from the Catholic University of Salvador (UCSal). During his studies, he developed skills in field sampling strategies, GIS, entomology, and insect taxonomy, focusing on triatomines and T. cruzi at Fiocruz-BA. He earned his Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Biotechnology Applied to Public Health and Investigative Medicine from Fiocruz-BA, where he gained expertise in sample processing, data management, statistics, data science, bioinformatics, and molecular biology. He has experience with molecular detection and genotyping related to Chagas disease, particularly T. cruzi and triatomine blood meals, metagenomics, and microsatellite analysis. He is skilled in DNA purification, PCR, electrophoresis, and DNA sequencing, using both Sanger and NGS-based methods. Gilmar has authored 20 published manuscripts and holds an H-index of 10 with ~300 citations. He is also a peer reviewer for journals.
Recent Scopus Publications
- IgG Isotypes Targeting a Recombinant Chimeric Protein of Trypanosoma cruzi in Different Clinical Presentations of Chronic Chagas Disease
- Spatio-temporal trends in mortality due to Chagas disease in the State of Bahia, Brazil, from 2008 to 2018
- Sometimes, the size matters: Wing geometric morphometrics as a tool to assess domiciliation by Triatoma sordida (Stäl 1859)
- Natural infection of Lutzomyia longipalpis (Lutz & Neiva, 1912) by Leishmania infantum in a municipality with a high incidence of visceral leishmaniasis in the Brazilian Midwest
- Epidemiological indicators of Chagas disease in the metropolitan region of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Links
- ORCID https://orcid.org/0000000309808762
- Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=v1PBJQcAAAAJ
- Scopus https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57200257492
- Personal Weblink https://lattes.cnpq.br/8792496854930301