Pedro Alexandre Favoretto Galante, Ph.D.

Assistant Investigator

Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, São Paulo Branch 

Education

2009
Assistant Investigator, Ludwig Institute For Cancer Research[6] - São Paulo Branch[7]

2008
Post-Doc fellow at Harvard Medical School[3] - BWH[4] - DSG[5]

2004-2007
Ph.D., Biochemistry. University of Sāo Paulo [1]. Brazil.
Thesis: Use of computational methods to study the transcription and gene regulation in Homo sapiens and Mus musculus [PDF]
Advisors: Dr. Bettina Malnic and Dr. Sandro José de Souza

1999-2003
B.A. Ciência Moleculares [2]. University of Sāo Paulo [1]. Brazil.

Contact

Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research

245, Joao Juliao - 1st floor

Zip Code: 01323-903

Sao Paulo - SP - Brazil

Phone: +55-11-3388-3232

E-mail: pgalante@ludwig.org.br

Lattes: http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.jsp?id=K4765434A6
 

Publications

(* These authors contributed equally to these works) 

2010

23 - Lacson R, Pitzer E, Kim J, Galante P, Hinske C, Ohno-Machado L. DSGeo: Software tools fro cross-platform analysis of gene expression data in GEO. J Biomed Inform. 2010 May 6. [PubMed]

22 - Stransky B and Galante P. Application of Bioinformatics in Cancer Research. An Omics Perspective on Cancer Research. Springer Netherlands. 2010; 211-233 [PDF] (Book chapter)

2009

21 - da Cunha JP*, Galante PA*, de Souza JE, de Souza RF, Carvalho PM, Ohara DT, Moura RP, Oba-Shinja SM, Marie SK, Silva WA Jr, Perez RO, Stransky B, Pieprzyk M, Moore J, Caballero O, Gama-Rodrigues J, Habr-Gama A, Kuo WP, Simpson AJ, Camargo AA, Old LJ, de Souza SJ. Bioinformatics construction of the human cell surfaceome. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2009;106(39):16752-7 [PubMed]

20 - Lacson R, Pitzer E, Hinske C, Galante P, Ohno-Machado L. Evaluation of a large-scale biomedical data annotation initiative BMC Bioinformatics. 2009 Sep 17;10 Suppl 9:S10. [PubMed]

19 - Pitzer E, Lacson R, Hinske C, Kim J, Galante PA, Ohno-Machado L. Towards large-scale sample annotation in gene expression repositories. BMC Bioinformatics. 2009 Sep 17;10 Suppl 9:S9. [PubMed]

18 - Zhao Q, Caballero OL, Levy S, Stevenson BJ, Iseli C, de Souza SJ, Galante PA, Busam D, Leversha MA, Chadalavada K, Rogers YH, Venter JC, Simpson AJ, Strausberg RL.Transcriptome-guided characterization of genomic rearrangements in a breast cancer cell line. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009; 106(6): 1886-91 [PubMed]

17 - Galante PA, Sandhu D, de Sousa Abreu R, Gradassi M, Slager N, Vogel C, de Souza SJ, Penalva LO. A comprehensive in silico expression analysis of RNA binding proteins in normal and tumor tissue: Identification of potential players in tumor formation. RNA Biol. 2009 Oct 24;6(4). [Pubmed]

16 - Pinheiro DG, Galante PA, de Souza SJ, Zago MA, Silva WA Jr. A score system for quality evaluation of RNA sequence tags: an improvement for gene expression profiling. BMC Bioinformatics. 2009 Jun 6;10(1):170 [Pubmed]

15 - Bettoni F, Filho FC, Grosso DM, Galante PA, Parmigiani RB, Geraldo MV, Henrique-Silva F, Oba-Shinjo SM, Marie SK, Soares FA, Brentani HP, Simpson AJ, de Souza SJ, Camargo AA. Identification of FAM46D as a novel Cancer/Testis antigen using EST data and serological analysis. Genomics. 2009 [PubMed]

2008

14 - da Cunha JP*, Galante PA*, de Souza SJ. Different Evolutionary Strategies for the Origin of Caspase-1 Inhibitors. J Mol Evol. 2008 May 14. [PubMed]

13 - Madeira L*, Galante PA*, Budu A, Azevedo MF, Malnic B, Garcia CR. Genome-wide detection of serpentine receptor-like proteins in malaria parasites. PLoS ONE.2008; 3(3): e1889. [PubMed]

12 - Leoni SG, Galante PA, Ricarte-Filho JC, Kimura ET. Differential gene expression analysis of iodide-treated rat thyroid follicular cell line PCCl3. Genomics. 2008; 91(4): 356-66. [PubMed]

2007

11 - Ferreira EN, Galante PA, Carraro DM, de Souza SJ. Alternative splicing: a bioinformatics perspective. Mol Biosyst. 2007; 3(7): 473-7. [PubMed]

10 - Galante PA, Vidal DO, de Souza JE, Camargo AA, de Souza SJ. Sense-antisense pairs in mammals: functional and evolutionary Considerations. Genome Biol. 2007; 8(3): R40. [PubMed]

9 - Galante PA, Trimarchi J, Cepko CL, de Souza SJ, Ohno-Machado L, Kuo WP. Automatic correspondence of tags and genes (ACTG): a tool for the analysis of SAGE, MPSS and SBS data. Bioinformatics. 2007; 23(7): 903-5. [PubMed]

2006

2005

7 - de Souza SJ, Galante PA, Soares R. Using ORESTES ESTs to mine gene cancer expression data. Encyclopedia of Genetics, Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics.2005; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [PDF] (Book chapter)

2004

6 - Parmigiani RB, Magalhães GS, Galante PA, Manzini CV, Camargo AA, Malnic B. A novel human G protein-coupled receptor is over-expressed in prostate cancer.Genet Mol Res. 2004; 3(4): 521-31. [PubMed]

5 - Kirschbaum-Slager N, Lopes GM, Galante PA, Riggins GJ, de Souza SJ. Splicing factors are differentially expressed in tumors. Genet Mol Res. 2004; 3(4): 512-20.[PubMed]

4 - Silva AP, De Souza JE, Galante PA, Riggins GJ, De Souza SJ, Camargo AA.
The impact of SNPs on the interpretation of SAGE and MPSS experimental data.Nucleic Acids Res. 2004; 32(20): 6104-10. [PubMed]

3 - Galante PA, Sakabe NJ, Kirschbaum-Slager N, de Souza SJ. Detection and evaluation of intron retention events in the human transcriptome. RNA. 2004; 10(5): 757-65. [PubMed]

2003

2 - Sakabe NJ, de Souza JE, Galante PA, de Oliveira PS, Passetti F, Brentani H, Osório EC, Zaiats AC, Leerkes MR, Kitajima JP, Brentani RR, Strausberg RL, Simpson AJ, de Souza SJ.ORESTES are enriched in rare exon usage variants affecting the encoded proteins.C R Biol. 2003; 326(10-11): 979-85. [PubMed]

1 - Brentani H, Caballero OL, Camargo AA, da Silva AM, da Silva WA Jr, Dias Neto E, Grivet M, Gruber A, Guimaraes PE, Hide W, Iseli C, Jongeneel CV, Kelso J, Nagai MA, Ojopi EP, Osorio EC, Reis EM, Riggins GJ, Simpson AJ, de Souza S, Stevenson BJ, Strausberg RL, Tajara EH, Verjovski-Almeida S, Acencio ML, Bengtson MH, Bettoni F, Bodmer WF, Briones MR, Camargo LP, Cavenee W, Cerutti JM, Coelho Andrade LE, Costa dos Santos PC, Ramos Costa MC, da Silva IT, Estécio MR, Sa Ferreira K, Furnari FB, Faria M Jr, Galante PA, Guimaraes GS, Holanda AJ, Kimura ET, Leerkes MR, Lu X, et al. The generation and utilization of a cancer-oriented representation of the human transcriptome by using expressed sequence tags. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 Nov 11;100(23):13418-23.