Luana Campos Soares

Postgraduate Student

My research involves understanding the mechanisms that regulate the maintenance of neural and glioma stem cell populations, specifically the cues that allow a switch from proliferation towards differentiation and tissue commitment. I am currently investigating the role of the protein lectin Galectin-3 and the scaffold protein RASSF1A in this process. We hope to understand whether these protein pathways can be targeted to combat the glioma stem cell pool, which impairs response to treatment.

I graduated from Universidade Estadual Paulista in Brazil (2014) with a major in Biology. I then obtained my Masters in oncology (2016) working at A.C.Camargo Cancer Center with pathways involved in glioblastoma growth.

Websites

https://www.oncology.ox.ac.uk/about-us/overview/60-seconds-with/luana-campos-soares

Recent publications

Galectin-3 modulates postnatal subventricular zone gliogenesis.
Journal article

Al-Dalahmah O. et al, (2020), Glia, 68, 435 - 450
The role of inflammation in subventricular zone cancer.
Journal article

Bardella C. et al, (2018), Prog Neurobiol, 170, 37 - 52
Regulation of cardiac microRNAs induced by aerobic exercise training during heart failure.
Journal article

Souza RWA. et al, (2015), Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol, 309, H1629 - H1641
Two widely used RSK inhibitors, BI-D1870 and SL0101, alter mTORC1 signaling in a RSK-independent manner.
Journal article

Roffé M. et al, (2015), Cell Signal, 27, 1630 - 1642
Aerobic training attenuates nicotinic acethylcholine receptor changes in the diaphragm muscle during heart failure.
Journal article

de Souza PAT. et al, (2015), Histol Histopathol, 30, 801 - 811
Aerobic exercise training prevents heart failure-induced skeletal muscle atrophy by anti-catabolic, but not anabolic actions.
Journal article

Souza RWA. et al, (2014), PLoS One, 9

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