Lisiane Meira
Biography
Biography
- 1984-1988 B.Sc., Biology. Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre/Brazil.
- 1989-1994 Ph.D., Genetics and Molecular Biology. Curie Institute, Paris/France & UFRGS, Porto Alegre/Brazil.
- 1995-2000 Postdoctoral Research Fellow/Instructor, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Texas, USA
- 2001-2008 Research Scientist, Harvard School of Public Health/Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA
- 2008-2009 Research Fellow, St. George's University of London
- 2009-current Lecturer in Toxicology, University of Surrey
Research interests
My research focuses on understanding the mechanisms by which exposures to endogenous and/or exogenous toxicants lead to pathology and disease. In particular, I am interested in understanding how defective repair of DNA damage can affect health, with implications to human degenerative diseases associated with aging such as cancer and neuronal degeneration.
Teaching
Undergraduate: BMS2036, BMS2048, BMS3063, BMS3065MSc Toxicology: TOX M001, TOX M007, TOX M008 (module organiser)
Undergraduate lecture notes
PG lecture notes
Departmental duties
Admissions Tutor for the MSc Toxicology Programme
Biosciences Library Representative
Faculty Coordinator for the Science without Borders Programme
Chair of the MSc Toxicology Board of Studies
My publications
Publications
Meira LB, Moroski-Erkul CA, Green SL, Calvo JA, Bronson RT, Shah D, Samson LD (2009) Aag-initiated base excision repair drives alkylation-induced retinal degeneration in mice. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 106(3):888-93.
Klapacz J, Meira LB, Luchetti DG, Calvo JA, Bronson RT, Edelmann W, Samson LD. (2009) O6-methylguanine-induced cell death involves exonuclease 1 as well as DNA mismatch recognition in vivo. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 106(2):576-81.
Bugni, JM, Meira, LB, Samson, LD (2009) Alkylation-induced colon tumorigenesis in mice deficient in the Mgmt and Msh6 proteins. Oncogene 2009 Feb 5;28(5):734-412.
Maor-Shoshani, A, Meira, LB, Yang, X, Samson, LD (2008) 3-Methyladenine DNA glycosylase is important for cellular resistance to psoralen interstrand cross-links. DNA Repair. 7:1399-1406
Meira LB, Bugni JM, Green SL, Lee CW, Pang B, Borenshtein D, Rickman BH, Rogers AB, Moroski-Erkul CA, McFaline JL, Schauer DB, Dedon PC, Fox JG, Samson LD (2008) DNA damage induced by chronic inflammation contributes to colon carcinogenesis in mice. J. Clin. Invest. 118:2516-2525
Ringvoll J, Moen MN, Nordstrand LM, Meira LB, Pang B, Bekkelund A, Dedon PC, Bjelland S, Samson LD, Falnes PØ, Klungland A (2008) AlkB homologue 2-mediated repair of ethenoadenine lesions in mammalian DNA. Cancer Res. 68:4142-4149.
Lingaraju, GM, Kartalou, M, Meira, LB, Samson, LD. (2008) Substrate specificity and sequence-dependent activity of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae 3-methyladenine DNA glycosylase (Mag). DNA Repair. 7:970-982.
Longerich, S, Meira, LB, Shah, D, Samson, LD and U Storb (2007) Alkyladenine DNA glycosylase (Aag) in somatic hypermutation and class switch recombination. DNA Repair. 6:1764-1773.
Dong, L, Meira, LB, Hazra, TK, Samson, LD and W Cao (2007) Oxanine DNA glycosylase activities in mammalian systems. DNA Repair. 1;7(1):128-34.
Beyer, RP, Fry, RC, Lasarev, MR, McConnachie, LA, Meira, LB, Palmer, VS, Powell, CL, Ross, PK, Bammler, TK, Bradford, BU, Cranson, AB, Cunningham, ML, Fannin, RD, Higgins, GM, Hurban, P, Kayton, RJ, Kerr, KF, Kosyk, O, Lobenhofer, EK, Sieber, SO, Vliet, PA, Weis, BK, Wolfinger, R, Woods, CG, Freedman, JH, Linney, E, Kaufmann, WK, Kavanagh, TJ, Paules, RS, Rusyn, I, Samson, LD, Spencer, PS, Suk, W, Tennant, RJ, Zarbl, H, Members of the Toxicogenomics Research Consortium (2007) Multicenter study of acetaminophen hepatotoxicity reveals the importance of biological endpoints in genomic analyses Toxicol. Sci. 99: 326-337.