Sidarta Ribeiro
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Sidarta Tollendal Gomes Ribeiro (April 16, 1971, Brasilia
) is a Brazil
ian neuroscientist
, and was the first Scientific Director of the International Institute for Neuroscience of Natal
(ELS-IINN), between 2006 and 2008.
Brasília
Brasília is the capital city of Brazil. The name is commonly spelled Brasilia in English. The city and its District are located in the Central-West region of the country, along a plateau known as Planalto Central. It has a population of about 2,557,000 as of the 2008 IBGE estimate, making it the...
) is a Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
ian neuroscientist
Neuroscience
Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system. Traditionally, neuroscience has been seen as a branch of biology. However, it is currently an interdisciplinary science that collaborates with other fields such as chemistry, computer science, engineering, linguistics, mathematics,...
, and was the first Scientific Director of the International Institute for Neuroscience of Natal
International Institute for Neuroscience of Natal
The International Institute for Neurosciences of Natal - Edmond and Lily Safra is located in Natal, capital city of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Norte...
(ELS-IINN), between 2006 and 2008.
Academic degrees
- Bachelor of Biological Sciences by Universidade de Brasília (1993)
- Master's in Neurobiology by Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroUniversidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroThe Federal University of Rio de Janeiro is one of the largest federal universities of Brazil, where public universities comprise the majority of the best and most qualified institutions...
(1994) - Ph.D. in Neurosciences by Rockefeller UniversityRockefeller UniversityThe Rockefeller University is a private university offering postgraduate and postdoctoral education. It has a strong concentration in the biological sciences. It is also known for producing numerous Nobel laureates...
(2000) - Postdoctoral in Duke UniversityDuke UniversityDuke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...
(2000–2005)
Selected scientific publications
- JARVIS ED, RIBEIRO S, SILVA ML, VENTURA D, VIELLIARD J, MELLO CV. Behaviourally driven gene expression reveals song nuclei in hummingbird brain. NatureNature (journal)Nature, first published on 4 November 1869, is ranked the world's most cited interdisciplinary scientific journal by the Science Edition of the 2010 Journal Citation Reports...
(London), UK, v. 406, p. 628-632, 2000. - NICOLELIS MAL, RIBEIRO S. Seeking the neural code. Scientific AmericanScientific AmericanScientific American is a popular science magazine. It is notable for its long history of presenting science monthly to an educated but not necessarily scientific public, through its careful attention to the clarity of its text as well as the quality of its specially commissioned color graphics...
, v. 295, p. 70-77, 2006. - RIBEIRO S, CECCHI, MAGNASCO, MELLO CV. Towards a song code: evidence for a syllabic representation in the canary brain. Neuron (Cambridge), USA, v. 21, p. 359-371, 1998.
- RIBEIRO S, NICOLELIS MAL. Reverberation, Storage and Post-Synaptic Propagation of Memories During Sleep. Learn Mem 11: 686 - 696, 2004
- RIBEIRO, Sidarta. Sonho, memória e o reencontro de Freud com o cérebro. Rev. Bras. Psiquiatria, São Paulo, 2003. Retrieved at: Scielo. Access date: Feb. 02, 2008. doi: 10.1590/S1516-44462003000600013.
Trivia
- He is capoeira instructor.
- He joined as Full Professor in the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) with 37 years old http://www.prh.ufrn.br/Legislacao_2008/edital_neurociencias_titular.pdfhttp://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:029fgma8DywJ:www.ufrn.br/ufrn/conteudo/universidade/doc_oficiais/resolucoes/anexos/res1272008-homConcProfTitNeurociencias.doc+sidarta+ribeiro+titular,+homologa%C3%A7%C3%A3o&cd=1&hl=pt-BR&ct=clnk&gl=br. This caused a change in criteria for evaluating candidates for this institution at this level (top of career in Brazilian universities). In order to correct this distortion, from now on every applicant to this position must, necessarily, have proven extensive experience teaching both in the undergraduate and graduate levels http://www.prh.ufrn.br/Legislacao_2009/Edital008_Titular_2010.pdf.