====== Margarida Carrolo ====== ===== Bio ===== **Degrees**: * Biochemistry, FC/UL * Master in Public Health, ENSP/UNL ===== Current Position ===== **PhD student**\\ [[http://www.imm.fm.ul.pt/web/imm/molecularmicrobiologyandinfection|Molecular Microbiology and Infection Unit]], [[http://www.imm.fm.ul.pt/web/imm/home|Instituto de Medicina Molecular]]\\ Instituto de Microbiologia,[[http://www.fm.ul.pt/|Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa]], Universidade de Lisboa\\ ===== Research Interests ===== Sociomicrobiology, biofilms, competence in Streptococcus pneumoniae ===== Contacts ===== **Email**: * mcarrolo_at_fm.ul.pt (replace _at_ by @)\\ ===== Publications =====
  1. Carrolo M, Pinto FR, Melo-Cristino J, Ramirez M , Pherotypes are driving genetic differentiation within Streptococcus pneumoniae ,BMC Microbiology 2009,Sep 7;9(1):191.
  2. Biscaia A, Martins J, Carrolo M. The state of the health workforce in Portugal. Cah Sociol Demogr Med. 2007 Jul-Sep;47(3):259-73.
  3. Carrolo M, Giordano S, Cabrita-Santos L, Corso S, Vigário AM, Silva S, Leirião P, Carapau D, Armas-Portela R, Comoglio PM, Rodriguez A, Mota MM Hepatocyte growth factor and its receptor are required for malaria infection.,Nat Med. 2003 Nov;9(11):1363-9.
  4. Gil JP, Nogueira F, Strömberg-Nörklit J, Lindberg J, Carrolo M, Casimiro C, Lopes D, Arez AP, Cravo PV, Rosário VE Detection of atovaquone and Malarone resistance conferring mutations in Plasmodium falciparum cytochrome b gene (cytb) ,Mol Cell Probes. 2003 Apr-Jun;17(2-3):85-9.