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João P. Pereira is an associate professor in the Department of Immunobiology at Yale University. He is a member of the Yale Cancer Center and the Yale Stem Cell Center. Pereira studied Microbiology at Universidade Católica Portuguesa, obtaining his Bachelor's degree in 1996. He then pursued a Master's degree in Biotechnology at DeMontfort University in 1997. He completed his PhD at Universidade do Porto in 2004, focusing on Immunology at the Gulbenkian Institute and the Pasteur Institute. In 2005, he joined Dr. Jason Cyster's lab at UCSF as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, where he investigated B lymphocyte migration and development. In 2010, Pereira joined Yale's Department of Immunobiology, where he explores the physiological role of mesenchymal stem/progenitor cells and their influence on B cell development within the bone marrow microenvironment. His research aims to uncover the complex interactions and signaling pathways involved in hematopoiesis and immune cell organization in lymphoid organs.
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