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Vasco Azevedo

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Professor of Genetics and Deputy Head of the Department of Genetics, Ecology and Evolution. He is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and is a Knight of the National Order of Scientific Merit of the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation. Researcher 1A of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) which is the highest position.

Biochemistry Bioengineering Bioinformatics Biotechnology Computational Biology Genetics Genomics Immunology Infectious Diseases Microbiology Molecular Biology Omics Technologies Veterinary Medicine

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Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

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Professor

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

March 1996

Genetics, Ecology and Evolution

Vasco Azevedo is a full professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. The lecturer must teach at the undergraduate and graduate levels, do research and must do work to bring the knowledge of the university to its population of the country

Websites

February 20, 2024

Activity of biogenic silver nanoparticles in planktonic and biofilm-associated Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis

Laerte Marlon Santos, Daniela Méria Rodrigues, Bianca Vilas Boas Alves, Mauricio Alcântara Kalil, Vasco Azevedo, Debmalya Barh, Roberto Meyer, Nelson Duran, Ljubica Tasic, Ricardo Wagner Portela

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16751 PubMed 38406288

January 30, 2024

Resequencing and characterization of the first Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis genome isolated from camel

Enrico Giovanelli Tacconi Gimenez, Marcus Vinicius Canário Viana, Thiago de Jesus Sousa, Flávia Aburjaile, Bertram Brenig, Artur Silva, Vasco Azevedo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16513 PubMed 38313017

March 9, 2023

Analysis of Corynebacterium silvaticum genomes from Portugal reveals a single cluster and a clade suggested to produce diphtheria toxin

Marcus Vinicius Canario Viana, José Henrique Galdino, Rodrigo Profeta, Manuela Oliveira, Luís Tavares, Siomar de Castro Soares, Paulo Carneiro, Alice Rebecca Wattam, Vasco Azevedo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14895 PubMed 36919166

January 13, 2023

Corrosion-influencing microorganisms in petroliferous regions on a global scale: systematic review, analysis, and scientific synthesis of 16S amplicon metagenomic studies

Joyce Dutra, Rosimeire Gomes, Glen Jasper Yupanqui García, Danitza Xiomara Romero-Cale, Mariana Santos Cardoso, Vinicius Waldow, Claudia Groposo, Rubens N. Akamine, Maira Sousa, Henrique Figueiredo, Vasco Azevedo, Aristóteles Góes-Neto

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14642 PubMed 36655046

March 21, 2022

An issue of concern: unique truncated ORF8 protein variants of SARS-CoV-2

Sk. Sarif Hassan, Vaishnavi Kodakandla, Elrashdy M. Redwan, Kenneth Lundstrom, Pabitra Pal Choudhury, Tarek Mohamed Abd El-Aziz, Kazuo Takayama, Ramesh Kandimalla, Amos Lal, Ángel Serrano-Aroca, Gajendra Kumar Azad, Alaa A.A. Aljabali, Giorgio Palù, Gaurav Chauhan, Parise Adadi, Murtaza Tambuwala, Adam M. Brufsky, Wagner Baetas-da-Cruz, Debmalya Barh, Vasco Azevedo, Nikolas G. Bazan, Bruno Silva Andrade, Raner José Santana Silva, Vladimir N. Uversky

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13136 PubMed 35341060

February 16, 2022

Evidence of episodic positive selection in Corynebacterium diphtheriae complex of species and its implementations in identification of drug and vaccine targets

Marcus Vinicius Canário Viana, Rodrigo Profeta, Janaína Canário Cerqueira, Alice Rebecca Wattam, Debmalya Barh, Artur Silva, Vasco Azevedo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12662 PubMed 35190783

December 23, 2021

A journey through the Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis proteome promotes insights into its functional genome

Wanderson Marques da Silva, Nubia Seyffert, Artur Silva, Vasco Azevedo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12456 PubMed 35036114

March 10, 2021

Characterization of the first vaginal Lactobacillus crispatus genomes isolated in Brazil

Marcelle Oliveira de Almeida, Rodrigo Carvalho, Flavia Figueira Aburjaile, Fabio Malcher Miranda, Janaína Canário Cerqueira, Bertram Brenig, Preetam Ghosh, Rommel Ramos, Rodrigo Bentes Kato, Siomar de Castro Soares, Artur Silva, Vasco Azevedo, Marcus Vinicius Canário Viana

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11079 PubMed 33854845

December 3, 2020

Foliar mycoendophytome of an endemic plant of the Mediterranean biome (Myrtus communis) reveals the dominance of basidiomycete woody saprotrophs

Aline Bruna M. Vaz, Paula Luize C. Fonseca, Felipe F. Silva, Gabriel Quintanilha-Peixoto, Inmaculada Sampedro, Jose A. Siles, Anderson Carmo, Rodrigo B. Kato, Vasco Azevedo, Fernanda Badotti, Juan A. Ocampo, Carlos A. Rosa, Aristóteles Góes-Neto

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10487 PubMed 33344092

August 26, 2020

In silico functional prediction of hypothetical proteins from the core genome of Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis biovar ovis

Carlos Leonardo Araújo, Iago Blanco, Luciana Souza, Sandeep Tiwari, Lino César Pereira, Preetam Ghosh, Vasco Azevedo, Artur Silva, Adriana Folador

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9643 PubMed 32913672

June 25, 2020

Severe airport sanitarian control could slow down the spreading of COVID-19 pandemics in Brazil

Sérvio Pontes Ribeiro, Alcides Castro e Silva, Wesley Dáttilo, Alexandre Barbosa Reis, Aristóteles Góes-Neto, Luiz Carlos Junior Alcantara, Marta Giovanetti, Wendel Coura-Vital, Geraldo Wilson Fernandes, Vasco Ariston C. Azevedo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9446 PubMed 32617196

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April 22, 2024

Investigating antimicrobial resistance genes in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania cattle using metagenomics

Kauthar M. Omar, George L. Kitundu, Adijat O. Jimoh, Dorcus N. Namikelwa, Felix M. Lisso, Abiola A. Babajide, Seun E. Olufemi, Olaitan I. Awe

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17181 PubMed 38666081

February 26, 2024

An alternative peptone preparation using Hermetia illucens (Black soldier fly) hydrolysis: process optimization and performance evaluation

Gaoqiang Liu, Ming Foong Tiang, Shixia Ma, Zeyan Wei, Xiaolin Liang, Mohd Shaiful Sajab, Peer Mohamed Abdul, Xueyan Zhou, Zhongren Ma, Gongtao Ding

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16995 PubMed 38426145

February 8, 2024

3D bioprinting in bioremediation: a comprehensive review of principles, applications, and future directions

Abraham Samuel Finny

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16897 PubMed 38344299

November 11, 2022

Human access and deterministic processes play a major role in structuring planktonic and sedimentary bacterial and eukaryotic communities in lakes

John K. Pearman, Georgia Thomson-Laing, Lucy Thompson, Sean Waters, Marcus J. Vandergoes, Jamie D. Howarth, Ian C. Duggan, Ian D. Hogg, Susanna A. Wood

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14378 PubMed 36389411

April 19, 2022

Association of heat shock protein 8 with atopic march in a murine experimental model

Kyu-Tae Jeong, Ji-Hye Do, Sung-Hee Lee, Jeom-Kyu Lee, Woo-Sung Chang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13247 PubMed 35462760

March 1, 2022

Alterations of gut fungal microbiota in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Xiaoyu Sun, Yushuang Wang, Xinke Li, Meiling Wang, Jianyi Dong, Wei Tang, Zengjie Lei, Yuling Guo, Ming Li, Yuyuan Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13037 PubMed 35251791

February 24, 2022

Biomarkers of non-communicable chronic disease: an update on contemporary methods

Solaiman M. Al-hadlaq, Hanan A. Balto, Wail M. Hassan, Najat A. Marraiki, Afaf K. El-Ansary

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12977 PubMed 35233297

November 25, 2021

Gender specific eRNA TBX5-AS1 as the immunological biomarker for male patients with lung squamous cell carcinoma in pan-cancer screening

Tao Yan, Kai Wang, Qidi Zhao, Junjie Zhuang, Hongchang Shen, Guoyuan Ma, Lei Cong, Jiajun Du

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12536 PubMed 34900441

November 19, 2021

Analysis of core genes for colorectal cancer prognosis based on immune and stromal scores

Yi Zhu, Yuan Zhou, HongGang Jiang, ZhiHeng Chen, BoHao Lu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12452 PubMed 34820188

November 11, 2021

Temperature-induced changes in egg white antimicrobial concentrations during pre-incubation do not influence bacterial trans-shell penetration but do affect hatchling phenotype in Mallards

Jana Svobodová, Jakub Kreisinger, Veronika Gvoždíková Javůrková

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12401 PubMed 34824913

October 18, 2021

Migration effects on the intestinal microbiota of Tibetans

Tian Liang, Fang Liu, Lifeng Ma, Zhiying Zhang, Lijun Liu, Tingting Huang, Jing Li, Wenxue Dong, Han Zhang, Yansong Li, Yaqiong Jiang, Weimin Ye, Su Bai, Longli Kang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12036 PubMed 34721954

August 4, 2021

iSUMOK-PseAAC: prediction of lysine sumoylation sites using statistical moments and Chou’s PseAAC

Yaser Daanial Khan, Nabeel Sabir Khan, Sheraz Naseer, Ahmad Hassan Butt

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11581 PubMed 34430072

June 3, 2021

Characterisation of secretome-based immune responses of human leukocytes infected with various Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineages

Benjawan Kaewseekhao, Sittiruk Roytrakul, Yodying Yingchutrakul, Marut Laohaviroj, Kanin Salao, Kiatichai Faksri

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11565 PubMed 34141493

March 30, 2021

In vitro and in vivo activities of the carbonic anhydrase inhibitor, dorzolamide, against vancomycin-resistant enterococci

Nader S. Abutaleb, Ahmed E.M. Elhassanny, Daniel P. Flaherty, Mohamed N. Seleem

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11059 PubMed 33850651

February 16, 2021

A comparison of fourteen fully characterized mammalian-associated Campylobacter fetus isolates suggests that loss of defense mechanisms contribute to high genomic plasticity and subspecies evolution

Susan A. Nadin-Davis, John Chmara, Catherine D. Carrillo, Kingsley Amoako, Noriko Goji, Marc-Olivier Duceppe, John Devenish

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10586 PubMed 33628630

February 16, 2021

Quantile-dependent expressivity of serum C-reactive protein concentrations in family sets

Paul T. Williams

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10914 PubMed 33628645

October 7, 2020

Lactobacillus johnsonii BS15 improves intestinal environment against fluoride-induced memory impairment in mice—a study based on the gut–brain axis hypothesis

Jinge Xin, Dong Zeng, Hesong Wang, Ning Sun, Abdul Khalique, Ying Zhao, Liqian Wu, Kangcheng Pan, Bo Jing, Xueqin Ni

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10125 PubMed 33083147

July 27, 2020

Epitope-based chimeric peptide vaccine design against S, M and E proteins of SARS-CoV-2, the etiologic agent of COVID-19 pandemic: an in silico approach

M. Shaminur Rahman, M. Nazmul Hoque, M. Rafiul Islam, Salma Akter, A. S. M. Rubayet Ul Alam, Mohammad Anwar Siddique, Otun Saha, Md. Mizanur Rahaman, Munawar Sultana, Keith A. Crandall, M. Anwar Hossain

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9572 PubMed 33194329

May 21, 2020

Transcriptome profiling of avian pathogenic Escherichia coli and the mouse microvascular endothelial cell line bEnd.3 during interaction

Peili Wang, Xia Meng, Jianji Li, Yanfei Chen, Dong Zhang, Haoran Zhong, Pengpeng Xia, Luying Cui, Guoqiang Zhu, Heng Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9172 PubMed 32509459

March 11, 2020

Integrative analysis of dysregulated lncRNA-associated ceRNA network reveals potential lncRNA biomarkers for human hepatocellular carcinoma

Chengyun Li, Wenwen Zhang, Hanteng Yang, Jilian Xiang, Xinghua Wang, Junling Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8758 PubMed 32201648

February 11, 2020

Glycerophosphodiester phosphodiesterase 1 (GDE1) acts as a potential tumor suppressor and is a novel therapeutic target for non-mucin-producing colon adenocarcinoma

Qiu Shen, Chao Lu, Hua Yang, Ming-Xia Ge, Wang-Xiao Xia, Qing-Peng Kong, Gong-Hua Li, Yan-Hong Gu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8421 PubMed 32095326

February 5, 2020

Isolation and characterization of vaginal Lactobacillus spp. in dromedary camels (Camelus dromedarius): in vitro evaluation of probiotic potential of selected isolates

Wael M. El-Deeb, Mahmoud Fayez, Ibrahim Elsohaby, Ibrahim Ghoneim, Theeb Al-Marri, Mahmoud Kandeel, Magdy ElGioushy

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8500 PubMed 32071813

February 5, 2020

Early-life intestinal microbiome in Trachemys scripta elegans analyzed using 16S rRNA sequencing

Qin Peng, Yahui Chen, Li Ding, Zimiao Zhao, Peiyu Yan, Kenneth B. Storey, Haitao Shi, Meiling Hong

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8501 PubMed 32071814

December 12, 2019

Identification of key genes in non-small cell lung cancer by bioinformatics analysis

Li Zhang, Rui Peng, Yan Sun, Jia Wang, Xinyu Chong, Zheng Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8215 PubMed 31844590

November 5, 2019

L-cysteine transporter-PCR to detect hydrogen sulfide-producing Campylobacter fetus

Pablo D. Farace, Claudia G. Morsella, Silvio L. Cravero, Bernardo A. Sioya, Ariel F. Amadio, Fernando A. Paolicchi, Andrea K. Gioffré

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7820 PubMed 31720099

September 20, 2019

Effects of Trichophyton mentagrophytes infection on the immune response of rabbits

Chenwen Xiao, Guolian Bao, Qiang Wei, Yan Liu, Jiaoyu Wang, Quanan Ji, Yee Huang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7632 PubMed 31579583