Research Associates
Research Associate Profiles
Dr. Ana Vieira
About
Institution: Imperial College of London
Department: Infectious Disease
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Dr Ana Vieira is a post-doctoral Research Associate Bioinformatician at Imperial College London. Her experience lies in the next-generation sequencing data analysis (genomics, transcriptomics, metagenomics and proteomics) of different organisms including bacteria. She also has wet-lab experience in several molecular biology techniques including library preparation. Her role in the AMRWATCH project is to coordinate the next-generation sequencing, library preparation and bioinformatic analysis of genetic material sent from India, in order to detect genetic markers of antimicrobial resistance.
Recent publications
Genome-Wide Signatures of Selection in Colletotrichum kahawae Reveal Candidate Genes Potentially Involved in Pathogenicity and Aggressiveness (2019). Available to read online.
The coffee leaf rust pathogen Hemileia vastatrix: one and a half centuries around the tropics (2017). Available to read online.
Comparative Validation of Conventional and RNA-Seq Data-Derived Reference Genes for qPCR Expression Studies of Colletotrichum kahawae (2016). Available to read online
Dr. R. Prathiviraj
About
Institution: Pondicherry University
Department: Microbiology
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Dr. Prathiviraj is a Research Assistant at Pondicherry University. He has expertise in Evolutionary Structural Biology, Systems Biology, and Programming languages. As part of the AMRWATCH project, he will contribute to Work Package Three, investigating the penetration of AMR bacteria and mobile genetic elements.
Recent publications include:
The genome of Symbiodiniaceae-associated Stutzerimonas frequens CAM01 reveals a broad spectrum of antibiotic resistance genes indicating anthropogenic drift in the Palk Bay coral reef of south-eastern India (2023). Available to read online.
An antimicrobial metabolite n- hexadecenoic acid from marine sponge-associated bacteria Bacillus subtilis effectively inhibited biofilm forming multidrug-resistant P. aeruginosa (2023). Available to read online.
Revealing the genotypic variants and proteomic mutations in Turkish SARS-CoV-2 driving evolution and virulence (2023). Available to read online