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Ricardo Durães-Carvalho

Federal University of São Paulo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Universidade Estadual de Campinas

ORCID iD 0000-0001-5734-7601
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Associate Visiting Professor of Bioinformatics at the Department of Morphology and Genetics, São Paulo School of Medicine, Federal University of São Paulo (EPM-UNIFESP), São Paulo, Brazil. Research Productivity Fellow of the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). Recipient of the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) Young Investigator Researcher Award (2021-2026). Advising Professor in the Structural and Functional Biology (UNIFESP) and Interunit Bioinformatics (University of São Paulo) Graduate Programs. Review Editor for Frontiers in Virology (Systems Virology), ad hoc reviewer for several scientific journals, and Full Member of Sigma Xi - The Scientific Research Honor Society (USA). My research focuses on viral epidemiological surveillance in bats and utilizes High-Performance Computing (HPC) to investigate the molecular epidemiology, genetics, and evolution of intra- and inter-host viral pathogens. I employ machine-learning algorithms, phylogenomics, phylogeography, phylodynamics, and phyloanatomy, with a particular emphasis on emerging and re-emerging viral pathogens (both animal and human) relevant to Public Health. My academic journey includes a degree in Pharmacy from the Faculty of Technology and Sciences (FTC) (Salvador-BA), with undergraduate research conducted at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), São Paulo-SP. I also hold a Master's degree in Functional and Molecular Biology (Biochemistry) and a Ph.D. in Genetics and Molecular Biology (with an emphasis on Microbiology, Bioinformatics, and Viral Molecular Evolution) from UNICAMP, with part of my research conducted at the Viral Molecular Evolution Group (Marco Salemi's Lab) at the Emerging Pathogens Institute (EPI), University of Florida (UF), Gainesville, FL, USA. My Postdoctoral (PD) studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) focused on large-scale analyses of phylogenetics, phylodynamics, and global epitope mapping of Influenza A and B viruses. Furthermore, I pursued additional PD studies at UNICAMP (2019-2020) in Bioinformatics, Evolution, and Molecular Epidemiology of Coronaviruses. In addition, I have served as a Visiting Researcher at the Department of Virology, Aggeu Magalhães Institute (IAM) - Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ), Recife-PE (2016-2018), and at EPI-UF (2018). You can reach me at: [email protected] | [email protected] | Ricardo Durães-Carvalho (LinkedIn)

Employment

  • Federal University of São Paulo Visiting Associate Professor

Education

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology Postdoctoral Associate
    2015 - 2016
  • Universidade Estadual de Campinas Ph.D. in Genetics and Molecular Biology
    2011 - 2015

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