Scientific Highlights

Articles

1. Santos-Pereira A. et al. Nationwide study of drug-resistance mutations in HIV-1-infected individuals under antiretroviral therapy in Brazil. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 22 (10) (2021): 5304. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms22105304
2. Souto B., Triunfante V., Santos-Pereira A. et al. Evolutionary dynamics of HIV-1 subtype C in Brazil. Scientific Reports 11 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-02428-3
3. Santos-Pereira A. et al. Evolutionary genetics of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and HIV-1: “The tortoise and the hare”. Microorganisms 9 (1) (2021): 147. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9010147
4. Mota S. et al. Role of the DHH1 gene in regulating monocarboxylic-acid transporter expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. PLOS ONE 9 (11) (2014): e111589. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0111589

Online resources

• SPINET: Syndemic Protein Interaction NETworks — http://spinet.evobiomed.com
• HanDBr: HIV-1 Brazilian National Database — http://handbr.evobiomed.com

Oral presentations

1. Simplification of HIV tropism tests: an AI-based method for predicting virus tropism from routine sequencing data. ICVS, 2024.
2. ngest: a scalable Snakemake pipeline for customised knowledge-graph construction. Bioinformatics Open Days, 2023.
3. Impact of HIV-1 genetic diversity on host-cell interaction. Bioinformatics Open Days, 2022.
4. Antiretroviral resistance mutations in HIV in Brazil (invited speaker). XXV Congreso Latinoamericano de Microbiología, 2021.
5. SPINET: HIV, tuberculosis, and host protein-protein networks. EBM Open Meeting (Porto, 2019) & Bioinformatics Open Days (Braga, 2018).

Poster presentations

1. A machine-learning tool to predict gene-phenotype associations. European Human Genetics Conference, Austria, 2024.
2. An automated pipeline for standardised biomedical knowledge-graph construction. European Human Genetics Conference, 2023.
3. Unveiling synergistic mechanisms of tuberculosis and HIV-1 through SPINET. European Society of Mycobacteriology Annual Meeting, 2019.
4. SPINET: a web server for syndemic network analysis. Bioinformatics Open Days, 2019.

Scientific-event participation

• Co-author of two presentations at the Congresso da Sociedade Brasileira de DST, VIII Congresso Brasileiro de AIDS & III Congresso Latino-Americano IST/HIV/AIDS, 2019.
• Presenter at the Congresso Brasileiro de Epidemiologia, 2024.

Event organisation

• Organizing Committee, X PhDOC Annual Meeting, University of Minho, 2022.
• Co-organizer, EBM Open Meeting, Porto, 2019.
• Organizer, VII PhDOC Retreat, University of Minho, 2018.