Postdoctoral researcher working on the biosurveillance of pathogens on complex samples using metagenomic approaches with wet and dry lab techniques.

Ph.D., Comparative Genomics / Computational Biology, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, US

BSc, Biotechnology and Bioprocesses Engineering, Universidade Federal do Tocantins, Gurupi, Tocantins, Brazil

Certificate, Biotechnology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, US

Yao Q, Mascarenhas dos Santos AC, Zhang H, Mañas A, Hussaini A, Kim U, Xu C, Basheer S, Tasaki S, Xiang J. Unconventional source of neurotoxic protein aggregation from organelle off-target Bax∆2 in Alzheimer’s disease.Biomolecules. 13(6):970. 2023. PMID: 37371550. DOI: 10.3390/biom13060970.

Mascarenhas dos Santos AC, Julian AT, Liang P, Juárez O, Pombert JF. Telomere-to-Telomere genome assemblies of human-infecting Encephalitozoon species. BMC Genomics. 24(1):237. 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-023-09331-3.

Mascarenhas dos Santos AC, Julian AT, Pombert JF. The Rad9-Rad1-Hus1 DNA repair clamp is found in Microsporidia. Genome Biol Evol. 14(4): evac053. 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evac053.

Julian AT, Mascarenhas dos Santos AC, Pombert JF. 3DFI: a pipeline to infer protein function using structural homology. Bioinformatics Advances. 1(1):vbab030. 2021 .DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioadv/vbab030.

Mascarenhas dos Santos AC, Jie R, Antunes Godoy H, Alves M, Pombert JF. Complete genomes of the potential zoonotic pathogens Staphylococcus felis and Staphylococcus kloosii. Genome Announc. 6(20):e00404-18. 2018. PMID: 29773625 PMCID: PMC5958265 DOI: 10.1128/genomeA.00404-18.

Veseli IA, Mascarenhas dos Santos AC, Juárez O, Stark BC, Pombert JF. Complete genome sequence of Vitreoscilla sp. strain C1, source of the first bacterial hemoglobin. Microbiol Resour Announc. 7:e00922-18. 2018 .PMID: 30533886 PMCID: PMC6256453 DOI: 10.1128/MRA.00922-18.

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• 2024: São Paulo School of Advanced Science on Hologenomic Data Analysis For Agriculture: hologenome workshop at the São Paulo School of Advanced Science in collaboration with EMBRAPA and fully funded by São Paulo research Foundation (FAPESP).
• 2015-2016: Science without Borders/Brazilian Scientific Mobility Program (BSMP): undergraduate exchange student at Boston University and Illinois Institute of Technology fellowship funded by the Brazilian Federal Agencies CAPES/CNPq
• 2014-2015: Institutional Program of Scientific Initiation Awards (PIBIC): undergraduate research project entitled “Bacillus thuringiensis plasmid sequencing and Cry protein toxic activity synergism against Spodoptera frugiperda” at Universidade Federal do Tocantins funded by the Brazilian Federal Agencies CAPES/CNPq

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