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Joao Setubal

Setubal Joao
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Joao Carlos Setubal is an Associate Professor at the Biocomplexity Institute and Department of Computer Science, of Virginia Tech. He has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Washington (1992). Between 1992 and 2004 Setubal was at the Institute of Computing of the University of Campinas, in Brazil, his country of origin. During that time he started working on bioinformatics and computational biology, co-authoring a computational biology textbook and leading the bioinformatics effort of several bacterial genome projects. In 2000-01 he spent a sabbatical year in Phil Green's group at the University of Washington, when he had the opportunity to work on the Agrobacterium tumefaciens genome project. Setubal moved to Virginia Tech in 2004, where he has been involved in genomics work of various types, including the bacterial genera Azotobacter, Brucella, Pseudomonas, and Xanthomonas. Setubal's principal focus is the development of computational analysis tools for microbial genomes and metagenomes.

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Selected Publications


Moreira LM, Almeida NF Jr., Potnis N, et al. Novel insights into the genomic basis of citrus canker based on the genome sequences of two strains of Xanthomonas fuscans subsp. aurantifolii. BMC Genomics. 2010;11:238.  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20388224

Tiller RV, Gee JE, Frace MA, et al. Characterization of novel Brucella strains originating from wild native rodent species in North Queensland, Australia. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2010;76:5837–5845.  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20639360

Torto-Alalibo T, Collmer C, Gwinn-Giglio M, et al. Unifying themes in microbial associations with animal and plant hosts described using the Gene Ontology. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews; 2010.  

Warren AS, Archuleta J, Feng WC, Setubal JC. Missing genes in the annotation of prokaryotic genomes. BMC Bioinformatics. 2010;11:131.  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20230630
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Education

  • University of Washington, Computer Science, Ph.D, 1992
  • University of Campinas, Brazil, Computer Science, M.Sc., 1987
  • University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Mechanical Engineering, B.Sc., 1979

Contact

  • Phone: (540) 231-2100
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Research Interests

  • Metagenomics
  • Algorithms for genome and metagenome analysis
  • Bioinformatics infrastructure for genome annotation
  • Automated annotation of bacterial genomes
  • Bacterial pathogens
  • Bacterial genome evolution

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