Elton José Rosas de Vasconcelos

OCCUPATION: Currently stands as a Bioinformatics Research Officer at Leeds Omics, School of Molecular and Cell Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, UK. Has experience in Omics, working on the following themes: Molecular Parasitology, Molecular Genetics of Microorganisms, Genomics/Metagenomics/Transcriptomics and Bioinformatics. Unix/Shell proficient and bioinformatics-driven PERL and R programmer. EDUCATION: Undergraduate studies: Five years bachelor's degree (BSc) in Veterinary Medicine, School of Veterinary at the Ceara State University (UECE) (stands in Brazil as a DVM), obtained in Dec/2005. Graduate studies: Five years PhD degree on Cell and Molecular Biology at the University of Sao Paulo, School of Medicine of Ribeirao Preto, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology and Pathogenic Bioagents, obtained in Aug/2011. Post-doc-1: two years (Jan/2013 - Dec/2014) working as a visiting/postdoc scientist at the Center for Infectious Disease Research (Seattle, WA - USA) , under the supervision of Dr. Peter J. Myler, with financial support from both CNPq (Brazilian Federal Research Council) and Dr. Myler's NIH grant. Post-doc-2: two years (Jan/2015 - Dec/2016) developing a second postdoc research project (financial support from FAPESP) at the dept of Biochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, University of Sao Paulo (Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil), under the supervision of Dr. Sergio Verjovski-Almeida. Post-doc-3: During Jan/2017- Jan/2019 acted as postdoctoral researcher in the College of Veterinary Medicine at the Western University of Health Sciences (Pomona, CA, USA), developing computational workflows for microbiome analyses applied to Veterinary Medicine. Also acted as a guide/tutor in Problem-based Learning (PBL) sessions for both 1st and 2nd year students at the same College. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)