Dr Adriano Barbosa, B.Sc, Ph.D

• Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry (QMUL) - Lecturer;
• William Harvey Research Institute (QMUL) - Researcher;
• Institute of Applied Data Science (QMUL) - Academic Member;
• Centre for Computational Biology (QMUL) - Core Academic Member;
• Health Data Research UK - Fellow;
• NIHR Barts Biomedical Research Centre - Researcher;

• HDR UK

I hold an UKRI Rutherford Innovation Fund Fellowship at HDRUK. Health Data Research UK (HDRUK) researchers develop innovative tools and technologies needed to unlock knowledge from complex and diverse health data, to address some of the biggest health challenges that we face in the UK today; Learn more.

• eMedLab

I have a tenancy agreement with eMedLab. The MRC eMedLab is a Biomedical Research Computing platform designed for High Performance Analysis of Biomedical research data. The project is funded by the MRC Medical Bioinformatics programme. It consists of a secure private cloud service accessible to the eMedLab partners and collaborators; Learn more.

• DPUK

I am a bone fide Researcher for DPUK. Dementias Platform UK (DPUK) is a public-private partnership funded by the Medical Research Council. We are proud to work across traditional boundaries, bringing researchers from universities and industry together in the fight to develop effective treatments for dementia fast; Learn more.

• UK Biobank

I am a Collaborator Researcher at the UK Biobank. UK Biobank is a major national health resource, and a registered charity in its own right, with the aim of improving the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of a wide range of serious and life-threatening illnesses – including cancer, heart diseases, stroke, diabetes, arthritis, osteoporosis, eye disorders, depression and forms of dementia. Learn more.

• London Medical Imaging and AI Centre for Value Based Healthcare
  

I am an Affiliated Researcher at the London Medical Imaging and AI Centre for Value Based Healthcare, a consortium of academic, NHS and industry partners led by King’s and based at St Thomas’ Hospital. The new Centre will train sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms from NHS medical images and patient data to provide tools for clinicians to speed up and improve diagnosis and care across a number of patient pathways including dementia, heart failure and cancer; Learn more. 

• i2b2-tranSMART Foundation

I am a tranSMART Platform Project Management Committee member at the i2b2 tranSMART Foundation. The foundation supports modular open-source software programs for query, exploration, and analysis of clinical, translational, and genomics data. Flexible, ontology-driven architectures and community-developed plugins and interfaces enable a variety of configurations to support the needs of data scientists, academic clinical investigators, and industry; Learn more.

• ADNI

I am an ADNI Guest Researcher. The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) seeks to develop biomarkers of the disease and advance the understanding of AD pathophysiology, improve diagnostic methods for early detection of AD and improve clinical trial design. Additional goals are examining the rate of progress for both mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease, as well as building a large repository of clinical and imaging data; Learn more.

• PPMI

I am a PPMI Data Investigator. The Parkinson’s Progression Markers Initiative (PPMI) is a landmark observational clinical study to comprehensively evaluate cohorts of significant interest using advanced imaging, biologic sampling and clinical and behavioral assessments to identify biomarkers of Parkinson’s disease progression. Learn more

• The Human Brain project

I hold a Human Brain Project (HBP) Identity Account, which grants access to various HBP resources, such as: Neuroinformatic Platform; Medical Informatic Platform; Brain Simulation Platform; High Performance Analytics and Computing Platform; Neuromorphic Computing Platform and Neurorobotics Platform. Learn more.

• Translational Biomedical Informatics: TranSMART, XNAT and RedCap;
• Clincial Study Standards: CDISC (SDTM), SNOMED-CT, MedDRA;
• Transcriptomics Data Analysis (RNA-Seq);
• Flow Cytometry Data Analysis;
• Mass Spectrometry Data Analysis;
• Whole genome (re)-sequencing;
• Variant Discovery and Genotyping;
• Reproducible Science: Docker and Git;
• Statistical Programming Language: R/Bioconductor;
• Machine Learning: Python/Scikit-Learn;
• Data Science: Pandas & Tidyverse;
• Web-Design: HTML5/CSS/JavaScript;
• Visual Analytics: D3 and Highcharts;
• Web Semantics: Web services, RESTful APIs and RDF;
• Databases: SQL, RDF and SPARQL
• Text-mining: N.E.R., Semantic and Syntactic Analysis;
• Network Biology: Cytoscape;
• High Performance Computing;

• [Dec 2018] PPMI Study Enters a New Phase
• [Aug 2018] How secure data sharing can help us treat dementia
• [Aug 2018] Dementias Platform UK
• [Oct 2017] Mapping the Landscape of UK Health Data Research and Innovation report (PDF 3.23MB)
• [Jun 2017] MRC-funded supercomputer 'eMedLab' is an invaluable to researchers using Big Data
• [Sep 2017] A landscape for dementias research
• [Sep 2016] NIH award expands landmark Alzheimer’s biomarker study
• [Mar 2015] World's largest community genetics study launches in East London
• [Jan 2015] European boost to dementia research
• [Oct 2014] Dementias Platform UK: A powerhouse for dementia research

• EU FP7 BioCog;
• IMI eTRKS;
• IMI AETIONOMY;
• IMI OncoTrack;
• BMBF Neuronet;
• FAPESP Sugarcane Genome Project - Brazil;
• FAPESP Eucalyptus Genome Project - Brazil;
• CNPq Northeastern Genome Project - Brazil;

2018 – 2019 Research grant from the European Commission for the CORBEL project.

2018 – 2021 Research Fellowship from the UK Research and Innovation Rutherford Fund for the position at the QMUL.

2008 – 2011 Postdoctoral Fellowship from the German Ministry for Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung – BMBF).

2004 – 2008 PhD Scholarship from the Brazilian Agency for Graduate Students Support (CAPES) during Ph.D. Course in Bioinformatics at UFMG and the PDEE Studentship at EMBL.

2005 PhD Studentship from the Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology (MCT/CNPQ) to perform the Theoretical/Practical Course in Physical and Molecular Mapping in Plants.

2004 PhD Studentship from the Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology (MCT/CNPQ) to perform the Bioinformatics practical training courses at LNCC.

2000 – 2003 Bachelor Studentship from the Foundation for the Support of Science and Technology of the Pernambuco State (FACEPE) to develop the young scientist activities at UFPE.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5260-2607

Brusamarello-Santos LCC, Alberton D, Valdameri G, Camilios-Neto D, Covre R, Lopes KP, Zibetti Tadra-Sfeir M, Faoro H, Adele Monteiro R, Barbosa-Silva A, John Broughton W, Oliveira Pedrosa F, Wassem R, Souza EM. Modulation of defence and iron homeostasis genes in rice roots by the diazotrophic endophyte Herbaspirillum seropedicae.
Sci Rep. 2019 Jul 22;9(1):10573. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-45866-w. PubMed PMID: 31332206; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6646362.

Gu W, Yildirimman R, Van der Stuyft E, Verbeeck D, Herzinger S, Satagopam V,Barbosa-Silva A, Schneider R, Lange B, Lehrach H, Guo Y, Henderson D, Rowe A; IMIOncoTrack and the IMI eTRIKS consortia. Data and knowledge management intranslational research: implementation of the eTRIKS platform for the IMIOncoTrack consortium.
BMC Bioinformatics. 2019 Apr 1;20(1):164. doi:10.1186/s12859-019-2748-y. PubMed PMID: 30935364; PubMed Central PMCID:PMC6444691.

Barbosa-Silva A, Bratfalean D, Gu W, Satagopam V, Houston P, Becnel LB, Eifes S, Richard F, Tielmann A, Herzinger S, Rege K, Balling R, Peeters P, Schneider R.Presenting and sharing clinical data using the eTRIKS Standards Master Tree fortranSMART.
Bioinformatics. 2019 May 1;35(9):1562-1565. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bty809. PubMed PMID: 30256906; PubMed Central PMCID:PMC6499239.

Herzinger S, Gu W, Satagopam V, Eifes S, Rege K, Barbosa-Silva A, Schneider R;eTRIKS Consortium. SmartR: an open-source platform for interactive visualanalytics for translational research data.
Bioinformatics. 2017 Jul15;33(14):2229-2231. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btx137. PubMed PMID: 28334291;PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5870773.

Satagopam V, Gu W, Eifes S, Gawron P, Ostaszewski M, Gebel S, Barbosa-Silva A,Balling R, Schneider R. Integration and Visualization of Translational MedicineData for Better Understanding of Human Diseases.
Big Data. 2016 Jun;4(2):97-108. doi: 10.1089/big.2015.0057. PubMed PMID: 27441714; PubMed Central PMCID:PMC4932659.

Trindade D, Orsine LA, Barbosa-Silva A, Donnard ER, Ortega JM. A guide forbuilding biological pathways along with two case studies: hair and breastdevelopment.
Methods. 2015 Mar;74:16-35. doi: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2014.10.006. Epub2014 Oct 28. PubMed PMID: 25449898.

Wethmar K, Barbosa-Silva A, Andrade-Navarro MA, Leutz A. uORFdb--acomprehensive literature database on eukaryotic uORF biology.
Nucleic Acids Res. 2014 Jan;42(Database issue):D60-7. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkt952. Epub 2013 Oct 24.PubMed PMID: 24163100; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3964959.

Donnard E, Barbosa-Silva A, Guedes RL, Fernandes GR, Velloso H, Kohn MJ,Andrade-Navarro MA, Ortega JM. Preimplantation development regulatory pathwayconstruction through a text-mining approach.
BMC Genomics. 2011 Dec 22;12 Suppl4:S3. doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-S4-S3. Epub 2011 Dec 22. PubMed PMID: 22369103;PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3287586.

Soldatos TG, O'Donoghue SI, Satagopam VP, Barbosa-Silva A, Pavlopoulos GA,Wanderley-Nogueira AC, Soares-Cavalcanti NM, Schneider R. Caipirini: using genesets to rank literature.
BioData Min. 2012 Feb 1;5(1):1. doi:10.1186/1756-0381-5-1. PubMed PMID: 22297131; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3307494.

Barbosa-Silva A, Fontaine JF, Donnard ER, Stussi F, Ortega JM,Andrade-Navarro MA. PESCADOR, a web-based tool to assist text-mining ofbiointeractions extracted from PubMed queries.
BMC Bioinformatics. 2011 Nov9;12:435. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-12-435. PubMed PMID: 22070195; PubMed CentralPMCID: PMC3228910.

Fontaine JF, Priller F, Barbosa-Silva A, Andrade-Navarro MA. Génie:literature-based gene prioritization at multi genomic scale.
Nucleic Acids Res.2011 Jul;39(Web Server issue):W455-61. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkr246. Epub 2011 May 23.PubMed PMID: 21609954; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3125729.

Pavlopoulos GA, Soldatos TG, Barbosa-Silva A, Schneider R. A reference guide for tree analysis and visualization.
BioData Min. 2010 Feb 22;3(1):1. doi:10.1186/1756-0381-3-1. PubMed PMID: 20175922; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2844399.

Barbosa-Silva A, Soldatos TG, Magalhães IL, Pavlopoulos GA, Fontaine JF,Andrade-Navarro MA, Schneider R, Ortega JM. LAITOR--Literature Assistant forIdentification of Terms co-Occurrences and Relationships.
BMC Bioinformatics.2010 Feb 1;11:70. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-11-70. PubMed PMID: 20122157; PubMedCentral PMCID: PMC3098111.

Ana Carolina Wanderley-Nogueira, Nina da Mota Soares-Cavalcanti, Luis Carlos Belarmino, Adriano Barbosa-Silva, Ederson Akio Kido, Semiramis Jamil Hadad Do Monte, Valesca Pandolfi, Tercilio Calsa-Junior, Ana Maria Benko-Iseppon. In Silico Screening for Pathogenesis Related-2 Gene Candidates in Vigna Unguiculata Transcriptome In: Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics 2010 Book-chapter.
Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics 2010 (LNBI, volume 6160). doi:10.1007/978-3-642-14571-1_6

Soldatos TG, O'Donoghue SI, Satagopam VP, Jensen LJ, Brown NP, Barbosa-Silva A, Schneider R. Martini: using literature keywords to compare gene sets.
Nucleic Acids Res. 2010 Jan;38(1):26-38. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkp876. Epub 2009 Oct 25.PubMed PMID: 19858102; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2800231.

Fontaine JF, Barbosa-Silva A, Schaefer M, Huska MR, Muro EM, Andrade-Navarro MA. MedlineRanker: flexible ranking of biomedical literature.
Nucleic Acids Res. 2009 Jul;37(Web Server issue):W141-6. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkp353. Epub 2009 May 8.PubMed PMID: 19429696; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2703945.

Fernandes GR, Barbosa DV, Prosdocimi F, Pena IA, Santana-Santos L, CoelhoJunior O, Barbosa-Silva A, Velloso HM, Mudado MA, Natale DA, Faria-Campos AC,Aguiar SC, Ortega JM. A procedure to recruit members to enlarge protein family databases--the building of UECOG (UniRef-Enriched COG Database) as a model.
GenetMol Res. 2008 Sep 30;7(3):910-24. PubMed PMID: 18949709.

Barbosa-Silva A, Satagopam VP, Schneider R, Ortega JM. Clustering of cognate proteins among distinct proteomes derived from multiple links to a single seedsequence.
BMC Bioinformatics. 2008 Mar 5;9:141. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-9-141.PubMed PMID: 18321373; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2277401.

Barbosa-Silva A, Pafilis E, Ortega JM, Schneider R. Development of SRS.php, aSimple Object Access Protocol-based library for data acquisition from integrated biological databases.
Genet Mol Res. 2007 Dec 11;6(4):1142-50. PubMed PMID:18273808.

Wanderley-Nogueira AC, Soares-Cavalcanti NM, Morais DA, Belarmino LC,Barbosa-Silva A, Benko-Iseppon AM. Abundance and diversity of resistance genes inthe sugarcane transcriptome revealed by in silico analysis.
Genet Mol Res. 2007Oct 5;6(4):866-89. PubMed PMID: 18058709.

Nascimento DG, Rates B, Santos DM, Verano-Braga T, Barbosa-Silva A, Dutra AA,Biondi I, Martin-Eauclaire MF, De Lima ME, Pimenta AM. Moving pieces in ataxonomic puzzle: venom 2D-LC/MS and data clustering analyses to inferphylogenetic relationships in some scorpions from the Buthidae family(Scorpiones).
Toxicon. 2006 May;47(6):628-39. Epub 2006 Mar 23. PubMed PMID:16551474.

Cestari IS, Haver NJ, Barbosa-Silva A, Ramirez MI. PROTOGIM: a novel tool to search motifs and domains in hypothetical proteins of protozoan genomes.
Parasitol Res. 2006 Mar;98(4):375-7. Epub 2005 Dec 13. PubMed PMID: 16362340.

Barbosa-da-Silva, Adriano, Wanderley-Nogueira, Ana C., Silva, Raphaela R.M., Berlarmino, Luiz C., Soares-Cavalcanti, Nina M., & Benko-Iseppon, Ana M.. (2005). In silico survey of resistance (R) genes in Eucalyptus transcriptome. 
Genetics and Molecular Biology, 28(3, Suppl. ), 562-574.

2019               (Montevideo/UY) Personalised Medicine Technical Workshop

Organized by: EULAC, www.eulac-permed.eu

• Speaker: Multimodal patient data integration to foster machine-learning aided personalized medicine
• Speaker: Integrating EU-wide cardiovascular research datasets

2019               (Heidelberg/DE) CORBEL Service Operator and User Meeting

Organized by: CORBEL, https://www.corbel-project.eu

2019               (London/UK) ELIXIR Bioinformatics Suppliers Forum 2019

Organized by: ELIXIR, https://elixir-europe.org/

• Speaker: Clinical, OMICs and Imaging Data Integration

2017               (Barcelona/ES) BioTransR Meeting

Organized by: eTRIKS, http://etriks.org/

·       Speaker: Data exploration using the eTRIKS/ tranSMART platform

2016               (San Diego/USA) The 2016 tranSMART Foundation Annual Meeting

Organized by: tranSMART Foundation, http://transmartfoundation.org/

·       Speaker: Linking tranSMART to brain imaging, connectivity data and vis-tools

2016               (Barcelona/ES) NGS’16 – Next Generation Sequencing Meeting 2016

Organized by: ISCB, http://www.iscb.org

·      Delegate

2015               (Luxembourg/LU) 3rd LCSB International Systems Biomedicine Symposium: Big data in Health Care

Organized by: University of Luxembourg http://www.uni.lu

·      Delegate

2015               (Leuven/BE) EMBL Alumini Meeting

Organized by: EMBL Alumini Association, http://portal.fiocruz.br

·      Speaker: UL Bioinformatics Core Approaches for Translational Bioinformatics

2014               (Rio de Janeiro/BR) International Course on Systems Biology Applied to Parasitology

Organized by: IOC/FIOCRUZ, http://portal.fiocruz.br

·      Lecturer

2014               (Michigan/US) The 2014 tranSMART Foundation Annual Meeting

Organized by: tranSMART Foundation, http://transmartfoundation.org/

·      Delegate

2014               (Boston/US) Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB)

Organized by: ISCB, http://www.iscb.org

·      Delegate

2014               (Toronto/CAN) 7th International Biocuration Conference

Organized by OICR and ISB: http://biocuration2014.events.oicr.on.ca

·       Eifes S, Barbosa-Silva A, Gu W, Satagopam VP, Schneider R (2014) Clinical cata curation in the framework of eTRIKS. In: Proceedings of the 7th International Biocuration Conference. Toronto, Canada.

2014               (Rio Grande do Norte/BR) Europe-Brazil Meeting on Systems and Synthetic Biology (2nd SB-Meeting)

Organized by UFRN and DKFZ: http://www.sb-meeting.com.br 

·      Speaker: Systems biology data integration to speed up the development of better and safer medicines for patients

·       Chair: Symposium 2

2013               (Berlin/DE) Workshop on Molecular Interactions

Organized by: Univ. Potsdam, http://molecularinteractions.de

·      Speaker: Text mining approaches to mine biological knowledge for systems biology

2013               (Berlin/DE) Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB)

Organized by: ISCB, http://www.iscb.org

·      Delegate

2013               (Heidelberg/DE) International Conference on Systems Biology of Human Diseases (SBHD)

Organized by: DKFZ and Harvard Med. School, http://www.sbhd2013.org

·       Delegate

2013               (Luxembourg/LU) 2nd International Systems Biomedicine Symposium

Organized by: Univ. of Luxembourg, http://www.uni.lu  

·      Delegate

2012               (Pernambuco/BR) Brazilian Northeastern Genetics Meeting

Organized by: UNIVASF, http://www.engene.univasf.edu.br/ 

·       Tutor: Mini-course: web-resources applied to the study of biological systems

2012               (Brasilia/BR) Brazilian-German Frontiers in Science and Technology

Organized by: CAPES and AvH Foundation

http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/bragfost-2012.html

·       Delegate

2012               (São Paulo/BR) 8th International Conference of the Brazilian Association of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (X- Meeting)

Organized by: AB3C, http://www.x-meeting.com

·       Speaker: Text Mining for Biological Knowledge Extraction.

·       Covre RA, Lopes KP, Monteiro RA, Brusamarello LCC, Souza EM, Pedrosa FO, Barbosa-Silva A (2012) Wedring: a pipeline for analysis of differential gene expression in RNA-Seq. In: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference of the Brazilian Association of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (X- Meeting). Campinas – SP, Brazil.

·       Lopes KP, Covre RA, Brusamarello LCC, Wassem R, Souza EM, Pedrosa FO, Barbosa-Silva A (2012) Identification of rice alternatively spliced and new transcripts in response to diazotrophic inoculation using RNA-Seq data. In: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference of the Brazilian Association of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (X- Meeting). Campinas – SP, Brazil.

·       Lopes KP, Covre RA, Brusamarello LCC, Wassem R, Souza EM, Pedrosa FO, Barbosa-Silva A (2012) RNA-Seq based identification of alternative splicing in transcription start sites of rice mRNAs. In: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference of the Brazilian Association of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (X- Meeting). Campinas – SP, Brazil.

·       Stussi F, Guedes RLM, Barbosa-Silva A, Ortega JM (2012) Depicting the origin of sumoylation network in Arabdopsis thaliana with text-mining and orthologue clustering tools. In: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference of the Brazilian Association of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (X- Meeting). Campinas – SP, Brazil.

·       Barbosa-Silva, A. (2010) Integrating biological concepts into protein-protein interactions using text mining. In: Proceedings of the Brasil-Deutschland Systems Biology Meeting (SB-Meeting). Ouro Preto – MG, Brasil.

2011               (Santa Catarina/BR) 7th International Conference of the Brazilian Association of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (X- Meeting)

Organized by: AB3C, http://www.x-meeting.com

·       Chair: Full paper presentation session.

·       Stussi, F., Guedes, R., Velloso, H., Donnard, E., Ribeiro, H., Fernandes, G., Barbosa-Silva, A., Andrade-Navarro, M., Ortega, J.M. (2011) Depicting the origin of drought response in Arabidopsis thaliana with text-mining and orthologue clustering tools. In: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference of the Brazilian Association of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (X- Meeting). Florianopolis – SC, Brazil.

·       Barbosa-Silva, A., Fontaine., J.F., Donnard, E., Stussi, F., Ortega, J.M., Andrade-Navarro, M. (2011) Efficient network curation using the text-mining tool PESCADOR. In: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference of the Brazilian Association of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (X- Meeting). Florianopolis – SC, Brazil.

·       Lopes, K.P., Covre, R.A., Brusamarello-Santos, L.C.C., Wassem, R., Souza, E.M., Pedrosa, F.O., Barbosa-Silva, A. (2011) Initial mapping of rice cDNA short-sequences created by RNA-Seq. In: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference of the Brazilian Association of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (X- Meeting). Florianopolis – SC, Brazil.

·      Covre, R.A., Lopes, K.P., Brusamarello-Santos, L.C.C., Wassem, R., Souza, E.M., Pedrosa, F.O., Barbosa-Silva, A. (2011) Pipeline for analysis of RNA-Seq short-sequences using open source softwares. In: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference of the Brazilian Association of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (X- Meeting). Florianopolis – SC, Brazil.

2010               Brasil-Deutschland Systems Biology Meeting (SB- Meeting)

·       Speaker: Learning from homologs.

·       Chair: Best-posters oral presentation.

·       Barbosa-Silva, A. (2010) Integrating biological concepts into protein-protein interactions using text mining. In: Proceedings of the Brasil-Deutschland Systems Biology Meeting (SB-Meeting). Ouro Preto – MG, Brasil.

Organized by UFMG and DKFZ: http://www.sb-meeting.com

2009               5th International Conference of the Brazilian Association of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (X- Meeting)

·       Chair: Lecture 4: Comparative Metagenomics. Peer Bork – EMBL Heidelberg.

·       Speaker: PESCADOR: concepts associated to co-occurrences relationships.

·       Guedes, R.L.M., Fernandes, G.D.R., Coelho-Junior, O.S., Ribeiro, H.A.L., Barbosa-Silva, A., Ortega, J.M. (2009) Survey of phosphate kinases in 17.65 million metagenomics sequences using clusters of homologues built with SeedServer. In: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference of the Brazilian Association of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (X- Meeting). Angra dos Reis – RJ, Brasil.

·       Donnard, E., Barbosa-Silva, A., Ortega, J.M. (2009) In pursuit of a KEGG-like pathway for the preimplantation development using the text mining tool LAITOR to reveal biointeractions. In: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference of the Brazilian Association of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (X- Meeting). Angra dos Reis – RJ, Brasil.

Organized by AB3C: http://www.x-meeting.com

2009               I Pernambuco Bioinformatics Workshop

·       Speaker

2009               6th International Meeting on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics – CIBB

·       Chair

Organized by Univ. of Genova (Italy): http://cibb09.disi.unige.it/

2009               2nd German National Genome Research Network (NGFN) Meeting

·       Fontaine, J.-F., Barbosa-Silva, A.; Spruth, E., Priller, J., Andrade-Navarro, M.A. Hypothesis generation for neurodegenerative diseases pathogenesis using text-mining

Organized by BMBF: http://www.bmbf.de/

2008               1st German National Genome Research Network (NGFN) Meeting

·       Fontaine, J.-F., Barbosa-Silva, A.; Andrade-Navarro, M.A. Ranking the biomedical Literature for optimized experimental designs

Organized by BMBF: http://www.bmbf.de/

2007               53° Brazilian Congress of Genetics

·       Barbosa-Silva, A.; Satagopam, V.P.; Schneider, R.; Ortega, J.M. Clustering of inparalog and co-ortholog proteins in clusters founded by single seeds.

Organized by SBG: http://www.sbg.org.br

2007               I Workshop of the UFMG’s Bioinformatics PhD Course.

·       Speaker: Mineração de texto, agrupamento de seqüências e integração de dados para contrução de uma base de dados on-line de proteínas de defesa em plantas.

Organized by Bioinformática - UFMG: http://www.bioinfo.icb.ufmg.br

2005               I International Workshop on Genomic Databases

·       Cestari, I.S.; Barbosa-Silva, A.; Araya, M.I.R. Functional Analyses of Trypanosomatids Hypothetical Proteins.  

Organized by FIOCRUZ: http://www.biowebdb.org/iwgd05/

2005               1st International Conference of the Brazilian Association of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (X- Meeting)

·       Committee member;

·       Barbosa-Silva, A., Mudado, M., Ortega, J. M. (2005). Plant Defense Mechanisms Database (PDM): Building and Evaluation. In: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference of the Brazilian Association of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (X- Meeting). Caxambu – MG, Brasil.

·       Casanova, F. M., Andrade, P. P., Kido, E. A., Cavalcanti, E. S., Rayol, C. A., Barbosa, A. (2005). Patterns of gene expression from Leishmania ProGeNE cDNA libraries. In: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference of the Brazilian Association of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (X- Meeting). Caxambu – MG, Brasil.

·       Rates, B. Barbosa-Silva, A., Nascimento, D. G., Santos, D. M., Braga, T. V., Dutra, A. A. A., Lima, M. E., Pimenta, A. M. C. (2005). Machine learning-based clustering analysis of venom 2D-LC/MS data to infer phylogenetic relationships in scorpions from the Buthidae family. In: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference of the Brazilian Association of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (X- Meeting). Caxambu - MG, Brasil.

·       Barbosa, D. V. C., Faria-Campos, A. C., Barbosa, A., Ortega, J. M. (2005). Identification of the divergent genes in group of paralogs from microorganisms with complete genome. In: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference of the Brazilian Association of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (X-Meeting). Caxambu - MG, Brasil.

Organized by AB3C: http://www.x-meeting.com

2005               VIII ICB Research Meeting / III Annual Meeting for Research in Biochemistry and Immunology (ENAPEBI)

Organized by ICB/UFMG: http://www.icb.ufmg.br

2005               51° Brazilian Congress of Genetics

·       Barbosa, A., Mudado, M. A., Ortega, J. M. (2005) PDM, A Plant Defense Mechanism Database Suitable For Automatic Annotation and Classification. In: Anais do 51° Congresso Brasileiro de Genética. Águas de Lindóia – SP, Brasil.

Organized by SBG: http://www.sbg.org.br

2004               II International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

·       Mudado, M. A., Pinto, S. A. P., Barbosa, A. S., et al. (2004). A Picture of the Sampling of Gene Expression In Model Metazoa Using EST And KOG Proteins. In: II International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Angra dos Reis – RJ, Brasil.

·       Barbosa, A., Benko-Iseppon, A. M. (2004). In silico screening of tomato disease resistance pathway in sugarcane transcriptome. In: II ICOBICOBI - International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Angra dos Reis – RJ, Brasil.

Organized by AB3C: http://www.ab3c.org

2003               III Brazilian Biosafety Conference and III Latin-American Symposia on GMO Products .

·       Committee member;

Organized by the Brazilian Biosafety Association: http://www.anbio.org.br

2003               49° Brazilian Congress of Genetics

·       Barbosa, A., Morais, D. A. L., Benko-Iseppon, A. M. (2003). Data mining approach used to characterize putative disease resistance gene Pti1 on sugarcane transcriptome. In: Anais do 49° Congresso Brasileiro de Genética. Águas de Lindóia – SP, Brasil.

Organized by SBG: http://www.sbg.org.br

2002               XXXV Phytopathology Brazilian Congress

·       Barbosa, A., Morais, D. A. L., Benko-Iseppon, A. M. (2002). Sugarcane ESTs Data Mining revels homolog sequences to Lr10 gene from wheat. In: Anais do XXXV Congresso Brasileiro de Fitopatologia. Recife – PE, Brasil.

Organized by Brazilian Society of Phytopathology: http://www.sbfito.com.br/

2002               48° Brazilian Genetics Congress

·       Barbosa, A., Morais, D. A. L., Benko-Iseppon, A. M. (2003). In silico screening of sugarcane homolog sequences to tomato Pto R-gene. In: Proceedings of the 48th Brazilian Congress of Genetics. Águas de Lindóia – SP, Brasil.

Organized by SBG: http://www.sbg.org.br

2002               I Brazilian Congress of University Extension.

Organized by the Forum of the pro-rectories for extension of the Brazilian public universities: http://www.renex.org.br/

2001               IX UFPE’s Scientific Initiation Conference

·       Barbosa, A., Morais, D. A. L., Benko-Iseppon, A. M. (2001). Análise comparativa de genes de resistência a bactéria Pseudomonas syringae de Arabidopsis thaliana no genoma da cana-de-açúcar. In: Anais do XI Congresso de Iniciação Científica da UFPE. Recife – PE, Brasil.

Organized by UFPE: http://www.ufpe.br

2001               Workshop of the technology-based enterprises of the Pernambuco state.
Organized by FACEPE: http://www.facepe.br

2001               Parasitic Proteomics Workshop
Organized by FACEPE: http://www.facepe.br

2001               Workshop: Research, venture-capital and the Brazilian biotechnology industries, the experience of FK-Biotecnologia S.A.
Organized by FACEPE: http://www.facepe.br

2001               Workshop: Pernambuco State Biotechnology Program

Organized by FACEPE: http://www.facepe.br

2001               V UPE’s Scientific Initiation Workshop
Organized by FACEPE: http://www.facepe.br

2001               Workshop: Technologic opportunities of Genomics
Organized by FACEPE: http://www.facepe.br

2000               Building the pedagogic Project of the UFPE
Organized by UFPE: http://www.ufpe.br

2000               VIII UFPE’s Scientific Initiation Conference
Organized by UFPE: http://www.ufpe.br

2000               X EREB-NE: National Meeting of the Brazilian North-eastern Students
Organized by UFPI: http://www.ufpi.br

• Data management planning;
• MRC Funding opportunities;
• ESRC Funding opportunities;
• Future Leaders Fellowship Schema;
• QMUL data protection policy
• European Infrastructure Projects