Thiago Motta Venancio

Research Interests

⇒Genome and transcriptome analysis;
⇒Gene regulation;
⇒Molecular Evolution;
⇒Systems Biology.

Degrees and professional experience

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow - PRESENT
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
National Library of Medicine - National Institutes of Health
Supervisor: L. Aravind

PhD in Bioinformatics
Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil. [ Mar 2004 - Feb 2008 ]
Supervisors: Prof. S. Verjovski-Almeida and JC Setubal
Thesis: Computational Analysis of Gene Expression in Schistosoma mansoni

M.Sc. in Biosciences and Biotechnology
Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense, Campos dos Goytacazes, RJ, Brazil. [ Mar 2002 - Jan 2004 ]
Supervisor: Prof. J. Xavier-Filho

B.Sc. in Biology
Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense, Campos dos Goytacazes, RJ, Brazil. [ Mar 1998 - Dez 2001 ]

Selected recent publications

Aravind L, Anantharaman V, Venancio TM.
Apprehending Multicellularity: Regulatory Networks, Genomics, and Evolution.
[ Birth Defects Research (Part C), 2009 ]

Soares JB, Menezes D, Vannier MA, Ferreira-Pereira A, Almeida GT, Venancio TM, Verjovski-Almeida, S, Zishiri VK, Kuter D, Hunter R, Egan, TJ, Oliveira MF.
Interference with hemozoin formation represents an important mechanism of schistosomicidal action of antimalarial quinoline methanols.
[ PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2009 - Accepted; ]

Venancio TM, Aravind L
Reconstructing prokaryotic transcriptional regulatory networks: lessons from actinobacteria.
[ Journal of Biology, 2009; ]

Venancio TM, Balaji S, Iyer LM, Aravind L
Reconstructing the ubiquitin network - cross-talk with other systems and identification of novel functions.
[ Genome Biology, 2009; ]

Venancio TM, DeMarco R, Almeida GT, Oliveira KC, Setubal JC, Sergio Verjovski-Almeida
Analysis of Schistosoma mansoni genes shared with Deuterostomia and with possible roles in host interactions.
[ BMC Genomics, 2007; 8:407 ]

Esteves GH, Simoes AC, Souza E, Dias RA, Ospina R, Venancio TM
New insights about host response to smallpox using microarray data.
[ BMC Systems Biology, 2007; 1:38 ]

Verjovski-Almeida S, Venancio TM, Oliveira KC, Almeida GT, DeMarco R
Use of a 44k oligoarray to explore the transcriptome of Schistosoma mansoni adult worms.
[ Experimental Parasitology, 2007; 117:236-45 ]

DeMarco R, Venancio TM, Verjovski-Almeida S
SmTRC1, a novel Schistosoma mansoni DNA transposon, discloses new families of animal and fungi transposons belonging to the CACTA superfamily.
[ BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2006; 6:89 ]

Demarco R, Oliveira KC, Venancio TM and Verjovski-Almeida S
Gender biased differential alternative splicing patterns of the transcriptional cofactor CA150 gene in Schistosoma mansoni.
[ Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, 2006; 150:123-31 ]

Address

Thiago Motta Venancio	Email:  venancit at ncbi . nlm . nih . gov
Protein and Genome Evolution Research Group	Phone: +1 301-496-8899
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
National Library of Medicine
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda - MD - USA