Stephanie DeSouza

Lecturer

Department of Biological Sciences

Contact

BIO 232

Education

Postdoc, University at Albany

PhD, Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil

Master, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

BS, IBMR University Center, Brazil

About

Stephanie DeSouza's areas of interests are Microbial Genomics, Antimicrobial Resistance, Bacterial Evolution, Epidemiology and Bioinformatics.

Publications

Buiatte, A. B. G., Souza, S. S. R., Costa, L. R. M., Peres, P. A. B. M., de Melo, R. T., Sommerfeld, S., Fonseca, B. B., Zac Soligno, N. I., Ikhimiukor, O. O., Armendaris, P. M., Andam, C. P., & Rossi, D. A. (2024). Five centuries of genome evolution and multi-host adaptation of Campylobacter jejuni in Brazil. Microbial genomics, 10(7), 001274. https://doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0.001274
Souza, S. S. R., Smith, J. T., Marcovici, M. M., Eckhardt, E. M., Hansel, N. B., Martin, I. W., & Andam, C. P. (2024). Demographic fluctuations in bloodstream Staphylococcus aureus lineages configure the mobile gene pool and antimicrobial resistance. npj antimicrobials and resistance, 2(1), 14. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44259-024-00032-9
Souza, S. S. R., Smith, J. T., Bruce, S. A., Gibson, R., Martin, I. W., & Andam, C. P. (2023). Multi-host infection and phylogenetically diverse lineages shape the recombination and gene pool dynamics of Staphylococcus aureus. BMC microbiology, 23(1), 235. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12866-023-02985-9
Souza, S. S. R., Turcotte, M. R., Li, J., Zhang, X., Wolfe, K. L., Gao, F., Benton, C. S., & Andam, C. P. (2022). Population analysis of heavy metal and biocide resistance genes in Salmonella enterica from human clinical cases in New Hampshire, United States. Frontiers in microbiology, 13, 983083. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.983083 https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=GGNoirEAAAAJ&hl=pt-BR&oi=ao