Siomar de Castro Soares

Dr. Soares obtained his MSc and PhD in genetics from the Federal University of Minas Gerais with 1-year experience in the Center for Biotechnology (CeBiTec) of Universität Bielefeld. He obtained a second PhD and postdoc research in bioinformatics.He was a Senior Bioinformatics’ Researcher at the Official Laboratory of the Ministry of Fisheries. Dr. Soares is currently Secretary of the Southeast Regional of the Brazilian Society of Genetics (2017–present), Substitute Coordinator of the Bachelor’s in Biomedicine of UFTM (2017–present), Director of the Department for the Development of Research and Technological Innovation of UFTM (2019–present), and Affiliate Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (2018–present). His areas of expertise are molecular genetics, genomic sequencing, and microbial comparative genomics, mainly focused on pan-genomics, the role of pathogenicity islands and virulence factors in genome plasticity, phylogenomics, molecular epidemiology, reverse vaccinology, and software development (Perl and Java languages).