Alice Rebecca Wattam

Possui graduação em Biologia pela The University of New México(1983), mestrado em Biologia pela The University of New México(1987), doutorado em Entomologia e Medicina Veterinária pela University of Wisconsin System(1992), pós-doutorado pela University of Arizona(2000) e pós-doutorado pela University of Arizona(1994). Atualmente é Professora assistente pesquisadora da Virginia Tech e Diretora de projeto da Virginia Tech.

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Acadêmico

Formação acadêmica

Doutorado em Entomologia e Medicina Veterinária

1988 - 1992

University of Wisconsin System
Título: Differences in Aedes aegypti strains susceptible or refractory to filarial parasite infection
Orientador: Bruce Christensen
Coorientador: Walter Goodman.

Mestrado em Biologia

1985 - 1987

The University of New Mexico
Título: Cross-reactive antigens from Schistosoma mansion cercariae and Biomphalaria glabrata: An immunoblot analysis,Ano de Obtenção: 1987
Orientador: Eric S Loker

Graduação em Biologia

1978 - 1983

The University of New Mexico

Pós-doutorado

1994 - 2000

Pós-Doutorado. , University of Arizona, ARIZONA, Estados Unidos.

1992 - 1994

Pós-Doutorado. , University of Arizona, ARIZONA, Estados Unidos.

Idiomas

Bandeira representando o idioma Inglês

Compreende Bem, Fala Bem, Lê Bem, Escreve Bem.

Bandeira representando o idioma Espanhol

Compreende Razoavelmente, Fala Razoavelmente, Lê Razoavelmente, Escreve Razoavelmente.

Produções bibliográficas

  • AL DAHOUK, SASCHA ; KÖHLER, STEPHAN ; OCCHIALINI, ALESSANDRA ; JIMÉNEZ DE BAGÜÉS, MARÍA PILAR ; HAMMERL, JENS ANDRE ; EISENBERG, TOBIAS ; VERGNAUD, GILLES ; CLOECKAERT, AXEL ; ZYGMUNT, MICHEL S. ; Whatmore, Adrian M. ; MELZER, FALK ; DREES, KEVIN P. ; FOSTER, JEFFREY T. ; Wattam, Alice R. ; SCHOLZ, HOLGER C. . Brucella spp. of amphibians comprise genomically diverse motile strains competent for replication in macrophages and survival in mammalian hosts. Scientific Reports , v. 7, p. 44420, 2017.

  • VIANA, MARCUS VINICIUS CANÁRIO ; FIGUEIREDO, HENRIQUE ; RAMOS, ROMMEL ; GUIMARÃES, LUIS CARLOS ; PEREIRA, FELIPE LUIZ ; DORELLA, FERNANDA ALVES ; SELIM, SALAH ABDEL KARIM ; SALAHELDEAN, MOHAMMAD ; SILVA, ARTUR ; Wattam, Alice R. ; AZEVEDO, VASCO . Comparative genomic analysis between Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis strains isolated from buffalo. PLoS One , v. 12, p. e0176347, 2017.

  • VIANA, MARCUS VINICIUS CANÁRIO ; WATTAM, ALICE REBECCA ; GOVIL BATRA, DHWANI ; BOISVERT, SÉBASTIEN ; BRETTIN, THOMAS SCOTT ; FRACE, MICHAEL ; XIA, FANGFANG ; AZEVEDO, VASCO ; TILLER, REBEKAH ; HOFFMASTER, ALEX R. . Genome Sequences of Two Brucella suis Strains Isolated from the Same Patient, 8 Years Apart. GENOME ANNOUNCEMENTS , v. 5, p. e01687-16, 2017.

  • VIANA, MARCUS VINICIUS CANÁRIO ; WATTAM, ALICE REBECCA ; GOVIL BATRA, DHWANI ; BOISVERT, SÉBASTIEN ; BRETTIN, THOMAS SCOTT ; FRACE, MICHAEL ; XIA, FANGFANG ; AZEVEDO, VASCO ; TILLER, REBEKAH ; HOFFMASTER, ALEX R. . Genome Sequences of Three Brucella canis Strains Isolated from Humans and a Dog. GENOME ANNOUNCEMENTS , v. 5, p. e01688-16, 2017.

  • Wattam, Alice R. ; Wattam, Alice R. DAVIS, JAMES J. ASSAF, RIDA BOISVERT, SÉBASTIEN BRETTIN, THOMAS BUN, CHRISTOPHER CONRAD, NEAL DIETRICH, EMILY M. DISZ, TERRY Gabbard, Joseph L. GERDES, SVETLANA HENRY, CHRISTOPHER S. KENYON, RONALD W. MACHI, DUSTIN MAO, CHUNHONG NORDBERG, ERIC K. OLSEN, GARY J. MURPHY-OLSON, DANIEL E. OLSON, ROBERT OVERBEEK, ROSS PARRELLO, BRUCE PUSCH, GORDON D. Shukla, Maulik VONSTEIN, VERONIKA WARREN, ANDREW , et al. XIA, FANGFANG YOO, HYUNSEUNG STEVENS, RICK L. ; Improvements to PATRIC, the all-bacterial Bioinformatics Database and Analysis Resource Center. NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH , v. 45, p. D535-D542, 2017.

  • IMCHEN, MADANGCHANOK ; KUMAVATH, RANJITH ; BARH, DEBMALYA ; AVEZEDO, VASCO ; GHOSH, PREETAM ; VIANA, MARCUS ; Wattam, Alice R. . Searching for signatures across microbial communities: Metagenomic analysis of soil samples from mangrove and other ecosystems. Scientific Reports , v. 7, p. 8859, 2017.

  • DAVIS, JAMES J. ; GERDES, SVETLANA ; OLSEN, GARY J. ; OLSON, ROBERT ; PUSCH, GORDON D. ; Shukla, Maulik ; VONSTEIN, VERONIKA ; Wattam, Alice R. ; YOO, HYUNSEUNG . PATtyFams: Protein Families for the Microbial Genomes in the PATRIC Database. Frontiers in Microbiology , v. 7, p. 1-12, 2016.

  • DAVIS, JAMES J. ; BOISVERT, SÉBASTIEN ; BRETTIN, THOMAS ; KENYON, RONALD W. ; MAO, CHUNHONG ; OLSON, ROBERT ; OVERBEEK, ROSS ; SANTERRE, JOHN ; Shukla, Maulik ; Wattam, Alice R. ; WILL, REBECCA ; XIA, FANGFANG ; STEVENS, RICK . Antimicrobial Resistance Prediction in PATRIC and RAST. Scientific Reports , v. 6, p. 27930, 2016.

  • SAADEH, BASHIR ; CASWELL, CLAYTON C. ; CHAO, YANJIE ; BERTA, PHILIPPE ; WATTAM, ALICE REBECCA ; Roop, R. Martin ; O'Callaghan, David . Transcriptome-Wide Identification of Hfq-Associated RNAs in Brucella suis by Deep Sequencing. JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY , v. 198, p. 427-435, 2016.

  • BRETTIN, THOMAS ; DAVIS, JAMES J. ; DISZ, TERRY ; EDWARDS, ROBERT A. ; GERDES, SVETLANA ; OLSEN, GARY J. ; OLSON, ROBERT ; OVERBEEK, ROSS ; PARRELLO, BRUCE ; PUSCH, GORDON D. ; Shukla, Maulik ; THOMASON, JAMES A. ; STEVENS, RICK ; VONSTEIN, VERONIKA ; Wattam, Alice R. ; XIA, FANGFANG . RASTtk: A modular and extensible implementation of the RAST algorithm for building custom annotation pipelines and annotating batches of genomes. Scientific Reports , v. 5, p. 8365, 2015.

  • WARREN, ANDREW S. ; AURRECOECHEA, CRISTINA ; BRUNK, BRIAN ; DESAI, PRERAK ; EMRICH, SCOTT ; GIRALDO-CALDERÓN, GLORIA I. ; HARB, OMAR ; HIX, DEBORAH ; LAWSON, DANIEL ; MACHI, DUSTIN ; MAO, CHUNHONG ; MCCLELLAND, MICHAEL ; NORDBERG, ERIC ; Shukla, Maulik ; VOSSHALL, LESLIE B. ; Wattam, Alice R. ; WILL, REBECCA ; YOO, HYUN SEUNG ; SOBRAL, BRUNO . RNA-Rocket: an RNA-Seq analysis resource for infectious disease research. Bioinformatics , v. 31, p. 1496-1498, 2015.

  • FARIA, JOSÉ P. ; EDIRISINGHE, JANAKA N. ; DAVIS, JAMES J. ; DISZ, TERRENCE ; HAUSMANN, ANNA ; HENRY, CHRISTOPHER S. ; OLSON, ROBERT ; OVERBEEK, ROSS A. ; PUSCH, GORDON D. ; Shukla, Maulik ; VONSTEIN, VERONIKA ; Wattam, Alice R. . Enabling comparative modeling of closely related genomes: example genus Brucella. 3 Biotech , v. 5, p. 101-105, 2015.

  • TUFARIELLO, J. M. ; KERANTZAS, C. A. ; VILCHEZE, C. ; CALDER, R. B. ; NORDBERG, E. K. ; FISCHER, J. A. ; HARTMAN, T. E. ; YANG, E. ; DRISCOLL, T. ; COLE, L. E. ; SEBRA, R. ; MAQBOOL, S. B. ; WATTAM, A. R. ; JACOBS, W. R. . The Complete Genome Sequence of the Emerging Pathogen Mycobacterium haemophilum Explains Its Unique Culture Requirements. mBio , v. 6, p. e01313-15-e01313-15, 2015.

  • PANAS, MICHAEL W. ; JAIN, PARAS ; YANG, HUI ; MITRA, SHIMONTINI ; BISWAS, DEBASIS ; WATTAM, ALICE REBECCA ; LETVIN, NORMAN L. ; JACOBS, WILLIAM R. . Noncanonical SMC protein in restricts maintenance of plasmids. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA , v. 111, p. 13264-13271, 2014.

  • WATTAM, A. R. ; FOSTER, J. T. ; MANE, S. P. ; BECKSTROM-STERNBERG, S. M. ; BECKSTROM-STERNBERG, J. M. ; DICKERMAN, A. W. ; KEIM, P. ; PEARSON, T. ; SHUKLA, M. ; WARD, D. V. ; WILLIAMS, K. P. ; SOBRAL, B. W. ; TSOLIS, R. M. ; WHATMORE, A. M. ; O'CALLAGHAN, D. . Comparative Phylogenomics and Evolution of the Brucellae Reveal a Path to Virulence. JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY , v. 196, p. 920-930, 2014.

  • MAO, CHUNHONG ; ABRAHAM, DAVID ; Wattam, Alice R. ; WILSON, MEREDITH J.C. ; Shukla, Maulik ; YOO, HYUN SEUNG ; Sobral, Bruno W. . Curation, integration and visualization of bacterial virulence factors in PATRIC. Bioinformatics , v. 31, p. 252-258, 2014.

  • OVERBEEK, R. ; OLSON, R. ; PUSCH, G. D. ; OLSEN, G. J. ; DAVIS, J. J. ; DISZ, T. ; EDWARDS, R. A. ; GERDES, S. ; PARRELLO, B. ; SHUKLA, M. ; VONSTEIN, V. ; WATTAM, A. R. ; XIA, F. ; STEVENS, R. . The SEED and the Rapid Annotation of microbial genomes using Subsystems Technology (RAST). NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH , v. 42, p. D206-D214, 2013.

  • RAJASEKARAN, PARTHIBAN ; ALEXANDER, JEFFRY C. ; SELEEM, MOHAMED N. ; JAIN, NEETA ; SRIRANGANATHAN, NAMMALWAR ; Wattam, Alice R. ; SETUBAL, JOÃO C. ; BOYLE, STEPHEN M. . Peptide nucleic acids inhibit growth of Brucella suis in pure culture and in infected murine macrophages. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS , v. 41, p. 358-362, 2013.

  • WATTAM, A. R. ; WATTAM, A. R. ABRAHAM, D. DALAY, O. DISZ, T. L. DRISCOLL, T. GABBARD, J. L. GILLESPIE, J. J. GOUGH, R. HIX, D. KENYON, R. MACHI, D. MAO, C. NORDBERG, E. K. OLSON, R. OVERBEEK, R. PUSCH, G. D. SHUKLA, M. SCHULMAN, J. STEVENS, R. L. SULLIVAN, D. E. VONSTEIN, V. WARREN, A. WILL, R. WILSON, M. J. C. YOO, H. S. , et al. ZHANG, C. ZHANG, Y. SOBRAL, B. W. ; PATRIC, the bacterial bioinformatics database and analysis resource. NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH , v. 42, p. D581-D591, 2013.

  • WATTAM, A. R. ; INZANA, T. J. ; WILLIAMS, K. P. ; MANE, S. P. ; SHUKLA, M. ; ALMEIDA, N. F. ; DICKERMAN, A. W. ; MASON, S. ; MORIYON, I. ; O'CALLAGHAN, D. ; WHATMORE, A. M. ; SOBRAL, B. W. ; TILLER, R. V. ; HOFFMASTER, A. R. ; FRACE, M. A. ; DE CASTRO, C. ; MOLINARO, A. ; BOYLE, S. M. ; DE, B. K. ; SETUBAL, J. C. . Comparative Genomics of Early-Diverging Brucella Strains Reveals a Novel Lipopolysaccharide Biosynthesis Pathway. mBio , v. 3, p. e00246-12-e00246-12, 2012.

  • GILLESPIE, J. J. ; WATTAM, A. R. ; CAMMER, S. A. ; GABBARD, J. L. ; SHUKLA, M. P. ; DALAY, O. ; DRISCOLL, T. ; HIX, D. ; MANE, S. P. ; MAO, C. ; NORDBERG, E. K. ; SCOTT, M. ; SCHULMAN, J. R. ; SNYDER, E. E. ; SULLIVAN, D. E. ; WANG, C. ; WARREN, A. ; WILLIAMS, K. P. ; XUE, T. ; SEUNG YOO, H. ; ZHANG, C. ; ZHANG, Y. ; WILL, R. ; KENYON, R. W. ; SOBRAL, B. W. . PATRIC: the Comprehensive Bacterial Bioinformatics Resource with a Focus on Human Pathogenic Species. INFECTION AND IMMUNITY , v. 79, p. 4286-4298, 2011.

  • WATTAM, A. R. ; WILLIAMS, K. P. ; SNYDER, E. E. ; ALMEIDA, N. F. ; SHUKLA, M. ; DICKERMAN, A. W. ; CRASTA, O. R. ; KENYON, R. ; LU, J. ; SHALLOM, J. M. ; YOO, H. ; FICHT, T. A. ; TSOLIS, R. M. ; MUNK, C. ; TAPIA, R. ; HAN, C. S. ; DETTER, J. C. ; BRUCE, D. ; BRETTIN, T. S. ; SOBRAL, B. W. ; BOYLE, S. M. ; SETUBAL, J. C. . Analysis of Ten Brucella Genomes Reveals Evidence for Horizontal Gene Transfer Despite a Preferred Intracellular Lifestyle. JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY , v. 191, p. 3569-3579, 2009.

  • GILLESPIE, JOSEPH J. ; WILLIAMS, KELLY ; Shukla, Maulik ; SNYDER, ERIC E. ; NORDBERG, ERIC K. ; CERAUL, SHANE M. ; DHARMANOLLA, CHITTI ; RAINEY, DAPHNE ; SONEJA, JEETENDRA ; SHALLOM, JOSHUA M. ; VISHNUBHAT, NATARAJ DONGRE ; WATTAM, REBECCA ; PURKAYASTHA, ANJAN ; CZAR, MICHAEL ; CRASTA, OSWALD ; SETUBAL, JOAO C. ; AZAD, ABDU F. ; SOBRAL, BRUNO S. . Rickettsia Phylogenomics: Unwinding the Intricacies of Obligate Intracellular Life. PLoS One , v. 3, p. e2018, 2008.

  • HE, Y. ; VINES, R. R. ; WATTAM, A. R. ; ABRAMOCHKIN, G. V. ; DICKERMAN, A. W. ; ECKART, J. D. ; SOBRAL, B. W. S. . PIML: the Pathogen Information Markup Language. BIOINFORMATICS , v. 21, p. 116-121, 2005.

  • KIDWELL, M. G. ; WATTAM, A. R. . An important step forward in the genetic manipulation of mosquito vectors of human disease. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (ONLINE) , v. 95, p. 3349-3350, 1998.

  • CHRISTENSEN, BRUCE M. ; Wattam, Alice R. . Variation in Aedes aegypti mRNA Populations Related to Strain, Sex, and Development. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE , v. 47, p. 702-707, 1992.

  • Wattam, Alice R. ; CHRISTENSEN, BRUCE M. . Further Evidence That the Genes Controlling Susceptibility of Aedes aegypti to Filarial Parasites Function Independently. JOURNAL OF PARASITOLOGY , v. 78, p. 1092, 1992.

  • Wattam, Alice R. ; CHRISTENSEN, B. M. . Induced Polypeptides Associated With Filarial Worm Refractoriness in Aedes aegypti. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (ONLINE) , v. 84, p. 6502, 1992.

  • DUSZYNSKI, DONALD W. ; Wattam, Alice R. . Coccidian Parasites (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) from Insectivores. V. Ten Forms from the Moles of Japan ( spp.). Journal of Protozoology , v. 35, p. 55-57, 1988.

  • DUSZYNSKI, DONALD W. ; Wattam, Alice R. . Coccidian Parasites (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) from Insectivores. IV. Four New Species in from England. Journal of Protozoology , v. 35, p. 58-62, 1988.

  • Wattam, Alice R. ; Gabbard, Joseph L. ; Shukla, Maulik ; Sobral, Bruno W. . Comparative Genomic Analysis at the PATRIC, A Bioinformatic Resource Center. Methods in Molecular Biology. 1ed.: Springer New York, 2014, v. , p. 287-308.

  • Wattam, Alice R. ; Sobral, Bruno W. . Comparative genomics and phylogenomics of the Brucella. In: Ignacio Lopez-Goni; David O'Callaghan. (Org.). Brucella: Molecular microbiology and Genetics. 1ed.: , 2012, v. , p. 1-.

  • SRIRANGANATHAN, NAMMALWAR ; SELEEM, MOHAMED N. ; Olsen, Steven C. ; Samartino, Luis E. ; Whatmore, Adrian M. ; Bricker, Betsy ; O'Callaghan, David ; Halling, Shirley M. ; Crasta, Oswald R. ; Wattam, Alice R. ; PURKAYASTHA, ANJAN ; Sobral, Bruno W. ; SNYDER, ERIC E. ; Williams, Kelley P. ; Yu, Gong-Xi ; Ficht, Thomas A. ; Roop, R. Martin ; de Figueiredo, Paul ; BOYLE, STEPHEN M. ; He, Yongqun ; Tsolis, Renée M. . Brucella. Genome Mapping and Genomics in Animal-Associated Microbes. 1ed.: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009, v. , p. 1-64.

Histórico profissional

Endereço profissional

  • Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universit, Biocomplexity Institute. , 1015 Life Science Circle, NA, 24060 - Blacksburg, - Estados Unidos, Telefone: (540) 2311263, Fax: (540) 2312606

Experiência profissional

2014 - Atual

Virginia Tech

Vínculo: Servidor Público, Enquadramento Funcional: Professora assistente pesquisadora, Carga horária: 40

2012 - Atual

Virginia Tech

Vínculo: Servidor Público, Enquadramento Funcional: Diretora de projeto, Carga horária: 40

2008 - 2012

Virginia Tech

Vínculo: Servidor Público, Enquadramento Funcional: Cientista de biologica computacional, Carga horária: 40

2005 - 2008

Virginia Tech

Vínculo: Servidor Público, Enquadramento Funcional: Bióloga computacional sênior, Carga horária: 40