Stephanie DeSouza

Stephanie DeSouza

Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
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

Stephanie DeSouza
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Areas of Interest

  • Microbial Genomics
  • Antimicrobial Resistance
  • Bacterial Evolution
  • Epidemiology
  • 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