Pedro Santos
Assistant Professor at Louisiana State University-Alexandria
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States
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Top SchoolPedro Santos is an assistant professor and plant pathology researcher with eight years of experience bridging genomics, phylogeny, and bioinformatics to tackle plant–pathogen interactions. He has led HPC-supported genome assembly and comparative analyses across PacBio, Nanopore and DNBseq platforms, identifying candidate avirulence and resistance loci and supervising validation experiments. A seasoned postdoc turned faculty member, he designs experiential courses and mentors students while maintaining active research ties across Brazilian and Louisiana institutions. Based in Baton Rouge, he combines hands-on wet-lab expertise with computational pipeline development—an uncommon mix that accelerates translation from sequence data to actionable breeding markers.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate Degree, Plant Protection and Integrated Pest Management, Postgraduate Degree, Plant Protection and Integrated Pest Management at Federal University of ViçosaDoctor of Science - D. Sc., Crop Production (Plant Pathology), Plant Pathology/Phytopathology, Doctor of Science - D. Sc., Crop Production (Plant Pathology), Plant Pathology/Phytopathology at UENF - Universidade Estadual do Norte FluminenseMaster of Science - MS, Crop Production (Plant Pathology), Master of Science - MS, Crop Production (Plant Pathology) at Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense
Github Skills (11)
protein-structure5
pytorch4
memory-efficient4
java2
gpu2
maven2
genomics1
ncbi1
taxonomy1
sequence1
bioinformatics1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
phdiassantos/curso_python_UENF_2019
May 2019 - Jun 2019
Contributions:71 commits, 73 pushes, 3 branches in 26 days
phdiassantos/site_ph
Jul 2020 - May 2021
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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