Adjunct Faculty, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech

Phone: (540) 231-9464
Email: setubal@vbi.vt.edu
Fax: 540-231-2606

Administrative Specialist: Maureen Lawrence-Kuether
Phone: (540) 231-3669
Email: mlawre04@vbi.vt.edu
Fax:540-231-2606

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Professional Preparation

• University of Washington, Computer Science, Ph.D, 1992
• University of Campinas, Brazil, Computer Science, M.Sc., 1987
• University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Mechanical Engineering, B.Sc., 1979

Research Interests

• Metagenomics
• Algorithms for genome and metagenome analysis
• Bioinformatics infrastructure for genome annotation
• Automated annotation of bacterial genomes
• Bacterial pathogens
• Bacterial genome evolution

Biography

Joao Carlos Setubal is Associate Professor at the Virginia
Bioinformatics Institute and Department of Computer Science, Virginia
Tech. He has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of
Washington (1992). Between 1992 and 2004 Setubal was at the Institute
of Computing of the University of Campinas, in Brazil, his country of
origin. During that time he started working on bioinformatics and
computational biology, co-authoring a computational biology textbook
and leading the bioinformatics effort of several bacterial genome
projects. In 2000-01 he spent a sabbatical year in Phil Green's group
at the University of Washington, when he had the opportunity to work
on the Agrobacterium tumefaciens genome project. Setubal moved to
Virginia Tech in 2004, where he has been involved in genomics work of
various types, including the bacterial genera Azotobacter, Brucella,
Pseudomonas, and Xanthomonas. Setubal's principal focus is the
development of computational analysis tools for microbial genomes and
metagenomes.

Selected Publications