Ruth Barros De Paula, M.Sc.
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Ruth Barros De Paula, M.Sc.
Graduate Research Assistant
Positions
- Graduate Research Assistant
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Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas United States
PhD student in Quantitative and Computational Biosciences
Education
- BSc from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
- 07/2019 - Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais Brazil
- Biological Sciences
- MS from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
- 06/2021 - Houston, Texas United States
- Genetics and Epigenetics
Honors & Awards
- Diana Jacobs Kalman Award
- American Federation for Aging Research (09/2024 - 03/2025)
Websites
Selected Publications
- "Blood-stage Plasmodium vivax antibody dynamics in a low transmission setting: A nine year follow-up study in the Amazon region." PLOS ONE. 2018;
- "Exploring the Relationship Among Divergence Time and Coding and Non-coding Elements in the Shaping of Fungal Mitochondrial Genomes." Frontiers in Microbiology. 2020;
- "Heritable pattern of oxidized DNA base repair coincides with pre-targeting of repair complexes to open chromatin." Nucleic Acids Research. 2020;
- "Translesion polymerase eta both facilitates DNA replication and promotes increased human genetic variation at common fragile sites." PNAS. 2021;
- "Global Characterization of Fungal Mitogenomes: New Insights on Genomic Diversity and Dynamism of Coding Genes and Accessory Elements." Frontiers in Microbiology. 2021;
- Meigen Yu; Bingwei Lu; Hui Ye; Ruth B. De-Paula; Carl Grant Mangleburg; Timothy Wu; Tom V. Lee; Yarong Li; Duc Duong; Bridget Phillips et al. "Functional screening of lysosomal storage disorder genes identifies modifiers of alpha-synuclein neurotoxicity." PLOS Genetics. 2023;
- Matea Pavešković; Ruth B De-Paula; Shamsideen A Ojelade; Evelyne Kezia Tantry; Mikhail Y Kochukov; Suyang Bao; Surabi Veeraragavan; Alexandra R Garza; Snigdha Srivastava; Si-Yuan Song et al. "Alzheimer’s disease risk gene CD2AP is a dose-sensitive determinant of synaptic structure and plasticity." Human Molecular Genetics. 2024;
- "Enriched G4 forming repeats in the human genome are associated with robust well-coordinated transcription and reduced cancer transcriptome variation." JBC. 2024;
Skills
- Molecular Biology
- Bioinformatics
- Genetics
Languages
Portuguese, Spanish, French
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