Department of Microbiology & Immunology

Faculty of Medicine

Gustavo Sganzerla Martinez

Post Doctoral Fellow

Gustavo Sganzerla Martinez
Department of Microbiology & Immunology

Email: gustavo.sganzerla@dal.ca
Phone: 902-483-4995
Mailing Address: 
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Dalhousie University
Sir Charles Tupper Medical Building, Room 10A, 5850 College Street
PO Box 15000
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 4R2
 
Research Topics:
  • Infectious diseases
  • Gene transcription
  • Omics

Research Interests

  • Bioinformatics
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Computational biology

Education

BSc in computer science, 2016 (Universidade de Caxias do Sul, Brazil; California State University, Northridge, USA).

Masters in biotechnology, 2018 (Universidade de Caxias do Sul, Brazil).

PhD in biotechnology, 2018 (Universidade de Caxias do Sul, Brazil).

Selected Publications

Sganzerla Martinez G, Perez-Rueda E, Kumar A, Dutt M, Maya CR, Ledesma-Dominguez L, Casa PL, Kumar A, de Avila e Silva S, Kelvin DJ. (2024). CDBProm: the Comprehensive Directory of Bacterial Promoters. NAR Genomics & Bioinformatics, v. 6 (1). https://doi.org/10.1093/nargab/lqae018

Masirika LM, Kumar A, Dutt M, Ostadgavahi AT, Hewins B, Nadine MB, Steeven BK, Mweshi FK, Mambo LM, Mbiribindi JB, Siangoli FB, Kelvin AA, Udahemuka JC, Kelvin P, Flores L, Kelvin DJ, Sganzerla Martinez G. Complete Genome Sequencing, Annotation, and Mutational Profiling of the Novel Clade I Human Mpox Virus, Kamituga Strain. J Infect Dev Ctries. 2024 Apr 30;18(4):600-608. doi: 10.3855/jidc.20136. PMID: 38728644.

Sganzerla Martinez G, Dutt M, Kelvin DJ, Kumar A. (2024). PoxiPred: An Artificial-Intelligence-Based Method for the Prediction of Potential Antigens and Epitopes to Accelerate Vaccine Development Efforts against Poxviruses. Biology 13(2). https://doi.org/10.3390/biology13020125

Sganzerla Martinez G, Ostadgavahi AT, Mahmud-Al-Rafat A, Garduno A, Cusack R, Bermejo-Martin JF, Martin-Loeches I, Kelvin DJ. (2023). Model-interpreted outcomes of artificial neural networks classifying immune biomarkers associated with severe infections in ICU. Frontiers in Immunology 14, 1137850. https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2023.1137850

Sganzerla Martinez G, Kelvin, DJ. Convergence in mobility datasets from Apple, Google, and Meta. (2023). JMIR Public Health and Surveillance 9:e44286. doi: 10.2196/44286.

Umutoni B, Tumushime JC, Hewins B, Udahemuka JC, Ndishimye P, Kelvin DJ, Sganzerla Martinez G. (2024). The impact of public transportation on the transmission of COVID-19 in Rwanda. Frontiers in Public Health 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2024.1345433

Other Interests

  • Web development
  • Computer programming

GitHub page: https://github.com/gustavsganzerla