About
Biomedical Scientist & Bioinformatician.
I am currently a PhD candidate in Health Sciences, focusing on pathogenesis and virulence in CHIKV, DENV, and ZIKV infection.
I have experience with sequencing and analysis of NGS data: pre-processing, assembly, phylogenetic and analysis of RNA-Seq differential gene expression.
Nowadays, I'm working with molecular surveillance and diagnosis of emerging and re-emerging arboviruses and SARS-CoV-2.
Published articles
Pipelines on GitHub
CHIKV/DENV/ZIKV sequences on GenBank
SARS-CoV-2 sequences on GISAID (2022-11-22)
Skills
ILLUMINA TECHNOLOGY LIBRARY PREP
NANOPORE TECHNOLOGY LIBRARY PREP
SHELL SCRIPT
GENOME ASSEMBLY
PHYLODINAMICS
RNA-SEQ ANALYSIS
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PYTHON
Resume
Education
Doctorate of Health Sciences
2018- Present
Universidade Federal da Bahia, Bahia, Brazil
Master of Health Sciences
2015 - 2017
Universidade Federal da Bahia, Bahia, Brazil
Bachelor of Biomedical Sciences
2010 - 2014
Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública, Bahia, Brazil
Professional Experience
Lab Manager
2022 - Present
Plataforma de Vigilância Molecular, FIOCRUZ, IGM, Bahia, Brazil
Bioinformatician
2021 - Present
Plataforma de Vigilância Molecular, FIOCRUZ, IGM, Bahia, Brazil
Molecular Biology Technician
2019 - 2021
Regional Prospective Observational Research in Tuberculosis Network, RePORT, Bahia, Brazil
Publications
2022
Giovanetti M, Pereira LA, Santiago GA, Fonseca V, Mendoza MPG, de Oliveira C, de Moraes L, Xavier J, Tosta S, Fristch H, de Castro Barbosa E, Rodrigues ES, Figueroa-Romero D, Padilla-Rojas C, Cáceres-Rey O, Mendonça AF, de Bruycker Nogueira F, Venancio da Cunha R, de Filippis AMB, Freitas C, Peterka CRL, de Albuquerque CFC, Franco L, Méndez Rico JA, Muñoz-Jordán JL, Lemes da Silva V, Alcantara LCJ. Emergence of Dengue Virus Serotype 2 Cosmopolitan Genotype, Brazil. Emerg Infect Dis. 2022 Aug;28(8):1725-1727. doi: 10.3201/eid2808.220550. PMID: 35876608
Peetluk LS, Rebeiro PF, Ridolfi FM, Andrade BB, Cordeiro-Santos M, Kritski A, Durovni B, Calvacante S, Figueiredo MC, Haas DW, Liu D, Rolla VC, Sterling TR; Regional Prospective Observational Research in Tuberculosis (RePORT)-Brazil Network. A Clinical Prediction Model for Unsuccessful Pulmonary Tuberculosis Treatment Outcomes. Clin Infect Dis. 2022 Mar 23;74(6):973-982. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciab598. PMID: 34214166
2021
Martinez Viedma MdP, Panossian S, Gifford K, García K, Figueroa I, Parham L, de Moraes L, Nunes Gomes L, García-Salum T, Perret C, Weiskopf D, Tan GS, Augusto Silva A, Boaventura V, Ruiz-Palacios GM, Sette A, De Silva AD, Medina RA, Lorenzana I, Akrami KM, Khouri R, Olson D, Pickett BE. Evaluation of ELISA-Based Multiplex Peptides for the Detection of Human Serum Antibodies Induced by Zika Virus Infection across Various Countries. Viruses. 2021 Jul 8;13(7):1319. doi: 10.3390/v13071319. PMID: 34372525
Cucco MS, de Moraes LEP, de Oliveira Andrade F, Khouri R, Galvão-Castro B, Araujo TH, de Almeida Rego FF, Gois LL, Barreto FK, Santos LA. Molecular characterization of HTLV-1 genomic region hbz from patients with different clinical conditions. J Med Virol. 2021 Nov;93(11):6418-6423. doi: 10.1002/jmv.27005. Epub 2021 Jun 21. PMID: 33835501.
2020
Akrami KM, de Nogueira BMF, do Rosário MS, de Moraes L, Cordeiro MT, Haddad R, Gomes LN, de Pádua Carvalho I, Dos Reis Pimentel E, de Jesus Silva J, de Oliveira Francisco MVL, de Siqueira IC, Farias D, Barral-Netto M, Barral A, Boaventura V, Khouri R. The re-emergence of Zika in Brazil in 2020: a case of Guillain Barré Syndrome during the low season for arboviral infections. J Travel Med. 2020 Nov 9;27(7):taaa165. doi: 10.1093/jtm/taaa165. PMID: 32941627.
Machado Portilho M, de Moraes L, Kikuti M, Jacob Nascimento LC, Galvão Reis M, Sampaio Boaventura V, Khouri R, Sousa Ribeiro G. Accuracy of the Zika IgM Antibody Capture Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC Zika MAC-ELISA) for Diagnosis of Zika Virus Infection. Diagnostics (Basel). 2020 Oct 18;10(10):835. doi: 10.3390/diagnostics10100835. PMID: 33080935.
de Moraes L, Cerqueira-Silva T, Nobrega V, Akrami K, Santos LA, Orge C, Casais P, Cambui L, Rampazzo RCP, Trinta KS, Montalbano CA, Teixeira MJ, Cavalcante LP, Andrade BB, Cunha RVD, Krieger MA, Barral-Netto M, Barral A, Khouri R, Boaventura VS. A clinical scoring system to predict long-term arthralgia in Chikungunya disease: A cohort study. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2020 Jul 21;14(7):e0008467. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0008467. eCollection 2020 Jul. PMID: 32693402.
Casais PM, Akrami K, Cerqueira-Silva T, Moraes LP, Rigaud VN, Neto ES, Orge CM, Gusmão LC, Cavalcanti LP, Santos LA, Barral-Netto M, Barral AP, Khouri R, Boaventura VS. Oral lesions are frequent in patients with Chikungunya infection. J Travel Med. 2020 Jul 14;27(4):taaa040. doi: 10.1093/jtm/taaa040. PMID: 32186714.
Penn-Nicholson A, Mbandi SK, Thompson E, Mendelsohn SC, Suliman S, Chegou NN, Malherbe ST, Darboe F, Erasmus M, Hanekom WA, Bilek N, Fisher M, Kaufmann SHE, Winter J, Murphy M, Wood R, Morrow C, Van Rhijn I, Moody B, Murray M, Andrade BB, Sterling TR, Sutherland J, Naidoo K, Padayatchi N, Walzl G, Hatherill M, Zak D, Scriba TJ; Adolescent Cohort Study team; GC6-74 Consortium; SATVI Clinical and Laboratory Team; ScreenTB Consortium; AE-TBC Consortium; RePORT Brazil Team; Peruvian Household Contacts Cohort Team; CAPRISA IMPRESS team. RISK6, a 6-gene transcriptomic signature of TB disease risk, diagnosis and treatment response. Sci Rep. 2020 May 25;10(1):8629. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-65043-8. PMID: 32451443.
2017
Vinhaes ES, Santos LA, Dias L, Andrade NA, Bezerra VH, de Carvalho AT, de Moraes L, Henriques DF, Azar SR, Vasilakis N, Ko AI, Andrade BB, Siqueira IC, Khouri R, Boaventura VS. Transient Hearing Loss in Adults Associated With Zika Virus Infection. Clin Infect Dis. 2017 Mar 1;64(5):675-677. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciw770. PMID: 27927858.
Contact
Location:
R. Waldemar Falcão, 121 - Candeal, Salvador - BA, 40296-710
Email:
laise.moraes@fiocruz.br
Call:
+55 71 98689 6854