Liliana Salvador

About

My work is multidisciplinary and focuses on the quantitative epidemiology and evolutionary dynamics of zoonotic diseases under the One Health umbrella. In particular, my research focuses on developing quantitative approaches to understand the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases at the wildlife, livestock and human interface and across different environments. I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Animal & Comparative Biomedical Sciences at the University of Arizona, a Scialog Fellow within the emphasis of ‘Mitigating Zoonotic Threats’ at the Research Corporation for Science Advancement, and I serve as the Program Coordinator of the Zoonotic Disease Subsection of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Health. I earned a B.Sc and a M.Sc in Computer Science from the University of Porto, and a Ph.D in Biology from the University of Lisbon, under the PhD Program in Computational Biology (collaboration between the Gulbenkian Institute of Science and Princeton University). I did postdoctoral work in veterinary epidemiology and data science at the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, and I was an Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia jointly appointed in the Department of Infectious Diseases in the College of Veterinary Medicine and in the Institute of Bioinformatics.

Work

University of Arizona
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Publications

Evaluation of Mycobacterial Load Assay for rapid molecular identification of Mycobacterium bovis in bovine tissues

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Canine distemper virus phylogenetic structure and ecological correlates of infection in mesocarnivores across anthropogenic land use gradients

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Microbiology Spectrum

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Assessing the potential role of deer in the dissemination of Mycobacterium bovis infection to cattle in Northern Ireland

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Infection, Genetics and Evolution

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Phylogenetic analysis of Mycobacterium bovis reveals animal and zoonotic tuberculosis spread between Morocco and European countries

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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases

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Leptospira transcriptome sequencing using long-read technology reveals unannotated transcripts and potential polyadenylation of RNA molecules

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Microbiology Spectrum

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The Many Hosts of Mycobacteria 9 (MHM9): A conference report

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Tuberculosis

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The devil you know and the devil you don’t: current status and challenges of bovine tuberculosis eradication in the United States

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Irish Veterinary Journal

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Molecular epidemiology and transmission dynamics of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis strains using whole genome sequencing in the Amhara region, Ethiopia

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BMC Genomics

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The selection of software and database for metagenomics sequence analysis impacts the outcome of microbial profiling and pathogen detection

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PLOS ONE

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The selection of software and database for metagenomics sequence analysis impacts the outcome of microbial profiling and pathogen detection

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PLOS ONE

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Leptospira enrichment culture followed by ONT metagenomic sequencing allows better detection of Leptospira presence and diversity in water and soil samples

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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases

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Selective sweep sites and SNP dense regions differentiate Mycobacterium bovis isolates across scales

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Frontiers in Microbiology

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Monocytic-Myeloid Derived Suppressor Cells Suppress T-Cell Responses in Recovered SARS CoV2-Infected Individuals

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Frontiers in Immunology

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Whole Genome Sequencing Refines Knowledge on the Population Structure of Mycobacterium bovis from a Multi-Host Tuberculosis System

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Microorganisms

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Genomic epidemiology ofMycobacterium bovisinfection in sympatric badger and cattle populations in Northern Ireland

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The Many Hosts of Mycobacteria 8 (MHM8): A conference report

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Tuberculosis

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Analysing livestock network data for infectious disease control: an argument for routine data collection in emerging economies

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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

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Disease management at the wildlife‐livestock interface: Using whole‐genome sequencing to study the role of elk in Mycobacterium bovis transmission in Michigan, USA

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Molecular Ecology

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Identifying genotype specific elevated-risk areas and associated herd risk factors for bovine tuberculosis spread in British cattle.

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Epidemics

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Risk-based strategies for surveillance of tuberculosis infection in cattle for low-risk areas in England and Scotland

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Epidemiology and Infection

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Updated projections for risk-based surveillance for bovine tuberculosis for low risk areas in England and Wales

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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Broadwick: a framework for computational epidemiology

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BMC Bioinformatics

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The development of quantitative risk-based strategies for bovine Tuberculosis in England and Wales

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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Many-core on the Grid: From exploration to production

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Journal of Physics: Conference Series

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Mechanistic analysis of the search behaviour of Caenorhabditis elegans

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Journal of The Royal Society Interface

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Searching without information: A quantitative analysis of Caenorhabditis elegans locomotion

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Cryptographic Security of Individual Instances

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Information Theoretic Security

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MiKO- Mikado Koncurrent Objects

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Foundations of Global Computing,

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Segurança absoluta em sistemas de cifra de chave simétrica

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University of Porto, Portugal

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