Diogo Veiga

Diogo Veiga

Single-cell biology

UNICAMP/School of Medicine

Biography

Diogo Veiga is a group leader and visiting researcher at UNICAMP/School of Medicine. His research focuses on single-cell biology applications to study human diseases.

He has a broad expertise in Computational Biology and analysis of next-generation sequencing, including WGS, Exome-seq, RNA-seq, ATAC-seq and PacBio long read SMRT-seq.

Full list of publications is available at ORCID or Google Scholar.

Interests
  • Single-Cell Biology
  • Bioinformatics/Computational Biology
  • Machine Learning
Education
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, 2016

    Institute for Immunology and Cancer Research, University of Montreal

  • PhD in Biomedical Sciences, 2012

    The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

  • MSc in Computer Science, 2006

    Federal University of Pernambuco

  • BSc in Computer Science, 2006

    BSc in Computer Science (Honors)

Skills

Computational Biology

Single-cell and bulk genomics

Machine Learning

Data Science

R for Data Science

Bioconductor | R package development | Tidyverse

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
The Jackson Laboratory
Computational Scientist
The Jackson Laboratory
Jul 2016 – Nov 2020 Connecticut, USA

Activities:

  • Leading the development of a computational pipeline to analyze hybrid-capture long-read sequencing data.
  • Analysis of genomic datasets, such as RNA-seq, ATAC-seq and Pacbio long-read SMRT-seq.
  • Apply Machine Learning to identify RNA-based neoantigens for cancer immunotherapy.
  • Mentoring of lab members including students and postdocs.
  • Teaching R, Bioconductor and Genomics to scientists at JAX.
 
 
 
 
 
Institute for Immunology and Cancer Research, University of Montreal
Research Associate (Bionformatics)
Institute for Immunology and Cancer Research, University of Montreal
Oct 2012 – Jun 2016 Canada

Activities:

  • Research on T-acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL), a prevalent childhood blood cancer.
  • Analysis of genomics data such as RNA-seq, Exome-seq and ChIP-seq.
  • Analysis of mass spectrometry data (proteomics).
  • Developed a methodology to identify active regulators from RNA-seq and ChIP-seq datasets, which lead to the discovery of a network of genes that initiate T cell leukemia.
  • Developed a Shiny app to study pathway regulation in ChIP-seq data.
 
 
 
 
 
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Research Trainee/PhD
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Aug 2007 – Jul 2012 TX, USA

Activities:

  • Developed methods to characterize the transcriptional and non-coding RNA networks in M. Tuberculosis (Mtb) during macrophage infection.
  • Participated in TB PANNET Consortium (EU/USA), an international effort that carried out a comprehensive identification of non-coding RNAs in Mtb using a combination of custom microarrays and RNA-seq.
  • Development of methods to identify targets and pathways regulated by cis-encoded and trans-encoded non-coding RNAs.
 
 
 
 
 
National Laboratory for Scientific Computing
Bioinformatics Analyst
National Laboratory for Scientific Computing
Mar 2006 – May 2007 Brazil

Activities:

  • Reconstruction of Transcriptional Networks in Escherichia coli.
  • Developed a neural network to predict motif structures in transcriptional networks.
  • Analysis of microarrays for gene expression.
 
 
 
 
 
Center for Informatics, Federal University of Pernambuco
Masters Research
Center for Informatics, Federal University of Pernambuco
Mar 2004 – Feb 2006 Brazil

Activities:

  • Application of Bayesian networks and partial correlation analysis for reconstruction of gene regulatory networks (protein-DNA interactions) in yeast
  • Analysis of microarrays for gene expression.
 
 
 
 
 
Genomic Engineering Group, Federal University of Santa Catarina
Undergraduate Research
Genomic Engineering Group, Federal University of Santa Catarina
Jun 2002 – Feb 2004 Brazil

Activities:

  • Design and implementation of computational tools for modeling of metabolic and regulatory pathways using RDF graphs.
  • Design and implementation of object-oriented XML databases for genomic data.
 
 
 
 
 
Mathematics Department, Federal University of Santa Catarina
Teaching assistant
Mathematics Department, Federal University of Santa Catarina
Aug 2000 – Dec 2000 Brazil

Activities:

  • Linear Algebra and Analytical Geometry.