Biography
Expertise
- Infectious Diseases
Biography
I received my PhD in biology from Lisbon University, which was part of the PhD program in computational biology at Gulbenkian Institute of Science. During my PhD at Princeton University as a visiting student, I worked on the ecology and evolution of animal movement focusing on search strategies of microorganisms. During my postdocs, first at the university of Glasgow and later at the university of Edinburgh, I focused on the quantitative epidemiology and evolutionary dynamics of bovine tuberculosis. Prior to my PhD, I earned a BSc and a MSc in computer science from University of Oporto focusing on the absolute security of cryptosystems using information theory and Kolmogorov complexity.
Research Interests
- determining the impacts of movement patterns on the spatio-temporal disease dynamics
- understanding the underlying evolutionary processes of bovine tuberculosis epidemics
- developing computational tools to deal with large epidemiological, demographic, and movement datasets
Educational Background
- BSc Computer Science, 2003, University of Oporto, Portugal
- MSc Computer Science, 2005, University of Oporto, Portugal
- PhD Biology, 2012, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Selected Publications
- Chaters GL, Johnson PCD, Cleaveland S, Crispell J, de Glanville WA, Doherty T, Matthews L, Mohr S, Nyasebwa OM, Rossi G, Salvador LCM, Swai E, Kao RR. Analysing livestock network data for infectious disease control: an argument for routine data collection in emerging economies. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2019 Jul 8;374(1776):20180264. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2018.0264. PubMed PMID: 31104601; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6558568.
- Salvador LCM, O’Brien DJ, Cosgrove MK, Stuber TP, Schooley AM, Crispell J, Church SV, Gröhn YT, Robbe-Austerman S, Kao RR. Disease management at the wildlife-livestock interface: Using whole-genome sequencing to study the role of elk in Mycobacterium bovis transmission in Michigan, USA. Mol Ecol. 2019 Feb 26;. doi: 10.1111/mec.15061. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 30807679.
- Orton RJ, Deason M, Bessell PR, Green DM, Kao RR, Salvador LCM. Identifying genotype specific elevated-risk areas and associated herd risk factors for bovine tuberculosis spread in British cattle. Epidemics. 2018 Sep;24:34-42. doi: 10.1016/j.epidem.2018.02.004. Epub 2018 Mar 1. PubMed PMID: 29548927; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6105618.
- Salvador LCM, Deason M, Enright J, Bessell PR, Kao RR. Risk-based strategies for surveillance of tuberculosis infection in cattle for low-risk areas in England and Scotland. Epidemiol Infect. 2018 Jan;146(1):107-118. doi: 10.1017/S0950268817001935. Epub 2017 Dec 6. PubMed PMID: 29208072; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5851039.
- O’Hare A, Lycett SJ, Doherty T, Salvador LCM, Kao RR. Broadwick: a framework for computational epidemiology. BMC Bioinformatics. 2016 Feb 4;17:65. doi: 10.1186/s12859-016-0903-2. PubMed PMID: 26846686; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4743398.
- Salvador LCM, Bartumeus F, Levin SA, Ryu WS. Mechanistic analysis of the search behaviour of Caenorhabditis elegans. J R Soc Interface. 2014 Mar 6;11(92):20131092. doi: 10.1098/rsif.2013.1092. Print 2014 Mar 6. PubMed PMID: 24430127; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3899880.
