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Awards

March 2015 Brazil Scholarship PAEC - OAS/GCUB/PAHO

October 2022 Erasmus Mundus Partner Country Scholarship - ERASMUS+

Degrees:

2017
Master     Medical and Health Sciences incl Neurosciences
Focus on molecular biology of infectious and parasitic agents with research line in Virology.
2014
Undergraduate     Medical and Health Sciences incl Neurosciences
Focus on clinical microbiology and biomedicine with guidance in clinical analysis.
2024
Master     Chemical Sciences
Focus on analytical methods, quality management systems, laboratory certification and accreditation, ISO-17025, ISO-15189, data analysis. Thesis project based on the application of amplicon and shotgun metagenomics, bioinformatics, biotechnology, and food microbiology.

Publications resulting from Research
Susan D.F. Irias, Maria K.S. Torres, Maria E.S. Avelino, Mike B. Santos, Maria A.F. Queiroz, Felipe B. Freitas, Vania N. Azevedo, Rosimar N.M. Feitosa, Antonio C.R. Vallinoto, and Luiz Fernando Almeida Machado. HIV-1 Transmitted Drug Resistance Mutations in Recently Diagnosed Antiretroviral-Naive Patients in Belém, Pará, Northern Brazil. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses 35(2):121–122, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1089/aid.2018.0169
Pedro L.F. Neto, Érika M.F. Fernandes, Matheus R.O. do Nascimento, Rafaella P. Paes, Susan D. Flores Irias, Maria E.S. Avelino, Maria K.S. Torres, Vânia N. Azevedo, Rosimar N.M. Feitosa, Aldemir B. Oliveira-Filho, Antonio C.R. Vallinoto, and Luiz F.A. Machado. Syphilis Among Newly Diagnosed Therapy-Naive HIV Patients in Belém, Pará, Amazon Region of Brazil. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses 35(6):511-512, 2019. http://doi.org/10.1089/aid.2019.0007
Torres M.K.S., Avelino M.E.S., Irias S.D.F., Santos M.B., Pereira D.L.A., Lima A.B.F., Lemos P.S.7., Lima C.P.S., Oliveira R.R.M., Francês R.S..K., Vianez J.L.D.S.C.Jr, Machado L.F.A. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses 36(2):97-98, 2020. doi:10.1089/AID.2019.0191
Susan D.F. Irias. Seroprevalence of Herpes Simplex Virus type 2 (HSV-2) among men who have sex with men in Honduras. Undergraduate final research project/Not published
Lobo MN, Irias SDF, Neto PLF, Avelino MES, da Silva Torres MK, de Carvalho Souza M, Fonseca RRS, Freitas PEB, Nunes HM, de Araújo Júnior JRR, de Brito DCN, Oliveira-Filho AB, Machado LFA. HCV-HIV Chronic Coinfection Prevalence in Amazon Region. J Clin Med. 2022 Dec 8;11(24):7284. doi: 10.3390/jcm11247284. PMID: 36555906; PMCID: PMC9785546.
Susan D. F. Irias, Nils K. Birkeland, Bjorn Grung, et al. Characterization of the Microbial Composition of Commercial Kombucha Products inNorway and Sweden Using Amplicon and Shotgun Metagenomics. Institutt for Biovitenskap - Universitetet i Bergen. In the process of publication

XIII Central American and The Caribbean Congress of Parasitology and Tropical Medicine
2025
icon-pin-location Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Evandro Chagas Institute Summer Course in Virology: Virus, Vectors and Viroses
2025
icon-pin-location Ananindeua, Brazil
Logical Method for International Scientific Writing
2025
icon-pin-location Belém, Brazil
I Symposium on Tropical Diseases
2025
icon-pin-location Belém, Brazil
Journey of Microbiology in Honduras
2025
icon-pin-location Tegucigalpa, Honduras