Scientific contributions

Peer-reviewed publications, outreach and other academic contributions.

Contact:
waltercostamb@gmail.com

Scientific publications

Escobar Doncel A; Patinios C; Campos A; Walter Costa MB;et al. Deletion of the moeA gene in Flavobacterium IR1 drives structural color shift from green to blue and alters polysaccharide metabolism (2026). Available at: eLife.

Walter Costa MB*; Gärtner C*; et al. Revising the MELD Score to Address Sex-Bias in Liver Transplant Prioritization for a German Cohort (2023). Available at: Journal of Personalized Medicine.

Kotzerke D*; Walter Costa M*; et al. QLL 2020 Amendment – What is the Impact of the Newly Recommended Hemoglobin Transfusion Triggers on Clinical Care? (2022). Available at: Transfusionsmedizin.

Zimmermann S; Costa MBW; et al. Osteocalcin Is Independently Associated with C-Reactive Protein during Lifestyle-Induced Weight Loss in Metabolic Syndrome (2021). Available at: Metabolites.

Walter Costa MB*; Wernsdorfer M*; et al. The Clinical Decision Support System AMPEL for Laboratory Diagnostics: Implementation and Technical Evaluation (2021). Available at: JMIR Medical Informatics.

Nowick K; Walter Costa MB; et al. Selection Pressures on RNA Sequences and Structures (2019). Available at: Evolutionary Bioinformatics.

Walter Costa MB; et al. SSS-Test: A novel test for detecting selection on the secondary structures of non-coding RNAs (2019). Available at: BMC Bioinformatics.

Léger S; Walter Costa MB; et al. Pairwise Visual Comparison of Small RNA Secondary Structures with Base Pair Probabilities (2019). Available at: BMC Bioinformatics.

Kolora SRR; Weigert A; Saffari A; Kehr S; Walter Costa MB; et al. Divergent evolution in the genomes of closely-related lacertids, Lacerta viridis and L. bilineata and implications for speciation (2019). Available at: Giga Science.

Walter Costa MB; et al. Uncovering the structural evolution of the Human Accelerated Region 1 (2018). Available at: Journal of Theoretical Biology.

Perdomo-Sabogal A; Kanton S*; Walter MB*; et al. The role of gene regulatory factors in the evolutionary history of humans (2014). Available at: Current Opinion in Genetics and Development.

Maranhão AQ; Costa MB; et al. A Mouse variable gene fragment binds to DNA independently of the BCR context: a possible role for immature B-cell repertoire establishment (2013). Available at: PLoS ONE.

*equal contribution

Talks & outreach

Invited talk (by UFBA, in Portuguese): "Evolução de ncRNAs" (ncRNA Evolution, Link to talk in YouTube). Target audience: undergraduation and graduation students.

Invited talk (by BioIN4Girls, in Portuguese): "Evolução e Seleção Adaptativa em ncRNAs" (Evolution and Adaptive Selection of ncRNAs, Link to talk in YouTube). Target audience: undergraduation and graduation female students.

Podcast (by IBICT, in Portuguese): "Material de Estudo de Pesquisa em Bioinformática" (Study and Research in Bioinformatics, Link to study material for students, Link to IBICT). Target audience: middle and high-school students.

Invited talk (by LGBio, in Portuguese): "Pesquisa em Bioinformática: Evolução e Seleção Adaptativa de ncRNAs" (Bioinformatics Research: Evolution and Adaptive Selection of ncRNAs, Link to LGBio). Target audience: graduation students and researchers.

Workshops & courses

"Introduction to Statistics". An openly available workshop that covers fundamental statistical concepts for data analysis.

"Big Data Analysis". A Masters'-level course, co-designed by me, that covers large-scale data analysis of virome data.

Technical Writing

"Data Analysis in Python". A practical introduction to data analysis with Python, including data handling and interpretation.

Book chapter

"Evolutionary Conservation of RNA Secondary Structure". RNA Structure Prediction (pp. 121-146). This chapter provides protocols to analyze positive selection in ncRNAs with the SSS-Test and other free software.

Dissertation and thesis

Dr. rer. nat. in Computer Science, University of Leipzig (Germany). "Adaptive Evolution of Long Non-Coding RNAs" (Funded by: Science without Borders Program, CNPq - Brazil)

M. Sc. in Molecular Biology, University of Brasília, Brazil. "Genetic Variability of Anti-DNA Antibodies" (Funded by: CNPq - Brazil)