Arun Jaiswal | Genetics and Molecular Biology | Best Researcher Award

Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Dr. Arun Kumar Jaiswal is a dynamic and highly motivated researcher specializing in Bioinformatics, Genomics, Proteomics, Drug Discovery, and Bacterial Diseases, with a strong focus on Treponema pallidum, the causative agent of syphilis. He earned his B.Sc. in Biotechnology, Botany, and Chemistry from Veer Kunwar Singh University, Ara, India, followed by an M.Sc. in Bioinformatics from Devi Ahilya Vishwa Vidyalaya, Indore, India. He completed his Ph.D. in Bioinformatics in 2020 at the Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Genetics, Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil, where his award-winning thesis centered on pan-genomics, reverse vaccinology, and drug target identification for syphilis. Currently, he is a Residential Postdoctoral Fellow at LGCM, UFMG, supported by FAPEMIG, working on new drug target identification, pathogenomics, and vaccine development against Treponema pallidum, as well as exploring its neurological implications such as syphilitic meningitis. His expertise includes omics approaches (pan-genomics, subtractive genomics, reverse vaccinology), molecular dynamics simulations of protein–drug complexes, and next-generation sequencing data analysis. He also has growing interests in neuroinformatics and computational neuroscience to better understand neurosyphilis complications. Over the course of his career, Dr. Jaiswal has held several prestigious fellowships, including FAPEMIG and CNPq Postdoctoral Fellowships at UFMG, and an Exterior Postdoctoral Fellowship at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia. Recognized for his academic excellence, he has received the Best Doctoral Thesis Award (2020) and a Best Poster Honorable Mention at the AB3C X-Meeting.

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Featured Publications

Prado, L. C. da S., Felice, A. G., Rodrigues, T. C. V., Tiwari, S., Andrade, B. S., Kato, R. B., Oliveira, C. J. F., Silva, M. V., Barh, D., Azevedo, V. A. de C., Jaiswal, A. K., & Soares, S. de C. (2021). New putative therapeutic targets against Serratia marcescens using reverse vaccinology and subtractive genomics. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics. Taylor & Francis.

Felice, A. G., Santos, L. N. Q., Kolossowski, I., Zen, F. L., Alves, L. G., Rodrigues, T. C. V., Prado, L. C. S., Jaiswal, A. K., Tiwari, S., Miranda, F. M., Ramos, R. T. J., Azevedo, V., Oliveira, C. J. F., Benevides, L. J., & Soares, S. C. (2021). Comparative genomics of Bordetella pertussis and prediction of new vaccines and drug targets. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics. Taylor & Francis.

Nogueira, W. G., Jaiswal, A. K., Tiwari, S., Ramos, R. T. J., Ghosh, P., Barh, D., Azevedo, V., & Soares, S. C. (2021). Computational identification of putative common genomic drug and vaccine targets in Mycoplasma genitalium. Genomics. Elsevier.

Jaiswal, A. K., Tiwari, S., Jamal, S. B., Oliveira, L. de C., Sales-Campos, H., Andrade-Silva, L. E., Oliveira, C. J. F., Ghosh, P., Barh, D., Azevedo, V., Soares, S. C., Junior, V. R., & Silva, M. V. (2021). Reverse vaccinology and subtractive genomics approaches for identifying common therapeutics against Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium lepromatosis. Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins Including Tropical Diseases.

Profeta, R., Seyffert, N., Tiwari, S., Viana, M. V. C., Jaiswal, A. K., Caetano, A. C., Bücker, D. H., Oliveira, L. T. de, Santos, R., Gala-Garcia, A., Kato, R. B., Padilh, F. F., Lima-Verde, I. B., Ghosh, P., Barh, D., Góes-Neto, A., Figueiredo, H. C. P., Soares, S. C., Meyer, R., … Castro, T. L. P. (2020). Comparative genomics with a multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae isolate reveals the panorama of unexplored diversity in Northeast Brazil. Gene. Elsevier.