Ximenes, Eduardo

Biology B.S. University of Brasilia, Brazil 1991
Molecular Biology M.S. University of Brasilia, Brazil 1994
Part of Ph.D. training, 1996-1999 University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
Molecular Biology Ph.D., 1999 (with honors) University of Brasilia, Brazil

Scholarly Interests

Human, Animal, Plant and Environment Health in the context of One Health framework. More specially:

• Human and Animal Food safety
• Sample preparation and pathogenic microorganism faster and sensitive detection methods development
• Antimicrobial Resistance
• Bacterial Plant Growth-Promoting Systems and Mechanism of Interaction 

Patent

Ladisch M.R., Ximenes E.A., , Ku S., Foster K, Kreke T.R., Liu X., Jones J.,Deering A., Hardenstein J., Tungare A. Rapid concentration, recovery and      detection of pathogens in food samples. Patent # US 11, 789, 018 B2 . Official  Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office Patents. (Published on Oct. 17, 2023)

Ladisch M.R., Ximenes E.A., Kreke T.R., Baldino Jr A.C., da Cunha F.M., Farinas C.S. Liquefied cellulosic biomass for enzyme production. Patent # US 10, 072, 253 B2 . Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office Patents. (Pubished on Sep 11, 2018)

Ladisch M.R.,  Ximenes E.A.. Methods and systems useful for foodborne pathogen detection. Patent # US9651551 B2. Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office Patents, Volume:1438 Issue:3 (Published on May 16, 2017)

AWARD

64th FDA Honors Award (2024) for exceptional teamwork and collaboration in leveraging agency resources to expand the NARMS retail meat sampling and testing program. 

Filho E.X.F., Moreira, L.R.S., Ximenes E.A., Farinas C.S. (Eds). Recent advances in bioconversion of lignocellulose to biofuels and value added chemicals within the biorefinery concept. Elsevier, The Netherlands (2020).

Ladisch MR., Ximenes E., Mosier. N.S., Engelberth A., Solomon K., Binkley R. Bioprocess Engineering. Industrial Microbiology, Wilson D.B., Sahm H., Stahmann K.-P., Koffas M.. John Wiley & Sons (ISBN-13: 978-3527340354), 23-57 (2020). 

Malmann L. Springer M., Young S., Ge B. Ximenes. Prevalence and antimicrobial susceptibility of Salmonella isolates from Indiana retail meats. J. Food Prot. Volume 89, Issue 6, 100774 (2026) . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfp.2026.100774.

dos Santos A.C.F., Debarma R., Hinton K, Hakim M., Ronghua B., Solorio L.,   Ximenes E., Kapur S., Corvari V., Ladisch M.R. Hyaluronic acid matrices for in situ measurement of protein diffusion coefficients. Engineering in Life Sciences 25: e70048 (2025).  https://doi.org/10.1002/elsc.70048.

Rossi F., Cunha F., Ximenes E., Bowes B., Yu Z., Yang D., Qian K.K, Moomaw J., Corvari V., Ladisch M., Reklaitis G. Deterministic mathematical modeling, sensitivity analysis, and dynamic optimization of cross-flow ultrafiltration systems for concentration of monoclonal antibody solutions,  Computers & Chemical Engineering, Volume 187, 108705 (2024). ISSN 0098-1354,

Zuponcic J, Cunha F, Springer G, Ximenes E, Ladisch MR. Effect of flux and shear rate on E. coli recovery in tangential flow filtration through a single hollow fiber. Biotechnol Prog. 2024 Feb 8:e3432. doi: 10.1002/btpr.3432. 

Choi, H. Li Z., Zuponcic J., Ximenes E., Turek J., Ladisch M., Nolte D. Doppler Imaging Detects Bacterial Infection of Living Tissue. Nature Communications Biology 4: 178 (2021).

Ximenes E., Ku S., Hoagland L., Ladisch M.R. Accelerated Sample Preparation for Fast Salmonella Detection in Poultry Products. In: Bridier A. (eds) Foodborne Bacterial Pathogens. Methods in Molecular Biology, Humana Press, New York, NY (ISBN 978-1-4939-8999-7), vol. 1918, 3-20 (2019).