Education

• 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  

Background

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 methods development
• Microbiome/Antimicrobial Resistance
• Microbial derived products and related environmentally friendly new processes.

Patent

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)

Selected Publications

Articles

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).

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).

Bordignon S.E., Ximenes E., Perrone O.M., Nunes C.C.C, Kim D., Boscolo M., Gomes E., Filho E.X.F., da Silva R., Ladisch M.R.. Combined Sugarcane Pretreatment for Generation of Ethanol and Value Added Products. Frontiers in Energy Research, section Bioenergy and Biofuels 10:834966.doi: 10.3389/fenrg.2022.834966 (2022).

Serra L.A., Cruz R.G.S., Gutierrez D.M.R., Cruz A.J.G., Canizares C.A.T, Chen X., Mosier N., Thompson D., Aston J., Dooley J., Sharma P., De Marco J.L, Almeida J.R.M., Erk K., Ximenes E., Ladisch M.R.Screening method for Enzyme-based liquefaction of corn stover pellets at high solids. Bioresource Technology, 363, 127999 (2022).

dos Santos, A.C.F., Ahmadzadegan A., Ximenes E., Vlachos P., Ardekani A., Kapur S., Corvari V., Ladisch M.R.  In vitro measurement of concentration of unlabeled protein within a hyaluronic acid matrix. Biotechnol Bioeng.;1–10 (2022).