Instructor

Victor Gambarini

Victor Gambarini

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Bioinformatician and Platform Engineer

Bioinformatician with 10+ years experience

Contact: [email protected]

Areas of Expertise

  • Python
  • R
  • Bash
  • Linux
  • Bioinformatics
  • Data Analysis
  • Machine Learning

Research Interests

  • Programming
  • Plastic Biodegradation
  • Bioinformatics
  • Machine Learning
  • Metagenomics
  • Transciptomics

Education

PhD in Biology

The University of Auckland

2024

Professional Experience

Platform and Systems Engineer

Centre for eResearch

2022-Present

Selected Publications

PlasticDB: a database of microorganisms and proteins linked to plastic biodegradation

Gambarini, V, Pantos, O, Kingsbury, JM, Weaver, L, Handley, KM, Lear, G

Database

2022

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Phylogenetic Distribution of Plastic-Degrading Microorganisms

Gambarini V, Pantos O, Kingsbury JM, Weaver L, Handley KM, Lear G

mSystems

2021

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Plastics and the microbiome: impacts and solutions

Lear G, Kingsbury JM, Franchini S, Gambarini V, Maday SD, Wallbank JA, Weaver L, Pantos O

Environmental Microbiome

2021

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Uncoupled: investigating the lack of correlation between the transcription of putative plastic-degrading genes in the global ocean microbiome and marine plastic pollution

Gambarini, V, Drost, CJ, Kingsbury, JM, Weaver, L, Pantos, O, Handley, KM, Lear, Gavin

Environmental Microbiome

2024

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Molecular mechanisms of plastic biodegradation by the fungus Clonostachys rosea

Gambarini V, Pavlov N, Young P, Dawes S, Auffret A, Kingsbury JM, Donaldson LA, Smith DA, Weaver L, Pantos, Handley KM, Lear G

mBio

2025

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Influence of Sugarcane Variety on Rhizosphere Microbiota Under Irrigated and Water-Limiting Conditions

Pereira, LB, Gambarini, V, de Menezes, AB, Ottoboni, LM, Vicentini, R

Current Microbiology

2022

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Microbial abilities to degrade global environmental plastic polymer waste are overstated

Lear G, Maday SD, Gambarini V, Northcott G, Abbel R, Kingsbury JM, Weaver L, Wallbank JA, Pantos O

Environmental Research Letters

2022

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Responses of the sugarcane rhizosphere microbiota to different levels of water stress

Pereira LB, de Oliveira Gambarini V, de Menezes AB, Ottoboni LM, Vicentini R

Applied Soil Ecology

2021

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Tissue-specific metabolic profile drives iNKT cell function during obesity and liver injury

Aguiar, CF, Corrêa-da-Silva, F, Gonzatti, MB, Angelim, MK, Pretti, MA, Davanzo, GG, Castelucci, BG, Monteiro, LB, Gambarini, V, Castro, G, Virgilio-da-Silva, JV, Ribeiro, G

Cell reports

2023

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Eco-Plastics in the Sea: Succession of Micro- and Macro-Fouling on a Biodegradable Polymer Augmented With Oyster Shell

Audrézet, F, Pochon, X, Floerl, O, Le Guen, M, Trochel, B, Gambarini, V, Lear, G, & Zaiko, A

Frontiers in Marine Science

2022

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Fecal IgA Levels and Gut Microbiota Composition Are Regulated by Invariant Natural Killer T Cells

de Aguiar CF, Castoldi A, Amano MT, Ignacio A, Terra FF, Cruz M, Felizardo RJ, Braga TT, Davanzo GG, Gambarini V, Antonio T

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

2020

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Into the Plastisphere, Where Only the Generalists Thrive: Early Insights in Plastisphere Microbial Community Succession

Wallbank, JA, Lear, G, Kingsbury, JM, Weaver, L, Doake, F, Smith, DA, Audrézet, F, Maday, SD, Gambarini, V, Donaldson, L, Theobald, B, Barbier, M, Pantos, O

Frontiers in Marine Science

2022

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