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An interview with Flavio Zolessi

Posted by Mariana De Niz, on 28 June 2022

Dr. Flavio Zolessi is a group leader and head of the Cell Biology Unit at the Faculty of Science at Universidad de la República in Montevideo, Uruguay. He is also an Associate Researcher at Institut Pasteur Montevideo, Researcher Grade 4 of Programa de Desarrollo de las Ciencias Básicas (PEDECIBA) and Reseacrher Level II at the

An interview with Marcela Diaz

Posted by Mariana De Niz, on 21 June 2022

Marcela Diaz is a co-leader of a Chan Zuckerberg Initiative project at the Advanced Bioimaging Unit (a joint Unit between Institut Pasteur de Montevideo and the Faculty of Medicine of Universidad de la República, Udelar). With this grant, her aim is to generate a program to train imaging educators, and in this way promote knowledge

An interview with Leonel Malacrida

Posted by Mariana De Niz, on 14 June 2022

Leonel Malacrida is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Pathophysiology at Universidad de la República, as well as the Head of the Advanced Bioimaging Unit (UBA) a joint initiative between the Institut Pasteur Montevideo and the Universidad de la República. He is also a manager board of Global Bioimaging and in 2018 was one

An Interview with Ramiro Tomasina

Posted by Mariana De Niz, on 7 June 2022

Ramiro Tomasina is a PhD student since 2020 in Dr. Maria Eugenia Francia’s lab at Institut Pasteur Montevideo and he holds a position as assistant grade two in the Department of Parasitology and Mycology of the School of Medicine at Universidad de la Republica. He is a Pharmaceutical Chemist by training, and has worked on

An interview with Maria Eugenia Francia

Posted by Mariana De Niz, on 31 May 2022

Maria Eugenia Francia is a group leader at Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, focusing on Apicomplexan biology. Maria did her early studies (BSc and MSc) at the University of Idaho, where she started working on Apicomplexan biology. She then moved as a PhD student to the University of Georgia, where she continued this work. She later

An interview with Carolina Catta-Preta

Posted by Mariana De Niz, on 17 May 2022

Carolina Catta-Preta is currently a postdoc at Dr. David Sacks’ lab at the NIH (Bethesda, USA), where she is investigating Leishmania interactions with its insect vector, the sandfly. She started her career in Rio de Janeiro in 2007 at Carlos Chagas Filho Institute (UFRJ), in the Hertha Meyer lab under the supervision of Dr.

An interview with Kildare Miranda

Posted by Mariana De Niz, on 10 May 2022

Kildare Miranda is the director of the Advanced Microscopy Unit and vice-director of the National Centre for Structural Biology and Bioimaging (CENABIO), Professor of Biophysics and Cell Biology and Head of the Cell Biology and Parasitology Department of the Biophysics Institute at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and holds several CNPq fellowships. He

An interview with Moara Lemos

Posted by Mariana De Niz, on 3 May 2022

Moara Lemos is currently a permanent researcher at Institut Pasteur in France, where she has helped establish cryo-correlative light and electron microscopy and cellular cryo-tomography for different biological systems. She began her career (BSc and MSc) at the Federal University of Juiz de For a, working on trypanosomes of wild animals. She later did her

An interview with Marcel Cunha

Posted by Mariana De Niz, on 26 April 2022

Marcel Cunha is currently an adjunct professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). He started his career during a BSc degree in Microbiology and Immunology at UFRJ. He then joined Instituto de Biofisica Carlos Chagas Filho (UFRJ) to do his MSc and PhD studies. Later he did his postdoc in Institut Curie

An interview with Aline Araujo

Posted by Mariana De Niz, on 19 April 2022

Aline Araujo Alves is a postdoctoral fellow at Institut Pasteur in the lab of Philippe Bastin since 2020. She has previously worked as a visiting scientist at University of Oxford and Oxford Brookes University. Her research has mostly focused on Trypanosoma cruzi and Trypanosoma brucei cell biology. Aline did her BSc in biology at the

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