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An interview with Carolina Catta-Preta

Posted by , 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.
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An interview with Kildare Miranda

Posted by , 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
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An interview with Moara Lemos

Posted by , 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
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An interview with Marcel Cunha

Posted by , 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
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An interview with Aline Araujo

Posted by , 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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An interview with Victor Midlej

Posted by , on 12 April 2022

Dr. Victor Midlej is a group leader at Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, working at the interface of microscopy and parasitology, focusing on cell biology, ultrastructure and chemotherapy. He has worked as a microscopist since early in his studies in 2003. Victor began his career (MSc and PhD) at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, in
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An interview with Lia Medeiros

Posted by , on 5 April 2022

Lia Medeiros is an associate staff scientist at Carlos Chagas Institute, Fiocruz (Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Brazil), and is head of the Electron Microscopy Facility at the same institution. She obtained her Ph.D. from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her Ph.D. research involved the ultrastructural characterization of the interactions between Plasmodium parasites and
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An interview with Rogerio Amino

Posted by , on 29 March 2022

Rogerio Amino is a group leader at Institut Pasteur, France, since 2015. He started his academic career as a teacher of robotics. He did his early studies at the Federal University of Sao Paulo, under the supervision of Prof. Sergio Schenkman. He later moved to France, at Institut Pasteur, to work with Prof. Freddy Frischknecht,
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An interview with Erica Martins Duarte

Posted by , on 22 March 2022

Erica Martins-Duarte currently acts as Adjunct Professor at the Department of Parasitology of the Federal University of Minas Gerais, where she develops projects focused on the discovery of new treatments for acute and chronic toxoplasmosis, characterization of drug resistance in atypical Brazilian isolates, and the impact of the infection by atypical isolates of Toxoplasma gondii
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An interview with Leandro Lemgruber

Posted by , on 15 March 2022

Leandro Lemgruber is the facility manager of the Glasgow University Imaging facility in Scotland, UK, and has been in this role since 2015. He has worked in several capacities as a microscopist in Brazil, Italy, Germany, the USA and the UK. Leandro began his work in microscopy and parasitology since his undergraduate degree. He did
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