Thiago Luiz Alves e Silva, Ph.D.

Research Fellow

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Education:

Ph.D., Microbiology and Immunology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Languages Spoken: Portuguese
Portrait of Thiago Luiz Alves e Silva, Ph.D.

Biography

Thiago has been a Research Fellow in the Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, NIH, since 2019. His research interests span vector-borne diseases, host-pathogen interactions, confocal microscopy, transcriptomics, and proteomics. Currently, he works in Dr. Joel Vega Rodriguez's laboratory, where he studies the development of Plasmodium parasites in the midgut, hemolymph, and salivary glands of A. gambiae.