Francis Monique de Souza Saraiva, Ph.D.

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow

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Education:

Ph.D., Biosciences, emphasis in Biochemistry, 2019, Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil

M.Sc., Biosciences, emphasis in Biochemistry, 2015, Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil

B.Sc., Biology, 2012, Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil

Languages Spoken: Portuguese
Portrait of Francis Monique de Souza Saraiva, Ph.D., B.Sc., S.Sc.

Biography

Since her B.Sc., Dr. Francis M. de Souza Saraiva has developed projects about vector-borne diseases and the role of blood byproducts on the parasite-vector interaction. In 2022, she joined the laboratory of Dr. Joel Vega-Rodriguez in the Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research as a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, where she is investigating the role of blood byproducts on the malaria parasite interaction with its mosquito vectors. In the postdoctoral training she explores technologies including transcriptomics, parasite and mosquito transgenesis, RNA interference, confocal microscopy, and malaria transmission assays.