IRTA Research Fellow
Education:
Ph.D., Biomedical Sciences, 2023, Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, College Station, TX
Languages Spoken: Spanish
Biography
Dr. Emily Bencosme-Cuevas is passionate about vector-borne diseases, vector-host-pathogen interactions, and vaccine research and development. She began her research by studying the immune system of the Lone Star tick and continued during her Ph.D., focusing on the black-legged tick and the Lyme disease agent, Borrelia burgdorferi. After years of contributing to the tick research community, she joined Dr. Joel Vega-Rodriguez’s laboratory in 2024 as an IRTA research fellow. She aspires to contribute to the mosquito/malaria community. Her current research explores the antibody repertoire of different vertebrate hosts. The goal is to identify candidates for prophylactic and transmission-blocking immunizations.