The Mosquito Immunity and Vector Competence Section investigates the interactions between the mosquito immune system and Plasmodium parasites to understand how they affect malaria transmission.
Top Row (left to right): Anna Beatriz Ferreira, Research Fellow; Alvaro Molina-Cruz, Associate Scientist; Asher Kantor, IRTA Postdoctoral Fellow (former member); Carolina Barillas-Mury, Distinguished Investigator; Octavio Talyuli, Ph.D. graduate student GPP program. Bottom Row (left to right): Jamie Smith, Postbac IRTA student; Stephanie S. de Carvalho, Visiting Fellow; Micah Young, Postbac IRTA student; Banhisikha Saha, Visiting Fellow; Shalyn Keiser, Postbac
Carolina Barillas-Mury, M.D., Ph.D.
Chief, Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research
Distinguished Investigator Head, Mosquito Immunity and Vector Competence Section
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Education:
Ph.D., University of Arizona
M.D., Universidad Francisco Marroquin de Guatemala
B.S., Universidad del Valle de Guatemala
Stephanie Serafim de Carvalho, Ph.D.
Visiting Fellow
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Education:
Ph.D., 2020, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Languages Spoken: Portuguese
Octavio Talyuli Da Cunha
Ph.D. graduate student
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Languages Spoken: Portuguese
Ana Beatriz B. Ferreira, Ph.D.
Research Fellow
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Languages Spoken: Portuguese
Asher Kantor, Ph.D.
IRTA Postdoctoral Fellow
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Alvaro Molina-Cruz, Ph.D.
Associate Scientist
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Languages Spoken: Spanish
Banhisikha Saha, Ph.D.
Visiting Fellow
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Former Research Group Members
Former Post-Doctoral Fellows
Dr. Yeon-Soo Han 1998-2003 Associate Professor and Department Head at Chonnam National University, Korea.
Dr. Alvaro Molina-Cruz 2003-2006 Promoted to LMVR Staff Scientist in September 2006.
Dr. Randall DeJong 2004-2006 Associate Professor at Calvin College, Michigan.
Dr. Sanjeev Kumar 2002-2008 Associate Professor, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Rajasthan, India
Dr. Lalita Gupta 2002-2008 Associate Professor, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Rajasthan, India
Dr. Rajnikant Dixit 2007-2010 Independent Researcher, National Institute of Malaria Research (NIMR), Delhi, India
Dr. Janneth Rodrigues 2006-2011 Scientist at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Tres Cantos, Madrid, Spain
Dr. Giselle Oliveira 2009-2012 Visiting Researcher, Science without Borders Program, Rene Rachou Institute, Fiocruz, Brazil
Dr. Lindsey Garver 2009-2013 Senior Research Scientist, Vector and Parasite Biology, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
Dr. Urvashi Ramphul 2012-2015 Senior Research Associate, Perrett Laver, London
Dr. Jose Luis Ramirez 2011-2015 Research Entomologist, Agricultural Research Service, USDA, Preoria, Illinois
Dr. Julio Cesar Castillo 2013-2016 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Dr. Jose Ribeiro’s Laboratory, LMVR, NIH
Dr. Caeul Lim 2016-2018 Scientific Editor at Trends/Cell Host & Microbe, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Dr. Nathani Trisnadi 2015-2018 Research Scientist, Atropos Therapeutics, San Carlos, California
Dr. Fabio M.Gomes 2014-2019 Assistant Professor, Parasitology Department, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Dr. Thiago Alves Silva 2015-2018 Post-Doctoral Fellow,
Dr. Joel Vega-Rodriguez, LMVR, NIH
Dr. Gaspar Canepa 2012-2020 Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA