Ana Bahia
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I am a postdoc working on the phenotypic and molecular interactions of natural
Anopheles microflora with the mosquito innate immune system, including
the effects on Plasmodium falciparum infection. My second project focuses on molecular determinants of the Aedes mosquito susceptibility to the dengue virus .
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Contact: abnascim@jhsph.edu
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Bio:
I graduated in Biology at the Federal University of Bahia (Bahia state/Brazil) in 2004, obtained my Master’s degree in Health Sciences  at the René Rachou Institute (Oswaldo Cruz Foundation - FIOCRUZ) in 2006, and my Ph.D. degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology at the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (Oswaldo Cruz Foundation - FIOCRUZ) in 2010.
My M.Sc. project focused on the morphology and ultrastructure of sand fly sensory organs (sensilla). In my Ph.D., I studied aspects of the interaction between insects and their parasites. The objective of my doctoral thesis was to molecularly understand how the mosquito Anopheles
aquasalis (a malaria vector on coastal areas of Brazil) responded immunologically to the infection by Plasmodium vivax (the main malaria parasite in the country) in an attempt to discover genes that are determinant for the insect’s susceptibility, and which could be used in the development of new control strategies for this disease. I joined the Dimopoulos group as a postdoctoral fellow in January 2011 to study timmune responses of Anopheles gambiae to Plasmodium falciparum and Aedes aegypti to the Dengue virus.
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