TRAINING
2025 - present Post doctoral fellow : Plague and Yersina pestis group, Institut Pasteur de Lille, France
Research Focus: Investigating the role of hemocytes in the relationship between the flea Xenopsylla cheopis and the plague bacterium Yersina pestis.
2021 – 2025 - Fiocruz Minas, Brazil
PhD Student, under the supervision of Pr. Alessandra Guarneri.
- PhD Research Focus: Investigating the thermobiology of the insect vector Rhodnius prolixus and its interaction with the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi
- Scholarship: Recipient of the Calmette & Yersin grant from Pasteur’s Institute
- Publications:
• First author of the article: “The interplay between temperature, Trypanosoma cruzi parasite load, and nutrition: Their effects on the development and life-cycle of the Chagas disease vector Rhodnius prolixus” In PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0011937
• First author of the article: “Effects of fasting on the interplay between temperature and Trypanosoma cruzi infection on the life cycle of the Chagas disease vector Rhodnius prolixus” In PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0012665
• Awards: Honorable mention at the third Host-Pathogen Interaction Meeting in October 2023 in Rio de Janeiro, for the poster: “Effects of temperature and fasting on the lifelong interaction between the chagas disease agent Trypanosoma cruzi and its insect vector Rhodnius prolixus”
2019 – July 2019 - Insect Biology Research Institute, France January
Master’s degree intern, under the supervision of Pr. Claudio R. Lazzari.
- Research focus: Investigating the critical temperature and chronobiology of Aedes aegypti and Anopheles gambiae
- Pre-selected for the Sorbonne doctoral school contest for a PhD project on Dengue vector microbiota, under the supervision of Dr. Louis Lambrechts from Pasteur’s institute
July and August 2016 - Pasteur’s institute
Interim worker: L3 laboratory maintenance
2025 - PhD in vector biology at the Fiocruz Minas, Brazil: Supervisor: Pr. Alessandra Guarneri
2019 - Master’s degree in Integrative and Evolutionary Biology, University François Rabelais, France:
• First semester: distinction « good », 2nd out of 24 students
• Second semester: distinction « good », 8th out of 24 students
2017 - Bachelor’s degree in Integrative and Evolutionary Biology, University François Rabelais, France
• Distinction « pretty good », 18th out of 197 students
2016 - License 2 in Biology and Biochemistry, University of Orléans, France:
• Distinction « pretty good », 1st out of 33 students
2012 - Science Baccalaureate
COMPETENCES / EXPERTISE
Advanced coding in R and RStudio softwares
Statistical analysis, with particular expertise in Generalized Estimating Equation (GEE) modeling
16S rRNA data analysis
Scientific article writing
Experimental design development
Scientific article reviewing for The Lancet and PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Habilitation in the “Manipulation of mice for research purposes” by the University of São Paulo
Molecular tools (PCR, electrophoresis, blots, sequencing, and analysis)
Laboratory insects rearing and colony maintenance
Chronobiology and thermobiology experiments
Pack Office
Video editing and ImageJ
References
Pr. Claudio R. Lazzari, Professor of Vector Biology at the Université François Rabelais, Tours, France.
Contact information: +33247367389, claudio.lazzari@univ-tours.fr
Pr. Alessandra A. Guarneri, Leader of the “Comportamento de Vetores e Interação com Patógenos” group at the René Rachou research institute from Fiocruz, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Contact information: +553133497700, alessandra.guarneri@fiocruz.br
