The Institute of Biomedical Sciences of the University of São Paulo
Claudio Romero Farias Marinho
Dr. Marinho is head of the Experimental Immunoparasitology laboratory and Full Professor at Institute of Biomedical Sciences at the University of São Paulo. In 1999, he started his Ph.D. in Immunology at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Under the supervision of Dr. José Maria Alvarez, Dr. Marinho studied the immunopathogenesis of experimental Chagas disease. Part of his Ph.D. was executed in the laboratory of Dr. Penha-Conçalves (Institute Gulbenkian of Science, Portugal), where Dr. Marinho studied genetic susceptibility to Chagas disease. In 2005, he returned to the laboratory of Dr. Penha-Conçalves for a full post-doc and was funded by a fellowship from Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT-Portugal). There, Dr. Marinho sought to understand through the use of mouse models how placental inflammation caused by malaria leads to placental dysfunction. In 2009, he became an independent professor at the University of São Paulo, Institute of Biomedical Sciences at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Since then, Dr. Marinho’s group has been investigating the molecular and cellular components of innate and acquired immunity, which contribute to the development of placental malaria in pregnant women. These studies may unveil pharmacological targets to promote the fetal viability and protection mechanisms valuable in abortion and stillbirth prevention. The translation of this research will benefit from the availability of collections of the human placenta from Amazonia, as well as studies of cohorts with pregnant women conducted by our group in an endemic area for malaria in Brazil.
Jamille Dombrowski
Dr. Dombrowski is currently doing a Post-Doctoral at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences - University of São Paulo. She has a Bachelor's Degree in Nursing from the Federal University of Acre (2011) and a Ph.D. in Sciences (Biology of the Pathogen-Host Relationship) from the University of São Paulo with a sandwich period at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (London, UK) (2018). Dr. Dombrowski has experience in Parasitology (especially gestational malaria), maternal and child health and information systems. She is interested in the areas of Parasitology, Immunology, Epidemiology and maternal and child health, as well as in the areas of Clinical Research and Public Health. Since 2012, she works in a scientific research laboratory and has extensive experience in field research, research with human subjects, as well as in the management and execution of scientific projects.
Myrela C. Santos de Jesus
Dra. Myrela is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Biosciences, University of São Paulo (ICB-USP), where she focuses on studying human genes involved in susceptibility to malaria using advanced third-generation sequencing technologies. She holds a Ph.D. in Applied Microbiology and Parasitology from the Federal Fluminense University, with a sandwich period at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) in London, England. Myrela also obtained a master’s degree in Parasitology from the Federal University of Sergipe (2019) and a Bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences (Licentiate) from the same institution (2016).
Her research interests span a range of fields, including Molecular Genetics, Parasitology, Virology, Immunology, and Bioinformatics. She has experience in the genetics of arboviruses, enteric viruses, and protozoa, with a strong emphasis on the application of genomic and bioinformatic tools to understand pathogen-host interactions.
Maria Inês Santos da Silva
Inês has a Bachelor's Degree in Nursing from the Federal Institute of Pernambuco (2017) with an exchange period at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada held by the Science Without Borders Program. She is a nursing specialist in Neurology/Neurosurgery by the University of Pernambuco (UPE), residency modality (2020). Currently, she is a PhD student in the Experimental Immunoparasitology Laboratory. Her line of research encompasses fetal growth restriction in gestational malaria.
Erika Paula Machado Peixoto
Erika is the technician of the Laboratory of Experimental Immunoparasitology at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences - University of São Paulo. She has a Bachelor's Degree in Biology from the University São Judas Tadeu (2009). She has experience in Immunology, Cellular and Molecular Biology, with emphasis on malaria animal models.