Principal Investigators

André Báfica, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Immunology

Prof. Báfica studies the mechanisms by which mycobacteria evades human immune responses.

Post-doctoral training: National Institutes of Heath/USA and The Rockefeller University/USA

Daniel Mansur, PhD

Associate Professor of Immunology and Virology

Prof. Mansur studies the interactions between viruses and their hosts' immune systems.

Post-doctoral training: Imperial College/UK and University of Cambridge/UK

Fernando Spiller, PhD

Associate Professor of Pharmacology

Prof. Spiller studies neutrophil responses in severe bacterial and viral infections.

Post-doctoral training: The Scripps Research Institute/USA

José Henrique M. Oliveira, PhD

Assistant Professor of Parasitology and Medical Entomology

Prof. Oliveira studies how mosquito vectors tolerate persistent arbovirus infections.

Post-doctoral training: Stanford University/USA

Lab members

Daniel de O. Patrício

Postdoctoral Fellow

Innate Immunity, flavivirus infections.

Carolina Eto

PhD Student CNPq Fellow

Thesis: Myeloid differentiation during infections.

Lucilene Wildner Granella

PhD Student CAPES Fellow

Thesis: Host-targeted interventions to flavivirus infections.

Marick Rodrigues Stárick

PhD Student CNPq Fellow

Thesis: Complement system in mycobacterial infections.

Mariana Maraschin

PhD Student CAPES Fellow

Thesis: Mosquito tolerance to flavivirus infections.

Natana Maria Metinoski Bueno

PhD Student CAPES Fellow

Thesis: Novel immuno-based diagnostic tools in mycobacterial infections.

Rodrigo Formiga

PhD Student CAPES Fellow

Thesis: Neutrophil biology in sepsis.

Yonne Karoline T. de Menezes

PhD Student CAPES Fellow

Thesis: Host-targeted interventions to mycobacterial infections.

Fabiane Stoffel

Undergrad ITI Program

Dina Bittencourt

Undergrad ITI Program

Alumni