Medical Entomology

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Medical Entomology

Leaders: Paulo Filemon Paolucci Pimenta and Nagila Francinete Costa Secundino

Focus: Dengue, Malaria e Leishmaniasis

Mission: Investigating the invertebrate hosts of diseases of medical interest as to their morphological and phylogenetic aspects, studying also the interactions insect-parasite and parasite-host cell.

Research Lines:

  • Study of salivary gland of insect vectors
  • Study of the Lipophosphoglycan molecule of Leishmania
  • Scanning study of insect sensilla
  • Study of the fat and hemocyte body of insect vectors
  • Morphological study of the intestines of insect vectors
  • Interaction of Macrophages with Leishmania
  • Interaction with parasites that causes filariasis with mosquitoes vectors
  • Interaction dengue viruses with Aedes
  • Interaction Leishmania-vector
  • Interaction Plasmodium with mosquitoes vectors

Human Resources:

Researchers
Ana Cristina Renna de Vitta
José Carlos Miranda
Breno de Mello Silva
José Eduardo Marques Pessanha
Fábio André Brayner dos Santos
Luiz Carlos Alves
Fernando de Freitas Fernandes
Nagila Francinete Costa Secundino
Giselle de Almeida Oliveira
Paulo Filemon Paolucci Pimenta
Gustavo Ferreira Martins
Silvana Tecles Brandão
Helena Rocha Corrêa de Araújo
Vanessa Cabreira de Freitas
Ima Aparecida Braga

Students
Alessandra da Silva Orfanó
Juliana Maria Trindade Bezerra
Ana Clara Araújo Machado Pires
Maria Angélica de Oliveira
Bárbara Aparecida Chaves
Rafael Nacif Pimenta
Carolina Cunha Monteiro
Thaís Bonifácio Campolina
Caroline Macedo Gonçalves

Technicians
Camilla Ribeiro Lima Machado
Grace Santos Tavares
Marcílio da Silva Tomaz
Mayara Paraguai dos Santos