Ana Maria Murta Santi

Ana Maria Santi is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute Pasteur?s Molecular Parasitology and Signalling unit. She holds a bachelor?s degree in biomedicine (UFMG, Brazil), an M.Sc. degree (FIOCRUZ MINAS, Brazil), and a Ph.D. in Health Sciences, with a focus on Cellular and Molecular Biology (FIOCRUZ MINAS, Brazil). She has also completed a one-year internship at Washington University in St. Louis (United States). She has a background in biotechnology, molecular biology, and parasitology. She has worked on the production of recombinant proteins and polyclonal antibodies, drug testing, and the generation of genetically modified parasites using several different molecular tools, such as CRISPR/Cas9 for gene knockout and gene tagging, overexpression, expression of heterologous proteins, and inducible systems. Ana Maria?s current research focuses on two main areas: the development of knockout mutants to study the parasite?s adaptation to different environments, as well as the study of genomic and transcriptomic variations between different Leishmania infantum field isolates.

Biomédica, formada na Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), mestre em Ciências pelo Instituto René Rachou (IRR/FIOCRUZ MINAS) e doutora em Ciências pela mesma instituição, tendo realizado período Sanduiche na Washington University School of Medicine. Tem experiência em biotecnologia, biologia molecular e parasitologia, com foco na manipulação gênica de tripanossomatídeos. Atualmente é pós doutoranda no Institut Pasteur (FRA) e investiga a diversidade genômica de Leishmania spp. e a adaptabilidade desses parasitos.