Hitoshi Tsujimoto

Hitoshi Tsujimoto is a post-doctoral research associate in Dr. Zach N. Adelman's lab at Texas A&M University.

He earned a PhD in Entomology from University of Georgia studying immunomodulation and anticoagulation factors in the salivary glands of the black fly, Simulium vittatum.

Since he has been involved in a various projects as a post-doc, his expertise spans broadly in multiple species of vectors using various approaches.

His experience includes study on aquaporins (water channels) in Anopheles gambiae (African malaria mosquito) and Cimex lectularius (the bed bugs), a cationic amino acid transporter (slimfast) in Aedes aegypti (dengue and Zika vector mosquito), iron transporters in Ae. aegypti, RNAseq transcriptome in Aedes albopictus upon dengue virus infection. His technical expertise includes basic and advanced molecular biology, biochemistry, bioinformatics, microscopy, immunology and generation of transgenic mosquitoes as well as various physiological and behavioral assays.