Artur De Castro Neto

Federal University of São Paulo, Paulista Medical School, Department of Microbiology, Parasitology and Immunology, Brazil

Dr. Artur de Castro Neto has been working with Trypanosomatids for 11 years. He received his master’s degree in 2014 and PhD in 2018 from the Department of Genetics at the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil. There he worked in the laboratory of Dr. Osvaldo de Melo Neto at FIOCRUZ, where his master’s research led to the development of a novel visceral leishmaniasis diagnostic test, fit to humans and dogs. His thesis shed light on genomic events that might have led to Leishmania virulence proteins expansion. In 2018, he started his post-doctoral research in the laboratory of Prof. Sue Vaughan in the Department of Biological and Medical Sciences at Oxford Brookes University in Oxford, UK, where he worked with structural biology of proteins involved in basal body biogenesis and flagellum formation in Trypanosoma brucei. He is currently a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology at Paulista Medical School from the Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil in the laboratory of Prof. Renato Mortara. His research is focused on assessing components released by different strains of Trypanosoma cruzi and their role in the parasite’s virulence.

Eden Ramalho Ferreira

The University of York, York Biomedical Research Institute, Department of Biology, Wentworth Way, Heslington, York, UK

Dr. Eden is a post-doctoral research associate at the University of York working with Prof. Jeremy Mottram. He obtained his BSc in Biology and his MSc in Sciences with emphasis on Cell Biology and Parasitology. In 2016 he obtained his PhD degree at the Federal University of Sao Paulo working at Prof. Renato Mortara´s lab, investigating the role of host-cell cytoskeleton associated proteins during invasion of extracellular amastigotes of Trypanosoma cruzi. From the year 2017 to 2021 he worked as post-doctoral research fellow funded by The Sao Paulo Research Foundation investigating how trypomastigotes of T. cruzi manages its escape from the host cell. During this period, he spent 12 months at Prof. Kevin Tyler’s lab – University of East Anglia (Norwich – UK) as a visiting researcher funded by the Sao Paulo Research Foundation for an abroad internship. Currently, he is working on the Wellcome trust funded grant – LeishGEM. His primary focus is the subcellular localization of proteins from Leishmania mexicana. In addition, he is also working with genetic modified cell lines for the identification of molecules important for the interaction of Leishmania parasite with its host.