Affiliation: Johns Hopkins School of Public Health

Dr. Eric Caragata. Dr. Caragata is interested in understanding the role of microorganisms in mosquito biology, and their impact on vector-borne diseases. He is particularly interested in understanding how Wolbachia-host metabolic interactions impact on host mosquito metabolism, immunity, and physiology. Dr. Caragata obtained his PhD at the University of Queensland, Australia in 2013. He then studied as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Instituto René Rachou, Belo Horizonte, Brazil from 2013 before joining the Dimopoulos group at Johns Hopkins University Malaria Research Institute in 2017.