April 2018
Our April Ambassador of the Month is Jose Mateus Triviño, PhD Student at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia. Jose has played an active role by promoting Immunopaedia and contributed to the Immunologist of the month page. Thank you Jose for all your hard work.
Name: Jose Mateus Triviño
Position: PhD student and Teaching Assistant , Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Sciences
Research Institute: Laboratorio de Parasitología Molecular and the Unidad de Investigación en Ciencias Biomédicas from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana at Bogotá – Colombia.
Research interests: T cells, immune response in infectious diseases, basic immunology.
Recent publications :
Mateus J et al., Antiparasitic treatment induces an improved CD8+ T cell response in chronic chagasic patients. The Journal of Immunology. 2017.
Lasso P, Mateus J, et al., Inhibitory receptor expression on CD8+ T cells is linked to functional responses against Trypanosoma cruzi antigens in chronic chagasic patients. The Journal of Immunology. 2015.
Mateus J, et al., Low frequency of circulating CD8+ T stem cell memory cells in chronic chagasic patients with severe forms of the disease. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. 2015.
Why I love immunology: The immunology is beautiful and understanding it, is a true art. For me, the immunology is exciting, it is related to all physiological process, since allows me understand many phenomena in humans. In my opinion, the immunology opens up new worlds and possibilities to learning these phenomena and therefore, one should always keep an open mind to discover it.
If I wasn’t an immunologist I would be: I could be a singer, but I do not do it well… hahaha (I love the Colombian music, search it!). Possibly I would be working on something related to art or design :).
Tips for young people who want to enter the field of immunology: Be autonomous, read constantly, find your passion and always discuss with critical thinking. Find a group that works on something that interests you and develop all your potential, remember that it is always better to go further. Just do the best you can!
What being an Immunopaedia Ambassador means to me: Immunopaedia has everything!… Basic and applied immunology (clinical cases), meetings (events), immunology researchers’ interviews, breaking news… it is very complete tool. For me, being part of this, is a unique opportunity to learning constantly and meet people that work in this field of knowledge. I feel very proud to be part of this platform.
How I have contributed to Immunopaedia so far: I promote the immunopaedia page with the immunology teachers, the undergraduate student groups (or research incubator groups) and to my immunologist partners. I have also contributed interviews to immunology researchers in Colombia and I’m also planning to request to the administrative directives from my institution, the inclusion of the Immunopaedia page on the website.
You can get in touch with me by: Research gate