Maria Berenice Martinez Salazar
Advanced Postdoc
Department for BioMedical Research, University of Bern, Switzerland
During my time there, I analysed the response of Neutrophils to Leishmania assessing the microbicidal mechanisms activated.
What are your research interests?
Vascular inflammation, neutrophils, long-COVID
Tell us about yourself and your research interests?
I started my research very early during my bachelor’s. I studied the immune response to Leishmania parasites. My thesis defense was about the TLR9 activation with DNA from Leishmania that leads to the production of inflammatory cytokines. My work was awarded the best bachelor’s Thesis of 2015-2016 by the Faculty of Medicine of the UNAM (National University autonomous of Mexico). I did my PhD in the regulation of T cells through PD1 in mice infected with Leishmania Mexicana in an animal model to assess vaccine efficiency. Then, I was granted the Postdoctoral Fellowship Arturo Falaschi from the ICGEB and worked under the supervision of Prof. Frank Brombacher. I studied the immune response to Leishmania in mice that lack the IL-4 receptor alpha (IL-4Ra) and in specific cells that lack that receptor. I moved to Lausanne to work in the WHO-Immunology Research and Training Center (IRTC) under the supervision of Prof. Fabienne Tacchini-Cottier. During my time there, I analysed the response of Neutrophils to Leishmania assessing the microbicidal mechanisms activated. I am currently working as Advanced Postdoc in the University of Bern analysing the role of vascular inflammation in the development of Long COVID-19 under the supervision of Prof. Yvonne Döring.
What is your home country?
Mexico
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