My PhD project aims to investigate the impact of Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax infection on the host bone marrow and it’s immune cells in vivo, using a novel and unique humanized mouse model developed in our group. This will foremost be studied using CITE-seq analysis.
This PhD position is part of the LabEx ParaFrap consortium.
Before starting at Institut Pasteur, I worked on Acanthamoeba cyst and pseudocyst formation, and researched Woronin bodies in the fungus Madurella mycetomatis, both as part of the Research Master Infection and Immunity at the Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam (Netherlands).