Aline obtained her PhD degree at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) in 2019. She worked on characterising expression and function of myosin motors in Trypanosoma cruzi under supervision of Dr. Narcisa Cunha-e-Silva. She had a sandwich period at Keith Gull’s lab (University of Oxford) and Sue Vaughan’s lab (Oxford Brookes University) in England, where she identified two new cytosolic assembly factors of paraflagellar rod in Trypanosoma brucei under supervision of Dr. Jack Sunter.
Aline joined the group as a post-doctoral researcher at February 2020 to describe the role of kinesin motors on reading tubulin glutamylation code and how this code can drive the movement of IFT trains along the axoneme of Trypanosoma brucei flagellum.