Description
Title: "Host-plasmodium interaction: a tale of symbiosis and pathogenesis”
Speaker: 
Maria M. Mota, MSc, Ph.D. Executive Director, Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Bio:
Maria M. Mota received her PhD degree in Molecular Parasitology from University College London in 1998, under the guidance of Anthony A Holder. She then moved to New York to pursue a postdoc at the New York University Medical Center and later in 2002 she started her own group at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC), in Portugal. Currently, Maria is the Executive Director of Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes (iMM) in Lisbon, and the leader of the research group Biology and Physiology of Malaria. Causative agent of malaria, interacts with its mammalian host. Some of the main questions her lab aims to understand are: What are the host mechanisms for sensing Plasmodium liver-stage infection? Does Plasmodium have evasion strategies to subvert host responses? How does Plasmodium fulfill its nutritional requirements to generate thousands of new parasites? Does Plasmodium sense and respond to the host nutritional status? Maria has received several awards and honors throughout her career such as the European Science Foundation Young Investigator (EURYI) award in 2004, Prémio Pessoa in 2013, EMBO member in 2016, Pfizer award in 2017 and Sanofi – Institut Pasteur 2018 Award in the Mid-Career category
Date: Monday, April 10, 2023
Time: 12-1 pm
Location: Virtually Via Zoom
Questions? Please contact Michael Black if you have questions.