Team & collaborators

A multidisciplinary lab of biologists, biochemists, and biomedical scientists investigating vector-pathogen-host interactions.

DR. F.M. GOMES
PI · 01IBCCF / UFRJ
Principal investigator

Dr. Fabio M. Gomes

Associate Professor · Vector Biology & Immunometabolism

UG in Biology (2006), MSc (2008) and Ph.D. in Biophysics (2012) at UFRJ, under Ednildo de Alcantara Machado and Kildare Rocha de Miranda. Foundational work on polyphosphate biology in insects, including the widely-adopted DAPI-based polyP visualization technique.

Intramural Fellow at NIH/NIAID (2014–2019), Postdoctoral Researcher at Johns Hopkins (2019), and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at CNRS, Paris (2019). Associate Professor at UFRJ since 2019. Coordinates the Vector Insects Platform and the Graduate Program in Parasitology and Cell Biology; Vice-Director of Advanced Microscopy at CENABIO.

Email
fabiomg@biof.ufrj.br
Lattes
lattes.cnpq.br
ORCID
0000-0002-4810-5745

The research team.

Postdocs, PhD students, MSc candidates and undergraduates working across our five research lines.

01
PhD
Alexandre de Souza Menezes
PhD candidate
Effect of vertebrate host malnutrition on vector competence of Aedes aegypti.
02
POSDOC
Anderson de Mendonça Amarante
Postdoctoral Fellow · FAPERJ
Immunometabolism of vector insects.
03
IC
Leon Elias Grecca dos Santos
Undergrad researcher
Immunometabolic markers of Aedes aegypti infection.
04
IC
Ana Beatriz de Oliveira Barbosa
Undergrad researcher
Homeostasis and vector competence of Aedes aegypti.

Where our alumni are now.

Members who trained with us and continued their careers in research, industry, and teaching across Brazil and abroad.

01
Pamela Liane Condori Huaman
MSc · 2025
MSc in Cellular & Molecular Biology, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz)
02
Melissa Ingrid dos Santos da Silva
TCC · 2023
B.Pharm., UFRJ
03
Ana Paula Guzmán Méndez
IC
Effect of host malnutrition on Aedes aegypti vector competence

An international research network.

Carolina Barillas-Mury NIH/NIAID
Mauro Sola-Penna & Patricia Zancan UFRJ · Pharmacy
Isabela Ramos & Kildare Miranda UFRJ · IBCCF
Rafael C. M. C. Silva UFRJ