Keyla Sá, PhD
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Biography
Cellular and Molecular Immunologist, with focus on basic immunology, Host-pathogens interactions, innate immune sensing and strong background in molecular biology.
Over the past 10 years, I have been focusing my research on answering fundamental question on the host-pathogens interaction, focusing mostly on the innate immune response to different pathogens, including parasites and virus.
During my master's degree at the Universidade do Pará I had the opportunity to work with molecular epidemiology of infectious diseases as well as on Immunogenetics, including the investigation of the presence of SNPs in cytokines genes and their association with susceptibility/resistance to infections and currently.
On my Ph.D. at the University of São Paulo with Dario Zamboni, I was investigating the role o intracellular Nod-like Receptors and pyroptosis (an inflammatory cell death) on the response against Leishmania and SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Currently, on my postdoc at Yale University with Akiko Iwasaki I am working with long COVID.
For a complete list of publications: https://scholar.google.com/cit...
Education & Training
- PhDUniversidade de São Paulo, Cellular and molecular biology (2022)
- MScUniversidade Federal do Pará, Biology of Infectious and Parasitic Agents (2018)
- BScUniversidade Federal do Pará, Biomedicine (2016)
Honors & Recognition
Award | Awarding Organization | Date |
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Best Abstract Award - Honorable Mention | International Experimental Biology & Medicine Conference | 2022 |
Honorable Mention in the Newton Freire-Maia award in the area of Human and Medical Genetics, and Pharmacogenetics | Brazilian Society of Genetics | 2022 |
Young Talent Award in Life Sciences | Brazilian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SBBq) and Cytiva | 2022 |
AAI-IUIS Travel Award; AAI Introductory Course of Immunology | The American Association of Immunologists | 2017 |
Highlight of the Scientific and Technological Initiation UFPA 2015 | Universidade Federal do Pará | 2015 |
Honorable mention - Work Presented during the VII Winter Course of Immunology of the Medical School of Ribeirão Preto, Graduate Program in Basic and Applied Immunology, FMRP / USP. | Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto - USP | 2014 |