Ana Simão Pinto de Carvalho
PhD student
- Project: Project 14.1
- Research Group
- Address: iomE, Hanns-Dieter-Hüsch-Weg 15 (Biozentrum I, Room 01.452), 55128 Mainz; now: Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Hans-Knöll-Straße 8, 07745 Jena
- Phone: 06131 / 39 26717
"Studying host-symbiont interaction requires multidisciplinary approaches, facilitated by the training and networking provided by the RTG."
Education
- 2018-2020 (October-January): Master thesis at the Host Microorganism Interaction Laboratory at IGC (Instituto Gulbenkian da Ciência) – Functional Characterization of Wolbachia effector proteins (Lisbon, Portugal)
- 2017-2018: Curricular year of Medical Microbiology Master’s program (Mestrado em Microbiologia Médica), Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
- 2014-2017: Bachelor’s degree in Biology at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (Portugal) - Third year specialization: Molecular Biology and Genetics
Working Experience
- Since 2020: PhD studies on the establishment of the symbiosis between the semi-aquatic reed beetles and their bacterial symbionts, Evolutionary Ecology group at the Institute for Organismic and Molecular Evolutionary Biology (Mainz, Germany)
- 2017-2018 (September – July): Trainee at IGC (Instituto Gulbenkian da Ciência) in Host-Microorganism Interaction laboratory: understanding the role of Drosophila immune system on Wolbachia phenotypes, isolation and characterization of novel over-proliferative Wolbachia variants
- 2017 (February-August): Trainee at IGC in Host-Microorganism Interaction laboratory - Cloning bacterial genes using the Gateway system and restriction enzymes
- 2015 (August-September): Lab rotation at IGC in the Evolution and Development laboratory