My name is Mariana De Niz. I am a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Molecular Medicine in Lisbon, Portugal. My work focuses on understanding the biophysics and dynamics of the parasite Trypanosoma brucei (causative of sleeping sickness), in various tissues of mammalian hosts. I am particularly interested in microscopy methods to image host-parasite interactions, and am keen on developing new methods that enable visualising and investigating these interactions. In my PhD and first postdoc, I worked on investigating various stages of the malaria-causative parasite Plasmodium. I was particularly interested in understanding parasite tropism and mechanisms of sequestration during Plasmodium blood stages, and host cell organelle manipulation during Plasmodium liver stage development.
An effective workshop on “How to be an Effective Mentor for Underrepresented STEM Trainees”
CeLaVi: An Interactive Cell Lineage Visualisation Tool
Single cell transcriptomic analysis of bloodstream form Trypanosoma brucei reconstructs cell cycle progression and differentiation via quorum sensing
Capacity to multitask limits cellular chemotaxis
The Trypanosoma brucei subpellicular microtubule array is organized into functionally discrete subdomains defined by microtubule associated proteins
The social shape of sperm: Using an integrative machine-learning approach to examine sperm ultrastructure and collective motility
Automatic whole cell organelle segmentation in volumetric electron microscopy
Composition and stage dynamics of mitochondrial complexes in Plasmodium falciparum
An adaptive optics module for deep tissue multiphoton imaging in vivo
Response to thermal and infection stresses in an American vector of visceral leishmaniasis
Interactive design of GPU-accelerated Image Data Flow Graphs and cross-platform deployment using multi-lingual code generation
