Collaborations

As part of this project, two collaborations in Seattle USA were set up during the PhD project with the aim to develop the diagnostic test in a dipstick format (2017).

Visit our partner's websites here:

• Infectious Disease Research Institute : http://www.idri.org
• InBios International, Inc : http://www.inbios.com

Conferences

• Marie-Curie Fellowship - Early Carrer Reasearch (2015-2018) Euroleish network - annuals meetings
• ISOPS X International Symposium On Phlebotomine Sandflies. Presentation of a poster on preliminary results - Reims, France (July 2016)
• WorldLeish conference 6th World Confress on Leishmaniasis. Oral presentation of current work - Toledo, Spain (May 2017)
• Brazilian Tropical Medicine Conference Invited talk on Leishmania and infectiousness (current work) - Brazil (August 2017)
• ECTHMIH 10th European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health. Submission of a PhD preoject abstract for an oral presentation. Poster presentation - Antwerp, Belgium (October 2017)

• Postgraduate Symposium 2018 School of Life Science, University of Warwick. Submission of a PhD project abstract for the symposium booklet and presentation 17-min talk AWARD for Best Seminar (March 2018)
• Postgraduate Symposium 2017 School of Life Science, University of Warwick. Submission of a PhD project abstract for the symposium booklet and poster submission AWARD for Best Poster (March 2017)

Transferable skills

Postgraduate Certificate in Transferable Skills in Life Science

• • Leadership and decision making (2015-2018
  • Project management (2015-2018)
  • Teamworking in Research environment (2015-2018)
  • Mathematical modelling (2015-2018)
  • Statistical analysis and data analysis (2015-2018)
  • Writing skills (2016-2018)
  • Communication workshops (2015-2018)
  • Bioethics (2014-2015)
  • Animal handling (2014-2015)
  • Radioactivity and biosafety lab work (2013-2014)

Publications

In the context of ISOPS IX, the abstract of my project has been published in the journal Parasite on 28.09.2016.

Download the paper on the following link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/parasite/2016051