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Iset M. Vera, PhD
Instructor I, Division of Infectious Disease & International Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine
Contact Info
Education
- PhD, Microbiology & Immunology, Yeshiva University, 2010
- PhD, Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein college of Medicine of Yeshiva University, 2010
- MSc, Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, 2006
- BS, Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), 2004
Interdisciplinary and Emerging Signature Programs
- Allergy, Immunology & Infectious Disease
Research Interests
- Molecular and cell biology of intracellular pathogens
- Parasitology/Plasmodium parasite biology
- Pathogen-host interactions/Pathogenesis
- Host cell defense mechanisms
- Microbe virulence mechanisms
Recent Publications
- Vera IM Kessler A Ting LM Harawa V Keller T Allen D Njie M Moss M Soko M Ahmadu A Kadwala I Ray S Nyirenda TS Mandala WL Taylor TE Rogerson SJ Seydel KB Kim . Plasma cell-free DNA predicts pediatric cerebral malaria severity JCI Insight. 5(12), 2020.
- Vera IM Grilo Ruivo MT Lemos Rocha LF Marques S Bhatia SN Mota MM Mancio-Silva . Targeting liver stage malaria with metformin. JCI Insight. 4(24), 2019.
- Real E, Rodrigues L, Cabal G, J Enguita, Mancio-Silva L, Mello-Vieira J, Beatty W, Vera IM, et al. Plasmodium UIS3 sequesters host LC3 to avoid elimination by autophagy in hepatocytes Nature Microbiology. 3 : 17-25, 2018.
- Mancio-Silva L, Clavic K, Grilo Ruivo MT, Grosso AR, Modrzynska KK, Vera IM et al. Nutrient sensing modulates malaria parasite virulence Nature. 13(5477) : 213-216, 2017.
- Vera I*, Ruivo M*,Sales-Dias J, Meireles P, Gural N, Bhatia S, Mota MM, Mancio-Silva L Host AMPK is a modulator of Plasmodium liver infection. Cell Reports. 16 : 2539–2545, 2016.
