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Positions

Assistant Professor

Pediatrics - Tropical Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, US

Director

Antigen Discovery and Molecular Biology Unit
Baylor College of Medicine/ Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development

Education

PhD from Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen

07/2006 - Tübingen, Germany

Selected Publications

• Uzcategui NL, Güçer S, Richter C, Speidel A, Zirdum E , Duszenko M, Garaschuk O, Figarella K.. " Live imaging of microglia during sleeping sickness reveals early and heterogeneous inflammatory responses " Front Immunol.. 2023 ; in press
• González-Bacerio J, Arocha I, Aguado ME, Méndez Y, Marsiccobetre S, Izquierdo M, Rivera DG, Figarella K, Uzcátegui NL. " KBE009: A Bestatin-Like Inhibitor of the Trypanosoma cruzi Acidic M17 Aminopeptidase with In Vitro Anti-Trypanosomal Activity " Life. 2021 ; 11 (10) : 1037.
• Figarella K, Uzcategui NL, Duszenko M. " Assessment of Parasite-Microglia Interactions In Vitro " Methods Mol Biol. 2019 ; 2034 : 149-161.
• 6. Rojas V, Ortiz YY, Rodríguez S, Araque V, Rodríguez-Acosta A, Figarella K, Uzcátegui NL. " Rhinella marina oocytes: a suitable alternative expression system for functional characterization of aquaglyceroporins " Sci Rep. 2019 ; 9 (1) : 18.

Languages

Spanish, German