Karin Kirchgatter Hildebrand

Graduated in Biological Sciences from the University of Santo Amaro (1990), Master of Science (Biology of the Pathogen-Host Relationship) from the University of São Paulo (1997), PhD in Science (Biology of the Pathogen-Host Relationship) from the University of São Paulo (2002) and post-doctorate in Genetics from UNESP (2006). She is currently advisor and member of the Coordinating Committee of the Postgraduate Program in Tropical Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of São Paulo and Scientific Researcher VI at the Pasteur Institute. She is vice-president of the Permanent Commission of the Full-Time Regime (CPRTI), and responsible for the area of Animal Pathology and Parasitology. Participated in the ORGANIZING COMMITTEE of the 59th. Congress of the Brazilian Society of Tropical Medicine - MEDTROP 2024, São Paulo, SP, September 2024. She has experience in Public Health, with emphasis on Malaria and Related Haemosporidian Parasites of Wildlife, working mainly on the following topics: Haemoparasites, Apicomplexa, Plasmodium malariae, diagnosis, molecular markers, population genetics, avian malaria, DNA barcoding and Culicidae vectors of endemic diseases. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)