Rhaissa Calixto Vieira
Postdoctoral researcher
Rhaissa works with primary immunodeficiencies understanding how immune cells are impaired in different immune backgrounds and immune cells.
About me
Rhaissa is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Karolinska Institutet in the Microbiology Tumor and Cell Biology department (Stockholm, Sweden). She completed her MSc (2016) and PhD (2020) studies in Immunology and Cellular Biology (Fiocruz – Brazil) studying different aspects of the immune system such as regulation of functional response of macrophages and CD4 T cell in opportunistic infections, pathogen/ host interaction, inflammation, and endocrine-immune regulation. Nowadays in the Postdoc, Rhaissa works with primary immunodeficiencies understanding how immune cells are impaired in different primary immune deficiencies and cell types also by establishing in vitro models to be used in drug screening applications.
Teaching portfolio
Project supervision
During the period working as a postdoctoral Researcher at Westerberg's Lab I was involved in the scientifical training of students from Swedish and abroad, as follows:
Sofie Hemström, medical undergrad from Karolinska Institutet
Period: June 7 to July 2, 2021 Project enrolled: Lipid Rafts and F-actin interplay in megakaryocyte activation and platelet formation.
Marta Dominguez Gargallo, Biotechnology undergraduate from Barcelona University Period: February to June 2022 Project enrolled: Flow cytometry-based drug repurposing screening for WASp stabilization in X-linked thrombocytopenia megakaryocytes.
Yeon Jae Lee, Biology student from New York /Abu Dhabi University Period: July 1st to August 10, 2022 Project enrolled: Molecular Biology tools for Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome study.
Giulio Zanette, Master student from Trieste University Period: February to October 2023 Project enrolled: Restoring platelets in WAS and XLT – mice model study.
Elisabet Jené Vinuesa, Biology undergrad from Barcelona University Period: February to July 2023 Project enrolled: Compound validation for WASp stabilization in X-linked thrombocytopenia megakaryocytes.
Mentorship for KI Biomedicine degree project students
During the spring 2023, I had the opportunity to mentor some students within their project as follows:
Sofia de Carvalho Martins Neves Pinto Topic: Developmental analysis of the Drosophila neuromuscular junction
Özer Demirel Topic: Contribution of m6a RNA methylation in age-related cognitive decline and AD: characterization in SAMP8 and 3xTg-AD mice models
Amira Alturkmani Topic: Characterization of sensory neuron-derived neuropeptides on adipocytes in different states of insulin responsiveness
Sofia Held Topic: Elucidating the role of Virus-Induced Cell Surface Phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) During HIV-1 Fusion in T cells