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Amanda Cabral da Silva
Amanda is a PhD student in the Faculty of Health Sciences at 911吃瓜 and a student research assistant at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS under the supervision of Dr. Zabrina Brumme. She is currently studying transcriptionally and translationally competent proviruses that persist during antiretroviral therapy.
Before her PhD, Amanda completed a Master鈥檚 degree in the Allergy and Immunopathology Program at the University of S茫o Paulo, Brazil, where she studied the potential mechanisms of human operational tolerance in kidney transplantation. During her Master鈥檚, she also participated in Immunology in School, a volunteer science-education project in Brazilian public schools.
Following her Master鈥檚, Amanda joined Medical Investigation Laboratory 60 (LIM-60) at the University of S茫o Paulo鈥檚 School of Medicine, under the supervision of Dr. Esper Kall谩s, working as a flow cytometrist. She contributed to projects investigating immune responses to arboviruses such as dengue and yellow fever, and later supported COVID-19 research during the pandemic.
From 2021 to 2024, she worked as a research assistant at Emory University鈥檚 Pathology Advanced Translational Research Unit (PATRU) in Atlanta, USA, under Dr. Souheil Younes and Dr. Rafick-Pierre Sekaly, studying how microbiota-derived metabolites shape immune cell function in the context of chronic HIV infection.