Maria del Pilar Quintana Varon

Maria del Pilar Quintana Varon

 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6190-3324
20102019

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EDUCATION

10/2011- 01/2017     

PhD. Medical Sciences

Karolinska Institutet – Stockholm, Sweden

08/2010- 09/2011               

Exchange Student

Universidad del Rosario – Bogotá, Colombia

Karolinska Institutet – Stockholm, Sweden

01/2007-07/2010                

M.Sc. Sciences-Biochemistry

Universidad Nacional de Colombia - Bogotá, Colombia

01/2002 -12/2006                

B.Sc. Biology

Universidad Nacional de Colombia - Bogotá, Colombia.   

 

CURRENT POSITION

02/2017                      

Postdoctoral researcher

Centre for Medical Parasitology

University of Copenhagen

 

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

2011-2016                          

Teaching assistant 

Subject: Disease and Illness 2, Parasitology Seminar (B.Sc. Medicine)

Karolinska Institutet

2007 – 2010                         

Research assistant

Laboratorio de Biofísica y Biología de Membranas.

Centro Internacional de Física - CIF

Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

2008                                   

Teaching assistant

Subject: Biochemistry Laboratory (B.Sc. Dentistry)

Departamento de Química, Facultad de Ciencias             

Universidad Nacional de Colombia

2006                                   

Teaching assistant

Subject: Animal systematics introduction (B.Sc. Biology)

Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Facultad de Ciencias

Universidad Nacional de Colombia

PUBLICATIONS

ORCID ID: 0000-0001-6190-3324

Scientific papers

Total publications: 8

h-index: 3

Average citation per item: 3.75

Sum of times cited (without self citations): 24

 

  1. Quintana MDP, Ch’ng JH, Moll K, Zandian A, Nilsson P, Md Idris Z, Saiwaew S, Qundos U, Wahlgren M. Antibodies in children with malaria to PfEMP1, RIFIN and SURFIN expressed at the Plasmodium falciparum parasitized red blood cell surface. Sci. Rep. 2018; 8, 3262; doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-21026-4
  2. Chan S, Frasch A, Chandra SM, Ch’ng JH, Quintana MDP, Vesterlund M, Gorbal M, Joannin N, Franzén O, Lopez-Rubio JJ, Barbieri S, Lanzavecchia A, Sanyal S, Wahlgren M. Regulation of PfEMP1-VAR2CSA translation by a Plasmodium falciparum translation-enhancing factor. Nat. Mic. 2017; 2 (7).
  3. Ch’ng JH, Sirel M*, Zandian A*, Quintana MDP*, Chan S*, Moll K*, Tellgren-Roth A*, Nilsson I, Nilsson P, Qundos U, Wahlgren M. Epitopes of anti-RIFIN antibodies and characterization of rif-expressing Plasmodium falciparum parasites by RNA sequencing. Sci. Rep. 2017; 4, 43190; doi: 10.1038/srep43190
  4. Quintana MDP, Angeletti D, Moll K, Wahlgren M. Phagocytosis-inducing antibodies to Plasmodium falciparum upon immunization with a recombinant PfEMP1 NTS-DBL1α domain. Malaria J. 2016; 15:416; doi: 10.1186/s12936-016-1459-3
  5. Ch’ng JH, Moll K*, Quintana MDP*, Chan S*, Masters E*, Moles E, Liu J, Eriksson A, Wahlgren M. Rosette-Disrupting Effect of an Anti-Plasmodial Compound for the Potential Treatment of Plasmodium falciparum Malaria Complications. Sci. Rep. 2016; 6, 29317; doi: 10.1038/srep29317
  6. Blomqvist K, Albrecht L, Quintana MDP, Angeletti D, Joannin N, Chêne A, et al. A Sequence in Subdomain 2 of DBL1α of Plasmodium falciparum Erythrocyte Membrane Protein 1 Induces Strain Transcending Antibodies. PloS one 2013;8(1):e52679; doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052679
  7. Angeletti D, Albrecht L, Blomqvist K, Quintana MDP, Akhter T, Bächle SM, et al. Plasmodium falciparum Rosetting Epitopes Converge in the SD3-Loop of PfEMP1-DBL1α. PloS one 2012;7(12):e50758; doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050758
  8. Quintana MDP, Leon S, Forero ME, Camacho M. Mecanismos de salida de parásitos intracelulares de su célula hospedera (Exit mechanisms of intracellular parasites from their host cells). Acta Biol. Colomb. 2010; 15 (3). 19-32.

 

 Research monographs

  1. Quintana MDP. Surface antigens in Plasmodium falciparum malaria: PfEMP1 and SURFIN4.2. Doctoral Thesis. 2017. ISBN: 978-91-7676-535-7. https://openarchive.ki.se/xmlui/handle/10616/45474
  2. Quintana MDP.  Study of host cell egress by the parasite Leishmania amazonensis (Estudio del proceso de salida del parásito Leishmania amazonensis de su célula hospedera). Master Thesis. 2010. http://www.bdigital.unal.edu.co/8659/1/188101.2010.pdf

Chapters

  1. Quintana MDP.  2013. Culturing of erythrocytic asexual stages of Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax. In: Moll K, Scherf A, Wahlgren M. Ed. Methods in malaria research. Sixth edition. p 1-2
  2. Quintana MDP.  2013. Staining of parasite culture or patient blood and estimation of Parasitemia. In: Moll K, Scherf A, Wahlgren M. Ed. Methods in malaria research. Sixth edition. p 22.
  3. Quintana MDP.  2013. Micromanipulation cloning of Plasmodium falciparum. In: Moll K, Scherf A, Wahlgren M. Ed. Methods in malaria research. Sixth edition. p 47-49.
  4. Quintana MDP.  2013. Opsonic monocyte phagocytosis assay. In: Moll K, Scherf A, Wahlgren M. Ed. Methods in malaria research. Sixth edition. p 249-251.

 

EVENT PARTICIPATION

  1. Attendance to the EMBL conference BioMalPar XIII: Biology and Pathology of the Malaria Parasite. Heidelberg, Germany, May 2017
  2. Attendance and Poster presentation at the Molecular approaches to Malaria Conference. Lorne, Australia, February 2016
  3. Attendace and Poster presentation at the 3rd Nordic Malaria Conference. Sånga Säby, Sweden, October 2015
  4. Attendance and Poster presentation at the 11th Annual EIMID meeting. Berlin, Germany, October 2014
  5. Attendance and Poster presentation at the2nd Nordic Malaria Conference. Copenhagen, Denmark, September 2012
  6. Poster presentation at the American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting. San Diego, United States of America, 2011
  7. Attendance and Oral presentation at the XIV Colombian Conference on Parasitology and Tropical Medicine and X PECET Symposium (XIV Congreso Colombiano de Parasitología y Medicina Tropical y X Simposio PECET). Medellín, Colombia. 2009
  8. Attendance at the IV Biology Students Scientific Meeting (IV Encuentro Científico de Estudiantes de Biología). Bogotá, Colombia. 2005.
  9. Attendance to the Symposium on New Molecular Immunology (Simposio de la Nueva Inmunología Molecular). Bogotá, Colombia. 2001.

 

EVENT ORGANISATION

  1. Co-organizer 3rd Nordic Malaria Conference. Sånga Säby, Sweden, October 2015. Co-responsible for assessing submitted abstracts, organizing scientific program and poster session.

 

FUNDING

  1. “Estudio del proceso de salida del parásito Leishmania amazonensis de su célula hospedera”. Funded by Dirección de Investigación (DIB), Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Code: 8003189. Budget: 3500 EU (12.000.000 COP). Funds awarded to cover running costs for Master thesis projects. Main applicant.
  2. “Papel de la membrana de la vacuola parasitófora de Leishmania y Plasmodium en la permeabilidad, ruta secretoria y salida de estos parásitos”. Funded by Francisco José de Caldas Institute for the development of Science and Technology (COLCIENCIAS). Code: 110140820398. Budget: 84000 EU (293.000.000 COP). Funds awarded to cover salary and project running costs. Co-applicant together with Master thesis supervisor.

 

MEMBERSHIP OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES

2010-2017   

Swedish Malaria Network  

Member and acting vice-treasurer on the organizing board

 

PEER-REVIEWING

BMC Malaria journal

Infection and Immunity

Journal of Immunology

Nature Microbiology

PLoS ONE

PLos Pathogens

Current research

  • Soluble host factors in malaria pathogenesis and parasite immuno-evasion
  • Malaria and endemic Burkitt's Lymphoma

Primary fields of research

  • Molecular parasitology with deep interest in parasite-host interactions
  • Plasmodium derived antigens exported to the surface of the infected erythrocyte 
  • Plasmodium proteins involved in merozoite invasion

Possible conflicts of interest

None

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being

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