Email

nestor.uzcateguiaraujo@bcm.edu

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