Barbara Papadopoulou

Laval University (Canada)

She is a member of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, a full professor in the Department of Microbiology-Infectious Disease and Immunology at Laval University (Quebec, Canada), and Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunity at the CHU de Quebec Research Center. She is leading original work in the field of molecular parasitology with special emphasis on Leishmania post-transcriptional regulation, pathogenesis, functional genomics, and the development of live vaccine-based strategies. Her lab is also interested in deciphering the molecular pathways by which Leishmania parasites respond and adapt to intracellular stress.