Dr. Carolina Firacative

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsMedical Microbiology and Mycology, Hygiene, Molecular Infection Biology,Metabolism, Biochemistry, and Genetics of Microorganisms
KeywordsCryptococcus, Allergens, Proteomics
Honours and awards

2019: Research Group Linkage Programme

2015: Georg Forster Fellowship

Current contact address

CountryColombia
CityBogota
InstitutionUniversidad del Rosario
InstituteSchool of Medicine and Health Sciences

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Gottfried AlberInstitut für Immunologie, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig
Dr. Ludger StändkerPeptide Competence Center, Universität Ulm, Ulm
Dr. Carolina FiracativeSchool of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universidad del Rosario, Bogota
Start of initial sponsorship01/06/2015

Programme(s)

2015Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2021Gressler, A. Elisabeth and Volke, Daniela and Firacative, Carolina and Schnabel, Christiane L. and Müller, Uwe and Krizsan, Andor and Schulze-Richter, Bianca and Brock, Matthias and Brombacher, Frank and Escandón, Patricia and Hoffmann, Ralf and Alber, Gottfried: Identification of Disease-Associated Cryptococcal Proteins Reactive With Serum IgG From Cryptococcal Meningitis Patients. In: Frontiers in Immunology, 12, 2021, 2677
2018Carolina Firacative, A. Elisabeth Gressler, Kristin Schubert, Bianca Schulze, Uwe Müller, Frank Brombacher, Martin von Bergen, Gottfried Alber: Identification of T helper (Th)1- and Th2-associated antigens of Cryptococcus neoformans in a murine model of pulmonary infection. In: Scientific Reports, 2018, 1-14