Dr Igor Bonacossa Pereira

Cells are the unit of life.

From the highly elongated neurons to the resilient and all enwrapping epithelial cells my work unravels a cell's structural building blocks, their repair tools and anti-infective arsenal.

My research aims at understanding the fundamental mechanisms by which cells maintain their integrity, fight infection and regulate their interface with the outside world, the membrane.

To study these elements I use a tiny roundworm called C. elegans as a model system and use precision gene editing, molecular biology, state-of-the-art microscopy and classical genetics.