Deiziane Costa, PhD

Dr. Deiziane Costa, recently, finished her Postdoctoral training in Pharmacology from UFC/Brazil (2019-2021)/postdoctoral fellow at the University of Virginia (2019-2021). Since 2017, she has been at the University of Virginia as a pre-doctoral fellow (2017-2019) and postdoctoral fellow (2019-2021). She received her Ph.D. in Morphofuncional science (2019) and Master’s degree in Pharmacology (2016), as well as her Bachelor’s degree in Nursing (2013) from the Federal University of Ceara (UFC)/Brazil. She is trained in biomolecular technique analysis (Western Blotting and qPCR), the culture of specific bacterias (such as C. difficile and C. jejuni), and eukaryotic cells, such as in vivo models. She is interested in studying how enteric glia-neuro-immune interaction contributing to intestinal infections related to specific pathogens, such as C. difficile. She has been also working with the intergeneration model of C. jejuni, as well as other enteropathogenic models. 

Deizi helps TUMI investigators process samples for microbial and metabolic analysis.