Ana Cepeda Diaz is am amazing graduate student from the laboratory of Jeff Dvorin, which is part of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Boston Children’s Hospital and a Microbiology Department Affiliate. Ana is studying inner membrane complex biogenesis of Plasmodium falciparum, the human parasite that causes malaria. P. falciparum is a TINY parasite and Ana has done a crazily great job at optimizing sample preparation to image these bad boys with an array of imaging techniques, including expansion microscopy.
