Grants

Current Projects 

• 2023-2027. Coupling Evolution, Epidemiology, Genetics, Statistics andGeography to Understand Hantavirus Transmission in Chile. (PI, ANID-FONDECYT 1230881). 

Past Projects 

• 2017-2021. Ecology and evolutionary epidemiology of Andes hantavirus and its associated rodent reservoir (PI. FONDECYT 1171280)

• 2015-2018. CONICYT PIA-Anillo# 1408. Patogénesis Molecular de Viruses Emergentes (Associate Researcher).

• 2015-2021. “Avian and swine influenza virus surveillance activities in Central and South America” NIH-Centers of Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance (CEIRS): Center for Research on Influenza Pathogenesis (CRIP) Consultant.

• 2018-2020. Determinantes biogeográficos de la diferenciación genética de micromamíferos de Chile Mediterráneo: el rol de las barreras fluviales. FONDECYT Postdoctorado (PI: Dusan Boric).

• 2017-2019. Understanding the origin and transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi in insular populations of the wild vector Mepraia: A parasitological, evolutionary and behavioral approach with epidemiological implications. FONDECYT Iniciacion (PI: Ricardo Campos Soto). 

• 2014-2017. Genetic Imprinting and Elevation Shifts Associated to Climate Change in Vertebrate Species of Central Chile. (PI FONDECYT 1140929)

• 2013-2016. Coastal Forests of south-central Chile: effects of the habitat fragmentation on the population and species diversity of small vertebrates (Co-Inv FONDECYT Regular).

• 2011-2014. Evolutionary Dynamics of Andes hantavirus in Chile (PI FONDECYT Regular 1110664). 

• 2010-2013. Vertebrates on Chilean mountaintops: how the glacial cycles of the Pleistocene shaped the genetic and biogeographic structure of populations (Co-Inv. FONDECYT Regular 1100558). 

• 2007-2010. Estimación de la importancia epidemiológica de focos silvestres del vector domestico Triatoma infestans, en la mantención de la enfermedad de Chagas (Co-Inv. FONDECYT Regular 1070960).