Member: August 2015 - September 2022

Research interest
Tissue and pathogen specific innate immunity

Title of PhD project
Functional characterization of REL2/Imd pathway of the malaria vectorAnopheles gambiae

Supervisor
Dr. Elena Levashina

Zakovic S, Levashina EA. (2018).
Insects Go on a STING Operation to Tackle Intracellular Invaders.
Immunity 49:195-7. doi: 10.1016/j.immuni.2018.08.003.

Yordanova I*, Zakovic S*, Rausch S, CostaG, Levashina E, Hartmann S. (2018).
Micromanaging immunity in the murine hosts versus mosquito vectors: microbiota-dependent immune responses to intestinal parasites.
Front Cell Infect Microbiol 8:308. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2018.00308. *equal contribution

Zakovic S, Levashina EA. (2017).
NF-κB-Like Signaling Pathway REL2 in Immune Defenses of the Malaria Vector Anopheles gambiae.
Front Cell Infect Microbiol 7:258. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2017.002583.