PhD student, Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic. Supervisors: Dr. Marie Jalovecká and Dr. Daniel Sojka
2020-2021
myClass Advanced C1 course, British Council Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
2018-2020
Master student, Department of Animal Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal. Supervisors: Dr. David Ramilo and Dr. Maria Teresa Rebelo
2014-2018
Bachelor student, Departments of Animal and Plant Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Professional Experience
2026-now
Member of the Laboratory of Enzymology of Ticks and Tick-borne Pathogens (headed by Dr. Daniel Sojka), Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre CAS, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
2024-2026
Member of the working group led by Dr. Daniel Sojka within the research team at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Ticks (headed by Dr. Jan Perner), Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre CAS, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
2022-2024
Member of the Department of Parasitology (headed by Dr. Jan Štefka), Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Czech Republic
2022
Member of the Research Unit for Global Infection Control, Department of Global Cooperation (headed by Dr. Masahito Asada), at the National Research Center for Protozoan Diseases, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido, Japan
2018-2020
Member of the Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies, Department of Animal Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Peer-reviewed Publications
Levytska, V., Bondar, A., Filipe, A.M. et al. (2026) The Application of Ultrastructure Expansion Microscopy Reveals the Apical Microtubule Architecture of Babesia.International Journal for Parasitology 4
Filipe A.M., Levytska V., Jalovecká M. (2024) Babesia divergens. Trends in Parasitology 40, 271-272
Ramilo, D.W., Filipe, A.M., Lucientes, J. et al. (2021) Morphological anomalies found in female Culicoides midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Biologia 76, 3405–3410
Attended Workshops
2026
EMBL Course in Advanced fluorescence imaging techniques, Heidelberg, Germany
2025
Processing and Analysis of Microscopic Images in Biomedicine, Prague, Czech Republic
2024
EMBO Intensive Course in Electron Microscopy for Cell Biology, Oslo, Norway
2024
Sample Preparation Series for Electron Microscopy, Prague, Czech Republic
Oral presentation, 3rd USB Conference of Doctoral Students, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
2023
Poster presentation, EMBO 13th Young Scientists’ Forum Conference, Lisbon, Portugal
Awards and Funding
2026
British Society for Protistology (BSP) Travel Award for attending BSP Spring Meeting 2026 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK
2025
Best presentation award at the 4th University of South Bohemia (USB) Conference of Doctoral Candidates in České Budějovice, Czech Republic
2025
International Proteolysis Society (IPS) Travel Award for attending IPS meeting in Búzios, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2025
Principal Investigator of a one-year student grant project (Grant No. 024/2025/P) titled "Identifying Key Players in the Egress Cascade of Babesia divergens"
2024
Registration fee waiver funded by the EMBO Organizer Dr. Norbert Roos for attending the EMBO Intensive Course in Electron Microscopy for Cell Biology
2024
Poster prize winner at EMBL BioMalParXX: Biology and Pathology of the Malaria Parasite, Heidelberg, Germany
2024
Travel grant funded by the EMBL Corporate Partnership Programme for attending the EMBL BioMalParXX: Biology and Pathology of the Malaria Parasite Conference
Other Certificates and Skills
2023
European Union Aviation Safety Agency A1/A3 subcategory
2020
Certificate of Achievement: Statistics and R - HarvardX
Languages:
Portuguese (native), Spanish (intermediate) and English (full professional proficiency, TOEFL ITP certificate)
