PhD, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile MS, Juan Agustin Maza University, Mendoza, Argentina BS, Juan Agustin Maza University, Mendoza, Argentina

Role of ion channels in sensing and adaptation to environmental conditions in protozoan parasites; mechanosensation; electrophysiology.

Docampo R, Jimenez V, Lander N, Li ZH and Niyogi S. New Insights into the Roles of Acidocalcisomes and the Contractile Vacuole Complex in Osmoregulation in Protists. International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology. 2013;305:69-113. Jimenez V and Docampo R. 2012. Molecular and electrophysiological characterization of a novel cation channel of Trypanosoma cruzi. PLoS Pathog. 2012 Jun;8(6):e1002750. Docampo R, Jimenez V, King-Keller S, Li Z, Moreno SNJ. 2011. The Role of Acidocalcisomes in the Stress Response of Trypanosoma cruzi. Adv. Parasitol. 75: 307-24. Ulrich PN#, Jimenez V# , Park M, Martins V, Atwood J, Moles K, Collins D, Rohloff P; Tarleton R, Moreno SNJ; Orlando R, Docampo R. 2011. Identification of contractile vacuole proteins in Trypanosoma cruzi. PlosOne. 6(3) e18013. # Both authors contributed equally. Jimenez V, Henriquez M, Galanti N, Riquelme G. 2011. Electrophysiological characterization of potassium conductive pathways in Trypanosoma cruzi. J Cell Biochem. 112 (4): 1093–1102.