Jonathan Miguel Zanatta is a PhD student in the Immunology Program at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo (USP), in São Paulo, Brazil, and a member of the research group supervised by Dr. Sandra Marcia Muxel. He is now part of Dr. Ricardo Silvestre’s research group, as part of the BEPE-FAPESP international internship program, funded by the São Paulo Research Foundation. He completed his undergraduate degree in General Biology at Universidade Estadual do Norte do Paraná (2018) and earned his Master’s degree in Sciences – Physiology at the Institute of Biosciences, University of São Paulo (2022). During his Master’s, he investigated the impact of polyamines on host-parasite interactions. His current research focuses on the role of a long non-coding RNA during macrophage infection by Leishmania infantum, the causative agent of visceral leishmaniasis.