Camila Hamond

Assistant Research Professor

Education and Experience

• Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE), Post-doctoral. National Veterinary Services Laboratories (NVSL), U.S. Department of Agriculture, IA, USA.
• Post-doctoral in Animal Health, National Institute of Agricultural Research (INIA-LE) and Mixed Unit of Montevideo Pasteur Institute and National Institute of Agricultural Research (UMPI), Montevideo, Uruguay.
• Post-doctoral, Yale School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, CT, USA.
• Post-doctoral, Federal Fluminense University, Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• Ph.D. in Veterinary Medicine (clinic and animal reproduction), Federal Fluminense University, Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Part of PhD in Spirochetes laboratory, Institute Pasteur, Paris, France.
• M.S. in Microbiology, Federal Fluminense University, Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• D.V.M, Veterinary School, Estacio de Sa University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Biography

Dr. Hamond is an Assistant Research Professor in the Wunder laboratory. She is also a Collaborating Researcher in the Bacterial Zoonoses Laboratory, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Fiocruz, Brazil. During the past seventeen years, her studies and professional experience have focused on animal leptospirosis, working on its clinical aspects, and with high dedication to performing research in the laboratory and she established several key diagnostic assays in her career. While working on her PhD, she had the opportunity to perform an internship at the Biology of Spirochetes Unit at the Institute Pasteur (Paris, France), and work as a postdoctoral researcher at Federal Fluminense University (Brazil), Yale University (United States), National Institute of Agricultural Research and Institute Pasteur (Uruguay), and the National Veterinary Services Laboratories (NVSL), USDA (United States). Dr. Hamond’s research projects are aimed at identifying reservoirs and determine the etiology of Leptospira by culture and molecular approaches. Her work improves the scientific understanding about the etiology and epidemiology of leptospirosis, while providing local Leptospira isolates to increase the efficacy of serodiagnosis, vaccine formulation, and pathogenesis studies of leptospirosis. Dr. Hamond’s has published more than 60 peer-reviewed research articles related to microbiology and molecular biology of leptospirosis. She received the 2019 Early Career Research award from the International Leptospirosis Society and in 2022 was named Honorary Diplomate of the American Veterinary One Health Society (AVOHS), and in 2024 elected Executive Member of International Society of Leptospirosis (ILS).

Research Interests

•  Diagnosis of Animal Reproductive Diseases.
• Zoonotic Diseases.
• Epidemiology and Diagnosis of Leptospirosis.
• One Health.
• Phage.