Stephany Villota, PhD

 stephany.villota.v@gmail.com

Research group: Infectious and tropical diseases 

Areas of research: 

   Current research:   

  Education:

• 2019. MSc. Microbiology and Biotechnology of Microorganisms. Helsinki(Finlandia).
• 2012. Bachelor of Biological Sciences. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador.

  Current position: 

• Adjunct investigator to the group of  Dr. Fabián Sáenz at the Center for Research in Health in Latin America.

  Recent publications: 

• Lu, S., Duplat, D., Benitez-Bolivar, P., León, C., Villota, S. D., Veloz-Villavicencio, E., ... & Bremner, R. (2022). Multicenter international assessment of a SARS-CoV-2 RT-LAMP test for point of care clinical application. PLoS One, 17(5), e0268340. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0268340
• Carrazco-Montalvo, A., Ponce, P., Villota, S. D., Quentin, E., Muñoz-Tobar, S., Coloma, J., & Cevallos, V. (2022). Establishment, Genetic Diversity, and Habitat Suitability of Aedes albopictus Populations from Ecuador. Insects, 13(3), 305. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects13030305
• Chicaiza, J., Villota, S. D., Vinueza-Naranjo, P. G., & Rumipamba-Zambrano, R. (2022). Contribution of deep-learning techniques toward fighting COVID-19: a bibliometric analysis of scholarly production during 2020. IEEE Access, 10, 33281-33300. DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3159025
• Villota, S. D., Nipaz, V. E., Carrazco-Montalvo, A., Hernandez, S., Waggoner, J. J., Ponce, P., ... & Cevallos, V. (2021). Alternative RNA extraction-free techniques for the real-time RT-PCR detection of SARS-CoV-2 in nasopharyngeal swab and sputum samples. Journal of virological methods, 298, 114302. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jviromet.2021.114302

  Orcid:  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3250-6589

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stephany-Villota