Luís Teixeira

Biography

Luís Teixeira has a degree in Microbiology and Genetics from Faculty of Sciences University of Lisbon and a PhD in Biomedical Sciences from Faculty of Medicine University of Lisbon, which research was carried out at EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany. He did a postdoc at Cambridge University, UK, on Drosophila antiviral resistance. Luis Teixeira is head of a research group at Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, since 2009, focused on host-microbe interactions. His research group uses Drosophila as a model system to study animal innate immunity and as model for arthropod vectors of human diseases.

Research Interest

Model for arthropod vectors of human diseases. Animal innate immunity Microbiology and Genetics