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.
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