Fields of Specialization:   Infectious diseases. Molecular biology of host-vector- pathogen interactions, gene regulation, pathogenesis, functional genomics, evolution and immunology. Systems biology. Ticks and tick-borne diseases. Intracellular bacteria (Rickettsia, Anaplasma, Mycobacterium). Alpha-Gal syndrome. Vaccinology. Biotechnology.

Research team

  • Ricardo Lleonart

    Centro de Biologia Celular y Molecular de Enfermedades, Instituto de Investigaciones Cientificas y Servicios de Alta Tecnologia, Panama

  • Marinela Contreras

    SaBio. Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos IREC-CSIC-UCLM-JCCM, Spain

  • Pilar Alberdi

    SaBio. Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos IREC-CSIC-UCLM-JCCM, Spain

  • Alejandro Cabezas-Cruz

    1-Institute of Parasitology, Biology Center of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic 2-Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic

  • Alasdair J Nisbet

    Moredun Research Institute, UK

  • Agustín Estrada-Peña

    Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

  • Katherine Kocan

    Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Oklahoma State University, USA