Lucas Tirloni, Ph.D.

Tenure-track Investigator
Chief, Tick-Pathogen Transmission Unit

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Education:

Ph.D., 2015, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

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Biography

Dr. Tirloni was born and raised in Brazil. He received his Ph.D. in cellular and molecular biology in 2015 from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. He received his postdoctoral training at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (2015-2016), Texas A&M University (2016-2018), and NIAID (2018-2020). In 2020, Dr. Tirloni became a tenure-track investigator in the Laboratory of Bacteriology.