Lucas Christian de Sousa-Paula, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow

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Education:

Ph.D., Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), Brazil

M.Sc., Biological Sciences, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil

B.Sc., Biologist, Univeridade Estadual Vale do Acaraú (UVA), Brazil

Languages Spoken: Portuguese

Biography

I am studying the importance of tick saliva for blood feeding and pathogen transmission. Main research interests are arthropod vectors, vector-borne diseases, population genetics, bioinformatics, and next-generation sequencing.