CMSeminar – Host-microbe interactions using Drosophila as a model system: from fundamental science to prevention of human diseases

📢 Join us for the next CMSeminar on April 9th, 2026 titled “Host-microbe interactions using Drosophila as a model system: from fundamental science to prevention of human diseases”!

🕧 Time: 12:30 PM

📍 Location: Católica Medical School, Multicare Auditorium

Luís Teixeira has a PhD in Biomedical Sciences from Universidade de Lisboa Medical School, which research was performed at EMBL, Heidelberg. Later he was a postdoctoral fellow at University of Cambridge, before starting a research group at Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência.

Since 2022 that he is an Associate Professor at Católica Medical School, and leads a research group at Católica Biomedical Research Centre. The group focuses on host-microbe interactions using as model system the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, and its interaction with viruses, the intracellular bacteria Wolbachia, and the gut microbiota.

Luis Teixeira has coordinated a biannual International PhD School on Host-Microbe Symbioses since 2015, and the SymbNET European network in this field, from 2021 to 2024. In 2020, he was elected a member of EMBO as a recognition of his contributions to the life sciences. 

👉 The session will be hosted by Maria da Cunha.

💡 This seminar is part of the course unit Digestion and Defense II, but it is free and open to the academic community!