Melina Garcia Guizzo, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow

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Education:

Ph.D., Biological Chemistry, Institute of Medical Biochemistry, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil 

M.Sc., Biological Chemistry, Institute of Medical Biochemistry, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil 

B.Sc., Veterinary Medicine, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil 

Languages Spoken: Portuguese

Biography

Dr. Guizzo has been studying tick-microbial relationships, especially focused on tick-endosymbiont-pathogen interactions in several species of economic/public health concern.