Lygia Passos

Lygia Passos

Short Bio:

Education:

Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) - Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil, 1981.
Master of Sciences (MSc) on Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Veterinary School, UFMG, Brazil, 1984.
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) on Tropical Veterinary Medicine, Centre for Tropical Veterinary Medicine (CTVM), University of Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K., 1993.
Post-Doctoral Fellow (Sabbatical year): Institute of Pathobiology (CICV- INTA), Argentina, 1998-1999.

Professional career:

In Brazil:
At the Veterinary School (UFMG), Department of Preventive Veterinary Medicine:
1984- 1993: Lecturer/Assistant Professor
1993-2006: Assistant and Research Professor
Since 2006: Associate Professor

In Germany:
At the Institute for Comparative Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, Veterinary School, Ludwig-Maximilian University (LMU), Munich:
Since April 2007: Research group leader

Working fields:

• Teaching Parasitic Diseases (undergraduate and post-graduate levels)
• Applied research on Tropical Parasitic Diseases, particularly on diagnosis, epidemiology and control of tick-borne diseases of cattle.
• Research on in vitro culture systems, focusing on isolation and propagation of hemoparasites of ruminants.

Lygia Passos has supervised over 25 theses (Masters and PhDs), published more than 70 scientific papers, and has been a consultant for research agencies in Brazil, Germany and Argentina and reviewer for 14 international scientific peer-reviewed journals.