She holds a degree in Nutrition from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (1999), a Master’s degree in Microbiology (Clinical Bacteriology) from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (2001), and a Ph.D. in Sciences (Microbiology) from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and Institut Pasteur, Paris (Unité de Immunité Innée et Signalisation) (2006).

She completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology at the University of Toronto, Canada (2006-2010).

She was a visiting professor at Rockefeller University in New York, USA, from 2016 to 2018.

Currently, she is an Associate Professor at the Department of Immunology, Paulo de Góes Institute of Microbiology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She has expertise in Microbiology and Immunology, with an emphasis on Innate Immunity and Pathogen-Host Interactions.

She is a productivity fellow (level 2) of CNPq and a Cientista do Nosso Estado Fellow of FAPERJ.

She is the mother of Olivia and was on maternity leave from January to July 2020.

Institution: Immunology/IMPG

Ph.D.: Sciences (Microbiology), UFRJ/2006

Research Areas:

• Microorganism/Virus-Host Interactions

FAPERJ Researcher: CNE

H-index: 24

E-mail: leticiac@micro.ufrj.br

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