Católica Medical School and CIIS - CatólicaMed invite you to participate in the seminar on “Exploring evolutionary immunogenomics: Lessons from our ancestors and past pandemics”, which will take place on July 14th at 12 pm at Católica Medical School Lecture room 1.

Keynote speaker: Luís Barreiro, PhD

hosted by Paulo Bettencourt

Luis Barreiro received his undergraduate and Master’s degrees in Biotechnology at Lusófona University, Lisbon, Portugal. In 2008, he obtained his PhD in Human Population Genetics from the University of Paris VII, followed by a post-doc in the Department of Human Genetics at the University of Chicago. From 2011 to 2018 he was Professor at the Université de Montréal, and a researcher at the CHU Sainte-Justine. He is currently a Professor in the Genetics division, at the University of Chicago and the Chair of the Genetics, Genomics and Systems Biology graduate program. His work has been pioneer at using population genomic data to characterize the genetic basis of inter-individual differences in immune response to infectious agents.