Jose Vazquez-Boland

Jose qualified in 1985, spent time in veterinary practice and obtained a PhD in Microbiology (Madrid, 1990). After a post doc at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, in 1992 he established a research group in microbial pathogenesis at Complutense University of Madrid. In 2001 he was appointed chair of veterinary molecular microbiology at the University of Bristol. Since 2007 he has been chair and associate director of the Centre for Infectious Diseases at the University of Edinburgh. He is also professor of veterinary microbiology at the University of Leon, Spain. His group investigates the molecular mechanisms of intracellular parasitism with Listeria monocytogenes and Rhodococcus equi. He is author of >100 scientific publications and has served on a number of national and international scientific advisory committees.