INTERNATIONAL SPEAKER

Anca Dorhoi is Director of the Institute of Immunology at the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI), Greifswald-Isle of Riems, and Professor of Immunology at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Greifswald, Germany. She studied veterinary medicine in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, specialized in infectious diseases also in Lisbon, Portugal, moved to the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin (MPIIB), Germany, as a postdoc to study immunity to mycobacteria and lead the Minerva Group Innate Immunity at the MPIIB. Her lab investigates the immune system and immune responses to bacterial and viral pathogens in farm and wild animals in a One Health approach. She is an expert in innate immunity, focusing on myeloid cell biology and control of inflammation particularly in tuberculosis.