Luiz Carlos Kreutz, Professor at the Universidade de Passo Fundo, RS, Brazil. DVM (1990) at Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Brazil; MSc (1993) and PhD (1996) in Veterinary Microbiology, both at Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Ames, IA, USA. Experience with molecular virology, diagnosis, and immunology of infectious diseases of livestock animals including fish. Current work focused on zoonotic viral infection including swine influenza, hepatitis E and bovine leukemia virus.