Joaquin Miguel Pellegrini holds a PhD from the University of Buenos Aires, specialized in immunity and host-pathogens interactions. His PhD thesis was about autophagy modulation by immune mediators in human tuberculosis. He is currently a post-doctoral researcher in the laboratory of J-P Gorvel at the Centre d’immunologie de Marseille-Luminy (CIML), where he is applying his knowledge on neutrophils and SLAM receptors to unravel the role of these cells and receptors in brucellosis under the supervision of S. Mémet.