Lucas Sousa Magalhães. Associate Professor in the Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde at Universidade Federal de Alagoas and Researcher at Laboratório de Imunologia e Biologia Molecular from Universidade Federal de Sergipe. Education: Bachelor in Biomedicine, Universidade Tiradentes, 2013; Master in Parasitic Biology, Universidade Federal de Sergipe, 2016; Doctorate in Health Scients, Universidade Federal de Sergipe, 2020. Post-doctoral fellowship from Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (current). Experience and research interests: work with protozoa biology, specially Leishmania and leishmaniasis, and immune response in infectious diseases, specially caused by arbovirus, protozoa and mycobacteria.