Ulisses de Pádua Pereira is currently the coordinator of the Laboratory of Fish Bacteriology (LABBEP) and an Adjunct Professor at the State University of Londrina. He holds a degree in Veterinary Medicine from the Federal University of Lavras (2007) and received his Master’s and PhD in Veterinary Sciences in 2008 and 2013, respectively. His research areas include preventive veterinary medicine, with a particular focus on bacteriology and infectious diseases (mainly fish diseases), working on the diagnosis (microbiological and molecular), pathogenesis, bioinformatics, and genomics of bacteria pathogenic to fish. He is an affiliated member of the Brazilian Society of Science (ABC).