Luis Teixeria studied Microbiology and Genetics at the School of Sciences of the University of Lisbon. After the Licentiate degree, in 1999, he entered the Gulbenkian PhD programme, performed research at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, in Heidelberg, and obtained a PhD in Biomedical Sciences from the Medical School of the University of Lisbon, in 2005. From 2005 to 2009. Luis was a postdoctoral fellow working on the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster anti-viral defense and the bacterium Wolbachia, at the Department of Genetics of the University of Cambridge. In 2009, Luis started a research group at Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal, where he has worked since. The group works on host-microbe interactions, using Drosophila as model system. Besides doing research, Luis is also involved in teaching. He is an invited Assistant Professor at the Medical School of the University of Lisbon, and organizes an annual Summer School for Undergrads and a biannual Summer School for PhD students on Host-Microbe Symbiosis at Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência.