Ricardo Maggi

Bio

I have spent my career as a researcher with interest in proteomics and molecular microbiology of microorganisms in complex environments. For over 20 years and with over 160 manuscripts published in scientific and clinical peer-review journals, I have been working at the NCSU-CVM Vector-Borne Diseases Diagnostic Laboratory and at the Intracellular Pathogens Research Laboratory focusing on vector-borne pathogens and their association with zoonotic diseases. Since 2012, I have been co-directing the Intracellular Pathogens Research Laboratory aiming at understanding and characterizing important tick-transmitted pathogens in the genera Anaplasma, Babesia, Borrelia, Ehrlichia, Mycoplasma, and Rickettsia.

My research group had been working, in collaboration with different universities and wildlife organizations worldwide, on the detection and characterization of emerging vector-borne pathogens in companion animals, wildlife, and humans. Our main focus, beyond the assessment of the prevalence and health impact of emerging zoonotic diseases, is the development of novel and more sensitive diagnostic tools and cell-lines models to understand the molecular processes that connect infections to chronic neurological and angiogenic diseases.