Speakers - VetPD

José Reck Jr.

DVM, MSc., PhD

Brazil Instituto De Pesquisas Veterinárias Desidério Finamor (IPVDF), Brazil

José Reck holds a degree in Veterinary Medicine from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). He has also completed master's and doctoral degrees in Cell and Molecular Biology at UFRGS, focusing on ticks and tick-borne diseases. Since 2011, he has been a researcher at the Parasitology Laboratory of the Instituto de Pesquisas Veterinárias Desidério Finamor (IPVDF), which serves as the reference laboratory for the State Department of Agriculture of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. He is actively involved in diagnostic and research activities related to parasitic diseases in animals. Dr. Reck has coordinated research projects approved by funding agencies and private companies, with a particular emphasis on the eco-epidemiology of ticks and vector-borne diseases. He is a member of the Working Group on Tick Control and Acaricide Resistance of the "Colégio Brasileiro de Parasitologia Veterinária (CBPV)". As a professor at the Graduate School in Animal Health of IPVDF, he has supervised several master's dissertations.