José Lemos

José A. Lemos obtained his Ph.D. (Microbiology and Immunology) from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) in 2000. He did postdoctoral research at the University of Rochester and later at the University of Florida. In 2003, he was promoted to Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Oral Biology at the University of Florida. In 2007, he joined the faculty of the University of Rochester in the Center of Oral Biology and Department of Microbiology and Immunology. In 2015, he returned to the University of Florida College of Dentistry as part of the Preeminance hire initiative where he is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Oral Biology. His laboratory investigates the stress survival mechanisms of Firmicutes with a particular focus on S. mutans and Enterococcus faecalis.