Dr. Carlos Ros from 1984-1989 Studies of Veterinary Medicine. Complutense University, Madrid, Spain. 1989-1991 Veterinary practitioner. Ayala Clinic, Madrid, Spain. 1991-1992 Master student. National Veterinary Institute. University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala. Sweden. Thesis: Diagnosis and molecular characterization of mycoplasma F38. 1993-1997 Ph.D. in Molecular Virology. University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden. Thesis: "Diagnostic Application of the Polymerase Chain Reaction in Veterinary Microbiology". 1997-1999 Postdoc. National Veterinary Institute. University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala. Sweden. 1998 Research fellow. Department of Medical Microbiology. University of South Florida, Tampa. USA. 1999 Venia Docendi in infectious diseases at the University of Valencia. Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. Spain. 1999-2001 assistant professor. Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. CEU. University of Valencia, Spain. 2001-2016 Senior Scientist at CSL Behring, Berne. Switzerland. 2013 Venia Docendi (Habilitation) in molecular virology at the University of Bern. 2017- Group leader and lecturer. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. University of Berne.

The main focus is the study of the mechanisms of host cell invasion by parvoviruses, which are among the smallest and simplest viruses known. They infect a wide range of animals and cause disease in humans. Because they depend on cellular functions for every step of their lifecycle, parvoviruses are excellent models to study virus-host interactions. We are very interested in the early steps of the infection. As models, we use parvovirus virus of mice (MVM) and human parvovirus B19