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Since 2010, I have led an independent laboratory, first as Young Group Leader at the University of Würzburg (2010-2015, Germany) and currently as tenured Principal Investigator at Spanish National Research Council CNB-CSIC (2015, Spain). Before becoming Young Investigator, I was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School (2006-2010, USA) and a predoctoral fellow at University of Murcia (2000-2005, Spain). Throughout my career, I have specialized in microbiology, molecular genetics, molecular biology and biochemistry. Now, I apply this scientific background to lead my laboratory into the exploration of membrane microdomains and other processes for cellular compartmentalization in bacteria, their contribution to pathogenesis and the design novel strategies against antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections.
I graduated at Complutense University and completed my Ph.D. in Immunology and Molecular Biology at Autonomous University of Madrid (2009, Spain). At 2010, I started working at the Immunology department of the CNB to understand the molecular mechanisms responsible for the response of the immune system against microbial infections. In 2020, I joined the MIB lab to investigate the role of bacterial membrane microdomains to bacterial pathogenesis during an infection. I also contribute with my knowledge of the immune system’s response to assist to other lab members to implement in vivo or in vitro infection experiments for their research projects.
I graduated in Biology and obtained a Master degree at the Complutense University (2016, Spain). I am specialized in protein production and purification, in diverse DNA cloning and recombineering techniques, as well as in in vivo infection assays. At the MIB lab, I apply my experience in protein purification to assist in projects related to structural biology. I contribute with cloning and recombineering to implement diverse molecular techniques and assist in projects that involve in vivo infection experiments. Furthermore, I am responsible for the general organization and correct functioning of the laboratory techniques.
During my Ph.D. at the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Warsaw (2015, Poland) and a postdoctoral period at University College of London (2015-2017, UK) I specialized in Structural Biology before I joined the MIB lab in 2017. Now at the MIB lab, I am a Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral fellow, and I use cryo electron microscopy in combination to molecular biology approaches to investigate the structure of proteins and complexes to understand the mechanisms of cellular machineries. I operate along the entire workflow, from hands-on laboratory work in protein purification and sample preparation to implementing imaging approaches using cryo EM and finally to generate 3D reconstructions using computational methods.
I obtained my PhD at the Complutense University and the Joined Centre for Biological Research (CIB-CSIC) on steroid transport in Mycobacterium species and its potential biotechnological applications (2015, Spain). During my Ph. D., I specialized in molecular biology applied to microorganisms, which now I use at the MIB lab, to explore potential biomedical and biotechnological applications of bacterial membrane microdomains. I am fascinated by exploring the mechanisms that bacteria use to adapt to challenging environmental conditions, and how this knowledge could improve industrial bioprocesses
I obtained a Master and a Ph. D. in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology at the University of Murcia (2020, Spain). During my PhD, I studied the production of plasmalogen lipids in response to light in the soil bacterium Myxococcus xanthus. Now at the MIB lab, I am a Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral fellow. I use my expertise in Molecular Biology and Gene Regulation to explore the role of functional membrane microdomains in the pathogenesis and antibiotic resistance profile of human pathogen Staphylococcus aureus. I also explore the evolutionary response of this pathogen to defective membrane microdomains for the pathogen survival during infection.
I obtained my PhD in Biological Chemistry at the University of Buenos Aires in 2020, Argentina. Throughout my academic career, I have specialized in molecular microbiology and bacterial genetics, using both pathogenic and non-pathogenic bacteria, to investigate the impact of microaerobic metabolism and stress responses on bacterial physiology. In 2024, I joined the MIB lab to explore the functional relevance of bacterial membrane microdomains in maintaining proteostasis among stressed pathogens, to use this knowledge to implement innovative antimicrobial therapies against multi-drug resistant bacteria.
I graduated in Biothecnology and bioinformatics at the Extremadura University before I obtained a Master degree in Computational Biology at Polytechnic University of Madrid (2021, Spain). I started my Ph.D. at the MIB lab in 2022 holding a Ph.D. scholarship funded by the Spanish National Government (FPU). My Ph.D. project is focused on applying the computational advances that are currently offered by artificial intelligence and deep-learning methods to better understand the bacterial processes related to the development of infections.
I obtained a B.Sc in Molecular Biology at Alcalá de Henares university and a Master in Microbiology Applied to Public Health and Infectious Diseases at the Institute of Health Carlos III (2021, Spain). My previous studies have focused on identifying the genetic mechanisms involved in the dispersion of antibiotic resistance genes in hospital-isolated pathogenic bacteria. In 2022, I obtained a Ph.D. scholarship from the Regional Government of Madrid to join the MIB Lab. In my Ph. D. project, I apply genetics and molecular biology approaches to describe a new mechanism that confer resistance to antibiotics in clinical isolates of MRSA and I design new targeting strategies against mechanism to eliminate MRSA infections.
I become interested in microbiology at my B. Sc. in Biology and my M. Sc. in Microbiology and Parasitology at the Complutense University. After this, I joined the MBI lab to do my Ph. D thesis in molecular microbiology. In my thesis, I explore the cellular processes that are associated with the assembly of bacterial membrane miocrodomains. To do this, I use a combination of molecular biology techniques to super-resolution fluorescence microscopy approaches. In my studies, I am showing that bacteria more sophisticated organisms than previously thought.
I obtained a B.Sc degree in Biology from the University of Extremadura (Spain). Following this, I obtained a Master degree in Fundamental Microbiology from the University of Granada (Spain). During this period, I specialized in cellular and molecular biology using Candida albicans and the bacteria Myxococcus xanthus as model organisms. Now I use this expertise to purue a Ph.D. in Molecular Infection Biology at the MIB lab. My research focuses on exploring the cellular programs driving membrane compartmentalization in bacterial pathogens and understanding how these programs influence pathogenesis and resistance to the immune response.
I graduated in Biology from the Autónoma University of Madrid and obtained a Master in Microbiology Applied to Public Health and Infectious Diseases from Alcalá University and the Institute of Health Carlos III. My previous studies provided me with a background in epidemiology and genome characterization of clinical isolates, with a special emphasis on MRSA isolates causing difficult-to-treat infections in children in Spain. In my Ph.D. project, I am using molecular approaches to describe and characterize some of the cellular mechanisms that MRSA isolates has evolved to evade the immune response and cause persistent infections.