IBR - Key Persons
Adriana Giri is a Biochemist graduated at the School of Biochemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences (FCByF) of the National University of Rosario (NUR). She carried out a Ph.D on Microbiological Sciences at the Human Retrovirus Lab of the Institute of Microbiology of the University of Genoa (Italy) under the direction of Dr. Oliviero Varnier. She performed post-doctoral stages at the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, USA) and at the Center for Advanced Biotechnology (Genoa, Italy). She is currently an Independent Researcher at CONICET and Head of the Human Virology Group. She is an Associate Professor of Virology at the FCByF (NUR). She is co-founder of the technology-based company DETx MOL S.A. (https://www.detxmol.com.ar/) focused on the design and development of molecular kits for the diagnosis of human infectious diseases. She participates in the Argentine Interinstitutional SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Project (http://pais.qb.fcen.uba.ar/) as coordinator of Southern Santa Fe province. Her group studies the molecular epidemiology of viral infections in human and animal hosts according to the One Health initiative and develops technologies for the identification and diagnosis of novel DNA and RNA viruses that are of interest for health that include conventional molecular methods and metagenomic approaches.
Alejandro M. Viale received a M.Sc. in Biochemistry (1977) at the Facultad de Bioquímica (FCByF), National University of Rosario, Argentina (UNR). He received a Fellowship from CONICET (1977-1981) to conduct studies in CEFOBI (supervisor: Dr. Rubén H. Vallejos) on the chemical modification of essential residues of the ATP synthetase of plants and bacteria. He obtained a Doctorate degree on this subject in 1981, and conducted post-doctoral studies in the laboratory of Dr. Takashi Akazawa, Research Institute for Biochemical Regulation, School of Agriculture, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japón, on molecular biology of carbon fixation by photosynthetic bacteria. He was invited as Visiting Professor by Nagoya University (1987-1988) to continue these studies, and later returned to Argentina. In his country he obtained the positions of Professor of Microbiology at the FCByF (UNR), and Principal Investigator of CONICET working at the Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Rosario (IBR) in which he is Head of the Antimicrobial Resistance Group. He retired from the Professorship position in 2021, but he retained his position in the IBR as Head of his Research Group. The current research activity of his group focuses in the resistance mechanisms to last-generation β-lactam antibiotics such as the carbapenems in aerobic Gram-negative bacteria of clinical relevance of the Acinetobacter and Pseudomonas genera, the genes involved, their evolution, dissemination, and environmental reservoirs.
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- Assistant
- Researcher
- Investigador Asociado / Biology and Biochemistry of Trypanosoma Cruzi
Ana Arabolaza has a Master in Biotechnology from the Faculty of Biochemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences (FBIOyF) of the National University of Rosario (UNR). She completed her PhD in Biological Sciences (UNR) at the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology of Rosario (IBR), under the direction of Dr. Hugo Gramajo. During this period, she carried out research internships at the University of California - Irvine, United States and at Swansea University, Wales. Afterwards, she carried out a short-term research stay at SYNBIOCHEM (Manchester Synthetic Biology Research Centre for Fine and Speciality Chemicals) based in the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology (MIB)- University of Manchester - England, enjoying a scholarship from that University (Flexible Talent Mobility Account (FTMA2) MIB- SYNBIOCHEM). She is currently an Independent Researcher at CONICET, Teacher-Assistant in Charge of Assignments in the Microbiology area at FBIOyF and Project Director at IBR. Her research is focused on the study of the lipid metabolism of oleaginous bacteria and in Metabolic Engineering of model microorganisms for the production of novel oleochemicals.
Ana Laura Cavatorta is a Biochemist, graduated from the Faculty of Biochemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences (FCByF) of the National University of Rosario; she completed her doctorate at the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology of Rosario (IBR) of the same Faculty, under the direction of Dr. Daniela Gardiol. She carried out research stays at the International Center of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), Trieste, Italy; and at Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo, Brazil. She is currently a Researcher at CONICET, and an Associate Researcher in the Oncogenic Virus Group at IBR. She is a professor of Virology at the FCByF. Her line of research consists in the study of emerging viruses of regional importance, such as the Hepatitis E Virus: its pathogenesis mechanisms and the impact of its infections under a Global Health approach. Her main interest consists in the development of multidisciplinary projects aimed at strengthening clinical practices, one of the premises of translational research. She is currently the Vice Director of the Translational Research Unit of Rosario (UNITRO) belonging to the Hospital-School Provincial del Centenario.
She is director of the project: Hepatitis E, an emerging zoonosis with a growing impact on health: Analysis of risk factors associated with the dynamics of viral infection under a "one health approach".
Antonio D. Uttaro has a degree in Chemistry from Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales at the University of Buenos Aires. He completed his doctorate at the Campomar Foundation, now the Leloir Institute, Buenos Aires. He later did a postdoctoral fellow at the de Duve Institute in Brussels, Belgium. He is currently Principal Investigator at CONICET and head of the Molecular Protozoology laboratory. Together with his group, he studies the metabolism of lipids in parasitic protozoa, such as Trypanosoma cruzi, responsible for Chagas disease, and symbiotic or free-living organisms such as Capsaspora owczarzaki and Tetrahymena thermophila, respectively. He has validated chemotherapeutic targets and designed drugs that can be used against human parasites. He was scientific director of the first public-private agreement between CONICET and the company SANOFI, for the discovery of trypanocidal drugs. It is currently developing a system for the sustainable production of provitamin D3 for animal and human use. By introducing a novel biological model, he studies the role of lipids in the emergence of multicellularity in metazoans.
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- Independent Researcher, Project Director
- Investigador Asociado
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- Independent Researcher, Project Director
- Investigador Asociado
Betiana Garavaglia has a degree in Biotechnology, graduated from the Faculty of Biochemistry and Biological Sciences of the Universidad Nacional del Litoral. She completed her doctorate in Biological Sciences at the Faculty of Biochemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences of the National University of Rosario under the direction of PhD. Jorgelina Ottado. She did a stay abroad at the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa. She is currently an Associate Researcher at CONICET. Within the group in which she works, she studies how general stress response proteins affect the viability of bacteria of agronomic interest. At the same time, they characterize bacteria isolated from industrial waste in order to evaluate their capabilities as bioremediators. For her work she has been distinguished with a Provincial Mention for the Doctorate Thesis in the Agricultural Sciences Area granted by the Secretary of State for Science, Technology and Innovation of the Province of Santa Fe. She is the director of the project "Bioremediation of industrial waste and promotion of plant growth".
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- Directed Human Resources
- Independent Researcher, Project Director
- Investigador Asociado
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- Assistant
- Researcher
- Investigador Asociado
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- Group Director
- Senior Researcher
- Investigador Asociado
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- Associate Researcher
- Investigador Asociado
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- Group Director
- Senior Researcher
- Investigador Asociado
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- Independent Researcher, Project Director
- Investigador Asociado
Christian Magni is a Biochemist graduated from the Faculty of Biochemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences (FBioyF-UNR) of the University of Rosario; he completed his PhD at the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology of Rosario (IBR) of the same Faculty, under the direction of Dr. Diego de Mendoza. He completed training stays at the Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas (CIB-CSIC) Madrid, Spain and Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute (GBB) Universities of Groningen, The Netherlands. He is currently Principal Investigator of CONICET, and head of the Group of Physiology and Genetics of Lactic Bacteria. He is Professor of Biotechnology at FBioyF-UNR. His group studies basic and applied aspects of the use of lactic acid bacteria in industry. On the one hand the contribution of different lactic acid bacteria to the final quality of food, developing methodologies for the identification of microorganisms and metabolic pathways directly involved in the formation of aroma compounds and stress resistance and on the other hand the use of these microorganisms in the production of compounds of interest to health as biopharmaceuticals or vaccines. During his scientific career, he has collaborated with the institutes mentioned above and, in addition, with Micalis Institute (CNRS, Thiverval-Grignon, France), University of Caen-Normandie (France) and University of Gottingen (Germany). For his work he has been distinguished with the Sanofi-conicet Award (2013) and Chair of excellence 2017 University of Caen, among others.
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- Associate Researcher
- Project Director
- Investigador Asociado / Biology and Biochemistry of Trypanosoma Cruzi
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- Group Director, Independent Researcher
- Investigador Asociado
Diego O. Serra earned his Licentiate degree in Biotechnology at the National University of Litoral (UNL) in 2002. During 2004-2008 he performed his doctoral studies at the Center for Research and Development in Industrial Fermentations (CINDEFI), earning his PhD degree in microbiology from the National University of La Plata. Within the framework of his doctoral studies, he performed research stays at the Technical University of Munich (TUM, Munich, Germany), the Wake Forest University (WFU, North Carolina, US) and the University of Veterinary Medicine (VMU, Vienna, Austria). From 2011 to 2019 he worked as Postdoctoral and Assistant Researcher at the Humboldt University of Berlin (HU, Berlin, Germany), under the supervision of Dr. Regine Hengge. He has received fellowships from CONICET, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD, Germany), the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB), the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH, Germany). Since 2019 he has held the position of Associate Researcher of CONICET at IBR and is head of the laboratory of Structure and Physiology of Microbial Biofilms. His research focuses on understanding the molecular factors and mechanisms that allow bacteria to survive antibiotic treatments in biofilms and on the search for novel compounds that can inhibit the formation of microbial biofilms. He is Teaching Assistant in Microbiology at the Faculty of Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences (FBioyF) of UNR.
Daniela Gardiol is a Biochemist from the School of Biochemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences (FCByF) of the National University of Rosario. She obtained her PhD at the the Department of Microbiology under the supervision of Dr. Diego de Mendoza. She performed her postdoctoral studies at the Tumor Virology Laboratory of the International Center of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology in Trieste, Italy. During this period, she specialized in molecular virology and fundamentally in viral oncogenesis. Currently she is Professor of the Virology Area of the FCByF and Researcher from CONICET and the Research Council of the UNR. She is the group leader of the Oncogenic Virus lab, which has been interested in viral carcinogenesis mechanisms related to cell polarity disruption. Currently, the studies have been extrapolated to other viruses of regional interest such as Flaviviruses, investigating different cytopathogenic mechanisms and virus-host cell interactions.
Fernando Soncini is a biochemist, graduated from the Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario. He completed his Ph.D. at the Centro de Estudios Fotosintéticos y Bioquímicos and did his postdoctoral work at Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. He is Senior Researcher at CONICET, and head of the Signal Transduction in Pathogenic Bacteria Group. His group's research focuses on the analysis of the signaling mechanisms that modulate the expression of factors required by Salmonella for infection. His laboratory has discovered mechanisms used by the pathogen for copper homeostasis and biofilm formation that are required for its virulence. Dr. Soncini was an International Research Scholar of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Latin American Fellow of the Pew Charitable Trusts. He served as Chair of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Ambassadors Caucus and Member of the Moselio Schaechter Distinguished Service Award Selection Committee of the American Academy of Microbiology, among others.
He is director of the following projects: Molecular determinants of Salmonella cell-envelope copper homeostasis, NIH (R01 AI150784); Balance between resistance and virulence in the evolution of copper homeostasis in Salmonella, FONCyT (PICT-2019-2019-00982); Salmonella pathogenesis island 2 in the control of biofilm formation, FONCyT (PICT-2018-02122).
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- Representante ( JG - JL )
Jorgelina Ottado is an Agricultural Engineer, graduated from the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences of the National University of Rosario. She completed her doctorate at the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology of Rosario at the Faculty of Biochemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and she spent a postdoctoral stay in Trieste, Italy. She is currently Principal Investigator of CONICET and head of the Group of Microorganisms of Agronomic and Environmental Interest. Her group works on lines of research in applied microbiology aimed at solving agricultural and environmental problems. Among the topics that are developed are the studies of beneficial bacteria capable of promoting plant growth and bioremediating contaminants present in the environment such as metals, herbicides and industrial waste. For her work, she has been distinguished with different prizes. She is the director of the project "Building tools for the detection and bioremediation of the herbicide glyphosate".
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- Representante ( JG - JL )
Gabriela Gago has a degree in Biotechnology from the Faculty of Biochemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences (FCByF) of the UNR, she completed her PhD in the Molecular Biology Area of the same Faculty under the supervision of Dr. Raquel Chan and Dr. Daniel Gonzalez. He carried out postdoctoral research at the IBR under the supervision of Hugo Gramajo and at the Global Health Institute in Lausanne (Switzerland) under the supervision of Stewart Cole. She is currently an Independent Researcher at CONICET and Associate Professor of Molecular Biology at FCByF. She works in the Physiology and Genetics of Actinomycetes group, where she leads studies related to the characterization of enzymes involved in lipid synthesis and their regulation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis, particularly those involved in the synthesis of phospholipids and triacylglycerides and in the communication of the two fatty acid synthase systems present in this pathogen.
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- Representante ( JG - JL )
Eduardo A. Ceccarelli is a biochemist (1979) from the Faculty of Biochemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences of the National University of Rosario (FBioyF, UNR). At the same institution and through CONICET fellowships he obtained his Ph.D. degree (1986) at the Center for Photosynthetic and Biochemical Studies (CEFOBI) under the direction of Dr. Rubén Vallejos. He completed postdoctoral training at the University of California, San Diego (1986-1989), through positions at the NIH and NSF in the United States. He was Guest Professor of Freie Univesrsität Berlin. He is currently a Senior Researcher at CONICET and a Full Professor of the Molecular Biology Area (FBioyF, UNR) for which he is also Head. He is the Academic Director of the Dep. of Cs. Biological Sciences of the same institution and Director of the Mass Spectrometry Unit of the IBR, CONICET, UNR.
He directs the Protein Structure, Folding, and Function Laboratory. The lab studies stability, structure, catalytic functions, and degradation of proteins and their possible metabolic roles. They use protein models relevant to physiological processes in all living organisms such as flavoproteins, molecular chaperones, and proteases. The information generated enables its subsequent biotechnological use.
Elisa Bolatti is Biologist graduated at the School of Physics, Exacts and Natural Sciences at the National University of Córdoba and Professor of Biology at the Argentinian Catholic University. She performed her PhD at the Human Virology Group of the IBR and at the School of Biochemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences of the National University of Rosario under the direction of Dr. Adriana Giri and Dr. Diego Chouhy. During her Ph.D she studied the molecular epidemiology and evolutionary mechanisms of human papillomaviruses and adquired experience in the development of molecular methods for the detection of viral infections. She obtained fellowships from the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases to perform scientific visits at the Institute of Microbiology and Immunology of the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia). She completed her post doctoral studies at the Human Virology Group focused on the study and discovery of new viruses using next generation sequencing and bioinformatics tools for big data analysis. At the moment, she is carrying out her research in two lines of investigation, one focused on the development of kits for the diagnosis of viral infections using aptamers as molecular sensors, and another aimed at the analysis of viromes and the discovery of novel viruses with implications for human and animal health in wild animal samples.
Esteban Serra is a Biochemist and PhD from the Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas (FCByF) at the Universidad Nacional de Rosario, where he is now Professor of Parasitology. He did his postdoc at the Institut Pasteur de Lille, France. He was Dean of the FCByF and President of the Argentine Society of Protozoology. He is currently Principal Investigator at CONICET, and head of the Trypanosoma cruzi Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Group. His group studies different aspects of the biology of the parasite responsible for Chagas disease with the aim of determining targets for the development of new compounds with trypanocidal activity. In addition to his work on proteins with bromodomains, other researchers in the group develop projects on proteins associated to chromatin, cytoskeleton proteins and metalloproteins of the parasite.
He is the director of the projects: "Characterization and search for Trypanosoma cruzi bromodomain inhibitors" and "Structure resolution of Trypanosoma cruzi chromatin modification multiprotein complexes using a Deep Learning approach".
Esteban Serra has funding from ANPCyT, CONICET, UNR, Fund, Open Lab y AWS.
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- Independent Researcher, Project Director
- Investigador Asociado
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- Associate Researcher
- Project Director
- Investigador Asociado
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- Group Director, Independent Researcher
- Investigador Asociado
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- Group Director, Independent Researcher
- Investigador Asociado
Julia A. Cricco has a degree in Biotechnology from the Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas (FCByF) of the Universidad Nacional de Rosario (UNR); She completed her Ph.D. at the same faculty, under the advisoring of professor Alejandro J. Vila. She carried out postdoctoral research stays at the University of Utah (USA) and at the University of São Paulo (Brazil). She is currently an Independent Researcher at CONICET and is a professor of Biophysics at the FCByF. She is the director of the laboratory that studies heme and copper transport mechanisms and homeostasis in Trypanosoma cruzi.
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- Investigador Asociado / Cellular - Structural Biology Lab
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- Group Director
- Principal Researcher
- Investigador Asociado
María Inés Zanor is a biochemist, graduated from the Faculty of Biochemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, National University of Rosario. She completed her postgraduate work at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology in Golm-Postdam, Germany obtaining the Dr. title at the Faculty of Biochemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, National University of Rosario. She continued in Germany where she also was engaged in two postdocs. She is an Independent Researcher at CONICET, and responsible for the Molecular Physiology of Crops line. The research of its line focuses on the characterization of proteins with unknown functions that participate in processes related to stress and growth, thus contributing to the identification of new strategies to increase stress tolerance and productivity of crops of agronomic interest. The line of work has identified a transcription factor that acts as a node in metabolic reprogramming, resulting in plants that are more tolerant to stress and have greater productivity. In the laboratory, direct and reverse genetic methods, biochemical and physiological studies are used and the behavior of plants is studied in optimal growth conditions and under environmental stress. Post-genomics techniques such as transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics are also used.
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- Investigador Asociado / Biology and Biochemistry of Trypanosoma Cruzi
Néstor Carrillo is a Biochemist graduated from the Faculty of Biochemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences (FCByF) of the National University of Rosario; he completed his PhD at the Center for Photosynthetic and Biochemical Studies (CEFOBI) of the same Faculty, under the direction of Dr. Rubén Vallejos. He carried out post-doctoral research studies at the Universities of Osnabrück and Düsseldorf, Germany, and at Harvard University, United States. He is currently a Senior Researcher at CONICET, and head of the Biochemistry of Stress in Plants Group. He is Professor of Molecular Biology at the FCByF. His group studies the response mechanisms that plants put into play in adverse environmental situations (salinity, drought, extreme temperatures, pathogens) as well as the development of strategies to increase tolerance to such situations of environmental stress. He has been distinguished for his work with the IFS Silver Jubilee Award awarded by the International Foundation for Science, the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and the Konex Platinum Award, among others.
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- Group Director
- Principal Researcher
- Investigador Asociado
Pablo Armas has a degree in Biotechnology from Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas (FCByF), Universidad Nacional de Rosario (UNR); he completed his PhD and Post-doc at Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Rosario (IBR-CONICET-UNR), under the supervision of Dr. Nora Calcaterra. He is currently an Independent Researcher at CONICET and an Associate Researcher of the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Development group. He is Associate Professor of the Área Biología General, FCByF. In his research project, novel and little explored mechanisms of gene regulation are studied that depend on an unconventional structure of nucleic acids (DNA and RNA) known as guanine quadruplex or G4s. These mechanisms have been revealed in the last 20 years in all living organisms and even in DNA and RNA viruses. The project addresses the study of G4s in the control of genes related to animal development, using the zebrafish model. G4s are also studied as regulators of genes related to human pathologies, and the influence of genetic variations on G4s as causes for the predisposition or onset of those pathologies. In addition, the role of G4s in the biology and replication of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which caused the COVID-19 pandemic, has recently been addressed.
Pamela Cribb has a degree in Biotechnology from the Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas (FCByF) of the Universidad Nacional de Rosario (UNR). She completed he PhD. at the same faculty, under the advisoring of Dr. Estaban Serra, studying Basal Factors of transcription in Trypanosoma cruzi. She performed her postdoctoral studies at the IBR and a research stay at the Instituto de Salud y Nutrición Salvador Zuvirán in Mexico City. She is currently an Associate Researcher at CONICET and Project Leader in IBR studying the Trypanosoma cruzi High Mobility Group B protein nuclear functions and regarding its possible role as an inflammatory mediator in Chagas disease. She is an Associate Professor of Parasitology and a member of the Food School of the FCByF. She participates in science communication activities with the group Ciencia Rosarina.
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- Associate Researcher
- Group Director
- Investigador Asociado
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- Group Director
- Principal Researcher
- Investigador Asociado / Biology and Biochemistry of Trypanosoma Cruzi
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- Group Director
- Senior Researcher
- Investigador Asociado
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- Assistant
- Researcher
- Investigador Asociado
Susana Checa has a Master in Science degree from the Faculty of Biochemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences (FCByF) of the National University of Rosario, Argentina; she completed her PhD at the PROMUBIE (Multidisciplinary Experimental Biology Program) of the same Faculty, under the direction of Dr. Alejandro Viale. She carried out three post-doctoral research stays in the different dependencies of the IBR (CONICET-UNR) and the Department of Microbiology of the FCByF. She is currently an Independent Researcher at CONICET, and a member of the Laboratory of Signal Transduction in Pathogenic Bacteria. She is also Professor of the Microbiology Department of the FCByF. She is director of the project: Design of bacterial biosensors of heavy metals and strategies for their bioremediation. Within the framework of this project, she studies at the molecular level metal stress signaling/response systems and their manipulation to generate efficient biotechnological tools to detect, quantify and/or bioremediate metals using bacteria. She also actively collaborates in the other projects carried out in her laboratory, particularly in the molecular and functional analysis of resistance to transition metals in Salmonella enterica and its role in pathogenesis.
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- Assistant
- Researcher
- Investigador Asociado
Dr. Pablo Emiliano Tomatis started his research training during his undergraduate thesis at the Institute of Investigations in Biotechnology in Buenos Aires Argentina. He graduated a Master in Biotechnology in 2000. Then in 2002 he started to work on directed molecular evolution of metallo-beta-lactamases as his PhD thesis project at the School of Biochemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Rosario, Argentina. He was awarded with several Postgraduate Research Fellowships to support his Ph.D. thesis work. In 2008 obtained his PhD degree Summa cum laude, and soon after he continued working as a postdoctoral fellow of the Argentinean National Research Council at the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology of Rosario, Argentina. Since 2011 he is Assistant Researcher as Staff member of the Argentinean National Research Council, working on structural adaptability on protein evolution. From 2012 until the end of 2015, worked as postdoc at the University of Zürich, Switzerland, thanks to a Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship and to Novartis Stiftung für medizinisch-biologische Forschung. After his postdoctoral training abroad, he returned to Argentina to work as an Assistant Researcher in the Metalloprotein Lab at the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology of Rosario, Argentina. He Is also a Teaching Assistant in Biophysics, School of Biochemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Rosario (UNR). Dr. Tomatis is an active member of the MCAA Argentinian chapter.
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- Group Director
- Principal Researcher
- Investigador Asociado
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- Group Director
- Principal Researcher
- Investigador Asociado
Victoria Lucia Alonso has a Bachelor degree in Biotechnology from the School of Biochemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences (FCByF) of the National University of Rosario, completed her doctorate at the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology of Rosario (IBR-CONICET) of the same School under the direction of Dr. Esteban Serra. She did a posdoc in medicinal chemistry at the Research Institute for the Discovery of Pharmaceuticals of Rosario (IIDEFAR-UNR) under the direction of Dr. Ricardo Furlan. She is currently an Assistant Researcher at CONICET and Assistant Professor in the Parasitology Department of the FCByF. Within Dr. Serra's group, her work focuses on studying the role of α-tubulin acetylation in the dynamics of the cytoskeleton in the flagellate protozoan Trypansoma cruzi, particularly in the characterization of the enzymes responsible for this post-transcriptional modification. These are potential target mechanisms for the development of new trypanosidal drugs. She has received the Mention for the best Thesis in Biological Sciences 2016 from the Secretary of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation (SGCTIP); Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology of Santa Fe, Argentina.
Víctor Blancato has a degree in Biotechnology from the Faculty of Biochemistry and Biological Sciences of the National University of Litoral; he completed his Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from the Faculty of Biochemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences (FBIOyF) of the National University of Rosario at the Institute of Cellular and Molecular Biology of Rosario under the direction of Dr. Christian Magni. He did research stays at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands), at the MICALIS laboratory (INRA-AgroParisTech, France), at the University of Florida (USA), and at the University of Caen Normandy (France). He is currently a teacher of Practical Works at FBIOyF and is independent researcher of CONICET, working as Project Director in the Laboratory of physiology and genetics of lactic acid bacteria (IBR). He participated in the development of lactic acid bacteria for the production of biopharmaceuticals and vaccines. He applies genomics and metagenomics techniques to evaluate the impact of using lactic acid bacteria producing recombinant enzymes as a technology to supplement or inoculate silage for livestock nutrition. In addition, through a bioinformatics approach, selects probable virulence factors of microorganisms present in food to: perform comparative virulence analysis using the insect Galleria mellonella as a model; and study the virulence and regulation mechanisms involved.
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- Independent Researcher, Project Director
- Investigador Asociado