Current Members
Faculty

Professor
Main expertise:
Bacteriocins, microcin E492 antibacterial and antitumoral activity, antimicrobial peptides, Klebsiella pneumoniae pathogenesis, bacterial cell division, protein aggregation and amyloid formation, anticancer agents.
PhD Rosalba Lagos

Professor
Main expertise:
Bacterial cell division, Protein folding and aggregation, antimicrobial peptides and small molecules, anticancer agents, nuclear magnetic resonance.
PhD Octavio Monasterio

Main expertise:
Microbial genomics, Klebsiella pneumoniae pathogenesis, Antibiotic production and resistance, Host-pathogen interactions, Antarctic microbiology, Protein aggregation and amyloid formation.
Senior
Researcher
PhD Andrés Marcoleta

Main expertise:
Synthetic peptides, Protein folding and aggregation, amyloid formation, Protein structure and biophysics.
Senior
Researcher
PhD Rodrigo Díaz-Espinoza
Researchers and Staff

Associate
researcher
Main expertise:
Host-pathogen interaction, cancer, zebrafish, Dictyostellium
PhD Macarena Varas

Research
Assistant
Main expertise:
Bacterial cell division, Protein structure and folding, Protein purification
PhD Esteban Nova

Associate
researcher
Main expertise:
Eukaryotic cytoskeleton, developmental biology, protein chaperones, zebrafish
PhD Luis Pouchucq

Associate
researcher
Main expertise:
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Spectroscopic analyses
PhD Erika Lang

Post-doc
Main expertise:
Bioorganic Chemistry, Analytical Biochemistry and NMR of peptide and proteins.
PhD Nelson Araujo

Lab Manager
Nicole Molina

Assistant
Pedro Nuñez
Students

Camilo Berríos
PhD student

Valentina Carrasco
PhD student

Pablo Lobos
PhD student

Juan Reyes
PhD student

Patricio Arros
MSc student

Matías Gálvez
MSc student

Marcelo Veloso
MSc student

André Barbet
Undergraduate student/Bioartist

Joaquín Acosta
Undergraduate student

Daniel Acuña
Undergraduate student

Nicolas Canales
Undergraduate student

Claudio Castillo
Undergraduate student

Amelia Cox
Undergraduate student

Hazajem Colque
Undergraduate student

Eva Durán
Undergraduate student

Sebastián Farias
Undergraduate student

José Fierro
Undergraduate student

Pablo Lorca
Undergraduate student

Roberto Rojas
Undergraduate student

Carlos Serrano
Undergraduate student

Daniel Silva
Undergraduate student

Sofía Tapia
Undergraduate student

Jorge Vielma
Undergraduate student

Angie Waldisperg
Undergraduate student
