Macarena Collao
Secretary
Nicole Molina
Lab Manager
Gissela Araya
Research Assistant
Johanna Rojas
Graduate student
Leonardo Vásquez
Graduate student
Álvaro Altamirano
Undergraduate student
Camilo Berríos
Undergraduate student
Ramiro Reid
Undergraduate student
Leonardo Guzmán
Undergraduate student
Nicolás Colignon
Undergraduate student
Dra. Macarena Varas
Post-doc
Main expertise: Host-pathogen interaction, cancer, zebrafish, Dictyostellium
Dr. Esteban Nova
Research Assistant
Main expertise:
Bacterial cell division, Protein structure and folding, Protein purification
Dr. Luis Pouchucq
Associate researcher
Main expertise:
Eukaryotic cytoskeleton, developmental biology, protein chaperones, zebrafish
Dra. Erika Lang
Associate researcher
Main expertise:
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Spectroscopic analyses
Current Members
Dra. Rosalba Lagos
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.
Dr. Octavio Monasterio
Professor
Main expertise:
Bacterial cell division, Protein folding and aggregation, antimicrobial peptides and small molecules, anticancer agents, nuclear magnetic resonance.
Dr. Andrés Marcoleta
Senior Researcher
Main expertise:
Microbial genomics, Klebsiella pneumoniae pathogenesis, Antibiotic production and resistance, Host-pathogen interactions, Antarctic microbiology, Protein aggregation and amyloid formation.
Dr. Rodrigo Díaz-Espinoza
Senior Researcher
Main expertise:
Synthetic peptides, Protein folding and aggregation, amyloid formation, Protein structure and biophysics.