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

Publications

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.

Publications

Dr. Octavio Monasterio

Professor

Main expertise:

Bacterial cell division, Protein folding and aggregation, antimicrobial peptides and small molecules, anticancer agents, nuclear magnetic resonance.

Publications

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.

Publications

Dr. Rodrigo Díaz-Espinoza

Senior Researcher

Main expertise:

Synthetic peptides, Protein folding and aggregation, amyloid formation, Protein structure and biophysics.

Publications