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
