My career has three
stages completely differentiated. During my pH.D. training I worked
purifying proteins and performing enzymatic assays. The proteins were
DNA topoisomerases of Streptococcus
pneumoniae that are targets of a kind of
antibiotics called fluoroquinolones. During my postdoc in the lab of
Michele Swanson, I worked with Legionella
pneumophila studying how the bacteria
release membrane vesicles with lipopolysaccharide to inhibit
phagosome maturation. This work was mention in f1000.com and received
the first prize in the Alcora International Contest on research in
Legionella.
During that period I have also worked for three months in Dresden,
Germany, studying how bacteria release lipopolysaccharide to the
culture medium and in the phagosome. In my last period of research I
discovered that membrane vesicles release by Acinetobacter
baumannii serve as carriers for DNA
horizontal transmisión between diferent species of Acinetobacter.
That work suggest that the membrane vesicles could be a new way of
horizontal transmission of DNA between bacteria. In 2010 I started to
work profesionally in science communication and now I am currently
enrolled in a Masters of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics.
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