Diego O. Serra earned his Licentiate degree in Biotechnology at the National University of Litoral (UNL) in 2002. During 2004-2008 he performed his doctoral studies at the Center for Research and Development in Industrial Fermentations (CINDEFI), earning his PhD degree in microbiology from the National University of La Plata. Within the framework of his doctoral studies, he performed research stays at the Technical University of Munich (TUM, Munich, Germany), the Wake Forest University (WFU, North Carolina, US) and the University of Veterinary Medicine (VMU, Vienna, Austria). From 2011 to 2019 he worked as Postdoctoral and Assistant Researcher at the Humboldt University of Berlin (HU, Berlin, Germany), under the supervision of Dr. Regine Hengge. He has received fellowships from CONICET, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD, Germany), the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB), the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH, Germany). Since 2019 he has held the position of Associate Researcher of CONICET at IBR and is head of the laboratory of Structure and Physiology of Microbial Biofilms. His research focuses on understanding the molecular factors and mechanisms that allow bacteria to survive antibiotic treatments in biofilms and on the search for novel compounds that can inhibit the formation of microbial biofilms. He is Teaching Assistant in Microbiology at the Faculty of Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences (FBioyF) of UNR.
Group Director
Lisa, María Natalia
María Natalia Lisa has a degree in Biotechnology from the Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas of the Universidad Nacional de Rosario, and completed her PhD at the IBR. She did post-doctoral studies at the Institut Pasteur in Paris and the Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, where she got trained in the use of X-ray protein crystallography for the study of signal transduction pathways in pathogenic bacteria. She is an Associate Researcher at CONICET and head of the institute’s Structural Microbiology and Biodesign Lab. Dr. Lisa’s group studies molecular mechanisms that mediate signal transduction through protein:protein interfaces. These investigations aim to produce fundamental knowledge in cell physiology, with application in drug design and biotechnology, and in molecular biology, with potential in nanotechnology. Dr. Lisa has received international fellowships from organizations such as the European Molecular Biology Organization and the Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale, was distinguished by the Municipal Council of Rosario and the Chamber of Deputies of Santa Fe, and received the TOYP Santa Fe award, among others.
She is the director of the project Molecular mechanisms of the regulation of nitrogen metabolism in Actinobacteria.
LinkedIn Google Scholar ORCID SCOPUS ID: 17344135100 TW: @MaNataliaLisa
Binolfi, Andrés
Dr. Binolfi got his PhD in Biological Sciences in 2010 at the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology of Rosario, Argentina. Immediately after, he moved to Berlin as a postdoctoral research associate at the Leibniz Institute of Molecular Pharmacology where he contributed to develop and implement high resolution NMR methodologies in live cells (In-cell NMR). After returning to Argentina, he earned a group leader position and formed an independent group at IBR-CONICET. There he applied innovative In-cell NMR techniques to answer biologically relevant questions, such as how the intracellular environment and changes therein, for instance those elicited by oxidative stress, impact the structure and function of proteins and other biomolecules. Dr. Binolfi is now actively pushing the frontiers in the field so as to develop new NMR methodologies in live animals and to steer structural biology studies towards genuine in vivo conditions. Dr. Binolfi contributions were published in high impact journals and have been recognized as milestones by experts in the field and by international news services. He has been invited to present his work in many countries around the world. He an Independent researcher of CONICET, Director of the Cellular-Structural Biology Lab at IBR-CONICET, a member of the Argentinian Platform of Structural Biology and Metabolomics (PLABEM) and vice-president of the Foundation of the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology of Rosario (Fundación IBR).
Scopus Author ID: 8727274100
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2374-0864
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-IEaIw8AAAAJ&hl=en
Twitter: @Abinolfi
Krapf, Darío
Gardiol, Daniela
Daniela Gardiol is a Biochemist from the School of Biochemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences (FCByF) of the National University of Rosario. She obtained her PhD at the the Department of Microbiology under the supervision of Dr. Diego de Mendoza. She performed her postdoctoral studies at the Tumor Virology Laboratory of the International Center of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology in Trieste, Italy. During this period, she specialized in molecular virology and fundamentally in viral oncogenesis. Currently she is Professor of the Virology Area of the FCByF and Researcher from CONICET and the Research Council of the UNR. She is the group leader of the Oncogenic Virus lab, which has been interested in viral carcinogenesis mechanisms related to cell polarity disruption. Currently, the studies have been extrapolated to other viruses of regional interest such as Flaviviruses, investigating different cytopathogenic mechanisms and virus-host cell interactions.
Link a Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com.ar/citations?hl=es&user=gFOejdcAAAAJ
Marano, María Rosa
Serra, Esteban
Esteban Serra is a Biochemist and PhD from the Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas (FCByF) at the Universidad Nacional de Rosario, where he is now Professor of Parasitology. He did his postdoc at the Institut Pasteur de Lille, France. He was Dean of the FCByF and President of the Argentine Society of Protozoology. He is currently Principal Investigator at CONICET, and head of the Trypanosoma cruzi Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Group. His group studies different aspects of the biology of the parasite responsible for Chagas disease with the aim of determining targets for the development of new compounds with trypanocidal activity. In addition to his work on proteins with bromodomains, other researchers in the group develop projects on proteins associated to chromatin, cytoskeleton proteins and metalloproteins of the parasite.
He is the director of the projects: “Characterization and search for Trypanosoma cruzi bromodomain inhibitors” and “Structure resolution of Trypanosoma cruzi chromatin modification multiprotein complexes using a Deep Learning approach”.
Esteban Serra has funding from ANPCyT, CONICET, UNR, Fund, Open Lab y AWS.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/esteban-serra-93052449/
https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=new_articles&hl=es&imq=Esteban+Serra#
Magni, Christian
Christian Magni is a Biochemist graduated from the Faculty of Biochemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences (FBioyF-UNR) of the University of Rosario; he completed his PhD at the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology of Rosario (IBR) of the same Faculty, under the direction of Dr. Diego de Mendoza. He completed training stays at the Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas (CIB-CSIC) Madrid, Spain and Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute (GBB) Universities of Groningen, The Netherlands. He is currently Principal Investigator of CONICET, and head of the Group of Physiology and Genetics of Lactic Bacteria. He is Professor of Biotechnology at FBioyF-UNR. His group studies basic and applied aspects of the use of lactic acid bacteria in industry. On the one hand the contribution of different lactic acid bacteria to the final quality of food, developing methodologies for the identification of microorganisms and metabolic pathways directly involved in the formation of aroma compounds and stress resistance and on the other hand the use of these microorganisms in the production of compounds of interest to health as biopharmaceuticals or vaccines. During his scientific career, he has collaborated with the institutes mentioned above and, in addition, with Micalis Institute (CNRS, Thiverval-Grignon, France), University of Caen-Normandie (France) and University of Gottingen (Germany). For his work he has been distinguished with the Sanofi-conicet Award (2013) and Chair of excellence 2017 University of Caen, among others.
Uttaro, Antonio
Antonio D. Uttaro has a degree in Chemistry from Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales at the University of Buenos Aires. He completed his doctorate at the Campomar Foundation, now the Leloir Institute, Buenos Aires. He later did a postdoctoral fellow at the de Duve Institute in Brussels, Belgium. He is currently Principal Investigator at CONICET and head of the Molecular Protozoology laboratory. Together with his group, he studies the metabolism of lipids in parasitic protozoa, such as Trypanosoma cruzi, responsible for Chagas disease, and symbiotic or free-living organisms such as Capsaspora owczarzaki and Tetrahymena thermophila, respectively. He has validated chemotherapeutic targets and designed drugs that can be used against human parasites. He was scientific director of the first public-private agreement between CONICET and the company SANOFI, for the discovery of trypanocidal drugs. It is currently developing a system for the sustainable production of provitamin D3 for animal and human use. By introducing a novel biological model, he studies the role of lipids in the emergence of multicellularity in metazoans.
Palatnik, Javier
Ottado, Jorgelina
Jorgelina Ottado is an Agricultural Engineer, graduated from the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences of the National University of Rosario. She completed her doctorate at the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology of Rosario at the Faculty of Biochemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and she spent a postdoctoral stay in Trieste, Italy. She is currently Principal Investigator of CONICET and head of the Group of Microorganisms of Agronomic and Environmental Interest. Her group works on lines of research in applied microbiology aimed at solving agricultural and environmental problems. Among the topics that are developed are the studies of beneficial bacteria capable of promoting plant growth and bioremediating contaminants present in the environment such as metals, herbicides and industrial waste. For her work, she has been distinguished with different prizes. She is the director of the project “Building tools for the detection and bioremediation of the herbicide glyphosate”.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5xh9MrwAAAAJ&hl=es&oi=ao.
Orellano, Elena
Viale, Alejandro
Alejandro M. Viale received a M.Sc. in Biochemistry (1977) at the Facultad de Bioquímica (FCByF), National University of Rosario, Argentina (UNR). He received a Fellowship from CONICET (1977-1981) to conduct studies in CEFOBI (supervisor: Dr. Rubén H. Vallejos) on the chemical modification of essential residues of the ATP synthetase of plants and bacteria. He obtained a Doctorate degree on this subject in 1981, and conducted post-doctoral studies in the laboratory of Dr. Takashi Akazawa, Research Institute for Biochemical Regulation, School of Agriculture, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japón, on molecular biology of carbon fixation by photosynthetic bacteria. He was invited as Visiting Professor by Nagoya University (1987-1988) to continue these studies, and later returned to Argentina. In his country he obtained the positions of Professor of Microbiology at the FCByF (UNR), and Principal Investigator of CONICET working at the Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Rosario (IBR) in which he is Head of the Antimicrobial Resistance Group. He retired from the Professorship position in 2021, but he retained his position in the IBR as Head of his Research Group. The current research activity of his group focuses in the resistance mechanisms to last-generation β-lactam antibiotics such as the carbapenems in aerobic Gram-negative bacteria of clinical relevance of the Acinetobacter and Pseudomonas genera, the genes involved, their evolution, dissemination, and environmental reservoirs.
https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=7006429498
De Mendoza, Diego
Dr. Diego de Mendoza is an Investigator of the National Research Council of Argentina (CONICET). The group of Dr. de Mendoza studies the basic principles of how the biosynthesis of lipid is regulated and how these molecules are involved in the organization and functioning of membrane and signaling processes in prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms. The group of Dr. de Mendoza is as a world leader in the field of bacterial lipids. More recently, using C. elegans as a model system and applying a variety of genetic and biochemical methods, his group is investigating the role of lipids as intracellular signals in neurodegenerative disorders. Dr. de Mendoza was an international Research Scholar of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) from 2002 to 2011, is a member of the American Academy of Microbiology and the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO). He has been distinguished for his work with the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Alexander von Humboldt Award, the prize Investigator of the Argentine Nation, granted by the President of Argentina, the prize Bunge and Born trajectory and the Konex Platinum Award, among others.
Soncini, Fernando
Fernando Soncini is a biochemist, graduated from the Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario. He completed his Ph.D. at the Centro de Estudios Fotosintéticos y Bioquímicos and did his postdoctoral work at Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. He is Senior Researcher at CONICET, and head of the Signal Transduction in Pathogenic Bacteria Group. His group’s research focuses on the analysis of the signaling mechanisms that modulate the expression of factors required by Salmonella for infection. His laboratory has discovered mechanisms used by the pathogen for copper homeostasis and biofilm formation that are required for its virulence. Dr. Soncini was an International Research Scholar of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Latin American Fellow of the Pew Charitable Trusts. He served as Chair of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Ambassadors Caucus and Member of the Moselio Schaechter Distinguished Service Award Selection Committee of the American Academy of Microbiology, among others.
He is director of the following projects: Molecular determinants of Salmonella cell-envelope copper homeostasis, NIH (R01 AI150784); Balance between resistance and virulence in the evolution of copper homeostasis in Salmonella, FONCyT (PICT-2019-2019-00982); Salmonella pathogenesis island 2 in the control of biofilm formation, FONCyT (PICT-2018-02122).
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=9HDjdtAAAAAJ&hl=es&oi=ao
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8925-7763
https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=6603795367
Twitter: @FerSoncini
IG: fernandosoncini
Gramajo, Hugo
Ceccarelli, Eduardo
Eduardo A. Ceccarelli is a biochemist (1979) from the Faculty of Biochemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences of the National University of Rosario (FBioyF, UNR). At the same institution and through CONICET fellowships he obtained his Ph.D. degree (1986) at the Center for Photosynthetic and Biochemical Studies (CEFOBI) under the direction of Dr. Rubén Vallejos. He completed postdoctoral training at the University of California, San Diego (1986-1989), through positions at the NIH and NSF in the United States. He was Guest Professor of Freie Univesrsität Berlin. He is currently a Senior Researcher at CONICET and a Full Professor of the Molecular Biology Area (FBioyF, UNR) for which he is also Head. He is the Academic Director of the Dep. of Cs. Biological Sciences of the same institution and Director of the Mass Spectrometry Unit of the IBR, CONICET, UNR.
He directs the Protein Structure, Folding, and Function Laboratory. The lab studies stability, structure, catalytic functions, and degradation of proteins and their possible metabolic roles. They use protein models relevant to physiological processes in all living organisms such as flavoproteins, molecular chaperones, and proteases. The information generated enables its subsequent biotechnological use.
Recently, the Municipal Council of Rosario recognized Dr. Ceccarelli with the Diploma of Honor for his scientific work during the past pandemic.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5776-3306 / Http://bit.ly/Hquj5L / https://bit.ly/48Iv6TV
Vila, Alejandro
Giri, Adriana
Adriana Giri is a Biochemist graduated at the School of Biochemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences (FCByF) of the National University of Rosario (NUR). She carried out a Ph.D on Microbiological Sciences at the Human Retrovirus Lab of the Institute of Microbiology of the University of Genoa (Italy) under the direction of Dr. Oliviero Varnier. She performed post-doctoral stages at the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, USA) and at the Center for Advanced Biotechnology (Genoa, Italy). She is currently an Independent Researcher at CONICET and Head of the Human Virology Group. She is an Associate Professor of Virology at the FCByF (NUR). She is co-founder of the technology-based company DETx MOL S.A. (https://www.detxmol.com.ar/) focused on the design and development of molecular kits for the diagnosis of human infectious diseases. She participates in the Argentine Interinstitutional SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Project (http://pais.qb.fcen.uba.ar/) as coordinator of Southern Santa Fe province. Her group studies the molecular epidemiology of viral infections in human and animal hosts according to the One Health initiative and develops technologies for the identification and diagnosis of novel DNA and RNA viruses that are of interest for health that include conventional molecular methods and metagenomic approaches.
https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=7102961247
@VirologyIBR
Rasia, Rodolfo
Rodolfo Rasia has a degree in Biotechnology and a PhD in Biological Sciences from the School of Biochemistry and Pharmacy of the National University of Rosario (FCByF-UNR). He obtained his Ph.D under the direction of Alejandro J. Vila. Later he did postdoctoral stays at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry (MPI-BPC) in Göttingen Germany, with Thomas Jovin, and at the Institute of Structural Biology (IBS) of Grenoble in France, with Jerôme Boisbouvier, specializing in NMR spectroscopy of biological macromolecules. Back in Argentina, he joined the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology of Rosario (IBR) as a researcher and the FCByF-UNR as professor of Biophysics. He currently leads the group of Biophysics of Molecular Recognition at the IBR. His scientific career was always centered around the physicochemical study of proteins and the application of different spectroscopic methods to understand their structure and function. His current work focuses on protein-mediated molecular recognition, both of different molecules (nucleic acids, small substrates) and of other proteins, and the order-disorder transitions that happen in these systems (induced folding, conformational stability).
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=TVbw0gMAAAAJ
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3940-067X
https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=26028451300
Twitter: @FitoDeRosario; @bmr_ibr
Llarrull, Leticia
Leticia I. Llarrull has a degree in Biotechnology from the School of Biochemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences (FCByF) of the National University of Rosario (UNR). She completed her doctorate in Biological Sciences in 2007 at the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology of Rosario (IBR-CONICET-UNR), under the direction of Dr. Alejandro Vila. She received the Best Thesis Award 2008 by the Argentine Society of Biophysics. She carried out a postdoctoral stay (2007-2011) in the laboratory of Prof. Mobashery at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, United States. In 2008, she was named a PEW Latinamerican Fellow in Biomedical Sciences. In 2013 she received the JCI TOYP Santa Fe Award, Category “Scientific and Technological Development” (Junior Chamber International, Santa Fe, Argentina) and in 2014 she received recognition from the Senate of the Argentine Nation for the discovery of a new class of antibiotic to combat resistant bacteria. She was a member of the Hygiene and Safety Committee (2012-2020), and of the IBR Board of Directors (2018-2021). She is currently an Independent Researcher at CONICET and directs the Laboratory of Bacterial Sensors at IBR. She is also Director of the Doctoral Program in Biological Sciences at the FCByF (UNR) and Associate Professor in the Biophysics Area of the FCByF (UNR). Since 2018 she is a member of the Argentine Regional Committee of the PEW Fellows Program, The PEW Charitable Trusts.
García Véscovi, Eleonora
Eleonora García Véscovi is a Biochemist graduated from the Faculty of Biochemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences (FCByF) of the National University of Rosario; she completed her doctorate at the same Faculty, under direction of Dr. Alejandro Viale. She did his post-doctoral research training at Dr. Eduardo A. Groisman´s laboratory, Washington University School of Medicine at Saint Louis, United States. She is currently Principal Investigator at CONICET, and head of the Bacterial Pathogenesis Group at IBR. She is Professor of Molecular Biology of Bacterial Pathogenesis at FCByF. She has directed 11 Doctoral Theses and 11 undergraduate Theses in Biotechnology, post-doctoral fellows and national and international interns. In her scientific work, he leads the implementation of advanced tools in biochemistry, molecular biology and genetics, for the analysis of signal transduction mechanisms, regulation of gene expression, characterization of virulence factors and interaction of pathogenic bacteria with the host. She has also developed strategies for the identification of new pharmacophores to be used in the fight against bacteria. In scientific-academic management tasks, she served as President of SAMIGE, member of the Board of Directors of SAIB, Director of the Degrees in Biotechnology and the Doctorate in Cs. Biological FCByF-UNR, and she is current President of the IBR Foundation.
https://orcid.org/ 0000-0002-4431-8606
IG: @egarciavescovi, @libreciencia
Carrillo, Néstor
Néstor Carrillo is a Biochemist graduated from the Faculty of Biochemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences (FCByF) of the National University of Rosario; he completed his PhD at the Center for Photosynthetic and Biochemical Studies (CEFOBI) of the same Faculty, under the direction of Dr. Rubén Vallejos. He carried out post-doctoral research studies at the Universities of Osnabrück and Düsseldorf, Germany, and at Harvard University, United States. He is currently a Senior Researcher at CONICET, and head of the Biochemistry of Stress in Plants Group. He is Professor of Molecular Biology at the FCByF. His group studies the response mechanisms that plants put into play in adverse environmental situations (salinity, drought, extreme temperatures, pathogens) as well as the development of strategies to increase tolerance to such situations of environmental stress. He has been distinguished for his work with the IFS Silver Jubilee Award awarded by the International Foundation for Science, the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and the Konex Platinum Award, among others.
Banchio, Claudia
Claudia Banchio is a Biochemist graduated from the Faculty of Biochemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences (FCByF) of the National University of Rosario. She completed her phD at the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology of Rosario (IBR) of the same Faculty, under the direction of Dr. Hugo Gramajo. She did a post-doctoral research stay at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada under the direction of Dr. Dennis Vance. She is currently an Independent Researcher at CONICET, and head of the Molecular and Cellular Biology of Lipids Group. She is a Professor of Biology at the FCByF. Her group studies the role of lipids in regulation, signaling and cellular repair processes of the nervous system in different physiological and pathological scenarios.
ORCID 0000-0002-5234-7212
Cricco, Julia
Julia A. Cricco has a degree in Biotechnology from the Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas (FCByF) of the Universidad Nacional de Rosario (UNR); She completed her Ph.D. at the same faculty, under the advisoring of professor Alejandro J. Vila. She carried out postdoctoral research stays at the University of Utah (USA) and at the University of São Paulo (Brazil). She is currently an Independent Researcher at CONICET and is a professor of Biophysics at the FCByF. She is the director of the laboratory that studies heme and copper transport mechanisms and homeostasis in Trypanosoma cruzi.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Julia-Cricco
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=sFnNN58AAAAJ&hl=en
twitter: @Juli_Cricco
IG: juliacricco
FC: Julia Cricco
Albanesi, Daniela
Daniela Albanesi received a Ph. D. in Biological Sciences in March 2006 from the National University of Rosario, Argentina. She got training in crystallogenesis and X-ray protein crystallography during two consecutive short-term visits (2004 and 2005) and a postdoctorate (2006-2008) at the Unit of Structural Biochemistry (nowadays, the Unit of Structural Microbiology) of the Pasteur Institute, Paris, France (2006-2008). Since 2009, she is a Career Investigator from the Research Council of Argentina (CONICET) where she holds the Independent Researcher category since 2016. She is the head at the Molecular Microbiology Laboratory at the IBR in Rosario, Argentina and she is also permanent staff of the Platform of Structural Biology and Metabolomics of Argentina (PLABEM). At present, her projects focus on the study of the mechanisms underlying the control of membrane homeostasis and cell envelope biogenesis in Gram-positive bacteria. Since 2001, she is a teaching assistant at the National University of Rosario, Argentina.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4380-9152
https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=6506924553
IG: @daniela_albanesi
TW @AlbanesiDaniela
