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.
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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.
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.
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”.
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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.
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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.
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