María Natalia LISA
María Natalia LISA
Head of the Protein Crystallography Unit
Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Rosario (IBR, CONICET-UNR), Argentina
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At the beginning of my career in Rosario (Argentina) I used different structural biology strategies to understand the mechanism of enzymes involved in bacterial resistance to antibiotics. Then, in my first post-doc, at the Institut Pasteur (Paris, France) for 5 years I specialized in the use of X-ray protein crystallography to study essential signaling pathways in pathogenic mycobacteria. In my second post-doc, at the Institut Pasteur de Montevideo (Uruguay), I continued working on signal transduction, in this case on Leptospira interrogans, the cause of one of the most widely distributed zoonoses in the world. At the beginning of 2018, I joined the IBR (Rosario, Argentina) as an associate researcher of CONICET, to be in charge of the Protein Crystallography Unit. My current scientific work focuses on the use of integrative approaches for the structural study of large protein complexes. I am part of the Argentine Platform for Structural Biology and Metabolomics (PlaBEM) and since 2021 I am the general coordinator of the Center for Structural Biology of the Mercosur (CEBEM).