Esteban obtained his BSc and MSc in biochemistry from Universidad de Chile. He was part of the team that produced the first recombinant subunit vaccine against the salmon pathogenic bacteria Piscirickettsia salmonis. The vaccine was licensed to Novartis Animal Health and it is commercialized globally. Next he did his his PhD in Biotechnology at…

Oliver received his B.A. in Molecular and Cell Biology at University of California, Berkeley, with the emphasis on immunology. For his thesis work, he demonstrated the activation of innate immune pathway P38 MAPK by gut microbiota in C. elegans. He further received his PhD in Virology under the mentorship of Prof Lynn Enquist, studying virus…

Carola completed her BSc in Biochemistry at Universidad Austral de Chile and MSc in Neuroscience from Universidad de Valparaiso, studying effect of odorants on the expression of c-fos in zebrafish. She did her MSc and PhD in Physiological Sciences at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Carola studied involvement of connexin 43 and…

Angela received her BA in Biology at Hood College, Maryland. After graduation, she worked in the Monoclonal Antibody Facility at Princeton University for 10 years. Later, she worked in the lab of Dr. M. Gerard Waters in the Department of Molecular Biology, where she purified and made polyclonal antibodies to Dsl3p. For the past 17 years, she…

Gabriela is pursuing the Neuroscience concentration with a Cognitive Science certificate. She is strongly interested in the intersection between neuroscience and medicine and hopes that her senior thesis project, which aims to work on a new human viral tracer, will be able to contribute to future developments in both of these fields.