Susana Checa has a Master in Science degree from the Faculty of Biochemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences (FCByF) of the National University of Rosario, Argentina; she completed her PhD at the PROMUBIE (Multidisciplinary Experimental Biology Program) of the same Faculty, under the direction of Dr. Alejandro Viale. She carried out three post-doctoral research stays in the different dependencies of the IBR (CONICET-UNR) and the Department of Microbiology of the FCByF. She is currently an Independent Researcher at CONICET, and a member of the Laboratory of Signal Transduction in Pathogenic Bacteria. She is also Professor of the Microbiology Department of the FCByF. She is director of the project: Design of bacterial biosensors of heavy metals and strategies for their bioremediation. Within the framework of this project, she studies at the molecular level metal stress signaling/response systems and their manipulation to generate efficient biotechnological tools to detect, quantify and/or bioremediate metals using bacteria. She also actively collaborates in the other projects carried out in her laboratory, particularly in the molecular and functional analysis of resistance to transition metals in Salmonella enterica and its role in pathogenesis. She currently directs two PhD fellows (Julián Lescano and Angeles Tessore), co-directs a Postdoctoral fellow (Andrea AE, Méndez) and directs two grade students (Martin Trumper and Francisco Lamagni).

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