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).

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