Irina P. Suarez is a Licentiate in Biotechnology (M. Sc.) graduated from the Faculty of Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences (FCByF) of the National University of Rosario (UNR). She did her Ph. D. at the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology of Rosario (IBR-CONICET-UNR), directed by Rodolfo M. Rasia. Her thesis was granted “best thesis in biological sciences award 2016” by the secretary of science of Santa Fe province, Argentina. She has worked at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany, and at the Institute for Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology (IGBMC), France. Irina has been awarded fellowships from CONICET, the German service for academic exchange (DAAD), the Bunge and Born foundation from Argentina and the foundation for medical research (FRM) from France. She is currently an associated researcher from CONICET at the Bacterial Sensors group at IBR. In her group she studies bacterial resistance to antibiotics from the biophysical and structural biology perspective.

Irina is the director of the project “VbrKR, a new resistance system in Gram negatives”.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8926-515X

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