Dr. Cecilia Mansilla is a Biochemist graduated from the Faculty of Exact Sciences of the National University of La Plata (UNLP) and PhD from the Faculty of Biochemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences (FCByF) of the National University of Rosario, under the direction of Dr. Diego de Mendoza. She carried out research stays at the Scripps Institute, La Jolla (USA); Center for Biological Research, CSIC, Madrid (Spain); Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic); Pasteur Institute Structural Biology Unit, Paris (France) and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston (USA). She is currently an Independent Researcher at CONICET and Project Director in the Microbial Physiology Group. She is an Associate Professor of Microbiology at the FCByF. Dr. Mansilla studies protein lipoylation and lipid synthesis as targets for new antibacterial and antiparasitic agents. For her doctoral thesis work she has received the “Dr. Enrique Herrero Ducloux” Award from the Argentine Chemical Association. Dr. Mansilla has received scholarships from the International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology; the Argentine-Brazilian Center for Biotechnology; the Howard Hughes Medical Institute; the ASM International Scholarship; the Fulbright -Ministry of Education of the Nation Scholarship, and has been a beneficiary of the Help Program for trips abroad “AVE” of the UNR.
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