I am a biochemist (2011) and Ph.D. in Biochemistry (2019) from University of Chile under the mentorship of Dr. Guido Mora and Dr. Carlos Santiviago, respectively. In 2019, I joined the laboratory of HHMI Investigator Dr. Carlos Blondel at the Andrés Bello University in Santiago, Chile, for my postdoctoral training. Under Dr. Blondel´s mentorship, I studied the molecular mechanisms that underlie the virulence of the pandemic bacterial pathogen Vibrio parahaemolyticus O3:K6 to evaluate the cellular control during infection that leads to cell death by the Type III Secretion System (T3SS2). In 2022, I joined the Institute of Biomedical Sciences at the Autonomous University of Chile as an Assistant Professor and Principal Investigator of the Cellular Health and Infection Laboratory.