Pablo Power

A biochemist and graduate of the Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, he holds a PhD from the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina). He is an independent researcher at CONICET (National Scientific and Technical Research Council) at the Institute of Research in Bacteriology and Molecular Virology (IBaViM-UBA), and an adjunct professor in the Department of Microbiology at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry (UBA). He coordinates the Molecular Microbiology Subcommittee of the Argentine Association of Microbiology.

Their main lines of work include:

• Molecular, biochemical and structural studies of β-lactamases of clinical interest aimed at the search for new drugs with inhibitory activity.
• Use of metagenomic tools for the detection of new β-lactamases from the environmental resistome.
• Evolutionary studies of β-lactamases.

Edgar Gonzales

Doctoral fellow in Microbiology at the Bacterial Resistance Laboratory of the Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry of the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina). Master's degree in Microbiology from the National University of San Marcos - UNMSM of Lima (Peru), Medical Technologist in Clinical Laboratory and Pathological Anatomy from the same university.

Researcher at the Center for Technological, Biomedical and Environmental Research (CITBM) of UNMSM, specializing in bacterial resistance. Experienced in research, clinical practice, teaching, lecturing, and advising on the implementation and organization of microbiology laboratories.

Juan Faya

He graduated with a Bachelor's degree from the Faculty of Biology at the National University Pedro Ruiz Gallo (Peru). He obtained his Master's degree from the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of São Paulo (Brazil) in the area of Bioinformatics. He conducted his graduate research at the National Bioscience Laboratories of the National Center for Research in Energy and Materials (LNBio-CNPEM), focusing on understanding protein phosphorylation prior to interaction with the kinase enzyme.

He worked in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Faculty of Human Medicine, University of Piura, where he collaborated on research projects related to the study of lung cancer and inhibitors of this disease. He has experience in the field of Computational Structural Biology, with an emphasis on the study of kinases using various in silico techniques (modeling, docking, and molecular dynamics (AAMD, CGMD), etc.). He has contributed to various continuing education courses and presented at national and international conferences.

Guillermo Uceda

A biologist with a degree from the National University Pedro Ruiz Gallo (Peru) and a master's degree in bioinformatics from the University of São Paulo (Brazil). His undergraduate thesis focused on the in-silico analysis of the main metabolic pathways of the pathogenic bacterium Bartonella baciliformis strain KC385, aiming to understand its metabolism at the genomic level and propose improvements to current culture media used for disease diagnosis. His master's thesis explored various genomes of the phytopathogenic bacterium Xylella fastidiosa, which affects plants such as citrus, grapevines, and olive trees. The project's objective was to examine the determinants of pathogenicity and the bacterium's association with its host using comparative and phylogenomic genomics.

Her research focuses on studying defense systems in bacteria and archaea that provide protection against bacteriophages. She has experience primarily in genomic data processing, such as genome assembly and annotation, as well as large-scale analyses like comparative genomics and phylogenomics. She is proficient in the Python and R programming languages. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Bioinformatics at the University of São Paulo, Brazil.

Diego Leonardo Cabrejos

A biologist who graduated from the National University Pedro Ruiz Gallo (Peru), he is a doctoral candidate in Physical and Biomolecular Sciences at the Carlos Institute of Physics – University of São Paulo (Brazil), where he also earned a master's degree in the same field. He has experience in the structural study of macromolecules, primarily proteins, using X-ray crystallography and protein modeling. In addition to extensive experience in the expression of recombinant proteins in the E. coli system, he excels in the biochemical and biophysical study of these macromolecules, specializing in the study of septins (proteins that are part of the cytoskeleton).

She has participated in national and international meetings and conferences, and her training also includes internships at the Institute of Molecular Biology in Barcelona and training on the X-ray beamlines of particle accelerators in Campinas (Brazil), Barcelona (Spain), and Didcot (England). She has also started a science outreach project on YouTube where she teaches bioinformatics and molecular biology and interviews graduate students from various fields.

Arturo Gonzales

He holds a degree in Medical Technology specializing in Clinical Laboratory and Anatomical Pathology, and a Master's degree in Biochemistry and Genetics from the National University of San Marcos (Peru). He has led research projects for the design of immunological diagnostic tests. He is a member of the Molecular Medicine research and teaching group at the Faculty of Medicine of UNMSM. He currently teaches at the Faculty of Human Medicine of the University of Piura, where he develops projects on the immunometabolic response of older adults to urinary tract infections, metagenomics, and bacterial resistance, primarily to beta-lactams. He has presented his research at international conferences.