Susan Grace Mosquito Guillen

JuMBO PhD thesis supervisor: Dr. Vittorio Venturi, ICGEB

Summary of career/studies

I got my Bachelor`s degree in Biology and my Master`s degree in Microbiology at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, where I worked at the Tropical Medicine Institute under Dr. Theresa Ochoa supervision studying molecular mechanisms of virulence and antibiotic resistance as well as patterns of adherence or invasion of clinical strains of enteric pathogenic bacteria.

Why JuMBO PhD?

I chose JuMBO because this program has outstanding faculty members in a number of research areas and an ideal infrastructure to develop basic and applied research compatible with my top topics of interest.