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Cecilia Silva-Valenzuela, Ph.D.
Co-Founder & CEO
Ph.D. Biomedical Sciences. Universidad de Chile
e-mail: cecilia@microbes-lab.com
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Roberto Molina-Quiroz, Ph.D.
Co-Founder & CSO
Ph.D. Microbiology
Universidad de Santiago de Chile
e-mail: roberto@microbes-lab.com
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Alvaro Reyes Vallejos
Chief Operating Officer (COO)
Civil constructor
Universidad Católica de Chile
e-mail: alvaro@microbes-lab.com
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PUBLICATIONS

2023

Molina-Quiroz RC & Silva-Valenzuela CA. Interactions of vibrio phages and their hosts in different environments. Current Opinion in Microbiology. 2022 (submitted) 

​2022

Molina-Quiroz RC., Camilli Andrew, Silva-Valenzuela CA. Role of bacteriophages in the evolution of pathogenic Vibrios and lessons for phage therapy. Vibrios spp. 2022 Springer (Book chapter in press)

 

Vera-Mansilla, J., Sánchez, P., Silva-Valenzuela, C.A. and Molina-Quiroz, R.C. Isolation and characterization of novel lytic phages infecting both antibiotic-resistant Uropathogenic and intestinal Escherichia coli. 2022. Microbiol Spectr. Feb 16;10(1):e01678-21. PMID.

2020

 

Roberto C. Molina-Quiroz, Triana N. Dalia, Andrew Camilli, Ankur B. Dalia, Cecilia A. Silva-Valenzuela. Prophage-Dependent Neighbor Predation Fosters Horizontal Gene Transfer by Natural Transformation. 2020. mSphere. Nov 11;5(6):e00975-20. PMID 33177216.

2019

 

Gustavo Espinoza-Vergara, Parisa Noorian, Cecilia A Silva-Valenzuela, Benjamin B.A. Raymond, Christopher Allen, M Mozammel Hoque, Shuyang Sun, Michael Johnson, Mathieu Pernice, Staffan Kjelleberg, Steven Djordjevic, Maurizio Labbate, Andrew Camilli, and Diane McDougald. Vibrio cholerae residing in food vacuoles expelled by protozoa are more infectious in vivo. 2019. Nat Microbiol. 4, 2466–2474. PMID 31570868.

 

​Cecilia A. Silva-Valenzuela, Andrew Camilli. Niche Adaptation Limits Bacteriophage Predation of Vibrio cholerae in a Nutrient Poor Aquatic Environment. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 Jan 29;116(5):1627-1632. PMID 30635420.

 

2018

Tamara Reyes-Robles, Rebecca S. Dillard, Lynne S. Cairns, Cecilia A. Silva-Valenzuela, Max Housman, Afsar Ali, Elizabeth R. Wright, Andrew Camilli. Vibrio cholerae outer membrane vesicles inhibit bacteriophage infection. J Bacteriol. 2018 pii: JB.00792-17. PMID 29661863. Highlighted in Nat Rev Microbiol 16, 394 (2018). “Bait the phages

 

Molina-Quiroz RC, Silva-Valenzuela C, Brewster J, Castro-Nallar E, Levy S, Camilli A. Cyclic AMP Regulates Bacterial Persistence through Repression of the Oxidative Stress Response and SOS-Dependent DNA Repair in Uropathogenic Escherichia coli. mBio. 2018. 9(1):e02144-17. PMID 29317513. Highlighted in Nat Rev Microbiol 16, 123 (2018). "Don't stress and repair the damage".

2017

Silva-Valenzuela CA, Lazinski DW, Kahne SC, Nguyen Y, Molina-Quiroz RC and Camilli A. Growth arrest and a persister state enable resistance to osmotic shock and facilitate dissemination of Vibrio cholerae. ISMEJ. 2017. 11(12):2718-2728. PMID 28742070. Highlighted in Nat Rev Microbiol 15, 515 (2017). “Vibrio enters ‘sleep mode’ to survive”.

 

For a more detailed information of publications please refer to Google scholar

 

​Roberto Molina-Quiroz (https://scholar.google.cl/citations?user=EGCy1LcAAAAJ&hl=en)

Cecilia Silva-Valenzuela (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=p2hHP30AAAAJ&hl=es)

PRESS

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Nueva Tertulia Científica en Valdivia abordará el tema de la resistencia a antibióticos

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Pew Fellow Returns to Chile to Research Cholera-Causing Bacteria

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