Daniel Paredes-Sabja, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at Texas A&M University. He is interested the fundamental mechanisms that drive persistence of enteropathogens in the gastrointestinal tract and how to develop therapeutics to combat persistence. Daniel earned his Ph.D. from Oregon State University, where he also did his postdoctoral work.

 

Marjorie Pizarro-Guajardo, Ph.D., is a Research Assistant Scientist and is interested in unraveling how C. difficile forms different types of exosporium layers and how these contribute to disease. She is also spearheading vaccine-prototypes against C. difficile. Marjorie received her Ph.D. in Biotechnology from Universidad Andrés Bello.

 

 

 

Osiris K. López García is a 5th year Genetics Ph.D. student in the Interdisciplinary Program of Genetics and Genomics at Texas A&M University. Her research focuses on the study of the interactions between the exosporium of Clostridioides difficile and the host. She received her bachelor’s degree in Industrial Microbiology at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez.

 

 

 

Javier Sanchez-Peralta   is a 5th year Microbiology PhD student in the Department of Biology at Texas A&M University. Javier is studying how cysteine-rich proteins govern the assembly of the exosporium layer in C. difficile spores. He is developing TEM and Cryo-EM techniques to gain ultrastructural insight of the role of these proteins in spore surface assembly. He earned his undergraduate degree in Biology at Texas A&M University.

 

 

 

Francisca Cid-Rojas is a 4th year Microbiology Ph.D student in the  Department of Biology at Texas A&M University. She is currently studying the exosporium assembly and the interaction of its components within Clostridioides difficile’s spore. Before joining TAMU, Francisca received her undergraduate degree at Universidad Andrés Bello.