Esplanade Pierre Vidal Naquet 75013 Paris
As part of a student project, the Magistère Européen de Génétique (MEG) of Université de Paris and the EUR GENE present a series of scientific conferences on each first Tuesday of the month named ‘Student Seminar Series by le MEG’. The 30th edition will take place
on Tuesday November 8th 2022
Halle aux Farines – 247E
Esplanade Pierre Vidal-Naquet, 75013 Paris
Dr. Olaya Rendueles-Garcia, member of the “Microbial Evolutionary Genomics” group at the Institut Pasteur will give a talk titled
“The importance of being sweet : How the capsule shapes K. pneumoniae evolution”.
FREE with MANDATORY REGISTRATION on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/billets-seminar-series-n30-452896434427
Dr. Olaya Rendueles leads the Molecular Microbial Evolution & Ecology group at the Institut Pasteur. She earned her MSc in Clinical Microbiology at the University of Oviedo in 2007 and her PhD in Microbiology at the Institut Pasteur in 2011, under the supervision of Jean Marc Ghigo. She worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Evolutionary Biology group led by Gregory Velicer at the ETH Zürich from 2012 to 2015, and in the Microbial Evolutionary Genomics lab led by Eduardo Rocha at the Institut Pasteur from 2015 to 2017. She then continued to work in this lab, within which she leads the Molecular Microbial Evolution & Ecology group since 2019. The research of her group focuses on the role of the bacterial capsule in adaptation and genome evolution using the nosocomial pathogen Klebsiella pneumoniae as a model. Besides her research work, she is co-chair of the French Society of Microbiology (section Biodiversity and Evolution) since 2019, and member of the National Research Committee (section Host-pathogen interactions, immunology, inflammation) since 2020. In 2021, she was awarded the CNRS Bronze Medal for her research.