Camila Valenzuela Montenegro

Camila Valenzuela, PhD. Postdoctoral Researcher at Dynamics of Host Pathogen Interactions Unit, Institut Pasteur. Started her career at the Universidad de Chile Santiago, Chile working on different in vivo and in vitro models using a combination of genetics and genomics to understand the set of genes required for systemic colonization by different Salmonella serovars. During her PhD, she worked on establishing Dictyostelium discoideum as a novel model to characterizing the interaction of Salmonella Typhimurium with phagocytic amoeba and to identify host factors recruited to the Salmonella-containing vacuole. After over 8 years of working on Salmonella genetics and genomics using different host models, she developed an interest in understanding the interaction of the pathogen at the cellular level. With this goal in mind, she joined Jost Enninga’s Unit in February of 2019.