 
            
            Left to right: Brittany Ulloa, Dr. Maria Soledad Ramirez (foreign mentor), Dayna Melton (administrative assistant), Eleana Stephanie Guardado, Alexander Woodman, Jennifer Makhlauf, Rhea-Lanee Lansang,David L. Lin, Minh-Duyen Nguyen, Dr. Marcelo Tolmasky (Director), Joshua Silva, Dr. Richard Deming (mentor), Melissa Langer, Dr. Chandra Srinivasan (US mentor), 
              
	Inset: Lyanna Pillazar
            	Scholars
            
            
              	Eleana Stephanie Guardado
              
              
				
                Institute of Microbiology and Medical Parasitology, Dpt. of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina 
                  
                
                Mentors: Dr. Daniela Centrón, Dr. Maria Soledad Ramirez
                  
                
                Present position:
                Postoctoral Fellow, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 
                Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations: Guardado, E.S., Traglia, G., Ramirez, M.S.Dispersion of phage integrases in multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii strains.  2014. 26th Annual Symposium. CSUPERB. Santa Clara, CA, USA
				 
            
            
            
              	David L. Lin
              
              
                
                      Dpt. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
                        
                      
                      Mentor:  Dr. David Sherratt
                      
                      Present position:
                      Chief Scientific Officer and Co-Founder,  Bristle Biotech, San Francisco, CA  
                     Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations: Mechanism of intermolecular dissemination of clinically relevant resistance genes in Acinetobacter baumannii.
	                     Lin, D. L., et al. (2020). "Functional analysis of the 
Acinetobacter baumannii XerC and XerD site-specific recombinases: potential role in dissemination of resistance genes." 
 Antibiotics (Basel) 9(7)
  
                     
                 
                 
               
            
            
            
              	Melissa Langer
              
              
               Dpt. of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
                  
                
                Mentor: Dr. Kieran Clarke
                  
                
                Present position:
                Microbiology Lab Associate at Advanced Animal Diagnostics, Apex, NC
                Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations:Strategies to improve prevention of heart failure, using stem cells in diagnosis and treatment of heart diseases
                
                 
               
            
            
            
              	Joshua Silva
              
              
                Dpt. of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
                  
                
                Mentor: Dr. Richard Farndale
                  
                
                Present position:
               Manager, Medical Writer, Pfizer, Irvine, CA.
                Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations: A novel strategy to treat damaged heart tissue after myocardial infarction
                 
               
            
            
            
              	Jennifer Makhlauf
              
              
                Fundación Instituto Leloir, Argentina
                  
                
                Mentor: Dr. Angeles Zorreguieta
                  
                
                Present position:
                Science teacher in the MHIRT visiting place (Argentina)
                Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations: Makhlauf, J.,  Davies, C., Draghi, W., and Zorreguieta, A. The typification of Burkholderia ambifaria strains and the assessment of factors that may affect its diversity: analysis by randomly amplified polymorphic DNA fingerprinting. . 2014. 26th Annual Symposium. CSUPERB. Santa Clara, CA, USA
                 
               
            
            
            
              	Brittany Ulloa
              
              
                 Dpt. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
                        
                
                Mentor: Dr. Matthew Whitby
                  
                
                Present position:
                PhD graduate student, Immunology Department, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
                Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations: Endogenous stress and obstacles to replication fork progression that cause replication errors and genetic instability, a hallmark of cancer cells
               
            
            
            
              	Alexander Woodman
              
              
				 
               Department of Community Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
                  
                
                Mentor: Dr. Phongtape Wiwatanadate
                  
                
              Present position: Fulbright Visiting Research Scholar & Research Consultant, Arabian Gulf University, School of Medicine, Bahrain
 
                
Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations: Cultural barriers of all kinds to testing for HIV infection in minorities in northern Thailand
               
               
            
            
            
              	Minh-Duyen Nguyen
              
                 
               
              
                
                  
                    
                      Department of Community Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
                  
                      
                      Mentor: Dr. Phongtape Wiwatanadate
                        
                      
                      Present position: MD Family Medicine, Mountain View, CA                   
                      
Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations: Antenatal care in Shan migrants in the Sarapee District in Chiang Mai 
                    
               
            
            
            
              	Rhea-Lanee Lansang
              
              
				                Department of Community Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
                  
                
                Mentor: Dr. Phongtape Wiwatanadate
                  
                
                Present position:
                 Public Health Associate at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA
                 Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations: Quality of life in diabetic patients with and without neuropathy in the Sarapee Hospital: a cross-sectional study
               
            
            
            
              	Lyanna Pillazar
              
              
				
                 Department of Community Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
                  
                
                Mentor: Dr. Phongtape Wiwatanadate
                  
                
                Present position: Health Educator, Sacramento County Department of Health and Human Services, Sacramento, CA
                Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations: Effect of “health volunteers”, community members that serve as connectors between the people and health care providers in Thailand