Marcela Suárez-Esquivel

Marcela Suárez-Esquivel completed her PhD in 2019 at Universidad de Costa Rica. During her PhD she performed externships at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in UK, and at the Northern Arizona University, USA, where she received bioinformatics trainings. She is a veterinary medicine doctor at the Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, where she works as associated professor and is part of the Tropical Diseases Research Program (PIET, Spanish acronym). Her research focuses on bacterial genomics and evolution, with special interest on Brucella sp. variations and host specificity that are approached by using high resolution techniques as WGS of field isolates to look for genome traits that might explain those variations. She has published actively and served as renowned journals reviewer. She coordinates the Animal Physiology courses as part of the Veterinary Medicine career, and participates in the General Biochemistry course.