María Lara-Tejero, DVM, PhD

Dr. Lara-Tejero received her DVM from University Complutense in Madrid, Spain in 1995, and a PhD in Microbiology from Yale University in 2001, receiving the Nat L. Sternberg Prize for outstanding PhD Thesis in the field of prokaryotic biology. She pursued postdoctoral training in Immunobiology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Institute in New York City as an Irvington Fellow. She joined the Yale University School of Medicine in 2004, where she is currently and Associate Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis. Her laboratory focuses on the study of the pathogenesis of Salmonella enterica. More specifically, her laboratory employs multidisciplinary approaches to study type III secretion machines, which deliver bacterial effector proteins into target host cells to induce pathogenicity.