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María Lara-Tejero, DVM, PhD

Associate Professor
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Associate Professor

Biography

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.

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Other Departments & Organizations

Education & Training

Postdoctoral training
MSKCC (2004)
PhD
Yale University (2001)
DVM
Complutense University of Madrid (1995)

Research

Overview

Medical Research Interests

Host-Pathogen Interactions; Microbiology; Salmonella; Type III Secretion Systems

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of María Lara-Tejero's published research.

Publications

2020

2019

2018

Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

  • honor

    Irvington Institute for Immunological Research Post-doctoral Fellowship

  • honor

    2001 Nat L. Stemberg Thesis Prize for outstanding Ph.D. thesis in the filed of prokaryotic and bacteriophage molecular genetics

  • honor

    Award for outstanding research

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