Cecilia Artola-Recolons {SBE33 Prize, 2015}

The Executive Council of SBE has awarded the 2015 SBE33 Prize to:
Dr. Cecilia Artola-Recolons
For her excellent work on the recycling of the bacterial cell wall and its implications for antibiotic resistance.
About the SBE33 Prize
Recognizes the work of outstanding young Biophysicists under 33, independently of the country where their work has been done.
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Award
1000 € and a talk delivered by the awardee during a special session of the 15th SBE Congress (Granada June 10 – 12, 2015).
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About the 2015 Awardee
Dr. Cecilia Artola-Recolons
Did her Ph.D. with Prof. Dr. Juan A. Hermoso, at the Department of Crystallography and Structural Biology – CBE of “Instituto de Química-Física ‘Rocasolano’”, CSIC, Madrid, and in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Shahriar Mobashery from the University of Notre Dame (Indiana, USA). She has a B.S. in Chemistry, by the University of Oviedo (2009) and during 2008 worked as a research assistant with Dr. Jason Halfen (University of Wisconsin, USA).
Research interests
Dr. Artola-Recolon’s work has focused on elucidating the relationship between cell wall recycling and antibiotic resistance, which has proved essential for the discovery of new antibiotic targets in bacteria. She has used mainly Structural Biology (X-ray crystallography) and bioinformatics techniques. Her structural work shows how bacterial lytic transglycosylase attaches to the membrane and reacts with cross-linked and non-cross-linked peptidoglycan chains. She has also contributed to deciphered the action mechanism of specific periplasmic amidases from the human patogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa, explaining their specificity for soluble or insoluble fractions of Peptidoglycan.