I completed my BSc in Biochemistry at the Universidad Austral de Chile and MSc in Neuroscience at the Universidad de Valparaíso, studying effect of odorants on the expression of c-fos in zebrafish. I did my second MSc and PhD in Physiological Sciences at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. I studied involvement of connexin 43 and pannexin 1 hemichannels of gilal cells in the neuroinflammatory response induced by glucocorticoid maternal. I was awarded a grant from the Universidad Católica Accelerator Program, to study the use of selective inhibitors of hemichannels formed by connexins to treat epilepsy. Then, I moved to Colorado State University, where I worked on the modulation of anestrus in sheep by hypothalamic estrogen receptors.

In 2017 I started my Postdoc in Engel lab at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute. I identified and validated three small pan-neuronal promoters isolated from the genome of the alphaherpesvirus. I validated the transgene expression and AAV vectors biodistribution driven by LAP2 promoter in peripheral organs. I developed an assay for single-cell quantification of incoming AAV genome in neurons. Currently, I am working as Associate Research in the optimization of AAV expression cassettes to improve packaging capacity and transgene expression.

 You can find my current Resume here.