Dr Mariela Scortti

Principal Investigator

Dr Mariela Scortti

Principal Investigator

• The Chancellor's Building
• 49 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh
• EH16 4SB

Contact details

• Work: +44 131 242 6287
• Email: m.scortti@ed.ac.uk
• Web: Research Explorer publication List

Personal Profile

Mariela is a Lecturer in Infection Medicine. She has a veterinary medical degree from National University of Litoral (Argentina) and a MSc in Veterinary Epidemiology from University of Chile. She completed a PhD in infectious diseases at Complutense University of Madrid (Spain). She has been a “Ramon y Cajal” fellow and moved to Edinburgh in 2007 from the University of Bristol.  

Research

Her research centres around molecular bacteriology with a particular interest on multi-host intracellular bacterial pathogens. Her work is aimed at gaining a better understanding of host-pathogen-environment interactions with focus on virulence and antimicrobial resistance.

Research Theme

• Antimicrobial Resistance

• Host-Pathogen Interactions

Lab Members

• Elliot MacDonald, Technician 
• Huiting Li,MSc student
• Danos Papapostolou,MSc student

Teaching

• Microbes, Infection and Immunity 2
• Medical Microbiology 3
• Biomedical Sciences 3
• Antibiotic Crisis
• Host-Pathogen interactions
• Infectious Diseases Honours projects

Recent Publications

• Research publications - Dr Mariela Scortti