Mariela Scortti
Lecturer, Division of Infection and Pathway Medicine
Contact details
Address
- Street
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The Roslin Institute
Easter Bush Campus
Midlothian - City
- Post code
- EH25 9RG
Background
Mariela Scortti graduated as a Doctor in Veterinary Medicine at the Universidad del Litoral, Argentina. She moved to Chile to obtain her MSc degree in Animal Health at the University of Chile and later she got a fellowship to the University Complutense of Madrid (Spain) to complete her PhD. In 2004 she moved to the University of Bristol and later to the University of Edinburgh.
Undergraduate teaching
Year 2
Microorganisms, Infection and Immunity 2
Year 3
Medical Microbiology 3
Biomedical Sciences 3
Postgraduate teaching
Online distance learning MSc
Sc Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
Current research interests
Research Groups Division of Infection and Pathway Medicine (DIPM) Edinburgh Infectious diseases-
Listeria InlB Expedites Vacuole Escape and Intracellular Proliferation by Promoting Rab7 Recruitment via Vps34
(17 pages)
In:
mBio, vol. 14
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/mbio.03221-22
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
International spread of multidrug-resistant Rhodococcus equi
(5 pages)
In:
Emerging Infectious Diseases, vol. 28, pp. 1899-1903
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2809.220222
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Antimicrobial resistance spectrum conferred by pRErm46 of emerging macrolide (multidrug)-resistant Rhodococcus equi
In:
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.01149-21
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Why are some Listeria monocytogenes genotypes more likely to cause invasive (brain, placental) infection?
In:
mBio
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.03126-20
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Conservation of Rhodococcus equi (Magnusson 1923) Goodfellow and Alderson 1977 and rejection of Rhodococcus hoagii (Morse 1912) Kämpfer et al. 2014
In:
International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, vol. 70
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.004090
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Clonal confinement of a highly mobile resistance element driven by combination therapy in Rhodococcus equi
In:
mBio, vol. 10
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.02260-19
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Control of bacterial virulence through the peptide signature of the habitat
(18 pages)
In:
Cell Reports, vol. 26, pp. 1815-1827.e5
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2019.01.073
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Epistatic control of intrinsic resistance by virulence genes in Listeria
(21 pages)
In:
PLoS Genetics, vol. 14
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1007525
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Spontaneous virulence loss in natural populations of Listeria monocytogenes
In:
Infection and Immunity
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/IAI.00541-17
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Listeria placental infection
In:
mBio
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.00949-17
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Comment/debate (Published)