Samuel García Huete
MSCR Student
Contact details
Address
- Street
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The Roslin Institute
Easter Bush Campus
Midlothian - City
- Post code
- EH25 9RG
Background
Samuel started his MScR with Dr. Ross Fitzgerald in September 2019 at Roslin Institute with the aim of elucidating the role of staphylococcal prophages in host-specific adaptation. He is a molecular microbiologist that completed his undergraduate study at the Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain) in Biochemistry. For his undergraduate thesis he focused on understanding the effects of antibiotics in the transfer dynamics of site-specific integrative conjugative elements in Enterococcus faecalis (Dr. Teresa Coque group, Ramón y Cajal Health Research Center, Madrid).
He is pursuing a career in Microbiology, trying to cover the way that goes from Molecular Biology to the patient, going through the diagnosis of infectious diseases. During his career he also did some research internships. He studied the role of Peroxide stress Regulators in the oxidative-stress and antibiotic-stress survival of Leptospira interrogans at Pasteur Institute (Dr. Nadia Benaroudj supervising, Paris). He also was working on the development of a new serodiagnostic tool for Leishmania infantum infection using quimera proteins with Dr. Manuel Soto (Severo Ochoa Center for Molecular Biology, Madrid). Previously, he did research on immunometabolism at Spanish National Center for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC) as well (Dr. Salvador Iborra supervising, Madrid).
Samuel is a member of the coordination board of the Young Researchers of the Spanish Society for Microbiology (JISEM), frequently collaborating with the journal of this Society and leading the audio-visual communication team. He also has been involved in some public engagement projects as the Small World Initiative (SWI) and others.
Samuel loves playing music and composing it, as well as going hiking in his free time.