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Luis Enrique Sastré-Velásquez, MSc.

EMail: luis.sastre@i-med.ac.at

Phone: +43/(0)512/9003-70217

Fax: +43/(0)512-9003-73100

 

Short curriculum 

2011-2015

Bachelor of Science in Biology with focus on Biotechnology, University of Sonora, Mexico

2015

Summer Research Internship: Manchester Fungal Infection Group (MFIG), Manchester, United Kingdom. 
TopicThe paradoxical growth response of the opportunistic fungus Aspergillus fumigatus to the antifungal drug caspofungin.

2016-2018

Master of Science in Life Sciences with focus on Cellular and Molecular Microbiology, Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education of Ensenada (CICESE), Mexico. 
ThesisIdentification of the homolog to Cornichon/Erv14 and its role in the regulation of the growth of the filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa.

Since 2019

Start of HOROS PhD Program. Institute of Molecular Biology, Biocenter, Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria. 
ThesisResistance to antifungal acting fluoropyrimidines in Aspergillus fumigatus.

 

Fellowships

2016 - 2018  CONACyT (Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología). Master's fellowship.

2020  Austrian Association of Molecular Life Sciences and Biotechnology (ÖGMBT) Travel grant.

 

Research fields

Antifungal Therapeutics and Resistance

https://www.horos.at/content/home/students/sastre_enrique/

 

Institut für Molekularbiologie