Maite
Iriarte Cilveti
Catedrática de Universidad
Departamento académico: (FM) Microbiología y Parasitología
Centro académico: Facultad de Medicina (FM)
Organización: Universidad de Navarra
Research group: Brucella-Brucellosis
Email: miriart@unav.es
Doctor by the Universidad de Navarra with the thesis Contribucion al estudio del antigeno comun y del lipopolisacarido de los serotipos patogenos de yersinia enterocolitica 1991.
Professor of Microbiology at the Medical School of the University of Navarra (Pamplona, Spain) since 1999. From 1990 to 1999, she carried out her work in the "Microbial Pathogenesis Unit" of the "Faculté de Médecine de L'Université Catholique de Louvain" (Belgium) where she received the degree of 'Agrégé de l’Enseignement Supérieur". Specialist in the study of molecular biology of pathogens, the interactions between pathogens and the target cells, and in the construction of new live vaccines against brucellosis. She is the author of several book chapters and over 50 research articles on molecular biology of virulence factors of Yersinia and Brucella.