Visiting Scholars

JM received his B.Sc. in Food Technology in 2017 from the University of the Philippines Los Baños, Philippines. As part of an exchange program, he did his thesis on food biochemistry at the University of Tsukuba, Japan. He is now taking his M.Sc. degree in Biochemistry from UPLB and is a visiting student at Dr. Lowary’s group. His current research work involves the synthesis of potential inhibitors of mycobacterial galactofuranosyltransferase 1 (GlfT1).

Marcos received his degree of B.Sc. in Biochemistry in 2005 and his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2012 from the National University of South (UNS) in Bahía Blanca, Argentina. From 2012 to 2014, he worked as a postdoc in Dr. Oscar Varela’s group at the Carbohydrate Research Center (CIHIDECAR) in the National University of Buenos Aires (UBA) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 2015, he was appointed as Assistant Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina (CONICET) and started to work at the Institute of Chemistry of the South (INQUISUR) in the UNS, focusing on Glycomimetics Synthesis. In 2018, he joined Dr. Lowary’s group as a Research Associate and is currently working on the synthesis of capsular polysaccharides of different serotypes of Streptococcus suis.