María Luisa Gil Marqués holds a BSc in Biotechnology and a MSc in Healthcare Biotechnology from the University of Pablo de Olavide (Seville, Spain) and a PhD in Molecular Biology, Biomedicine and Clinical Research (International mention, with honors) from the University of Seville (Spain).

María Luisa has always been interested in research. That’s why she has worked in different research projects with scholarships while she was earning her B.S. She joined the Department of Infectious Diseases at the Institute of Biomedicine of Seville in 2013 under the supervision of MD Jerónimo Pachón Díaz, MD Michael McConnell and PhD María Eugenia Pachón Ibañez, where she completed her PhD. She also spent six months working in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Brigham and Women’s Hospital with a RCC fellowship under the supervision of Gerald Pier and Tomás Maira Litrán.

Her results have been exhibited in different regional, national and international congress and she has published multiple scientific papers in indexed scientific journals, some of them still in preparation.

Recently, Maria Luisa has been the recipient of a RCC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship to work in the Department of Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital (Harvard Medical School). She has been under the supervision of MD David C. Hooper during the first year and her research has been focused on the mechanisms of antibiotic resistance in bacteria and the regulation of virulence gene expression. She is under the supervision of MD Marcia Goldberg during the second year and her research is focused on single-cell genomic profiling to identify immune signatures of bacterial sepsis in humans.