Adela Martin-Vicente

Adela Martin-Vicente, PhD, is a Researcher in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Translational Science at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, TN.
Adela completed her Bachelor’s degree in Biotechnology at the University Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Spain. In her junior year, she began exploring the field of mycology by joining a lab at the same university. It was here that she pursued her PhD in medical mycology. Her doctoral research focused on new antifungal treatments and the development of animal models for various fungal diseases, encompassing species like Aspergillus spp., Scedosporium spp., Fusarium spp., and other resilient filamentous fungi. Following the completion of her PhD, Adela's passion for fungal biology and the quest for novel antifungal targets led her to join the lab of Jarrod Fortwendel in Memphis, Tennessee, for her postdoctoral training. She continues to work in this lab, dedicated to advancing the field of mycology.

Abstract Submission:

The study aims to investigate how CotA controls carbon source selection in Aspergillus fumigatus. In this presentation, we show that the translational repressor, SsdA, who is a conserved downstream effector of CotA orthologs in other fungal organisms, plays a partial role in this process.