Dr. Cristina Colomer Winter

Sterility Assurance Scientist

Interdisciplinary Program in Biomedical Sciences Immunology & Microbiology Concentration Advisor: José A. Lemos, PhD Department of Oral Biology Dissertation project: Significance of Manganese Homeostasis to Enterococcus faecalis Systemic Infections. Involves identification and characterization of novel virulence factors of the multidrug resistant opportunistic pathogen E. faecalis.

Immunology, Microbiology & Virology Program Microbiology Track Advisor: José A. Lemos, PhD Center for Oral Biology [Transferred to University of Florida after mentor was recruited into the pre-eminence program at UF.]

Department: Research & Development Centre of Excellence for Closure Technologies Research line: Surgical meshes and biological closure technologies

Engineering department. Parametric release. Characterization of heat resistance of bacterial spores. The objective of this project was to provide extensive characterization of the product bioburden to optimize sterilization processes and to obtain approval of the AEMPS to implement the parametric release program for pharmaceutical products produced at B. Braun Medical Spain.

Research Group for Retroviruses (HIV) Erasmus Internship student. Integration of Foamyvirus based SIN vectors and intranuclear localization. (Gene therapy)

Department: Quality Assurance - Virology Purification of viral capside proteins aimed at a MALDI-TOF virus identification.

Sales clerk at a Gardening Center.

Department: Genetics and Microbiology Teaching Assistant in laboratory classes of the Microbiology course

Department: Downstream - Process Science Purification of goat IgG for in-house ELISA assays.

Sales clerk at gift shop.

Immunology and Microbiology

Transferred to the University of Florida due to relocation of the PhD advisor.

Microbiology