Christian A.M. Wilson is an assistant professor of the University of Chile, at the department of biochemistry and molecular biology. He holds a doctorate degree in biochemistry with a postdoctoral training at the University of California at Berkeley under the supervision of professors Carlos Bustamante and Susan Marqusee. His group is focused, among others, on determining the importance of the force associated to the domain movements of different protein to perform their function. He is a young scientist who has participated in several projects as principal investigator and director of the network of studies in biochemistry/biophysics of manipulation of individual molecules. He has had an outstanding role in the development of new methods for measuring enzyme activity, such as a method for measuring the glycogen synthase, enzyme involved in diabetes, which has been used by other investigators. Also, Wilson is a regional expert in the field of single molecule manipulation. He has current collaborations and publications with Chilean, and foreign scientists. Wilson has assembled the first optical tweezers instrument to measure individual molecules in the country.

I am an Associate Investigator at the Millennium Institute on Immunology and Immunotherapy (www.imii.cl; Center of Excellence) and Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Biological Sciences at the Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile. I am a Biochemist from the same University and have a PhD in Molecular Genetics and Microbiology. I have specialized in the field of immunology and more specifically in research areas that involve the interaction between pathogenic microbes and the host's immune system. My experimental work has focused over the years on bacteria, as well as viruses, such as the human respiratory syncytial virus, metapneumovirus and herpes simplex viruses. I performed two post-doctorates, one of them at the P. Universidad Católica de Chile and the other at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA. There, I trained on microbial genetics. Highlights of my research include work on a novel vaccine candidate against herpes simplex viruses and studying fundamental aspects of immunology. Some of my research studies have been published in journal such as PNAS and eLife.