Team members

Suzana Salcedo, Associate Professor, Ph.D. (she/her)

After studying Microbiology in Porto, Portugal, where I grew up, I moved to London, where I discovered the incredible world of bacterial pathogenesis in David Holden’s lab at Imperial College. After graduating in 2003, I moved to Marseille in the south of France to join the team of Jean-Pierre Gorvel and decipher how Brucella hides inside cells to cause disease. In 2012, I was awarded a young principal investigator grant, so I joined MMSB in Lyon to launch my team on Brucella and multi-drug resistant bacteria such as Acinetobacter baumannii. As I love new adventures, in the summer of 2023, I packed up my lab and moved to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to continue these projects at the School of Veterinary Medicine.

I am passionate about bacteria but also discovering different cultures, striving for equity, and advocating for work-life balance. I am also a mother to two wonderful young lads. I love spending time with them and my husband, hanging out with family and friends, hiking, traveling, and dining.

Charline Debruyne

After obtaining a bachelor’s degree in 2017 in Anthropology with a specialization in Paleoanthropology and Archeology in Montreal, Canada, I decided to return to my interest in bacterial pathogens and how the diseases develop. For that, I did a BSc in Genetics and Cell Biology, followed by an M.Sc. degree in Infectiology in Lyon, France, where I did a 6-month internship in Suzana Salcedo’s lab in 2021. I was awarded a Fondation pour la Recherche Médical (FRM) scholarship to fund my PhD thatfocuses on deciphering the pathogenesis of specific clinical isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii.

Because of the move of S. Salcedo’s lab, I look forward to finishing my Ph.D. experiments at the University of Madison-Wisconsin after a brief stop at Mateo Bonazzi’s lab in IRIM, Montpellier, France.

In my downtime, I love discovering new places and the outdoors (nothing beats a good hike). But also going out with friends, getting lost in a good book and cooking.

Lison Cancade–Veyre

After graduating from high school, I took a BTS (a French specialized technical diploma) in biotechnology, which enabled me to do my first internships in research laboratories and really discover the world of science. These internships made me want to continue my studies, so I decided to do a Bachelor’s and Master’s in biochemistry.

During my Masters in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, I interned in Suzana Salcedo’s team in Lyon, where I enjoyed learning new approaches in cell biology and infectiology. The offer to continue as a PhD student in Suzana’s team was an opportunity I couldn’t refuse!  My project is focused on two new Brucella effectors, recently identified by the team, NyxA and NyxB, characterizing their cellular functions but also understanding at the molecular level how they target eukaryotic proteins during infection.

Outside the lab, I enjoy spending time with my friends and family, over a drink or a good meal, or going to music festivals. Excited to have joined Suzana in the US and discover a new culture!