Bio
Dr. Leonor García-Bayona is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Stanford University. Leonor grew up in Bogota, Colombia, where she completed her undergraduate studies in Chemical Engineering and Microbiology at the University of the Andes. She did her Ph.D. in Microbiology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, under the supervision of Dr. Michael Laub, studying the genetics and cell physiology of a new interbacterial antagonism system. She then became a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. Laurie Comstock, first at Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School and later at the University of Chicago. In the Comstock lab, Leonor trained in intestinal anaerobe microbiology, advanced microscopy and microbiome computational analyses. The García-Bayona lab studies the role of mobile genes in the community interactions of the human intestinal microbiota, and evaluates how this knowledge could be harnessed for targeted therapeutic interventions.
