Carla Y Bonilla
Assistant Professor,
Microbiology
Gonzaga University
United States of America
Biography
I was born in El Salvador and immigrated to the US when I was 13 years old, went to school in San Francisco, CA and moved to Boston, MA to work at MIT. Now I teach at Gonzaga University in Spokane WA. It is my passion to promote access and cultural diversity in the biological sciences and I use bacteria to teach students the beauty of molecular biology. Education Postdoctoral Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008-2012 Ph. D. Cell Biology, University of California, San Francisco, 2008 M. A. Biology, San Francisco State University, 2002 B. A. Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, 2000 Funding Murdock College Research Program for Natural Sciences Grant 2015. P. I. W. M. Keck Foundation Grant 2014. Co-P. I. ​
Research Interest
To promote access and cultural diversity in the biological sciences
Publications
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Vidanes G., Bonilla CY, Toczyski D. P. Complicated Tails: Chromatin remodeling and the DNA damage response (2005) Cell 121, 973-976.
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Smits WK, Merrikh H, Bonilla CY and Grossman AD. Primosomal proteins DnaD and DnaB are recruited to chromosomal regions bound by DnaA in Bacillus subtilis (2011) Journal of Bacteriology 193(3):640-8.
