AcademicDrug Discovery: Pitfalls, Patents, and Promise with Carlotta Ronda, PhD
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The University of Arizona's College of Medicine-Tucson Department of Physiology presents the Seminars in Translational and Advanced Research (STAR) series, hosting Carlotta Ronda, PhD, a principal investigator at the Innovative Genomics Institute at UC Berkeley, who pioneered targeted in situ microbiome editing tools to engineer microbes within their native ecosystems.
Her lab integrates systems biology, synthetic biology, multi-omics, and computational modeling to decode and reprogram host–microbiome interactions. Combining high-throughput organoid assays, precision microbiome editing, and computational approaches, her team maps microbial signaling networks and develops strategies to modulate them. Beyond microbiome engineering, her group advances CRISPR technologies and organoid–microbiome co-cultures to study host–microbe communication and enable functional modulation in microbial and eukaryotic systems.
Dr. Ronda earned her BSc degree in molecular biology from Padua University, her M.Sc. Eng in biotechnology from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), and her PhD in systems biology from DTU and the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability. She began developing her approach to editing complex microbial communities at Columbia University and continues this work at IGI.
Join us in-person at 11 a.m. on Friday, November 14, 2025 in Arizona Health Sciences Center, Room 8403.
The lecture will also be available via Zoom.