Arturo Hernandez Cervantes

Arturo Hernández Cervantes is a Postdoctoral research fellow at Institut Pasteur. He obtained his PhD at the University of Guanajuato, Mexico. During his PhD he analyzed the function of mannosyltransferases in the human pathogenic fungi Sporothrix schenckii and Candida albicans, under the supervision of Prof. Arturo Flores Carreón and Prof. Héctor Manuel Mora Montes. Also he participated in the study of other genes involved in the N– and O-glycosylation in these fungi. Currently he is focused in the study of genes that are involved in the chlamydospore formation pathway in C. albicans.