My research interest focuses on understanding the molecular basis and dynamics regulating complex physiological function, in particular how cells communicate, interact and sense mechanical stimuli, in homeostasis and cancer transformation.

Teaching:
Teaching as Titular of the Course
- BIO4033- Métodos de microscopía óptica, electrónica e inmunohistoquímica (Methods for optic and electron microscopy and immunohistochemistry) - Titular: Bertocchi C – Course for PhD students Physiology Programme – Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, August 2020 – Present
- BIO4233 – Bases celulares y moleculares de la regulación fisiológica – Titular: Bertocchi C – Course for PhD students Physiology Programme – Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, January 2020 – Present
- BIO141C - Biología de la Célula (Cell Biology) – Titular: Bertocchi C – Course for undergraduate
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, August 2019 – Present
- BIO4016 - Unidad de Investigación II - PhD Physiology Programme
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, November 2019
- “Good Cell Culture Practice” – Titular: Bertocchi C and Ravasio A. Lectures, practical demonstrations and mentoring for PhD students. Mechanobiology Institute, NUS, Singapore, 2013 to 2015.

Teaching as collaborating Professor
- BIO4417 - Curso de Verano Microscopía Óptica Avanzada – Titular: Eisner V. – UMA (unidad de microscopia avanzada) Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, January 2020
- IBM3102 - Advanced Topics in Biological and Medical Engineering II – Titular: Ravasio A - IIBM PhD Programme
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, November 2019
- BIO4233 - Bases celulares y moleculares de la regulación fisiológica (Cellular and molecular basis of physiological regulation) – Titular: Morselli E. – Physiology PhD Programme
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, March 2019
- IIQ3662 - Seminarios de Postgrado – Titular: Ramirez C and Egaña T – Engineering PhD Programme
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, May 2019
- BIO4234 - Señalización para la fisiología y patofisiología (Signaling in Development) – Titular: Owen G - PhD Physiology Programme Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, November 2018
- BN6401 - Advanced Quantitative Fluorescence Microscopy – Titular: Kanchanawong P. - Course for undergraduate
Department of Bioengineering, Faculty of Engineering, National University of Singapore.
- BN4301 - Principles of Tissue Engineering – Titular: Yim E. - Course for undergraduate
Department of Bioengineering, Faculty of Engineering, National University of Singapore.

Supervision of students:
Name: Varina Aldana
Program: tesis de pregrado
Project title: LAMININA ES CONSTITUYENTE DE LA PARED DE LAS ESTRUCTURAS TUBULARES DE MÍMICA VASCULOGÉNICA EN CÁNCER
Role : Comité de tesi

Name: Gabriel Mingo
Program: PhD student
Project title: Rol de la matriz extracelular y mecanismo de formación de mímica vasculogénica in vitro en cáncer de ovario y cáncer de mama.
Role : Co-tutor (co-supervisor)

Name: Nuñez Muriel
Program: PhD student
Project title: Papel de la activación de neuropilina 1 en fibroblastos asociados al carcinoma sobre la infiltración intratumoral de linfocitos T citotóxicos
Role : Miembro comité

Name: Felipe Valle
Program: PhD student
Project title: Mecanosensibilidad en linfocitos B: rol en el posicionamiento y distribución lisosomal durante su activación
Role : Miembro comité

Name: Hill Charlotte
Program: PhD student
Project title: Role of Tim3/Gal-9 axis in Treg infiltration and T cell exhaustion on anti-PD1 immunotherapy in gastric cancer
Role : Coordinadora

Name: Francisco Pena
Program: undergrad student -Pregrado de Verano
Project title: Mechanical Roles of Vinculin/?-catenin interaction in Adherens junction
Role : Tutora
Name: Leslie Muñoz
Program: undergrad student -Pregrado de Verano
Project title: Mechanical roles of Vinculin/beta-catenin interaction in Adherens Junction
Role : Tutora

Before 2018:
PhD students

Name: Lisheng Xu (Nathan) year 2016
Program: Rotation Student (8weeks project)
Project title: Microfabrication and imaging of pillars coated with E-cadherin biomimetic substrate

Name: Leeba Ann Chacko year 2015
Program: Rotation Student (8weeks project)
Project title: YAP/TAZ regulation of cell-cell adhesion mechanical properties

Name: Shiwen Guo year 2015
Program: Rotation Student (8weeks project)
Project title: Force measurements of MDCK cells on Ecadherin biomimetic substrate by traction force microscopy

Name: Azita Gorji year 2015
Program: PhD thesis
Project title: Study the effect of SHP2 and PTP1B inhibition on Tyrosine phosphorylation of catenins and VE-cadherin

MD students

Name: Marianne Schmidt year 2008
Program: Research project
Project title: Inflammatory potential of uromodulin

Grants
- Year 2020 Concurso Anillos en Ciencia y Tecnología 2019. Project Title: ¨Multiscale mechanics and self-organizing processes in developing Systems¨ (Conicyt: ACT192015)
- Year 2019 Fondo Semilla (Interdisciplinary Research funding call 2018) - Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago de Chile. Project Title: ”Accessing cadherin clustering dynamics via gold nanopatterning”.
- Year 2011 Jubiläumsfonds der Oesterreichisches National Fund (OeNB) Austria. Project Title: “Charakterisierung und therapeutische Elimination von Mikropartikeln bei Patienten mit Sepsis” (Characterization and therapeutic elimination of microparticles in patients with severe sepsis and septic Shock).
- Year 2010 Tiroler Wissenschaftsfond (TWF) Austria- n.: D-151610-034-011. Project Title: “An epithelial-endothelial co-culture model to study the role of NOS in inflammatory processes”.
- Year 2008 Vasopharm Austria. Project title: “Mechanism of VAS203 Effects on Function of Human Renal Epithelial Cells”.

Invited seminars
- Invited seminar, July 2019, Hosted by Prof. A. Cavalcanti, Max Planck Institute, Heidelberg, Germany
- Invited seminar, February 2019, Yale-NUS, Singapore.
- Invited talk at Seminarios de departamento de Biología Celular y Molecular, March 2019, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago de Chile
- Invited talk at Workshop DF y IIBM, 29th June 2018, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago de Chile
- Invited talk at SMART (Singapore MIT alliance), hosted by Prof K. Van Vliet, January 2018, Singapore
- Invited speaker at the 3rd International Conference on Mechanobiology (ISMB2017), 11th-14th Dec, 2017, Singapore.
- Invited speaker at Superresolution Microscopy Workshop 2017 (SRM 2017), 21th-24th Nov, 2017, Singapore
- Invited talk hosted by Prof P. Dietl, Professor of Physiology, Chair Institute of General Physiology, University of Ulm. 29th November-1st December 2016 Ulm, Germany.
- Invited talk hosted by Prof P. Dietl, Professor of Physiology, Chair Institute of General Physiology, University of Ulm. 16th-19th December 2015 Ulm, Germany.
- Invited talk hosted by Prof P. Dietl, Professor of Physiology, Chair Institute of General Physiology - University of Ulm. 4th-5th April 2012 Ulm, Germany.