🇨🇭 Caroline Manzano

Caroline Manzano

Diplôme de l’école de laborants médicaux (Geneva)
Laboratory technician
Caroline.Manzano [at] unige.ch



Caroline is a lab technician and has been working in the CMU (Medical School) in Geneva for many years. For the last 10 years, Caroline has worked in different microbiology labs and on different topics, primarily with S. aureus and P. aeruginosa. In her spare time, Caroline loves reading, walking her dog, skiing and travelling around the world.

1. An essential protease, FtsH, influences daptomycin resistance acquisition in Enterococcus faecalis.  Nair ZJ, Gao IH, Firras A, Chong KKL, Hill E D, Choo PY, Colomer-Winter C, Chen Q, Manzano C, Pethe K, Kline KA. Molecular microbiology. (2024).
2. RNase J1 and J2 Are Host-Encoded Factors for Plasmid Replication. Guimarães VA, Le Scornet A, Khemici V, Hausmann S, Armitano J, Prados J, Jousselin A, Manzano C, Linder P, Redder P. Front Microbiol. (2021).
3. The DEAD-box RNA helicase CshA is required for fatty acid homeostasis in Staphylococcus aureus. Khemici V, Prados J, Petrignani B, Di Nolfi B, Bergé E, Manzano C, Giraud C, Linder P. PLoS Genet. (2020).
4. The Staphylococcus aureus Chaperone PrsA Is a New Auxiliary Factor of Oxacillin Resistance Affecting Penicillin-Binding Protein 2A. Jousselin A, Manzano C, Biette A, Reed P, Pinho MG, Rosato AE, Kelley WL, Renzoni A. Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy. (2015).
5. Genetic variation in the Staphylococcus aureus 8325 strain lineage revealed by whole-genome sequencing. Bæk KT, Frees D, Renzoni A, Barras C, Rodriguez N, Manzano C, Kelley WL. PloS one. (2013).
6. Identification and analysis of functional elements in 1% of the human genome by the ENCODE pilot project. ENCODE Project Consortium, Nature. (2007).