{"id":603,"date":"2026-06-17T11:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T09:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/marinlab\/?page_id=603"},"modified":"2026-06-17T12:17:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T10:17:55","slug":"macarena-marin-arancibia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/marinlab\/people\/macarena-marin-arancibia\/","title":{"rendered":"Macarena Mar\u00edn Arancibia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignfull is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/marinlab\/files\/2024\/07\/Mac-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"(c) C. Bleese\" class=\"wp-image-323 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/marinlab\/files\/2024\/07\/Mac-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/marinlab\/files\/2024\/07\/Mac-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/marinlab\/files\/2024\/07\/Mac-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/marinlab\/files\/2024\/07\/Mac-768x767.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/marinlab\/files\/2024\/07\/Mac-540x540.jpg 540w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/marinlab\/files\/2024\/07\/Mac-1080x1079.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/marinlab\/files\/2024\/07\/Mac.jpg 1182w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Group leader<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-social-links is-layout-flex wp-block-social-links-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"wp-social-link wp-social-link-x wp-block-social-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MarinLab_\" class=\"wp-block-social-link-anchor\"><svg width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\"><path d=\"M13.982 10.622 20.54 3h-1.554l-5.693 6.618L8.745 3H3.5l6.876 10.007L3.5 21h1.554l6.012-6.989L15.868 21h5.245l-7.131-10.378Zm-2.128 2.474-.697-.997-5.543-7.93H8l4.474 6.4.697.996 5.815 8.318h-2.387l-4.745-6.787Z\" \/><\/svg><span class=\"wp-block-social-link-label screen-reader-text\">X<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\n<li class=\"wp-social-link wp-social-link-linkedin wp-block-social-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/macarena-mar%C3%ADn-3656a653\/\" class=\"wp-block-social-link-anchor\"><svg width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\"><path d=\"M19.7,3H4.3C3.582,3,3,3.582,3,4.3v15.4C3,20.418,3.582,21,4.3,21h15.4c0.718,0,1.3-0.582,1.3-1.3V4.3 C21,3.582,20.418,3,19.7,3z M8.339,18.338H5.667v-8.59h2.672V18.338z M7.004,8.574c-0.857,0-1.549-0.694-1.549-1.548 c0-0.855,0.691-1.548,1.549-1.548c0.854,0,1.547,0.694,1.547,1.548C8.551,7.881,7.858,8.574,7.004,8.574z M18.339,18.338h-2.669 v-4.177c0-0.996-0.017-2.278-1.387-2.278c-1.389,0-1.601,1.086-1.601,2.206v4.249h-2.667v-8.59h2.559v1.174h0.037 c0.356-0.675,1.227-1.387,2.526-1.387c2.703,0,3.203,1.779,3.203,4.092V18.338z\"><\/path><\/svg><span class=\"wp-block-social-link-label screen-reader-text\">LinkedIn<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6966-2446\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/marinlab\/files\/2024\/07\/orcid.logo_.icon_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-442\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1;object-fit:cover;width:35px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was born in a small town surrounded by mountains, like most towns in Chile. Later, I moved to Santiago to study Engineering in Molecular Biotechnology at the University of Chile, where I fell in love with microbiology. After graduating in 2006, I moved to Germany to join Dietmar H. Pieper&#8217;s group for my doctoral studies at the TU Braunschweig and Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research. There, I investigated the versatile metabolic pathways that <em>Pseudomonas<\/em> use to degrade complex aromatic molecules. Upon graduating in 2009, I realised my passion for microbes remained strong, but I wanted to learn how they interact with plants, despite knowing little about plants at the time. This led me to southern Germany, where I joined Thomas Ott&#8217;s lab at the LMU Munich. I studied how unfolded regions of plant-specific remorin proteins mediate protein interactions and began exploring how these proteins facilitate the interaction between legume plants and rhizobia bacteria. In 2015, I started my own lab at the LMU Munich, where I combined my newfound love for plants and my longstanding passion for microbes to investigate the legume-rhizobia root nodule symbiosis. In 2024, I was appointed Associate Professor at the Department of Plant <span style=\"font-size: revert;, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Molecular<\/span> Biology at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. Our group is funded by the University of Lausanne, the German Research Foundation, and the Swiss National Science Foundation<span style=\"font-size: revert;, Helvetica, sans-serif\">.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Image \u00a9 C. 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