Rut Carballido Lopez also spelled Carballido-Lopez is a Spanish-born microbiologist and research team leader in France.
(INSA stands for the Institut National des Sciences Appliqués, and is one of France’s top engineering schools).
[1] She earned her Ph.D. at University of Oxford, United Kingdom, where she researched bacteria that possess homologues of eukaryotic actin, namely MreB proteins, that control cell shape.
[2] Carballido Lopez leads the prokaryotic cell development team, at the Micalis Institute, a joint research unit that links work from Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRAE), AgroParisTech and Paris-Saclay University.
The institute is a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization and is headed by Philippe Noirot, assisted by five deputy directors, one of whom is Carballido Lopez.