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Hometown:
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Córdoba, Argentina
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Undergraduate Institution:
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National University of Córdoba, Title: Biochemist
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Graduate Institution:
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National University of Tucumán, Title: Ph.D. in Chemistry
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Project:
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Bioenergetics and Metabolic Regulation during Sporulation of
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Involvement of Nitrogen Metabolism in the triggering of Ethanol
Fermentation in aerobic chemostat cultures of Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Metabolic Engineering of Central Carbon Metabolism Pathways of
Corynebacterium glutamicum
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Interests:
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Interest in learning other languages, playing soccer, and editing
educational videos.
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Contact Information:
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MIT directory entry
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Misc:
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My research proposal to get the Ph.D. degree was based on the quantitative
characterization of the energy status and the metabolic flux distribution
when yeast cells underwent in the cellular differentiation process named
sporulation. As a step toward this goal, a methodology to estimate
intracellular fluxes was developed using biomass composition, specific
growth rate and the knowledge of the functional metabolic network of S.
cerevisiae. The first pos-doc training aimed at the study of Crabtree
effect exhibited by S. cerevisiae. The strategy was the perturbation of
ethanol fermentation through the carbon to nitrogen ratio and nature of
nitrogen source. The on going project is the in vivo quantification of
metabolic fluxes in chemostat cultures of Corynebacterium glutamicum under
various genetic and environmental conditions. This is a methodology based
on the determination isotope-labeling distribution by mass spectrometry.
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