EDUCATION

July 2015- To date

Dr. rer. nat. Candidate. Molekulare Pflanzenwissenschaften. Dept. Biologie I – Botanik. Ludwing Maximilians Universität München

Feb 2010-July 2011

Public University of Navarra, Navarra, Spain

M.Sc. in Agrobiotechnology

Feb 98-Dec 01

Costa Rica Institute of Technology, Costa Rica

Degree in Biotechnology Engineering

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

January 14-To date

Biology School, Costa Rica Institute of Technology

Lecturer for the career of Biotechnology Engineering. Giving lectures and laboratory sessions of Genetic and Molecular biology

July 13-To date

Centre for Biotechnology Research. Costa Rica Institute of Technology

Principal investigator. Non-traditional implementation techniques of gene expression of human insulin, through plastid transformation of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum)

Feb13-To date

Centre for Biotechnology Research. Costa Rica Institute of Technology

Researcher. Induction of callus formation and establishment of cell suspension cultures of blackberry (Rubusadenotrichus var. "Vino") in order to scaling in bioreactor

Jan12-Jul 2015

Biology School, Costa Rica Institute of Technology

Head of degree program of Biotechnology Engineering. Organizing schedule classes, select and to employ professors

July 12-To date

Tissue Engineering Laboratory, Centre for Biotechnology Research. Costa Rica Institute of Technology

Researcher. Research in Tissue Engineering, as well as molecular biology cytotoxicity and viability assays

March 10-May 11

Agrobiotechnology Institute, Public University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain

Researcher. Tobacco chloroplast as a bio-factory for production of vaccines against Human Inmunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Master’s final work

July 01-Dec 12

Centre for Biotechnology Research. Costa Rica Institute of Technology

Head of Administration. In charge of administrative process.

Jan-Dec 08

Centre for Biotechnology Research. Costa Rica Institute of Technology

Researcher. Diversification by promoting agroforestry in partnership with farmers for the production of plants with bioactive components, in Huetar North and Atlantic regions of Costa Rica with input from state universities Costa Rica.

Feb 03 – Dec 08

Biology School, Costa Rica Institute of Technology

Lecturer for the career of Biotechnology Engineering. Giving lectures and laboratory sessions of Tissue Culture of Plants.

July 01-Dec 01

School of Biology, Costa Rica Institute of Technology, Cartago, Costa Rica

Researcher. Establishment of a protocol for propagation of Zantedeschia sp. Graduation project, ITCR.

Feb 01-Jun 01

School of Biology, Costa Rica Institute of Technology, Cartago, Costa Rica

Research Student. Establishment of a protocol for DNA extraction of Trypanosomacruzi.

Feb 00-Jun 01

Centre for Biotechnological Research (CIB), ITCR, Costa Rica

Project Assistant. In vitro micro propagation of orchids.

Dec 13

First place

Science Category, Costa Rica’s Ministry of Health First Health Fair on Science and Technology, (December 11-13, 2013). Poster cathegory. Ulloa-Fernández A., L.A. Calvo-Castro, M.I. Chaves Rodríguez, M. Jarquín-Cordero, C. Centeno-Cerdas, I. Moreira, E. Arnáez, M. Navarro and M. Rojas. “Jatropha curcas: a new candidate in the search for anticancer agents”

Second place

Science Category, Costa Rica’s Ministry of Health First Health Fair on Science and Technology, (December 11-13, 2013). Poster category. M. Jarquín-Cordero, W. Montero Carmona, D. García Gomez” Non-traditional implementation techniques of gene expression of human insulin, through plastid transformation of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum)”

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