Undergraduate studies:

Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay, 2000-2007. Major: Biology.

 

Master studies:

Universidad de la República, PEDECIBA, Montevideo, Uruguay, 2007-2009. Major: Genetics.

Advisor: Dr. Héctor Musto

Thesis title: "Analysis of genomic patterns in completely sequenced Mollicutes, with emphasis on Mycoplasmas"

 

Doctoral studies:

Universidad de la República, PEDECIBA, Montevideo, Uruguay, 2010-2013. Major: Biology.

Advisor: Dr. Héctor Musto

Thesis title: "Evolution of selective synonymous codon and amino usage bias "

 

Postdoctoral position:

Departamento de Bioquímica y Genómica Microbiana & Departamento de Genómica, Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas Clemente Estable (IIBCE-MEC), Montevideo, Uruguay, 2013-2016.

Advisors: Dr. Elena Fabiano & José Sotelo-Silveira

Project Tiltle: "Genomic analysis of new species of native beta-rhizobium".

 

Short Internships:

- Francisco Penagaricano Lab. Department of Animal Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA, 2016. Research Topic: Animal Genomics.

- Arndt G Benecke Lab. Institut de Biologie Paris Seine Université Pierre & Marie Curie, France, 2015. Research Topic: Systems Biology Analysis, Transcriptome data integration into flux balance analysis.

- Hasan Khatib Lab. Department of Animal Sciences, University of Wisconsin Madison, USA, 2014. Research Topic: Genetic and genomic aspects of type 2 diabetes. RNA-seq analysis of transcriptomes of insulin resistant individuals.

- Federico G. Hoffman Lab. Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology - Mississippi State University, USA, 2013. Research Topic: Comparative Genomics, Gene Family Evolution.

- Dr. Gonzalo Rincon. Animal Genomics Laboratory, Department of Animal Science - University of California - Davis, USA, 2011. Research Topic: RNA-seq data Analysis, Identification of Long non-coding RNAs.