Current Status

• Assistant Professor of Plant Metabolic Engineering, Arkansas Biosciences Institute with a join appointment with the Chemistry and Physics Department
  

Education

• Ph.D. - Biotechnology, Institute of Biotechnology, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Cuernavaca, Mexico
• M.S. – Biotechnology, Institute of Biotechnology, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Cuernavaca, Mexico
• B.S. – Biochemical Engineering, Metropolitan Autonomous University - Iztapalapa, Mexico City, Mexico

Research Focus Areas:

• Study and manipulation of the ascorbate – cell wall metabolic network in plants, our current models of study are Arabidopsis, tobacco, lettuce, and potato
• Metabolic engineering for the improvement of the nutritional and agronomical value of crops
• Metabolic engineering of plant pathways leading to the formation of secondary metabolites with medicinal properties, our current models of study are tobacco and Galphimia glauca
• Metabolic engineering of Beauveria bassiana for asymmetric oxidation