Curriculum vitae
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NAME |
Tania
Hernández Hernández |
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DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH |
15th January 1980. |
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CURRENT ADRESS AND PHONE
NUMBERS |
PhD. Student Graduate Program in
Biology, UNAM Departamento de Botánica e-mail: |
PhD
Student
2006 -
Instituto de Biología, Universidad
Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM
Mexico City, México.
Project: Origin and
diversification of mexican cacti.
Principal Advisor: Dra.
Susana Magallón Puebla
MS Biology
(Systematics)
2002/2004
Instituto de Ecología, Universidad
Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM
Ecology Institute. National Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM
Mexico City, México.
Master in Biological Sciences/ Systematics and Evolutionary Biology (2 years).
PROJECT: Molecular
Evolution of Class B MADS-Box Genes and their role in Plant Development
Principal Advisor:
Dra.
Elena Alvarez-Buylla Roces
BS Biology
1998/2003
Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México, UNAM.
Sciences School, National Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM
Mexico City, México.
BS Hons. Biology.
Projects:Molecular
characterization and preliminary functional analysis of a mutant of flower
development in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Advisors: Dra.
Alicia Gamboa de Buen
Dra. Elena Alvarez-Buylla Roces
Academic and extracurricular activities
07/2006 – Oral Presentation at the
Botanical Society of America Congress, Chico, CA, USA. Participation in the
Developmental and Structural Section. Title: Functional diversification of B
MADS-Box homeotic regulators of flower development: adaptive evolution in
protein-protein interaction domains after major gene duplication events.
Awarded with the Vernon I. Cheadle Student Travel Grant.
10/2004-10/2005 – Research Assistant. Segovia
Lab. Instituto de Biotecnología, UNAM. Cuernavaca, Morelos. México. Research
Project: Evolutionary profiles of protein families: the role of evolution in
the conservation of protein folding types. Bioinformatic analysis of genetic
sequences.
06/2005 – Poster Presentation at the
XVII International Botanical Congress, Vienna, Austria. Title: Assessing adaptive evolution in
homeotic B MADS-Box genes. Implications in the evolutionary history of flower
development. Awarded with a MORPH Research Network Travel Grant.
08/2004 - Attendance to the Workshop on Molecular Evolution,
Marine Biological Laboratory. Woods Hole, MA.
06/2004-09/2004 - Visiting Scientist. University of
New Mexico, Albuquerque NM. Sponsored by the Consortium of the Americas
for the Interdisciplinary Science.
03/2004 - Attendance to the Symposia "Bioinformatics in the Post-Genomic Era" , in Puerto Vallarta, México
09/2003-02/2004 - Professor at Facultad de Ciencias,
UNAM. Course given: Molecular Evolution (Genomics, Molecular Systematics,
Bioinformatics etc.)
12/2003 - Attendance to the Workshop: "Interdisciplinary approaches to some complex
biological systems"
in Instituto de Física, UNAM. Mexico City.
03/2003 - Founder and member of the graduated
students association called "Study Group on Evolution", devoted to
the discussion of different ideas on evolutionary biology
11/2002 - Attendance to the IV Latin-American School of Mathematic-Biology in
Guanajuato, Mexico.
07/2002 - Attendance and collaboration in the
organization of the International Congress Oaxaca ISSOL 2002 (International Society for the Study
of the Origins of Life)
2001-2002 - University Student Councilor.
Sciences School (Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM).
Computing courses taken
05/2003 - Introduction to programming
(DGSCA-UNAM)
02/2004 - Operating System Linux (DGSCA-UNAM)
04/2004 - Structured programming with C
(DGSCA-UNAM)
Fellowships and awards
2007 –Cactus and Succulent Society of America
research fellowship.
2006 - CONACYT (Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y
Tecnología) fellowship for graduated studies.
2006 –Vernon I. Cheadle students grant for presentation at the
BSA 2006, Chico, CA.
2005 –MORPH Research Network travel grant at IBC, Vienna 2005.
2005 – Best M.Sc. thesis work at Instituto de
Ecología, UNAM
Abilities and Interests
Particularly familiar with
evolutionary biology (comparative methods, evolutionary theory), developmental
biology (plants), molecular evolution (software handling and statistical
analysis of genetic and genomic sequences). Special interest in Evo-Devo.
Handling software on sequence analysis like
Clustal, Blast, Fasta, PAML, HYPHY; on molecular phylogenetics like PAUP,
MrBayes, MEGA and use of public sequence databases.
Proficent in experimental
molecular biology (basic techniques like PCR, RT-PCR, cloning, etc.). Molecular
systematics lab. work.
Publications
Hernández-Hernández Tania, Martínez-Castilla León P. y Elena A.
Alvarez-Buylla. (2007). Functional diversification of B MADS-box homeotic
regulators of flower development: Adaptive evolution in protein-protein
interaction domains after major gene duplication events. Mol Biol Evol. 24(2):465-81.
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