Adriana Alvarez

Ph.D. Graduate Student

310 BioAgEng Building

1390 Eckles Ave

St. Paul, MN 55108

alvar353@umn.edu

Education

Ph.D. (In progress) - Bioproducts and Biosystems Science, Engineering and Management (BBSEM), University of Minnesota

M.Sc. - Biotechnology of Microorganisms, University of the Andes, Merida-Venezuela, 2011

B.S. - Biology, National University of Colombia, Bogota-Colombia, 2005

Degree

Ph.D.

Advisor

Rob Gardner

Areas of Interest

My research interests focus on the potential applications of microorganisms in the industry and the environment. Recently, I joined prof. Rob Gardner’s group as a PhD student to explore the potential use of photosynthetic microbes as renewable energy systems to sustainably produce biofuels, biofertilizers, and/or specialty chemicals from sunlight and atmospheric gases.

Select Publications

Álvarez, A., Castro, R., Izaguirre, C., Morillo, O., García, P. (2011) Degradación y desacetilación de quitina coloidal por acción de una quitinasa bacteriana y una desacetilasa de quitina fúngica. Revista Iberoamericana de Polímeros 12(6), 300-307. Title translation: Cholloidal chitin degradation and deacetylation by the action of a bacterial chitinase and a fungal chitin deacetylase.

Castro, R., Álvarez, A., Machado, E., Mendoza, M., Gómez, R., García, P. (2011) Caracterización de una quitinasa extracelular producida por Serratia sp. BIOMI-363706 usando quitina coloidal como sustrato. Revista de la Sociedad Química del Perú 77(2), 101-108. Title translation: Characterization of an extracellular chitinase produced by Serratia sp. BIOMI-363706 with cholloidal chitin as substrate.

Salve, A., Pichel, M., Wiesner, M., Hidalgo, M., Terragno, R., Álvarez, A., Agudelo, C.I., Castañeda, E., Binsztein, N. (2006) Molecular subtyping ofSalmonella enterica serovar Typhi isolates from Colombia and Argentina. Foodborne pathogens and disease 3(1), 142-152.