Education

• B.S. Chemistry. Universidad Central de Las Villas. 1993.
• Ph.D. Food Sciences and Biotechnology. Instituto Tecnológico de Mérida. 2011.

Current research

• Bioenergy

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Edgar Olguin-Maciel, Anusuiya Singh, Rubi Chable-Villacis, Raul Tapia-Tussell and Héctor A. Ruiz. Consolidated Bioprocessing, an Innovative Strategy towards Sustainability for Biofuels Production from Crop Residues: An Overview. Agronomy, 10: 1834, (2020). https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy10111834.
• Raul Tapia-Tussell; Alejandrina Pereira‑Patrón; Liliana Alzate-Gaviria; Gabriel Lizama-Uc; Daisy Pérez-Brito and Sara Solis‑Pereira. Decolorization of textile effluent by Trametes hirsuta Bm-2 and lac-T as possible main laccase-contributing gene. Current Microbiology,: 1483-9, (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00284-020-02188-9.
• Olguin-Maciel, Edgar; Larqué-Saavedra, Francisco Alfonso; Lappe-Oliveras, P.; Barahona-Pérez, L.F.; Alzate-Gaviria, L.; Chable-Villacis, Rubi del Rosario; Domínguez-Maldonado, J.; Pacheco-Catalán, Daniella; Tapia Tussell Raúl. Consolidated Bioprocess for Bioethanol Production from Raw Flour of Brosimum alicastrum Seeds Using the Native Strain of Trametes hirsuta Bm-2. Microorganisms, 7: (2019). https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms7110483, 2019.
• Raul Tapia-Tussell, Raul E.Valle-Gough, IsaíasPeraza-Baeza, JorgeDomínguez-Maldonado, Muriel Gonzalez-Muñoza, Alberto Cortes-Velázquez, Rosa M. Leal-Bautista and LilianaAlzate-Gaviria. Influence of two polarization potentials on a bioanode microbial community isolated from a hypersaline coastal lagoon of the Yucatan peninsula, in México. Science of The Total Environment, 681: 258-266, (2019). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.05.120.
• Alejandrina Pereira-Patrón, Sara Solís-Pereira, Gabriel Lizama-Uc, Jorge H. Ramírez-Prado, Daisy Pérez-Brito and Raul Tapia-Tussell. Molecular Characterization of Laccase Genes from the Basidiomycete Trametes hirsuta Bm-2 and analysis of the 5′ untranslated region (5′UTR). 3 Biotech, 9: 160, (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13205-019-1691-y.

PATENTS OR TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS

• Francisco Alfonso Larqué-Saavedra; Raul Tapia-Tussell; Edgar Olguin-Maciel. Production of Ethanol from the Ramón Tree (Brosimum alicastrum). MX/a/2015/015190. Mexico. (2020).

RECOGNITIONS AND AWARDS

• 2001. Annual National Award for project “Somatic embryogenesis of sugar cane. Its application to in vitro propagation of this species.” Academia de Ciencias de Cuba.
• 2002. Annual National Award for project “Obtainment and rapid release of new pineapple genotypes through use of traditional and biotechnological breeding methods”. Academia de Ciencias de Cuba.
• 2020. Level II. Sistema Nacional de Investigadores. CONACYT.