PBMBU / Researcher

Enrique Castaño de la Serna

Current position: Professor Level B
Telephone: 52-999-942-8330 Ext.: 242
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Education

• 1992 B. Sc. Biology, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California
• 1995 M. Sc. Biophysics, University of Rochester, USA
• 1997 Ph. D. Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Rochester, USA
• 1998 Postdoctoral fellowship, Molecular and Cell Biology, Harvard University, USA
• 2002 Postdoctoral fellowship, Gene regulation, Marie Curie Research Institute, England

Current Field of Research

• Define the mechanisms in which chromatin modification modulates basal and activated transcription
• Study of the regulation mechanism via RNA pol IVa and RNA pol V
• Study of gene regulation during cell differentiation

Recent Publications

• Solís-Ramos L.Y., T. González-Estrada, L.C. Rodríguez Zapata, A. Ku-González and E. Castaño, The mechanism of infection of Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Plant Biotechnology, (2009). In Press.
• Cano Sosa J., A. Ku González, L.C. Rodríguez-Zapata and E. Castaño, Phylogenetic analysis of WUSCHEL and WOX members in Oryza sativa, Plant Biotechnology, (2009). In Press.
• Solís-Ramos L.Y., T. González-Estrada, S. Nahuath-Dzib, L.C. Zapata-Rodriguez and E. Castaño, Overexpression of WUSCHEL in C. chinense causes ectopic morpogenesis, Plant Cell Tissue & Organ Culture, (2009).
• Arroyo-Herrera1, A. Ku Gonzalez1, R. Canche Moo1, F. R. Quiroz-Figueroa2, V. M. Loyola-Vargas1, L. C. Rodriguez-Zapata3, C. Burgeff D′Hondt2, V. M. Suárez-Solís4 and E. Castaño, Expression of WUSCHEL in Coffea canephora causes ectopic morphogenesis and increases somatic embryogenesis, Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture 94: 171-180, (2008).
• Castano E. and R.D. Flores-Saaib, A mathematical approach for the transactivation of hERalpha. Philosophical Transactions A Math Phys Eng Sci. 13; 366:2253-63, (2008).

Awards

• 2002-2009, RESEARCHER LEVEL I, National Researchers System (Sistema Nacional de Investigadores, SNI).
• 2009-2013, RESEARCHER LEVEL II,  National Researchers System (SNI).
• Since 2004, REVIEWER, National Science Foundation.
• Since 2004, REVIEWER, CONACYT.
• Since 2004, EDITOR, Humana Press.