PBMBU / Researcher

María de Lourdes Miranda Ham Current position: Professor Level B Plant Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Unit SNI: Level I (2006-2009) Telephone: 52-999-942-8330 Ext.: 228 e-mail address: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Education

• 1984 B. Sc. Chemistry, Facultad de Química, UNAM
• 1987 M. Sc. Chemistry (Biochemistry), Facultad de Química, UNAM
• 1992 Ph. D. Chemistry (Biochemistry), Facultad de Química, UNAM

Current Field of Research

• In our research group, we are interested in studying how the placental tissues of habanero peppers (Capsicum chinense Jacq.) assimilate nitrogen from the soil to covert it, first into amino acids and then, into secondary metabolites, such as capsaicin.

Recent Publications

• Godoy-Hernández G. and M.L. Miranda-Ham, Marigold biotechnology: tissue culture and genetic transformation, Transgenic Plant Journal 1: 169-174, (2007).
• Vázquez-Flota F., M.L. Miranda-Ham, M. Monforte-González, G. Gutiérrez-Carbajal, C. Velázquez-García y Y. Nieto-Pelayo, La biosíntesis de capsaicinoides, el principio picante del chile, Revista Fitotecnia Mexicana 30: 353-360, (2007).
• Vázquez-Flota F., E. Hernández-Domínguez, M.L. Miranda-Ham and M. Monforte-González, A differential response to chemical elicitors in Catharanthus roseus in vitro cultures, Biotechnology Letters 31: 591-595, (2009).
• Qui J.A., L.A. Castro-Concha, K. García-Sosa, L.M. Peña-Rodríguez and M.L. Miranda-Ham, Differential effects of phytotoxic metabolites from Alternaria tagetica on Tagetes erecta cell cultures, Journal of General Plant Pathology 75: 331-339, (2009).
• Gutiérrez-Carbajal M.G., M. Monforte-González, M.L. Miranda-Ham, G. Godoy-Hernández and F. Vázquez-Flota, Induction of capsaicionoid synthesis in Capsicum chinense cell cultures by salicylic acid or methyl jasmonate, Biologia Plantarum, (2009). In press.

Awards

• 1992, TRAVEL AWARD, 2nd Joint Meeting of the Phytochemical Societies of Europe and North America, Miami, Florida, USA.
• 1993-2009, RESEARCHER LEVEL I, National Researchers System (SNI).
• 1995, REGULAR MEMBER, Mexican Academy of Sciences.
• 1997, NUMERARY MEMBER, Mexican Society of Biochemistry (SMB).
• 2010-2013, RESEARCHER LEVEL II, National Researchers System (SNI).