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BU / Researcher
Luis Manuel Peña Rodríguez
Present position: Senior Scientist
Academic Unit: Biotechnology
SNI: Nivel II
Telephone: +52-999-942-8330 ext. 159
e-mail:
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Education
- B.Sc. in Industrial Chemistry. Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas, 1978
- Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry. The University of Alberta-Canada, 1985
- Postdoctoral Fellow/Visiting Scientist. North Carolina State University-EUA, 1988
- Postdoctoral Fellow/Visiting Scientist. University of New Brunswick-Canada, 1993
- Sabbatical Leave. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2000
Research interests
- Bioprospecting. Detection, isolation and identification of biologically active metabolites from plants, fungi and plant tissue cultures.
- Chemical Ecology. The role of natural products in plant-pathogen and plant-insect interactions
- Chemotaxonomy. The use of natural products as chemotaxonomical markers.
Current Projects
- Evaluación de la actividad antituberculosa de derivados semisintéticos de azorellanos y mulinanos”. 2009-2011. Programa de Cooperación Bilateral México-Chile. CONACYT-CONICYT.
- La búsqueda de nuevos fármacos y la conservación de la biodiversidad de la península de Yucatán”. 2009-2011. Programa de Cooperación Bilateral México-Brasil. CONACYT-CNPq.
- Analysis of triterpene content in the model legume Lotus japonicus”. 2009-2011. The Royal Society International Programme (México-UK).
- Evaluación de los aceites esenciales y de las características ecológicas de especies aromáticas promisorias para el desarrollo de la agroindustria de esencias en Yucatán” (Colaboración. Investigador Responsable: Dra. Luz María Calvo Irabién; Unidad de Recursos Naturales CICY). 2009-20012. FOMIX-Yucatán.
- Purificación e identificación de metabolitos fitotóxicos, proteínas tipo NLPS y fitotoxinas lipofílicas,producidos por Phytophthora capsici y evaluación de su papel en el proceso infeccioso”. 2008-2011. SEP-CONACYT.
Recent Publications
- Molina-Salinas, G.M., L.M. Peña-Rodríguez, B.D. Mata-Cárdenas, F. Escalante-Erosa, S. González-Hernández, V.M. Torre de la Cruz, H.G. Martínez Rodríguez and S. Said-Fernández. “Flourensia cernua: hexane extracts, a very active mycobactericidal fraction from an inactive leaf decoction against pansensitive and panresistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis”. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Vol. 2011, Article ID 782503, 9 pages, 2011. doi:10.1155/2011/782503.
- García-Sosa K., A. Sánchez-Medina, S.L. Álvarez, S. Zacchino, N.C. Veitch, P. Simá-Polanco, and L.M. Peña-Rodriguez. “Antifungal activity of sakurasosaponin from the root extract of Jacquinia flammea”. Natural Product Research 25 (12), 1185-1189 (2011).
- Domínguez-Carmona D.B., F. Escalante-Erosa, K. García-Sosa, G. Ruiz-Pinell, D. Gutierrez-Yapu, M.J. Chan-Bacab, R.E. Moo-Puc, N.C. Veitch, A. Giménez-Turba, and L.M. Peña-Rodríguez. Metabolites from roots of Colubrina greggii var. Yucatanensis and evaluation of their antiprotozoan and cytotoxic activity. Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society. 22 (7), 1279-1285 (2011).
- Chuc-Uc J., L. Brito-Argáez, B. Canto-Canché, M. Tzec-Simá, C. Rodríguez-García, L. Peraza-Echeverría, S. Peraza-Echeverría, A. James-Kay, C.A. Cruz-Cruz, L.M. Peña-Rodríguez and I. Islas-Flores. “The in vitro secretome of Mycosphaerella fijiensis induces cell death in banana leaves”. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry. 49, 572-578 (2011).
- Bórquez, J., G.M. Molina-Salinas, L.A. Loyola, A. San-Martín, L.M. Peña-Rodríguez, and S. Said-Fernández. “A new azorellane diterpenoid from Azorella madreporica”. Natural Product Research, 25 (6), 653-657 (2011).
Awards
- Scientific Advisor for the International Foundation for Science. 2008 to date
- Investigador Nacional. (Nivel I, 1989-1995/1996-2002; Nivel II, 2002 to date)
- Special Award. 2003 CANIFARMA Award for Technological or Clinical Investigation in the Area of Pharmaceuticals for Human Use. México, DF, January 2004.
- IFS Silver Jubilee Award, given by the International Foundation for Science. June 2001.
- Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. 2000 to date
- Young Scientist Research Award at the postodoctoral level, given by the Agrochemicals Division of the American Chemical Society during the Third Chemical Congress of North America. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, June 1988.
Professional membership:
CV 
Oportunidades de Investigación en Química de Productos Naturales ( archivo .ppt )
Last Updated on Monday, 17 August 2011 12:34
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