BU / Researcher

Santy Peraza Echeverria

Researcher
Unit: Biotechnology
SNI: Candidate
Phone: (9)-942- 83- 30 Extension:202
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Education

• B.Sc. in Biology. Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, México1998.
• M.Sc. in Plant Biotechnology. Centro de Investigación Científica de Yucatán, México, 2000.
• Ph.D. in Plant Biotechnology. Queensland University of Technology, Australia, 2004.

Research Interests

• Tropical Crop Biotechnology: Engineering Disease Resistance
• Microalgal Biotechnology: Biofuels and Recombinant Proteins

Current Projects

• Transcription factors in papaya as a molecular platform to improve its tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses.
• Engineering black Sigatoka resistance in banana through programmed cell death.
• Functional analysis of disease resistance gene candidates in banana using RNA interference.
• Molecular cloning and characterization of disease resistance related genes in Citrus
• Metabolic engineering in microalgae to improve the production of triacylglycerides for biofuels
• Expression of recombinant proteins in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii for the agroindustry

Recent Publications

• Peraza-Echeverria S, Herrera-Valencia VA, James A. Disease Resistance Related Genes in Banana. In Genetics, Genomics and Breeding of Bananas. Ude G and Pillay M (Eds). CRC Press, NH, USA. Chapter 14: pp. 258-280. 2011.
• Herrera-Valencia VA, Contreras-Pool PY, López-Adrián SJ, Peraza-Echeverria S, Barahona-Pérez LF. The green microalga Chlorella saccharophila as a suitable source of oil for biodiesel production. Current Microbiology. 63: 151-157. 2011.
• Rivera-Solis RA, Peraza-Echeverria S, Herrera-valencia VA. La microalga verde Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: una nueva alternativa para la producción de proteínas recombinantes de interés médico.Ciencia. Octubre-Diciembre, V.62, N.4:  i2-i9. 2011
• Chuc-Uc J, Brito-Argáez L, Canto-Canché B, Tzec-Simá M, Rodríguez-García C, Peraza-Echeverría L, Peraza-Echeverría S, James-Kay A, Cruz-Cruz CA, Peña-Rodríguez LM, Islas-Flores I. The in vitro secretome of Mycosphaerella fijiensis induces cell death in banana leaves. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry . 49: 572-578. 2011.
• Islas-Flores I, Sánchez-Rodríguez Y, Brito-Argáez L, Peraza-Echeverria L, Rodríguez-García C, Couoh-Uicab Y, James A, Tzec-Simá M, Canto-Canché B, Peraza-Echeverría S. The amazing role of the group III of histidine kinases in plant pathogenic fungi, an insight to fungicide resistance. Asian Journal of Biochemistry. 6: 1-14. 2011.

Patents

• Dale JL, Peraza-Echeverria S. Banana resistance genes and uses thereof. United States Patent No. 7,601,887 B2 (Oct. 13, 2009), PCT/AU2004/001300, WO 2005/028651

Awards

• Member of the Mexican National Research System, Level Candidate
• 2001, PhD scholarship. CONACYT
• 2000, Best poster, VI CICY’s postgraduate congress.
• 1999, Best poster, V CICY’s postgraduate congress

Memberships

• American Phytopathological Society

Recommended Links

• http://www.apsnet.org/
• http://www.bspp.org.uk/ppigb/
• http://genome.jgi-psf.org/
• http://www.tigr.org/plantProjects.shtml