Education

• B.Sc. Chemistry. Universidad de Guanajuato. 1998.
• Ph.D. Biotechnology. Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados. 2004.
• Post-Doctorate. Plant Pathology. North Carolina State University. 2004-2008.

Current research

• Microoroganism Biotechnology

ONGOING PROJECTS

• Phylogenomics, biochemistry and biological role of filamentous fungi hyaluronic acid synthases. (CONACYT)
• Studies of Fungal Glycosyltransferases. (Independent)

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Duno de Stefano R., Tun Tun C., López Contreras J.E., Carnevali Fernández-Concha G., Leopardi-Verde C.L., Ramírez-Prado J.H., Can Itza L.L., Tamayo Cen I. Filogenia de Lysiloma (Fabaceae), un género restringido a Megaméxico con especies atípicas en las Antillas y Florida. Acta Botánica Mexicana, 128: e1782, (2021). https://doi.org/10.21829/abm128.2021.1782.
• Romero-García A.G., Prado-Rúbio O.A., Contreras-Zarazúa G., Ramírez-Marquez C., Ramírez-Prado J.H., Segovia-Hernández J.G. Simultaneous Design and Controllability Optimization for the Reaction Zone for Furfural Bioproduction. Industrail & Engineering Chemistry Research, 59(36): 15990-16003, (2020). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.iecr.0c02261.
• Cancino-García V.J., Ramírez-Prado J.H., De-laPeña C. Auxin perception in Agave is dependent on the species' Auxin Response Factors. Scientific reports, 10: 3860, (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-60865-y.
• Góngora-Castillo E, López-Ochoa LA, Apolinar-Hernández MM, Caamal-Pech AM, Contreras-de la Rosa PA, Quiroz-Moreno A, Ramírez-Prado JH*, O'Connor-Sánchez A*.    *corresponding authors. Data mining of metagenomes to find novel enzymes: a non-computationally intensive method. 3 Biotech, 10: 78, (2020). https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13205-019-2044-6.
• Escobar-Turriza P., Hernández-Guerrero R., Poot-Hernández A.C., Rodríguez-Vázquez K., Ramírez-Prado J., Pérez-Rueda E. Identification of functional signatures in the metabolism of the three cellular domains of life. PLOS ONE, 14(5): e0217083, (2019). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0217083.

RECOGNITIONS AND AWARDS

• 2010. Matsumae Fellow. Matsumae International Foundation, Japan.
• 2010-2020. Level I. Sistema Nacional de Investigadores. (CONACYT)
• 2021-2024. Level II. Sistema Nacional de Investigadores. (CONACYT)

RECOMMENDED WEB PAGES

• ORCID. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2780-5223. HTML Format.
• Google Scholar. http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2AA5pggAAAAJ&hl=en. HTML Format.
• Curriculum Vitae. https://www.cicy.mx/Documentos/CICY/Investigacion/CV/UBT/2020/CV_Ramirez-Prado.pdf. PDF Format.