EDUCACIÓN

• Bachelor’s. Biochemistry ingener. ITSSY. 2010
• Master’s. Biological Sciences. CICY. 2014
• Doctorate. Biological Sciencies, Ph D. CICY. 2018
• Post-Doctorate. URN. CICY. 2019
• Post-Doctorate. Synthetic biology. LaBioSEM-UCOL. 2020

Current line of research

• Integrative metabolism

TEMÁTICAS ASOCIADAS DE INTERÉS

• Diseño y caracterización de circuitos biológicos programados para la síntesis de metabolitos con bioactividad a través de la biología sintética

PUBLICACIONES RECIENTES

• Yair Cárdenas-Conejo; Gerardo Rafael Argüello-Astorga; Daniel Alejandro García-Rodríguez; Daniel Alejandro Mendoza-Magaña; Bernardo Bañuelos-Hdz; Sara Centeno-Leija; Hugo Serrano-Posada; Laura Espinosa-Barrera; Edith Elena Uresti-Rivera; Raúl Loera-Valencia Endogenous Geminivirus-Like Elements in the Genus Rhododendron Provide Insights into the Evolutionary Origins of the Begomovirus Nuclear Shuttle Protein Plant Molecular Biology. 115:81. 1-24. 2025. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11103-025-01609-2.
• Jorge Aranda-Caraballo, Roberto A. Sáenz, Alonso A. López-Zavala, Beatriz Velazquez-Cruz, Laura Espinosa-Barrera, Yair Cárdenas-Conejo, Andrés Zárate-Romero, Oscar Linares-Vergara, Juan A. Osuna-Castro, Edgar Bonales-Alatorre, Sara Centeno-Leija and Hugo Serrano-Posada Binding Specificity of a Novel Cyclo/Maltodextrin-Binding Protein and Its Role in the Cyclodextrin ABC Importer System from Thermoanaerobacterales. Molecules. 16:6080 1-19. 2023. https://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/28/16/6080.
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• Ivón M. Ramírez‐Morillo, Laura A. Espinosa‐Barrera, Carolina Granados Mendoza, Sandra I. Vera‐Paz, Daniel D. Díaz Contreras Díaz, and Katya J. Romero‐Soler Expansions and contractions of the inverted repeat, as well as gene loss and potential pseudogenization shape plastome evolution in Hechtioideae (Bromeliaceae, Poales) Journal of Systematics and Evolution. 62(3). 1-17. 2023. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jse.13004.
• Sara Centeno-Leija, Laura Espinosa-Barrera, Beatriz Velázquez-Cruz, Yair Cárdenas-Conejo, Raúl Virgen-Ortíz, Georgina Valencia-Cruz, Roberto A. Sáenz, Yerli Marín-Tovar, Saúl Gómez-Manzo, Beatriz Hernández-Ochoa, Luz María Rocha-Ramírez, Rocío Zataraín-Palacios, Juan A. Osuna-Castro, Agustín López-Munguía, and Hugo Serrano-Posada Mining for novel cyclomaltodextrin glucanotransferases unravels the carbohydrate metabolism pathway via cyclodextrins in Thermoanaerobacterales. Scientific Reports. 12(1):730. 1-16. 2022. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-04569-x.
• Laura Espinosa-Barrera, Lorenzo F. Sánchez-Teyer, Adriana Quiroz-Moreno y José A. Narváez-Zapata. Identification and characterization of a new satellite-like DNA family in three Agave species. Plant Gene. 16. 8-18. 2018. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352407318300271?via%3Dihub.