Education

• B.S. Biology. Universidad Autónoma de Baja California. 1992.
• M.S. Biophysics. University of Rochester. 1996.
• Ph.D.. Biochemistry and Biophysics. University of Rochester. 1998.
• Post-Doctorate. Molecular Biology. Harvard University. 1998.

Current research

• Morphogenesis and Gene Regulation

ONGOING PROJECTS

• Biochemical and Molecular Analysis of Betalain Biosynthesis in Stenocereus queretaroensis. (CONACYT)

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Peter Hoboth, Ondřej Šebesta, Martin Sztacho, Enrique Castano, Pavel Hozák. Dual-color dSTORM imaging and ThunderSTORM image reconstruction and analysis to study the spatial organization of the nuclear phosphatidylinositol phosphates . MethodsX, 2021: (2021). https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2215016121001655.
• Stefano Decle-Carrasco, Luis Carlos Rodríguez-Zapata, Enrique Castano. Plant viral proteins and fibrillarin: the link to complete the infective cycle. Molecular Biology Reports, 5: 25, (2021). https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11033-021-06401-1.
• P Hoboth, M Sztacho, O Šebesta, M Schätz, E Castano, P Hozák . Nanoscale mapping of nuclear phosphatidylinositol phosphate landscape by dual-color dSTORM. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids, 1866: 5, (2021). https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1388198121000160.
• Sandi Julissa Reyes-Hernandez, Jesus Alejandro Zamora-Briseno, Daniel Cerqueda-Garcia, Enrique Castano, Luis Carlos Rodriguez-Zapata . Towards an understanding of the role of intrinsic protein disorder on plant adaptation to environmental challenges . Cell Stress and Chaperones, 26: 6, (2021). https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12192-020-01162-5.
• Alejandro Pereira-Santana, Samuel David Gamboa-Tuz, Tao Zhao, M Eric Schranz, Pablo Vinuesa, Andrea Bayona, Luis C Rodríguez-Zapata, Enrique Castano . Fibrillarin evolution through the Tree of Life: Comparative genomics and microsynteny network analyses provide new insights into the evolutionary history of Fibrillarin. PLoS computational biology , 16: 13, (2021). https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?rev=2&id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008318.

PATENTS OR TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS

• Luis Carlos, Luis Figueroa, Alejandro Pereira and Enrique Castaño. Isolated transcription factors of Carica papaya and their application to obtain extreme temperature tolerating plants. 0087235 A1. USA. (2021).

RECOGNITIONS AND AWARDS

• 1991. Honor of Excellence. Universidad Autónoma de Baja California.
• 1991. Top Student in Mexico. Federal Government.
• 2010. Level II. Sistema Nacional de Investigadores. (CONACYT).