Ciencia Puerto Rico

Project Title: Transcriptimic Analysis of Cobalt Stress on the Marine Yeast Debaryomyces hansenii
• RNAseq data analysis of extremophilic marine yeast exposed to subtoxic levels of cobalt.
• Use of bioinformatic software and databases in the transcriptomic approach for analysis of the genetic response of the yeast.
• Performed yeast cultivation, growth, exposure to cobalt, and RNA extraction; sequence mapping, expression analysis, and functional annotation.
• Expression confirmed via qRT-PCR approach via the Mx3005P analyzer (Stratagene). Performed primer design.
• Research paper on subject in submission process for FEMS Yeast Research.

Project Title: EFRI-HyBi-0938157: Bioengineering a System for the Direct Production Biological Hydrocarbons for Biofuels
• Performed cloning and heterologous expression of plant hydrocarbon producing gene in a marine yeast.
• Performed chemical mutations, DNA extraction, TA cloning, southern blot, western blot, and qRT-PCR for the expression and detection of target gene in the heterologous system.