1) Mutations in whole-exome/genome sequences of tumors and of obese patients 2) Functional annotation of (meta)genomes 3) Discovery and re-engineering of enzymes for biotechnological applications 4) Evolution of function in families of proteins

Supervisor of Master & Undergraduate Students – Dept. Biology, U. Andrés Bello, Chile Mar ’13 - Present
I have supervised the research performed by students while performing their undergraduate rotations and Master thesis at the Center for Bioinformatics and Integrative Biology at Universidad Andres Bello. Students supervised are: José Soto, 2013-2014, Master in biochemistry; Daniel Pizarro, 2013-2014, Master in biochemistry; Juan Pablo Bascur, 2014, Master in biochemistry; Joselyn Peña, 2013, biotechnology engineering student; Nicole García, 2014, Master in biotechnology engineering; Catalian Valdivia, 2014, Master in biotechnology engineering; Paullett Arriagada, 2014, Master in biotechnology engineering.

Supervisor of Ph.D. Student’s Rotations – Dept. Bioeng. & Th. Sci., U. Calif. San Francisco, USA Jun ’08 - Nov '12
I directly supervised the research performed by students while performing their rotations at the Babbitt lab at UCSF. Graduate students supervised were: Marc Yago, 2010, pharmaceutical sciences and pharmacogenomics graduate student; Jaline Gerardin, 2009, biophysics graduate student; Emmanuel Yera, 2008, biomedical informatics graduate student.

Lecturer – Dept. Biology, Universidad Andrés Bello, Chile Mar ’13 – Present
Teaching undergraduate classes of up to 90 students. Courses being taught include: biochemistry (2nd year dentistry students and 1st year veterinary students; autumn ’13. 2nd year nursing students; spring '13); bioinformatics (3rd year biotechnology engineering students; autumn '13, autumn '14); bioinformatics and functional genomics (5th year biochemistry and 5th year biotechnology engineering students; autumn '13, autumn '14); enzyme informatics (5th year biochemistry and 5th year biotechnology engineering students; spring '13); protein engineering (5th year biochemistry and 5th year biotechnology engineering students; spring '13); bioinformatics of macromolecules (3rd year bioinformatics engineering students; spring '14).

Demonstrator for Theoretical Practicals – Dept. Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK Oct ’04 – Sep ’07
Teaching groups of up to 14 students how to carry out experiments and helping with the theory behind them. Courses taught included: chemical informatics (3rd year chemistry students; michaelmas term ’06-’07, lent term ’05-’06); part 2 chemistry (3rd year chemistry students; michaelmas term ’05-’06, lent term ’04-‘05); part 1B chemistry (2nd year chemistry students; lent term ’04-‘05).