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Gerardo Alejandro Cárcamo Oyarce

Postdoctoral researcher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


The influence of mucus and its components on the human microbiome. Specifically, its capacity to shape bacterial interactions, control bacterial virulence and promote bacterial coexistence

Educación

  •  Microbiology, UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH. Suiza, 2015
  •  Microbiology, UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCION. Chile, 2009
  •  Biochemestry, UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCION. Chile, 2007
  •  Biochemestry, UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCION. Chile, 2009

Experiencia Académica

  •   Colaborador docente Part Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCION

    Ciencias Biológicas

    Chile

    2007 - 2008

  •   Instructor Part Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DE LAS AMERICAS

    Ciencias de la Salud

    Concepción, Chile

    2009 - 2009

  •   Instructor Part Time

    Universidad del Desarrollo

    Odontología

    Concepción, Chile

    2009 - 2009

  •   Supervisor Part Time

    UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH

    Sciences

    Zurich, Suiza

    2010 - 2015

Experiencia Profesional

  •   Postdoctoral researcher Full Time

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Chile

    2016 - At present

  •   Postdoctoral researcher Full Time

    University of Zurich

    Zurich, Suiza

    2015 - 2016

  •   PhD student Full Time

    University of Zurich

    Zurich, Suiza

    2010 - 2015

  •   Instructor Part Time

    Universidad del Desarrollo

    Concepción, Chile

    2009 - 2009

  •   Instructor Part Time

    Universidad de las Américas

    Concepción, Chile

    2009 - 2009

  •   Research Assistant. Full Time

    Universidad de Concepción

    Concepción, Chile

    2009 - 2010

Premios y Distinciones

  •   SNSF (Swiss National Science Foundation) Early Postdoc Mobility fellowship

    Swiss National Science Foundation

    Chile, 2016

    Early Postdoc Mobility fellowship

  •   ASM Travel Grant Award

    American Society for Microbiology

    Estados Unidos, 2015

    ASM Travel Grant Award - Pseudomonas Meeting 2015, Washington, DC

  •   Bicentennial Becas-Chile fellowship to undertake PhD program

    CONICYT

    Chile, 2009

    fellowship to undertake PhD program

  •   CONICYT fellowship for Chilean Masters students

    CONICYT

    Chile, 2008

    CONICYT fellowship for Chilean Masters students


 

Article (10)

Engineering mucus to study and influence the microbiome

Werlang, Caroline; Cárcarmo-Oyarce, Gerardo; Ribbeck, Katharina

Article
Nature Reviews Materials  (2019)

The Compound 2-Hexyl, 5-Propyl Resorcinol Has a Key Role in Biofilm Formation by the Biocontrol Rhizobacterium Pseudomonas chlororaphis PCL1606

Calderón, Claudia E.; Tienda, Sandra; Heredia-Ponce, Zaira; Arrebola, Eva; Cárcamo-Oyarce, Gerardo; Eberl, Leo; Cazorla, Francisco M.

Article
FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY  (2019)

Mucins trigger dispersal of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms

Co, Julia Y.; Cárcamo-Oyarce, Gerardo; Billings, Nicole; Wheeler, Kelsey M.; Grindy, Scott C.; Holten-Andersen, Niels; Ribbeck, Katharina

Article
npj Biofilms and Microbiomes  (2018)

Prophage-triggered membrane vesicle formation through peptidoglycan damage in Bacillus subtilis

Toyofuku, Masanori; Cárcamo-Oyarce, Gerardo; Yamamoto, Tatsuya; Eisenstein, Fabian; Hsiao, Chien-Chi; Kurosawa, Masaharu; Gademann, Karl; Pilhofer, Martin; Nomura, Nobuhiko; Eberl, Leo

Article
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS  (2017)

Explosive cell lysis as a mechanism for the biogenesis of bacterial membrane vesicles and biofilms

Turnbull L. , Omasits U.; Ito S., Yap X.; Monahan LG., Cavaliere R.; Ahrens CH., Charles IG.; Nomura N., Eberl L.

Article
Nature Communications  (2016)

Quorum sensing triggers the stochastic escape of individual cells from Pseudomonas putida biofilms

Cárcamo-Oyarce G., Lumjiaktase P. ; Kümmerli R., Eberl L.

Article
Nature Communications  (2015)

Sigma 54-dependent response to nitrogen limitation and virulence in Burkholderia cenocepacia H111

Lardi M., Aguilar C.; Pedrioli A., Omasits U. ; Suppiger A., Cárcamo-Oyarce G.; Schmid N., Ahrens C.H.; Eberl L., Pessi G.

Article
Applied and Environmental Microbiology  (2015)

Inhibition of quorum sensing by drimane lactones from chilean flora

Cárcamo G., Silva M.; Becerra J., Urrutia H.

Article
Journal of the Chilean Chemical Society  (2014)

Drimendiol, a drimane sesquiterpene with quorum sensing inhibition activity

Paza, C.; Cárcamo, G.; Silva, M.; Becerra, J.; Urrutia, H.; Sossa, K.

Article
Natural Product Communications  (2013)

Image segmentation of biofilm structures using optimal multi-level thresholding

Rojas, D.; Rueda, L.; Ngom, A.; Urrutia, H.; Cárcamo, G.

Article
International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics  (2011)

BookSection (1)

Automatic Segmentation Methods and Applications to Biofilm Image Analysis

Rojas, Dario; Rueda, Luis; Urrutia, Homero; Cárcamo-Oyarce Gerardo; Ngom Alioune

BookSection
 (2011)

ConferencePaper (1)

Biofilm Image Segmentation Using Optimal Multi-Level Thresholding

Rojas D.; Rueda, L.; Ngom, A; Urrutia, H; Carcamo, G.

ConferencePaper ISI
2009 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BIOINFORMATICS AND BIOMEDICINE  (2009)

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Gerardo Cárcamo

Postdoctoral researcher

Department of Biological Engineering/ Research Laboratory of Electronics

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, Chile

1
Dario Rojas

Director de Escuela

Facultad de Ingeniería

Universidad Finis Terrae

Santiago, Chile

1
Homero Urrutia

Profesor titular

Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas

UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCIÓN

Concepción, Chile