Luis Fernando Larrondo Castro
Associate Professor
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Santiago, Chile
Circadian Rhythms, fungal genetics, photobiology, fungal genomics, synthetic biology
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Cell and Molecular Biology, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE. Chile, 2003
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Biochemistry, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE. Chile, 1999
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Postdoctoral Fellow Full Time
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE
Hanover, Estados Unidos
2004 - 2009
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Assistant Professor Full Time
PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE
Ciencias Biologicas
Santiago, Chile
2009 - 2014
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Associate Professor Full Time
PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE
Ciencias Biologicas
Santiago, Chile
2014 - A la fecha
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Director Full Time
Millennium Nucleus for Fungal Integrative and Synthetic Biology
Santiago, Chile
2013 - 2017
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Director Other
Millennium Institute for Integrative Biology (iBio)
Santiago, Chile
2018 - A la fecha
Ph.D. THESIS DIRECTION
- Yerko Lovera 2029 (Expected; co-supervised with Dr. Consuelo Olivares-Yañez U. Mayor)
- Lilian Toro 2029 (Expected)
- Hugo Munoz 2028 (Expected; co-supervised with Dr. Magdalena Walczak UC)
- Carlos Ruiz 2028 (Expected; co-supervised with Dr. Pablo Marquet, U. Mayor)
- Gabriel Vera 2027 (Expected; co-supervised with Dr. Enrico Resende, UC)
- Carlos Corrial 2027 (Expected; co-supervised with Dr. Elena Vidal, U. Mayor)
- José Ignacio Costa 2026
- Rodrigo Pérez 2024
- Vicente Rojas 2023
- Verónica del Rio 2022
- Marlene Henriquez 2020 (Co-supervised with Dr. Paulo Canessa, UNAB)
- Verónica Delgado 2020
- Alejandra Goity 2019
- Felipe Muñoz 2019
- Rodrigo Diaz 2016
- Consuelo Olivares-Yañez 2015
- Montserrat Hevia 2015
- Alejandro Montenegro-Montero 2014
UNDERGRADUATE THESIS DIRECTION
- Catalina Ardiles 2026 (Co-supervised with Dr. Wladimir Mardones, iBio)
- Catalina Muñoz 2025 (Co-supervised with Francisco Cubillos, USACH)
- José Magaña 2025 (Co-supervised with Dr. Alejandra Goity, iBio)
- Roberto Sanhueza 2025
- Isabella Bresciani 2024
- Lilian Toro 2023
- Leonardo Guzmán 2022
- Sebastian Denhardt 2022
- Cyndi Tabilo 2021
- Valeria Eltit 2021
- Andrés Romero 2019
- Vicente Rojas 2016
- Hanna Muller 2015
- Pilar Alessandri 2015
- Claudia Villegas 2015
- Alejandro Stevens-Lagos 2012
- Alejandra Goity 2012
- Felipe Muñoz 2010
POSTDOCTORAL SUPERVISION
Year Finished Name Current Position
2024 Wladimir Mardones Young Investigator iBio
2025 Verónica Del Rio Postdoc IIMB-UC
2025 Vicente Rojas Postdoc, Cancer Research Center of Marseille
2023 Alejandra Goity Postdoc/Young Investigator iBio
2022 Verónica Delgado Patent Expert UTEM
2021 Felipe Muñoz Young Investigator iBio
2018 Aldo Seguel Entrepreneur
2017 Consuelo Olivares-Yañez Assistant Professor, U. Mayor, Chile
2017 Francisco Salinas Associate Professor, Univ. Austral de Chile
2017 Veronique Hill. Research Assistant, Inst. Curie, France)
2016 Alejandro Montenegro-Montero Executive Editor, CSH Protocols, CSHL Press
2016 Montserrat Hevia Entrepreneur
EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES.
Editorial Boards
2009- 2017: Member of the editorial board. Applied and Environmental Microbiology (ASM)
2014- present: Member of the editorial board. Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group)
2014- present: Member of the editorial board. Fungal Biology and Biotechnology (BMC)
2015- present: Member of the editorial board. Biological Research (BMC)
2018- present: Member of the editorial board. Frontiers in Microbiology
2019- present: Member of the advisory editorial board. Genetics & Genomics Next (Wiley)
2019- present: Member of the editorial board. Infection & Immunity (ASM)
2019- 2026: Member of the board of reviewing editors. eLife
2023- 2023: Invited Editor Annual Reviews in Microbiology
2023- present: npj Biological Timing and Sleep
2025- present: Mycology (Taylor & Francis)
Ad-hoc Reviewer
Applied & Environmental Microbiology, Scientific Reports, Fungal Genetics and Biology, mBio, PLoS Genetics, Eukaryotic Cell, PLoS ONE, PNAS, Marine Biotechnology, Applied Microbiology & Biotechnology, BMC Biology, Journal of Biological Rhythms, Microbial Biotechnology, Current Genetics, Journal of Applied Microbiology, Free Radical Biology & Medicine, BMC Genomics, Plant, Cell & Environment, G3, ACS Synthetic Biology, Fungal Biology, Environmental Microbiology, Nucleic Acids Research, New Phytologist, Nature, Nature Protocols, ISME Journal, Current Biology, Molecular Plant Pathology, Trends in Plant Science, JoVE, mSpectrum, Nature Communications, Communications Biology, Postharvest Biology and Technology, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.
- Patent application (INAPI) 201603010, “A yeast optogenetic expression system”
- Patent application (INAPI) 3363-2016, “Method for high-throughput screening of substances for the control of phytopathogenic fungi, based on genetically modified strains”
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International Research Scholars
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Estados Unidos, 2017
HHMI funds exceptionally talented scientists and educators to advance the front lines of biomedical research and train the next generation of scientific leaders.
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Young Affiliated member
TWAS
Italia, 2011
Elected as Young Affiliated member of the Academy of Science for the Developing World (TWAS)
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PEW Postdoctoral Latin American Fellowship in the Biomedical Science
THE PEW CHARITABLE TRUSTS
Estados Unidos, 2004
2004-2006
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Medalla Herman Niemeyer
SOCIEDAD DE BIOQUIMICA DE CHILE
Chile, 2002
Receives the Herman Niemeyer award given by the SBBCH (Sociedad de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular de Chile) as a distinguished Ph.D. student.
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Aschoff's Rule
Society for Reserach on Biological Rhythms
Estados Unidos, 2017
Prize given every year to a scientists who has advanced the field of chronobiology
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AAM
American Academy of Microbiology
Estados Unidos, 2020
Elected member of the American Academy of Microbiology
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ACAL
Academia de Ciencias de America Latina y el caribe
Venezuela, 2019
Elected Member of ACAL
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Corresponding Member Chilean Academy of Sciences
ACADEMIA CHILENA DE CIENCIAS
Chile, 2025
Incorporated as corresponding member of the academy
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Pontifical Academy of Sciences
Pontifical Academy of Sciences
Vaticano, 2025
4th Chilean in becoming a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences
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EMBO Associate Member
EMBO
Alemania, 2026
4th Chilean in becoming a member of EMBO
Exploiting Fungal Photobiology as a Source of Novel Bio-blocks for Optogenetic Systems |
The Clock Keeps on Ticking: Emerging Roles for Circadian Regulation in the Control of Fungal Physiology and Pathogenesis |
Daniela Seelenfreund
Profesor Asociado
Bioquímica y Biología Molecular
FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS QUÍMICAS Y FARMACÉUTICAS, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE
Santiago, Chile
Francisco Melo
Profesor Titular
Genetica Molecular y Microbiologia
PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE
Santiago, Chile
Rubén Polanco
Associate Professor
Biological Sciences
UNIVERSIDAD ANDRÉS BELLO (UNAB)
SANTIAGO, Chile
Alexis Rivas
Investigador Postdoctoral
Instituto de Neurociencias Biomédicas
Universidad de Chile
Santiago, Chile
Gloria Levican
Académica Profesora Titular
Departamento de Biología
UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE CHILE
Santiago, Chile
Luis Castillo
Profesor Asociado
de Biología
UNIVERSIDAD DE LA SERENA, FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS, DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOLOGÍA
La Serena, Chile
Luis Larrondo
Associate Professor
Genetica Molecular y Microbiologia
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Santiago, Chile
RODRIGO DIAZ
Asesor científico
Centro de Innovación UC Anacleto Angelini
Fast Genetic Solutions
Santiago, Chile
Tomas Perez-Acle
Full Professor
Computational Biology Lab
Fundación Ciencia para la Vida
Santiago, Chile
Carlos Lagos
Profesor Asociado
FACULTAD DE MEDICINA Y CIENCIA
UNIVERSIDAD SAN SEBASTIÁN
SANTIAGO, Chile
Gino Corsini
Director Instituto Ciencias Biomédicas
Instituto de Ciencias Biomédicas
Universidad Autónoma de Chile
Santiago, Chile
Francisco Salinas
Profesor Asociado
Instituto de Bioquímica y Microbiolgía
Universidad Austral de Chile
Valdivia, Chile
Francisco Cubillos
Investigador Asociado
Departamento de Biologia
Universidad de Santiago de Chile
Santiago, Chile
Claudio Martinez
Profesor Titular
Departamento de Ciencia y Tecnología de Alimentos
Universidad de Santiago de Chile
Santiago, Chile
Paulo Canessa
Associate Professor
Facultad de Ciencias de la Vida
Universidad Andrés Bello
Santiago, Chile
José Gárate
Profesor Asistente
Instituto de Neurociencia
Universidad de Valparaíso
Valaparaiso, Chile
Raul Araya
Profesor Asistente
Facultad de Ingenieria y Tecnologia
Universidad San Sebastián
Santiago, Chile
Alejandra Goity
Investigador postdoctoral iBio
Genética Molecular
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Santiago, Chile
Veronica Delgado
Investigador postdoctoral
Genética Molecular y Microbiología
Instituto Milenio de Biología Integrativa (iBio)
Santiago, Chile
Tomas Peña
Candidato Doctor en Biotecnología
Departamento de Biología
Laboratorio de Genética Molecular, Universidad de Santiago de Chile
Santiago, Chile