Bioprospección de microorganismos de ambientes naturales, minería de genomas, screening de cepas con capacidad antibiótiótica, taxonomía microbiana, microbiota de plantas, desarrollo de inoculables microbianos.

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XXIV Congreso Latinoamericano de Microbiología. Santiago, Chile, noviembre 13–16 2018. Presentación oral: L.M. Barra-Bucarei, A. France, J.F. Castro: “Colección Chilena de Recursos Genéticos Microbianos: importancia estratégica para el desarrollo científico y tecnológico a nivel nacional e internacional”.
Congreso Iberoamericano de Biotecnología BioIberoamérica2016, Salamanca, España, junio 5–8, 2016. Presentación oral: B.A. Andrews, V. Razmilic, J.F. Castro, J.P. Gomez, A. Bull, M. Goodfellow and M. Jaspars: “Metabolic engineering of new Streptomyces sp. from extreme environments for novel antibiotics and anticancer drugs”.
ECI conference series: Biochemical and molecular engineering XIX: “Engineering next generation solutions”, Puerto Vallarta, México, julio 12–16, 2015. Presentación de póster: J.A. Asenjo, V. Razmilic, J.F. Castro, J.P. Gomez-Escribano, A. Bull, M. Goodfellow, M. Jaspars, M. Bibb and B.A. Andrews: “Metabolic engineering of new Streptomyces sp. from extreme environments for novel antibiotics and anticancer drugs”.
Conferencia “Directing Biosynthesis IV” de la Royal Society of Chemistry, John Innes Centre, Norwich, Reino Unido, marzo 25–27, 2015. Presentación de póster: J.P. Gomez-Escribano, J.F. Castro, V. Razmilic, B. Andrews, J.A. Asenjo y M. J. Bibb: “Streptomyces leeuwenhoekii C34 genome: de novo sequencing and assembly in single contigs of chromosome, circular plasmid pSLE1 and linear plasmid pSLE2”.
Escuela de verano “Microbial Specialised Metabolites: Origins and Applications”, IUC Dubrovnik, Croacia, septiembre 13–21, 2014. Presentación de póster: J.F. Castro, V. Razmilic, J.P. Gomez-Escribano, B. Andrews, J.A. Asenjo y M.J. Bibb: “Idenfication of the chaxamycin biosynthetic gene cluster from Streptomyces leeuwenhoekii”.
Escuela de verano “Microbial Specialised Metabolites: Origins and Applications”, IUC Dubrovnik, Croacia, septiembre 13–21, 2014. Presentación de póster: V. Razmilic, J.F. Castro, J.P. Gomez-Escribano, B. Andrews, J.A. Asenjo y M.J. Bibb: “Genome mining of Streptomyces leeuwenhoekii for the discovery of novel natural products”.
Conferencia “Society for General Microbiology Annual Conference 2014”. Arena and Convention Centre, Liverpool, UK, abril 14–17, 2014.
Conferencia “NSTI Nanotechnology Conference and Expo”, Boston, Massachusetts, EE.UU., junio 13–16, 2011. Presentación de póster: R. Valenzuela, J.F. Castro, M.C. Parra, J. Baeza y J. Freer: “Beta-glucosidase immobilization on synthetic superparamagnetic magnetite nanoparticles and their application in saccharification of wheat straw and Eucalyptus globulus pulps”.
VII Workshop CeBiB “Bioinformatics, metabolic engineering and genomics in biotechnological applications”. Hotel Panamericana Antofagasta, Antofagasta, Región de Antofagasta. Presentación oral y póster: J.F. Castro, M. Jaspars, R. Ebel, B. Andrews y J.A. Asenjo: “Mutasynthesis in Streptomyces leeuwenhoekii strain M1653 by feeding analogues of 3-amino-5-hydroxybenzoic acid (AHBA)”.
VII Workshop CeBiB “Bioinformatics, metabolic engineering and genomics in biotechnological applications”. Hotel Panamericana Antofagasta, Antofagasta, Región de Antofagasta. Presentación de póster: J.F. Castro, J.A. Asenjo, B. Andrews y M. Goodfellow: Selective amplification of the 16S rRNA gene of the genus Rubrobacter in community DNA samples using genus-specific primers”.
VII Workshop CeBiB “Bioinformatics, metabolic engineering and genomics in biotechnological applications”. Hotel Panamericana Antofagasta, Antofagasta, Región de Antofagasta. Presentación de póster: F. Marchant, J.F. Castro, B. Andrews, J.A. Asenjo y M. Goodfellow: “Genotyping of two strain novel of Modestobacter sp. in extreme hyper-arid Atacama Desert soils”.
V Workshop CeBiB “Bioinformatics, metabolic engineering and genomics in biotechnological applications”. Hotel Bellavista, Puerto Varas, Región de Los Lagos. Presentación oral y póster: J.F. Castro, M. Goodfellow, A.T. Bull, B. Andrews, J. Tabudravu, M. Jaspars y J.A. Asenjo: “Looking for novel natural products produced by microorganisms from the Atacama Desert”.
Workshop “Bioprospecting the Atacama desert: the discovery and enhancement of novel therapeutic drugs from actinomycetes”, Centre for Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, noviembre 8–9, 2016. Presentación oral: J.F. Castro: “Description of bacterial species from the Atacama desert”.
III Workshop CeBiB “Genomics, Metabolic Engineering and Bioinformatics in Biotechnological Applications”. Hotel Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, Región del Libertador General Bernardo O’Higgins, diciembre 2–4, 2015. Presentación oral: J.F. Castro: “Bioinformatic identification of the chaxalactin biosynthesis genes of Streptomyces leeuwenhoekii C34”.
II Workshop CeBiB “Bioinformatics and mathematical modelling in biotechnological, molecular genetics and physiological applications”. Hotel Manquehue, Santiago, 8–10 julio, 2015. Presentación de póster: V. Razmilic, J.F. Castro, J.P. Gomez-Escribano, M.J. Bibb, B. Andrews, J.A. Asenjo: “Development of a genome scale model of Streptomyces leeuwenhoekii”.
Workshop CIByB “A microbiology overview of the Atacama desert: novel natural products of extreme environments”, Centre for Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, octubre, 30–31 2012. Presentación oral: J.F. Castro: “Biological synthesis of an antimicrobial compound from Streptomyces C34 in a heterologous host”.
I Congress CeBiB “Centre for Biotechnology and Bioengineering”, Marbella, Región de Valparaíso, noviembre 26–28, 2014. Presentación oral: J.F. Castro: “Heterologous expression as a powerful tool for the identification of biosynthetic gene clusters”.
V Workshop Institute for Cell Dynamics and Biotechnology “ICDB a Centre for Systems Biology”, Marbella, Región de Valparaíso, diciembre 5–7, 2011. Presentación oral: M.A. Campodónico, J.F. Castro, D. Vaisman, V. Razmilic, F. Mercado y J.A. Asenjo: “Reconstrucción a escala genómica de Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans ATCC 23270”.