FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS, PLANT DEVELOPMENT, ENVIRONMENTAL STRESSES, FRUIT TREES.

6 undergraduate thesis were mentored in topics related to plant development and plant molecular biology in stone fruit trees species (Prunus genus, Rosaceae family).
1 PhD thesis co-advised in the PhD in Botany from the Universidad de Concepción (Chile) about the environmental factors that regulate the mycorrhyza communities in the Chilean sclerophyll forest.
1 Postdoc supervised (FONDECYT 3160316) related to the use of Genotyping by Sequencing (GBS) in plant breeding selection of stone fruit rootstocks.
Participation in several Master and PhD thesis evaluation committees (Universidad de Talca, Chile; Universidad Federal de Pelotas, Brasil).
Participation as Scientific Project evaluator in FONDECYT/ANID/CHILE and FONCYT/CONICET/ARGENTINA.

Research stays:
-Plant Physiology Lab, Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto (UNRC, Argentina) PI: Dra. Virginia Luna. Period: 1 month, year: 2018. Activity: Determination of Hormone levels in Sweet Cherry floral buds by HPLC/MS-MS.
-Plant Physiology Lab, Universidad Federal do Pelotas (UFPel, Brasil) PI: Dr. Valmor Bianchi. Period: 1 week, year: 2019. Activity: Research collaboration in plant molecular biology in Prunus rootstocks. Seminar talk for Master and PhD students about the molecular responses of Prunus rootstocks to root hypoxia. Also, a research collaboration agreement was signed between CEAF-UFPel .
-Plant Molecular Lab, USDA/ARS, Corvallis, Oregon (USA) PI: Ruth Martin. Period: 3 months, year: 2014. Activity: Functional characterization of transcription factor genes isolated from Prunus roostocks.

Seminar talks and organization:
-Invited as main speaker in the XVIII Brazilian Congress of Plant Physiology and I Ibero-Latinamerican Congress of Plant Biology to be held in Porto Alegre, Brazil, (2021, September 19-22).
-Seminar talk: Molecular and hormonal basis of floral bud development in Sweet cherry (Prunus avium L.). Institute of Biology, Universidad de Talca, Chile. 2018.
-Seminar organization: Stone fruit rootstocks under a global climate change scenario: an Iberoamerican perspective. Rancagua, Chile. 11/14/2017. The speakers came from Spain, Brasil and Chile: TO the seminar assited undergradute and PhD student, growers, nurseries and consultants.
-Seminar talk: Transcriptome sequencing of Prunus sp. rootstocks roots to identify candidate genes involved in the response to root asphyxia. PhD Program in Plant Physiology, Universidad Federal de Pelotas, Brasil. 10/25/2017.
-Seminar talk: "Research and Science", “Flowering induction in sweet cherry (Prunus avium L.): a deep insight into the transcriptome and hormonal regulation of floral bud development”.Red de Gestión Tecnológica para el Agro, RGTA y PAR Explora O’Higgins. 12/16/2016.

Congress Organization
VIII Plant Biology Congress, Organization Committe-Chilean Society of Plant Biology. Pucón, Chile. 12/2-5/2013.

Workshop Organization
I International Workshop "Plant Rootstock Breeding with emphasis in stone fruit trees". The speakers came from Spain (Dra. Marian Moreno, CSIC; Dr. Jorge Pinochet, Agromillora), Brasil (Dr. Valmor Bianchi, UFPEL) and Chile (Dr. Nicola Fiore, UChile; Dra. Verónica Guajardo, CEAF): To the workshop assisted PhD students, Researchers, growers, nurseries and plant breeders. 11/14/2017-11/16/2017.

Science Outrech in the Scholar Society
-Speaker and co-organizer of Workshop: "Plant Cytogenetics and chromosomes". To the workshop assited teachers from public schools and they learned about the use of plant chromosomes and cytogenetics as tools to teach basic aspect of DNA organization and mitosis. In the International Seminar Scientific Education: a LatinAmerican perspective. PAR-EXPLORA O´higgins-CONICYT. Rancagua, 08/30/2016.