Alicia Talavera Caro
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Email
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Location
Colchester Campus
Profile
- microbiology, molecular biology, environmental microbiology
Biography
I am an environmental microbiologist interested in answering key bioremediation questions. I have collaborated in a laboratory specialized microbiome's proteomics and their important role in the biodegradation pathways. I have worked on plant genomics, gene identification underlying metabolic pathways evaluating the single nucleotide polymorphisms regarding their allelic effect of transcription factor encoding genes. My interests for my PhD are to understand and investigate new insights into the unexplored short-term hydrocarbon cycle by identifying different microalgal hydrocarbons and the roles of uncultivated bacteria involved in their biodegradation, with a focus on analysing the associated genes, proteins, and metabolic pathways.
Qualifications
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BSc Biochemical Engineering Autonomous University of Coahuila (2020)
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MSc Biotechnology West Virginia State University (2023)
Research and professional activities
Thesis
Cryptic microbial hydrocarbon cycling in the ocean.
This study will advance understanding, and ultimately enable modelling, of a vast but hidden part of the global carbon cycle (potentially equivalent in importance as the methane and isoprene cycles), which contributes to the microbial loop in diverse ocean realms (as well as in lakes, hypersaline environments, microbial mats, where degradation may be bypassed to generate “young oil”), and may lead to formation of climate-active volatiles in the sea-surface microlayer. We will also learn to what
Supervisor: Professor Terence McGenity
