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Position
Investigador (PhD)
Tiago Amaro

PhD researcher, New Biopesticides

PhD in Plant Science, by the University of Dundee (Scotland, United Kingdom)

Areas of expertise:

Agricultural Sciences; Agricultural and Food Biotechnology; Biological Sciences: Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Microbiology

Previous positions:

Professor of Ecology and Botany at the Technological University of Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia

Post-doctoral Fellowship in the Laboratory led by Lucilla Lacumin at the University of Udine, Italy

4 scientific publications; h-index (Scopus): 3

Two relevant publications:

Amaro, T.M.M.M.; Rosa, D.; Comi, G.; Iacumin, L.. Prospects for the Use of Whey for Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) Production. Frontiers in Microbiology 10 (2019)
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2019.00992

Amaro, T.M.M.M.; Thilliez, G.J.A.; Mcleod, R.A.; Huitema, E.. Random mutagenesis screen shows that Phytophthora capsiciCRN83_152-mediated cell death is not required for its virulence function(s). Molecular Plant Pathology 19 5 (2017): 1114-1126
https://doi.org/10.1111/mpp.12590