Date of defense: 03-11-2023
Program: Biomedicine and Biotechnology, Facultat de Ciències Biològiques, Universitat de València
Author: Esther Molina Menor
Title: Light and drought: bioprospecting the microbiota of highly-irradiated and dry environments.
Supervisors: Manuel Porcar, Albert Quintana and Juli Peretó
Grade: Excellent cum Laude
E. Molina Menor currently is medical project manager at Evidenze Group Europe, S.L.
Date of defense: 28-07-2022
Program: Biomedicine and Biotechnology, Facultat de Ciències Biològiques, Universitat de València
Author: Leila Satari Faghihi
Title: Microbial diversity in natural and artificial environments.
Supervisors: M. Porcar and C. Vilanova
Grade: Excellent cum Laude
L. Satari currently is a postdoc researcher at Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS).
Date of defense: 29-04-2022
Program: Biomedicine and Biotechnology, Facultat de Ciències Biològiques, Universitat de València
Author: Adriel Latorre
Title: Optimizing Nanopore-based microbiome sequencing for characterizing biotechnologically-relevant ecosystems.
Supervisors: M. Porcar and C. Vilanova
Grade: Excellent cum Laude
A. Latorre currently is head of the department of genomics at Darwin Bioprospecting Excellence SL.
Date of defense: 15-02-2021
Program: Biomedicine and Biotechnology, Facultat de Ciències Biològiques, Universitat de València
Author: Krsitie Tanner
Title: Life under the sun: microbial ecology and applications of the solar panel microbiota.
Supervisors: M. Porcar, C. Vilanova and J. Peretó
Grade: Excellent cum Laude
K. Tanner currently is project manager at Darwin Bioprospecting Excellence SL.
Date of defense: 28-11-2019
Program: Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Author: Jorge Calle Espinosa
Title: Aproximación teórica a la evolución de los endosimbiontes bacterianos.
Supervisor: F. Montero, A. Sánchez and J. Peretó
Grade: Apte cum Laude
J. Calle currently is postdoctoral scientist at Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas CBGP (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid).
Date of defense: 23-02-2018
Program: Biomedicine and Biotechnology, Facultat de Ciències Biològiques, Universitat de València
Author: Christian Abendroth
Title: Paving the crossroad of biorefinery.
Supervisor: M. Porcar
Grade: Apto
C. Abendroth currently is postdoctoral scientist at Robert Boyle Institute (Jena) and University of Dresden.
Date of defense: 26-01-2017
Program: Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Author: Miguel Ponce de León
Title: Reconstrucción y análisis de modelos metabólicos a escala genómica. Aplicación al estudio de bacterias endosimbiontes.
Supervisors: F. Montero and J. Peretó
Grade: Apto cum Laude
M. Ponce de León currently is postdoctoral scientists at Barcelona Supercomputing Center.
Date of defense: 13-01-2017
Program: Biotechnology, Facultat de Ciències Biològiques, Universitat de València.
Author: Cristina Vilanova
Title: From genes to microbial consortia: multi-level bioprospecting of natural and artificial environments.
Supervisors: M. Porcar and A. Latorre
Grade: Apto cum Laude
C. Vilanova is currently scientific chief at Darwin Bioprospecting Excellence SL.
Date of defense: 17-07-2013
Program: Biomedicine and Biotechnology, Facultat de Ciències Biològiques, Universitat de València
Author: Rafael Patiño-Navarrete
Title: Evolutionary genomics and functional studies on the metabolic role of Blattabacterium, primary endosymbiont of cockroaches.
Supervisors: J. Peretó and A. Latorre
Grade: Apto cum Laude
R. Patiño-Navarrete currently is postdoctoral scientist at Sorbonne Université (París).
