Skills

Software: Microsoft Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Scientific: Nucleic acid isolation, manipulation, and analysis.

  • Metagenomic Libraries generation.
  • Use of recombinant DNA technology such as PCR, cloning and use of Restriction enzymes.
  • Spectrophotometry.
  • General microbiological techniques for the isolation, and manipulation of microbes.

Projects

  • Isolation and Characterization of Specific Bacteriophages for Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus from a Wastewater Tratment Plant Mayaguez. (2019 – Present)
  • Isolation and Characterization of Bacteriophages of Salmonella sp. from a Watewater Treatment Plant in Mayaguez (2021 – Present)
  • Generation of small size metagenomic libraries (4 to 24 kilo base) of soil samples below the reflector plate of the Arecibo Obaservatory, in Puerto Rico (2021 – 2021)
  • Mycological bioprospects isolated from soil samples below the reflector plate of the Arecibo Observatory that are capable of tolerating metals (2019 – 2019)
  • Biomedical and biotechnological applications of mycological bioprospects isolated from water samples, soils of the periphery and the center, located under the 305m reflector plate of the Arecibo Observatory (2017-2018)
  • Isolation and Identification of Tetracillin and Ampicillin Resistant Bioprespects in a Metagenomic Library of the Gut Microbiota of Caracolus marginella (2016-2016)