Center for Bioinformatics &
Genome Biology

Jorge Valdes

Jorge.valdes@gmail.com

56-2-239-8969
56-2-237-2259

Center for Bioinformatics and Genome Biology
Fundación Ciencia para la Vida
Ave. Zañartu 1482, Ñuñoa
Santiago, Chile

Present Position: Doctoral student - Biotechnology, Andrés Bello University.

Research Interests:

• Geomicrobiology.
• Comparative Genomics.
• Bioinformatics.

• Undergraduate degree in Biochemistry, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, 2003.



• Assistant researcher in Bioinformatics. Grape Functional Genomics Program, Centro de Biotecnología ‘Daniel Alkalay”,Chile, 2003-2004.



• Doctoral student in Biotechnology, Andrés Bello University, 2004 - present.

• Publications - 2006:

• Quatrini., R., Appia-Ayme, C., Denis, Y., Ratouchniak, J., Veloso, F., Valdes, J., Lefimil, C., Silver, S., Roberto, F., Orellana, O., Denizot, F., Jedlicki, E., Holmes D. S., Bonnefoy, V. Insights into the Iron and Sulfur Energetic Metabolism of Acidthiobacillus ferrooxidans by Microarray Transcriptome Profiling, Hydrometallurgy ,83: 263-272, 2006. [Abstract]
  
  
• Appia-Ayme C, Quatrini R, Denis Y, Denizot F, Silver S, Roberto F, Veloso F, Valdes J, Cárdenas JP, Esparza M, Orellana O, Jedlicki E, Bonnefoy V, Holmes DS. Microarray and Bioinformatic Analyses Suggest Models for Carbon Metabolism in the Autotroph Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans, Hydrometallurgy, Hydrometallurgy,83: 273-280,2006. [Abstract]
  
  
• Silva, E., Valdés, J., Holmes, D., Shmaryahu, A. and Pablo D. T. Valenzuela. Generation and analysis of expressed sequence tags from Botrytis cinerea. Biol Res 39: 367-376, 2006. [Abstract]
  
  
• Quatrini, R., Valdes, J., Jedlicki, E. and D. Holmes. The Use of Bioinformatics and Genome Biology to Advance Our Understanding of Bioleaching Microorganisms, in “Microbial Processing of Metal Sulphides” eds. W. Sand and E. Donati. Springer (accepted, 2006). [Abstract]
  
  
  
• 2005
  
  
• Quatrini R, Appia-Ayme C, Denis Y, Ratouchniak J, Veloso F, Valdés J, Lefimil C, Silver S, Roberto F, Orellana O, Denizot F, Jedlicki E, Holmes DS & Bonnefoy V. Global analysis of the ferrous iron and sulfur energetic metabolism of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans by microarray transcriptome profiling, pp 761-771 in: Proc. 16th International Biohydrometallurgy Symposium, Cape Town, South Africa, Eds S. Harrison, D Rawlings and J. Peterson, 2005.
  


• Appia-Ayme C, Quatrini R, Denis Y, Denizot F, Silver S, Roberto F, Veloso F, Valdés J, Cárdenas JP, Esparza M, Orellana O, Jedlicki E, Bonnefoy V & Holmes DS. Insights Into The Central Carbon Metabolism Of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans Revealed By Bioinformatic And Microarray Analysis, pp 753-760 in: Proc. 16th International Biohydrometallurgy Symposium, Cape Town, South Africa, Eds S. Harrison, D Rawlings and J. Peterson, 2005.
  
  
• 2004

• Valdés, J., Jedlicki, E. and Holmes, D. Bioinformatic Analysis of Sulfur Assimilation in Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans, pp 1187-1194 in: BioHydrometallurgy: A Sustainable Technology in Evolution. Eds: M. Tsezos, A. Hatzikioseyian and E. Remoudaki. National Technical University of Athens, ISBN numbers 960-88415-0-X, 2004.
  
  
• 2003

• Barreto M, Quatrini R, Bueno S, Arraigada C, Valdés J, Silver S, Jedlicki E, Holmes DS. Aspects of the predicted physiology of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans deduced from an analysis of its partial genome sequence. Hydrometallurgy 71: 97–105. 2003. [Abstract]
  
  
• Valdes, J., Jedlicki E. and David Holmes. Metabolic Reconstruction of Sulfur Assimilation in the Extremophile Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans Based on Genome Analysis BMC Genomics 4, 2003, online:
  
  
• 2001
  

• Holmes, D. S., Barreto, M., Valdes, J., Dominguez, C., Arriagada, C., Silver, S. Bueno, S. and E. Jedlicki. Whole Genome Sequence of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans: Metabolic Reconstruction, Heavy Metal Resistance and Other Characteristics. pp 237-251, in Biohydrometallurgy: Fundamentals, Technology and Sustainable Development. eds Ciminelli, V. and O Garcia, Elsevier Press, 2001.
  

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