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Raquel Clara Quatrini Nyqvist

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Raquel Clara Quatrini Nyqvist, PhD

Associate Professor

 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2600-2605
    20032026

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    Research interests

    She studies the biology of the microbial communities that drive the biogeochemical cycles of iron and sulfur under extreme acidic conditions, in both natural and mineral-mining industrial environments. Using these model systems, her research group seeks to understand the genetic and molecular mechanisms underlying the adaptive responses of acidophilic microorganisms to their extreme environment under changing conditions (ecological gradients), and the rules that define the structure, function, and dynamics of the microbial communities they conform. She is author of more than 70 articles and reviews in the field, and she is co-editor of the first published book on acidophiles microbiology.

    Personal profile

    Raquel Quatrini was born and raised in Argentina where she completed her bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences (1992–1996, Universidad del Comahue). After graduation, she moved to Chile to obtain her Ph.D. in Microbiology from the University of Chile (1999-2003). Between 2004 and 2006 she was postdoctoral fellow of the Millennium Institute for Fundamental and Applied Biology, training skills in comparative and functional genomics in Chile, Marseille and US. Since 2007 she is head of the Microbial Ecophysiology Lab. at Fundación Ciencia & Vida. Currently, she is Associate Professor at Universidad San Sebastián (2019 - to date).

    Teaching

    Raquel Quatrini teaches Molecular Microbiology and, Genomics and Proteomics for undergraduates in Biochemistry at the Faculty of Medicine and Science of the Universidad San Sebastián. She is also faculty member of the USS PhD programs in Biotechnology and Bioentrepreneurship, Computational Biology and, Immunology and Microbiology, and of the Master Program in Molecular Biomedicine.

    External positions

    PhD Program in Biotecnología, Universidad Andrés Bello, Santiago, Chile

    2014 → 2019

    PhD Program in Biociencias Moleculares, Universidad Andrés Bello, Santiago, Chile

    2010 → 2019

    Fundación Ciencia & Vida

    2007 → 0202

    Fundación Ciencia & Vida

    2004 → 2007

    Universidad de Chile

    1999 → 2002

    Instituto Nacional de Parasitología Mario Fatala Chabén (ANLIS), Buenos Aires, Argentina

    1998 → 1999

    Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

    In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

    1. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
      SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
    2. SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production
      SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production
    3. SDG 13 - Climate Action
      SDG 13 Climate Action
    4. SDG 15 - Life on Land
      SDG 15 Life on Land

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