 Summary : Alejandro San Martin was born in Santiago in 1983. At a very early age he moved to live in the southern city of Villarrica, where he studied primary and secondary. He began high school in 2001 at the Universidad Austral de Chile in Valdivia, where studied Medical Technology. His undergraduate thesis was made at the Institute of Biochemistry at the same university, through wich techniques of biology molecular, designed and built a series of chimeric proteins combining the most important domains of hGBF-1 and HBIG-1 (protein play an important role in the processes of formation of secretory vesicles in the cell), with the aim of identifying critical domains for the localization and substrate selectivity. This work was performed under the supervision of Dr. Alejandro Claude. After got the degree from the Medical Technology career, he worked at the hospital in the city of Castro (Chiloé), an experience that finally convinced that their interests were in science and not in the attendance. The year 2008 joined the CECs to work with Dr. Felipe Barros as a research assistant with the intention of creating a line of transgenic mice that express a hexose nanosensor by Cre-Lox system. The year 2009 joined the Ph.D. program in Science and Molecular Cell Biology in the Faculty of Sciences of the Universidad Austral de Chile, as fellowship CONICYT , where he began his formal scientific training under supervision of Dr. Felipe Barros Olmedo. Currently he is working on the development of genetically encoded sensors based on FRET for detection of metabolites and the design of new methods for the study of cancer and diabetes using the same, work who end in 2013 getting the degree of PhD of Science in cellular and molecular biology. |