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Ugalde, Juan

Graduate Student Researcher

Degrees:

• B.S., Universidad de Chile

Research Interests:

• Microbial Ecology
• Bioinformatics
• Comparative Microbial Genomics

Ugalde JA, Podell S, Narasingarao P, Allen EE. Xenorhodopsins, an enigmatic new class of microbial rhodopsins horizontally transferred between Archaea and Bacteria. Biol Direct 6:52. 2011

2011. Narasingarao P, Podell S, Ugalde JA, Brochier-Armanet C, Emerson J, Brocks JJ, Heidelberg, KB, Banfield JF, Allen EE. De novo metagenomic assembly reveals abundant novel major lineage of Archaea in hypersaline microbial communities. ISME J Advanced Online Publication, 30 June 2011; doi:10.1038/ismej.2011.78. 2011

Levican, G, Ugalde J.A., Ehrenfeld N, Maass A., Parada P. Comparative genomic analysis of carbon and nitrogen assimilation mechanisms in three indigenous bioleaching bacteria: predictions and validations. BMC Genomics 9:581. 2008

Chang, BS., Matz, MV., Ugalde JA. Applications of ancestral protein reconstruction in understanding protein function: GFP-like proteins. Methods in Enzymology. 395:652-670. 2005

Ugalde, J.A. Chang, B.S., Matz, M.V. Evolution of coral colors recreated. Science. 305:1433. 2004.

Shagin, D.A., Barsova, E.V., Yanushevich, Y.G., Fradkov, A.F., Lukyanov, K.A., Labas, Y.A., Semenova, T.N., Ugalde, J.A., Meyer, A., Nunes, J.M., Widder, E.A., Lukyanov, S.A., Matz, M.V. GFP-like proteins as ubiquitous Metazoan superfamily: evolution of functional features and structural complexity. Molecular Biology and Evolution 21:841-850. 2004

Matz, M.V., Labas, Y.A. and Ugalde, J. Evolution of function and color in GFP-like proteins. In: Green Fluorescent Protein : Propierties, Applications and Protocols, 2nd Ed. (M. Chalfie and S.R. Kain eds.) Wiley press. 2005.