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Patricia Valdespino-Castillo
PeerJ Author
135 Points

Contributions by role

Author 135

Contributions by subject area

Ecosystem Science
Freshwater Biology
Biogeochemistry
Ecohydrology
Environmental Contamination and Remediation

Patricia M Valdespino-Castillo

PeerJ Author

Summary

P. Valdespino research is focused on Aquatic Microbial Ecology and Biogeochemistry. Her research interests lie in the understanding of Biogeochemical cycles in aquatic systems from molecular-cellular to ecosystem scales. She applies methods of Limnology, Oceanography and Geochemistry, as well as meta-omics and novel strategies of chemical imaging characterization to understand metabolic diversity, element/molecules fluxes and transformations. Her present research, performed at the Berkeley Synchrotron Infrared Structural Biology Program (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) is dedicated to understand the role microbes play in mineral formation and the microbial responses to environmental change through finding chemical biosignatures of their structural and functional biology.

Aquatic & Marine Chemistry Biogeochemistry Climate Change Biology Computational Biology Microbiology

Past or current institution affiliations

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
UC Berkeley

Work details

Post-Doctoral Researcher

University of California, Berkeley
May 2016
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, BSISB

Websites

  • BSISB

PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 1
July 17, 2018
Metabolism in a deep hypertrophic aquatic ecosystem with high water-level fluctuations: a decade of records confirms sustained net heterotrophy
Mayrene O. Guimarais-Bermejo, Martin Merino-Ibarra, Patricia M. Valdespino-Castillo, Fermín S. Castillo-Sandoval, Jorge A. Ramírez-Zierold
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5205 PubMed 30038862