Doctor Esteban Espinosa Vidal

Esteban Espinosa Vidal was born in Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina, on the 5 td of February 1974. He attended the National Media Education School and matriculated in 1991. In 2000, he worked for one year in the Molecular breeding Laboratory at Monsanto Company. In 2004, he obtained a degree in Biological Sciences with specialized in Molecular Biology from the National Mar del Plata University. Esteban obtained a Master degree of Science in Genetic from Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) in 2008, and a Doctor degree of Science in Genetic from the same institution (UFPE) in 2012. Actually, he is working in his Post-Doctorate in the Centre for Strategic Technologies of Northeast (CETENE/MCTI), where he coordinates the Bioprocess laboratory, the Phytoquimic and chemical process laboratory and the Analytical Central laboratory from 2013. He belongs to the Interdepartmental research group of metabolic Metabolic Engineering of the UFPE (NEM) and he is the leader of the Research Groups in Biotechnology White (GBioB) and the Group for Research and Development of Analytical Methods (NPDMA). He is a member of Science and Technology Commission of CETENE/MCTI from 2014. His principal interest involves nitrogen metabolism, higher alcohols and ester metabolism production, microorganism biodiversity, physiology and improvement of industrial yeasts for first and second ethanol production, yeast gene expression and regulation analysis, and purification, identification and quantification of active compounds. He has experience in the area of molecular biology, fermentation, physiology of industrial microorganisms, in gene expression analysis, and in the identification and quantification of metabolites by high performance chromatography and mass spectrometry.