Maria Carolina Gallego, PHD.
Consultant services:
- Biological and NGS experiment design & development
- Data mining Next Generation Sequencing for antibody discovery
- Communication & community outreach
- Process improvement & problem Solving
- Team leadership, training & development
- Educational experience.
- Leadership and research manager of multiple aspects of environmental
- Co-management with government ministries, national oil company, developing relationships within internal and external partners, government agencies, universities and private companies, evaluation of sustainable environmental projects, consulting as expert for new environmental projects.
- Environmental Impact assessment.
- Safety Management & Regulatory Compliance in waste
- Lab Management & Research Coordination
- Bioinformatics transcriptome (RNA-seq, microarray, R scripts, clusters, etc)
- Next Generation Sequencing design experiment and pipeline.
- Next Generation Sequencing cell isolation DNA/RNA and library preparation.
- Molecular techniques (libraries, cloning, CRISPR/Cas9 design and detection, primer design, RNA and DNA extraction, fresh tissue, FACS cells and from paraffin embedding, Western blot, ligation, maxi/mini)
- Cell culture, transfection and transduction different cell lines, primary neuron and co- culture
- Apoptosis and stress induction experiments
- Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) for elements measure
- Immunohistochemistry, immunocytochemistry.
- Waste plan design, assessment plan and treatment strategy for:
Urban waste: controlled garbage dump, vermcompost and recycling, urban wastewaster depuration, urban mud management.
Industrial waste: paper industry, termal power station, glass remainders, toxic and dangerous waste, radioactive waste, petroleum waste, pigments industry, chemical industry wastewater, biosanitary waste, food industry waste, mine industry, waste incineration, metallurgy industry, inorganic fertiliser industry, textile industry.
Agricultural waste management: forest and farming, plastic waste in agriculture, wine industry waste, recycling and management of agricultural industry, biological treatment of cellulosic and lignocellulosic waste, olive waste industry, biopolymers industry.
Bio recovery of polluted soils: phytoremediation, grounds contaminated with pesticides, heavy metals and explosives.
Biotechnology of contaminants degradation and inmovilitation: tolearance to organic solvents, genetics in microorganism’s construction destined to environment, membrana protein engineering to immovilization of heavy metals, bacterial biodegradation of petroleum, bacterial cyanide and PCBs elimination, bacterial anaerobic degradation of aromatics, biodesulfuration.
Waste management and control: European Union law, waste classification, waste management.
Water quality/sediments from marine, wastewater and drinking water: heavy metals/trace quantification (atomic absortion), hazardous waste management, biochemical oxygen demand (DBO), chemical oxygen, oil and grease water quantification, aromatic hydrocarbons (pollution), wastewater, industrial, low- demand (DQO), pollution bioessays, nutrient quantification (water/sediments), water bacteriology, surfactants quantification radiactive waste.