A metabolomic approach to thrips resistance in tomato
Romero González, R.R.
Citation
Romero González, R. R. (2011, October 11). A metabolomic approach to thrips resistance in tomato. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/1887/17920
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Curriculum Vitae
Roman R. Romero González was born on September 19, 1974 in Maracaibo, Venezuela. He attended Arzobispo Silva High School in Merida, Venezuela, between 1987 and 1992. While still in high school he obtained from the national government a prestigious scholarship to support his university education.
He decided to pursue a career in chemistry and enrolled in 1993 the Chemistry Undergraduate School of Universidad de Los Andes in Merida, Venezuela, from which he graduated Cum Laude in 1999.
For his undergraduate research project he worked on the glycation and aging of proteins. In 2000 he became a full-time faculty member of the teaching and research tenure staff of the same university. In this position he taught general and organic chemistry and conducted research in chemical ecology, more specifically on insecticides from natural sources. In 2006 he started his Ph.D. studies in the Department of Plant Ecology and Phytochemistry of Leiden University, The Netherlands, under the supervision of R. Verpoorte and P.G.L. Klinkhamer, working on the project that produced this thesis.
He plans to apply in the future his knowledge of analytical chemistry and metabolomics to other challenges in systems biology.
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List of publications
First author
• Romero-González, R., Elwakiel M., Leiss, K., and Verpoorte, R. Chlorogenic acids and the effect of pH on thrips performance in artificial diet bioassays. In preparation.
• Romero-González, R., Mohammad, M., Leiss, K., and Verpoorte, R. Tomato´s best thrips shield:
acylsugars, sesquiterpenes, methylketones or phenolics? Submitted.
• Mohammad, M., Romero-González, R., Leiss, K., Choi, Y.H., Verpoorte, R. and Klinkhamer, P.G.L. (2010) Metabolomic Analysis of Host Plant Resistance to Thrips in Wild and Cultivated Tomatoes. Phytochem. Anal. 21:110-117.
• Romero-González, R and Verpoorte, R. (2009) Salting-out gradients in centrifugal partition chromatography for the isolation of chlorogenic acids from green coffee beans. J. Chrom. A.
1216: 4245-4251.
• Romero-Gonzalez, R., Alonso-Amelot, M.E., Ávila, J.L. and Aubert, L. (2006) Labdane diterpenes from Leonurus japonicus. Phytochemistry. 67: 965-970.
Co-author
• Sumthong, P, Romero-González, R and Verpoorte, R. (2008) Identification of Anti-Wood Rot Compounds in Teak (Tectona grandis L.f.) Sawdust Extract. J. Wood Chem. & Technol. 28: 247- 260.
• Gil, H., Salcedo, D. and Romero, R. (2005) Effect of phosphate buffer in the kinetics of glycation of proteins. J. Phys. Org. Chem. 18: 183-186.
• Alonso-Amelot, M.E., Arellano, E., Ávila, J.L., Aubert, L., Romero, R. et. al. (2004) A survey of Venezuelan plants toxic to livestock and their potential as anti-insect materials. In: Acamovic, T., Stewart, C.S. and Pennycott, T.W. (Eds), Poisonous plants and related toxins, pp. 471-476.
London: CAB International.
