José (Pepe) Flores-Uribe

Department of Plant Microbe Interactions, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany.
flores-uribe[at]mpipz.mpg.de

PhD in Bioinformatics with more than 6 years of experience in molecular biology, microbiology, microbiota research, and development of bioinformatic pipelines.

Experience

Postdoctoral Researcher

Department of Plant Microbe Interactions, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research.

Studying the relationships within microalgae-bacterial communities, combining -omics and the expertise of the PSL department for microbiota-host interactions.

July 2018 - Present

Early Stage Researcher

Beja Lab, Environmental Genomics of Marine Microbes, Technion.

Analysis of hundreds of metagenomic datasets by developing bioinformatic pipelines.

January 2014 - June 2018

Education

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (Haifa)

PhD in Biology
Metagenomic analysis of viral and microbial communities.
January 2014 - June 2018

Instituto Politécnico Nacional (México City)

MSc. Bioprocess Engineering

Light-driven biopolymer production by chloroplast genetic engineering.

January 2011 - June 2013

Skills

Programming Languages & Tools
Drylab
  • Large scale analysis of metagenomic datasets
  • Development of bioinformatic analysis pipelines
  • Linux systems administration
  • Usage of High Performance Computing Linux clusters
  • Programming and parsing of data from/for Liquid handlers, plate readers, etc.
Wetlab
  • Molecular biology
  • Microbiology
  • Microalgae cultivation
  • Microbiota research

Scholarships

  • FP7 Marie Skłodowska-Curie ITN Fellowship “PHOTO.COMM”, 2014-2017
  • CONACyT Fellowship, 2011-2013