Name: David Alors Rodriguez

Date and place of birth: La Carlota (Cordoba), 01/09/1983

 

Educational background

2010: Master Degree on Aquaculture.

2008: Degree on Biological Sciences. Universidad de Alicante (UA, Alicante).

 

Current position title:  PhD Student (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Plant Science)

 

Present research/professional speciality:

-       My PhD main subject is lichen insularity and diversity attending to different     reproductive modes.

-       Lab work consisted on nucleic acid extraction,PCR (nested, real time, microsatellites…), cultures, and biotechnology.

-       Bioinformatics and statistical tools.

 

Researcher in lichens since: February 2012

 

Additional qualifications:

-       Master thesis in biology “Molecular cloning and temporal expression of sbsTERT Telomerase Reverse Transcriptase of Dicentrarchus labrax” (In publishing process)

-       International internships: 3 month of predoctoral stay in Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre at Senckenberg Natural Science Museum (Frankfurt, Germany).

-       Teaching skills: Collaboration in teaching of Botany practices. 

-   Research skills: Cloning, production and purification of seabass LH protein in the pPiCK9k Pichia pastoris expression system. Aposymbiotic culture of lichen mycobionts. 

-       Organizative skills:

Coordinator of “I Course of introduction to Bioinformatics” (UA, Alicante) http://www.ua.es/centros/facu.ciencies/mas_noticias/2006/bioinformatica/programa.doc

Organizer of “ I Course of Science and Society” (UA, Alicante) http://www.ua.es/coalumnos/oficina_verde/programadefinitivo.pdf

-       Other courses on biological sciences: Modeling with Maxent (UCM, Madrid); Flora and vegetation of  Vinalopó: practical approach. (UA, Alicante).Biodiversity and interespecific  relationships: animal/plant interactions in tropical ecosistems (UA, Alicante).

 Publications and comunications:

-Oral Comunication

“Genetic variability of  photobiont in Parmelina genera populations, firsts results”

C. Ruibal, D. Alors-Rodriguez*, P. Cubas, J. Nuñez, y A.M. Crespo

Spanish Lichen Society Workshop 2012

Clementeana, 14 (Spanish Lichen Society journal):

http://pendientedemigracion.ucm.es/info/seliquen/index.php?d=publicaciones&num=12&w=13&ft=1

-Oral Comunication

“Exploring symbiont fidelity among lichen symbioses and the common alga Trebouxia decolorans s.l. different levels of intrathalline diversity in Xanthoria parietina and Anaptychia ciliaris”

Alors-Rodriguez D.; Dal Grande F.; Divakar PK.; Crespo A.; Schmitt I.

 Spanish Criptogamic Botanics Simposium 2013.

-Oral Comunication

“Filogenetic relationships in the  Punctelia genera (Parmeliaceae, Ascomycota)”

Alors-Rodríguez D.; Divakar P.K.; Núñez-Zapata J.; Crespo A.

Spanish Criptogamic Botanics Simposium 2013.

-Oral Comunication

“Optimization of culture techniques in Parmelina carporrhizans y P. quercina”

Alors-Rodríguez D.; Cendón Y.; Divakar PK.; Crespo A.¹; Molina MC.

Spanish Criptogamic Botanics Simposium 2013.

-Oral Comunication 

 "Sharing in the family? Assessing fungal-algal interactions in the lichen-forming family Parmeliaceae."

Leavitt, S.D.,E. Kraichak, M.P. Nelsen & D. Alors.  

Abstract ID: 184. Botany 2014 (Boise, Idaho, USA).

 

-Poster

“Phenolic production of Parmelina carporrhizans micobiont in  aposimbiotic culture conditions”

Alors-Rodriguez D., Schmitt I., Albrecht M., Divakar PK.; Crespo A.; Molina MC.

Spanish Criptogamic Botanics Simposium 2013.

Abstracts book (Spanish Criptogamic Botanics Simposium 2013):

http://www.criptogamia2013.org/images/libro_de_resumenes_xix_simposio.pdf

 

-Publication

Dal Grande F*, Alors D*, Divakar PK, Bálint M, Crespo A, Schmitt I (2014) (* joint first authors). Insights into intrathalline genetic diversity of the cosmopolitan lichen symbiotic green alga Trebouxia decolorans Ahmadjian using microsatellite markers.Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2013.12.010

Alors D, Dal Grande F, Schmitt I, et al. Characterization of fungus-specific microsatellite markers in the lichen-forming fungus Parmelina carporrhizans(Parmeliaceae). Applications in Plant Sciences. 2014;2(12):apps.1400081. doi:10.3732/apps.1400081.