CURRICULUM VITAE Ricardo Canek RODRÍGUEZ DE LA VEGA ...

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CURRICULUM VITAE
Ricardo Canek RODRÍGUEZ DE LA VEGA CUÉLLAR
Mexican, born in October 19th, 1974
Cédula Profesional: 4934277
45 rue de Tolbiac, 75013 Paris, France.
Telephone: +33 (0) 145868874
e-mail: ricardo.rodriguezdelavega@gmail.com
Skype user: emefectivo19
BIOINFORMATICIAN, BIOCHEMIST, TOXINOLOGIST: Up to fourteen years
experience on: Comparative genomics; Computational analysis of proteinprotein
interaction networks; Molecular evolution; Sequence analysis;
Molecular recognition; Protein biochemistry. Current project: Portraying the
molecular landscape of interspecies interactions. Current projects in
collaboration: Comparative genomics of Penicillium species (with Tatiana
Giraud, Université Paris-Sud, France); Origins of functional redundancy in
animal venoms (with Glen F. King and Bryan G. Fry, University of Queensland,
Australia); Molecular engineering of a toxin onto a defensin scaffold (with
Federico del Rio, UNAM, México).
EDUCATION
02/1998 –
06/2004
10/1992 –
12/1997
Ph. D. in Biochemical Sciences, Universidad
Nacional Autónoma de México. Thesis:
Characterization of antimicrobial peptides
involved in the innate immune response of the
Mexican scorpion Centruroides limpidus limpidus
Professional degree in Chemistry, Universidad
Nacional Autónoma de México.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
RESEARCH
03/2012 -
to date
09/2011 –
02/2012
05/2008 –
05/2011
06/2004 –
04/2008
TEACHING
08/2006 –
07/2007
08/2003 –
12/2003
RBUCE-UP fellow, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay,
France
Senior visiting scientist, Museum National
d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
EIPOD fellow, European Molecular Biology
Laboratory (Genome Biology Unit) and
CellNetworks (Protein Evolution group),
Heidelberg, Germany
Research associate, Instituto de Biotecnología
UNAM, Cuernavaca, México
Lecturer, Facultad de Ciencias – Universidad
Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, Cuernavaca,
México
Lecturer, Escuela Nacional de Antropología e
Historia, Mexico City, México
PUBLICATIONS
24 peer reviewed papers (average Impact Factor: 4.9) and 2 book chapters
710 non-self citations as of December 2012 (h-index: 14)
Full list, electronic links and citation information available at:
http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=fr&user=I14fhF4AAAAJ
Full text versions available upon request

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TEACHING AND THESIS DIRECTION
2011, 2012 Phylogenie Moleculaire. Master program on
Systematics, Evolution and Paleodiversity, Museum
National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France.
Invited lecturer
2011 Computational Molecular Evolution. Welcome Trust
Advanced Course, Hinxton, United Kingdom.
Teaching assistant
2010 Protein Bionformatics - Alignments, Phylogenies and
Interactions. Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum -
European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg,
Germany.
Coordinator
2010, 2012 Exploring Modular Protein Architecture. European
Molecular Biology Organization, Heidelberg (EMBL,
2010), Berlin (MDC, 2012), Germany.
Instructor
2010 Bachelor's thesis (Biology): Edgar Omar Piña
Barraza, Escuela de Biología, Universidad
Autónoma de Sinaloa, Culiacán, México.
Director
2009 Computational Sequence Analysis. Max Delbruck
Centrum, Berlin, Germany.
Instructor
2007, 2008 Producción de proteínas en sistemas recombinantes.
Postgraduate program on Biochemical Sciences,
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
Cuernavaca, México.
Coordinator
2007 Toxicología. Undergraduate program on Sciences
(Biochemistry and Molecular Biology), Universidad
Autónoma del Estado de Morelos. Cuernavaca,
México.
Lecturer
2005, 2006,
2007
Farmacología. Undergraduate program on Sciences
(Biochemistry and Molecular Biology), Universidad
Autónoma del Estado de Morelos. Cuernavaca,
México.
Lecturer
2005, 2006 Bioquímica de las interacciones macromoleculares.
Postgraduate program on Biochemical Sciences,
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
Cuernavaca, México.
Coordinator
2003 Bioquímica. Undergraduate program on Physical
Anthropology, Escuela Nacional de Antropología e
Historia. Mexico City, México.
Lecturer
2001 Subversión microbiana del sistema inmune del
hospedero. Postgraduate program on Biochemical
Sciences, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México. Cuernavaca - México.
Coordinator

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GRANTS AND HONOURS
2012 – 2014 Research grant, Marie Curie Actions (€ 40,000.00)
2011 – 2012 Senior Invited researcher chair, Mairie de Paris
2007 – 2008 Research grant (No. 52670), Consejo Nacional de
Ciencia y Tecnología (MXN$ 100,000.00)
2006 – 2016 Investigador Nacional nivel I (No. exp. 34492),
Sistema Nacional de Investigadores
2005 Travel fellowship to attend FEBS forum for young
scientists (Visregard, Hungary), IUBMB and Sigma
Co.
2003 Best poster, 9th congress of the International
Society of Comparative Immunology, St. Andrews,
Scotland
2003 Journal cover, Trends in Pharmacological Sciences
vol. 24, no. 5
LANGUAGES
Spanish
English
French
Mother tongue
Fluent
Conversational
ADDITIONAL DATA
Associate Editor of Journal of Venom Research (since 2010)
Peer reviewer for: BMC Genomics, Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology,
FEBS Letters, Insect Molecular Biology, Journal of Molecular Evolution,
Molecular Biology and Evolution, PLoS Computational Biology, PLoS One,
Toxicon.
Member of: International Society of Developmental and Comparative
Immunology and International Society of Toxinology.
Orsay, France. January 2013