Instituto de Investigaciones
en Biociencias Agrícolas y Ambientales
integrantes

Education

  • MBA, Torcuato di Tella University, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • PhD, Molecular and Cellular Biology Programme, Rome University “Tor Vergata”, Italia
  • MSc, Biological Science Degree, Buenos Aires University, Argentina

Current positions

  • Lecturer., Facultad de Agronomía - UBA.
  • Adjunct Scientist, CONICET.
  • Group Leader of the Applied Nematology

Research interests

  • The nematodo C. elegans as a toxicological model organism.

Publications in refereed journals (last 5 years)

  • Kronberg MF, Clavijo A, Moya A, Rossen A, Calvo D, Pagano EA, Munarriz ER (2018) Glyphosate-based herbicides modulate oxidative stress response in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part C, 214: 1-8.
  • Clavijo A, Rossen A, Calvo D, Kronberg MF, Moya A, Pagano EA, Munarriz ER (2017) Water quality and toxicological impact assessment using the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans bioassay in a long-term intensive agricultural area. Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 228: 333- 349.
  • Clavijo A, Kronberg MF, Rossen A, Moya A, Calvo D, Salatino SE, Pagano EA, Morábito JA, Munarriz ER (Corresponding author) (2016) “The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans as an integrated toxicological tool to assess wáter quality and pollution”. Sci Total Environ. (2016) Nov 1;569-570:252-61.
  • White AG, Lees B, Kao HL, Cipriani PG, Munarriz E, Paaby AB, Erickson K, Guzman S, Rattanakorn K, Sontag E, Geiger D, Gunsalus KC, Piano F (2017) “DevStaR: high-throughput quantification of C. elegans developmental stages”. IEEE Trans Med Imaging. (2013) Oct 32(10):1791-803. (2017).

Current Graduate Students / Researchers

Main Advisor
  • M. Florencia Kronberg, researcher, CONICET
  • Araceli Clavijo, doc fellow CONICET
Co Advisor
  • Vanessa Santillan, doc fellow CONICET

Funded research proposals (as principal investigator; last 5 years)

  • PICT 2014-3293, FONCyT-ANPCyT (Director). Desarrollo de un índice biotóxico-ambiental integral para la evaluación de la calidad de agua de la región cuyana de la República Argentina
  • PICT-PRH 2014-0002, FONCYT- ANPCyT (Director). Estudio de los mecanismos de acción molecular de agroquímicos utilizando como modelo biológico al nematodo C. elegans.
  • 2014-2015 Premio SENASA, 1er premio en el Área Sanidad Vegetal (Director). Plaguicidas disruptores endócrinos, uso del nematodo Caenrhabditis elegans como modelo biológico.

Graduate courses I teach (last 5 years)

  • Molecular Biology Curse Postgraduat School,