Fernanda Jimenez Email & Phone Number

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Fairfax County, Virginia, United States

Research: Characterizing conductivity through microbial biofilms.Publications: https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/AEM.00706-21https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/celc.202100111(check out our cover for ChemElectroChem: https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/celc.202100426)https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0092867420308710https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.1201/9780429487118-1/extracellular-electron-transport-geobacter-shewanella-comparative-description-fernanda-jim%C3%A9nez-otero-matthew-yates-leonard-tenderTechniques: Electrochemical assays using interdigitated gold electrodes to measure conductivity, cell-electrode interface redox profiling using electrochemical surface plasmon resonance, measuring magnetic field effect on current production, confocal imaging of microbial biofilms, microbial growth in bioelectrochemical flow cells, growth and electrochemical characterization of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms and its soluble electron carriers.

St Paul, Minnesota, United States

Research: Extracellular electron transfer across the outer membrane of Geobacter sulfurreducens. Publications: https://www.pnas.org/content/116/41/20716.longhttps://jb.asm.org/content/200/19/e00347-18https://jb.asm.org/content/199/19/e00340-17Funding: Thomas Reid Fellowship, Univ. of Minnesota 2013-2018Mexican National Council for Science and Technology Scholarship 2014-2018Techniques: Anaerobic microbiology techniques, scarless deletion mutant construction, three electrode bioreactor setup, electrochemically active biofilm analysis techniques (chronoamperometry, cyclic voltammetry, double potential step chronoamperometry, current-to-protein ratios), Fe(III)- and Mn(IV)-oxide precipitation, growth and washed-cell metal reduction analysis, RNA extraction from liquid cultures and biofilms, biofilm negative staining and embedding for TEM and NanoSIMS analysis, stable isotope labeling of liquid cultures and biofilms, heterologous expression of membrane associated cytochromes, cytochrome staining of SDS-PAGE gels, protein isolation through affinity chromatography, antibody purification from serum, and protein fractionation through sucrose gradient.

St Paul, Minnesota, United States

BIOC 4125: Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, May Term 2016Delivered lectures for laboratory section, prepared laboratory materials, wrote and proctored lab quizzes and exams, held daily office hours.BIOC 4331: Biochemistry I: Structure, Catalysis, and Metabolism in Biological Systems. Spring Semester 2017 Graded quizzes and exams, delivered guest lectures, held weekly office hours.

Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States

Research: Enhancing metabolic routes through pathway and protein engineering.Techniques: High throughput analysis of metabolic rates of a wide variety of organisms commonly used for bioproduction, saturation mutagenesis, site-directed mutagenesis, pathway engineering, semi-large scale production, product purification techniques, as well as pharmaceutical production plant safety and aseptic techniques.

Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States

Research: The role of amino acid metabolism on the ability of Sinorhizobium meliloti to nodulate legume roots and to fix nitrogen for its host. Funding: American Society for Microbiology Undergraduate Research Fellowship 2011 (https://wmich.edu/wmu/news/2011/09/077.html)Techniques: General microbiology techniques and growth studies, cloning techniques, conjugation via tri-parental mating, primer design for PCR amplification, growing alfalfa plants in sterile medium, co-challenge experiments and bacterial extraction from plant root nodules.

Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States

BIOS 2320: Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. Fall Semester 2011 and Spring Semester 2012Prepared and delivered lectures for laboratory section, wrote and proctored lab quizzes and exams, prepared laboratory materials, held weekly office hours.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Research: The transcription factor C/EBP-β as an autophagy inducer and its link to the mTOR pathway.Funding: Perrigo Undergraduate Research Fellowship 2010Techniques: Perfusing mouse livers, isolation of primary hepatocytes, protein extraction from hepatocytes, RNA isolation from hepatocytes, reverse transcription, qPCR, Western blots, and use of mouse tail ends for genotyping.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Microbiology, General

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Biology, General, Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa