García-García, Jorge Donato

Dr. J. Donato García-García has been a Professor-Researcher at the Department of Bioengineering-Western Region, EIC, Guadalajara campus since Julio 2021. He is also a member of the Postgraduate Faculty in Biotechnology (MBI and DBT) and the National System of Researchers level I (SNI-I). Dr. García-García's research interests include protein engineering, metabolic engineering, and Synthetic Biology (SynBio). He aims to build microbial cell factories that can efficiently synthesize metabolites of biotechnological interest in a non-natural way. He intends to use these synthetic biofactories to solve environmental problems generated by emerging contaminants with a sustainable and circular economy perspective. Dr. García-García holds a degree in Pharmacology-Biology Chemistry from the School of Chemistry, UNAM. He also earned a Master´s and Ph.D. Degree in Biochemical Sciences and Biomedical Sciences at the School of Chemistry and Institute of Cellular Physiology, UNAM. He won the Fulbright-COMEXUS scholarship in 2017, which enabled him to develop a protein engineering project by site-directed mutagenesis at the University of Missouri, USA. He was then recruited by Eminent and Scholar Professor Dr. Andrew Hanson (University of Florida, USA) as a postdoctoral researcher to improve the catalytic efficiency of bottleneck metabolic enzymes from bacteria and plants through continuous directed evolution approaches. Later, he returned to work in Mexico supported by the Tec de Monterrey. Dr. García-García´s networking includes renowned researchers from the Center for Genomic Sciences-UNAM, the School of Chemistry-UNAM, the University of Missouri, the University of Florida, and the Technical University of Denmark (DTU).