María Teresita Castañeda

She was born in Concordia, Entre Ríos, Argentina, in 1986. She received the Food Engineering degree from National University of Entre Ríos (UNER), Concordia, Argentina, in 2011. In 2016, she received the PhD degree from La Plata National University (UNLP), La Plata, Argentina. Currently, she has a postdoctoral grand from the National Agency for Scientific and Technological Promotion (FONCyT) and an Assistant Professor position at School of Science in La Plata National University. Her main research interests are in Bioprocess and Biocatalysis.
Teaching position Teaching Assistant
Research Category Postdoctoral researcher (CONICET)
email castaneda@biotec.quimica.unlp.edu.ar
CV (English) CV_Castañeda_EN.pdf
CV (Spanish) CV_Castañeda.pdf
Education PhD in Engineering, Food Engineer
Fields of interest Bioprocess, Biocatalysis

My publications

Thesis

Castañeda MT.  2016.  Production, Characterization and Application of a biocatalyst for L-Phe reduction in food hydrolysates.

Journal Articles

Castañeda MT, Adachi O, Hours RA.  2019.  L-Fenilalanina amonio liasa (PAL) de Rhodosporidium toruloides NBRC 0559. Producción, caracterización e inmovilización por encapsulación en membranas celulósicas.. Ingenio Tecnológico. 1
Castañeda MTeresita, Nuñez S, Voget C, De Battista H.  2019.  In silico optimization of lipid production in Rhodosporidium toruloides by gene knockout strategies. IFAC-PapersOnLine. 52:94-99.
Castañeda MT, Nuñez S, Garelli F, Voget C, De Battista H.  2018.  Comprehensive analysis of a Metabolic Model for lipid production in Rhodosporidium toruloides. Journal of Biotechnology. 280:11-18.
Jamilis M, Garelli F, Mozumder MSI, Castañeda T, De Battista H.  2015.  Modeling and estimation of production rate for the production phase of non-growth associated high cell density processes. Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering. 38:1903-1914.
Castañeda MT, Adachi O, Hours RA.  2015.  Reduction of l-phenylalanine in protein hydrolysates using l-phenylalanine ammonia-lyase from Rhodosporidium toruloides. Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology. 42:1299–1307.