Juan Diego Prieto Ramírez

EDUCATION

College / University

Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Highest Degree

Bachelor of Science in Biology

Major Subjects

Cellular Biology, Neurobiology, Biophysics

Country

Colombia

Lab Experience

Techniques in immunochemistry - immunohistochemistry, western blot, co-immunoprecipitation-, cell dissociation, PCR, bacteria transformation, basic electrophysiology; Animal models: chick (G. gallus domesticus) and squid (D. pealeii)

Projects / Research

2015 - 2016: Assessment of the possible presence of a phototransduction macromolecular complex in the retina of the squid (Dorytheuthis pealeii), Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, USA
2015: Assessment of chick (Gallus gallus domesticus) embryo neurons as a native system for the study of the inositol lipid-signaling pathway, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá

Scholarships / Awards

2016 – 2017:	Stipend by the International Max Planck Research School
2010, 2011, 2013, 2014:	Top group GPA enrollment fee waiver
2010:	5th best admission exam enrollment fee waiver

SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS AND GOALS

I am drawn to transduction processes, which in some cases have been able to detect even single quanta (light, olfaction), and to the machines that ultimately allow transfer of the sensorial information: ionic channels. Not-so-well studied modalities, such as nociception and thermosensation are particularly interesting to me.