Margarita Salazar Peña, MSc Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Kemigården 4, SE-412 96 Göteborg, Sweden Phone: +46(0)31 772 3883 Fax: +46(0)31 772 3801 E-mail: margarita.salazar [at] chalmers.se Office: Room 6116C     Education and degrees 2002 Chemical Engineering, Dept. of Chemical and Biological Sciences, UAS, Mexico 2005 M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, UAM-I, Mexico Employments 2000 Research Fellow, Pacific Brewery Factory, Mazatlan, Mexico 2005 Research TIES Fellow, Dept. of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Arizona, United States 2005 Teacher, Colegio de Ciencias y Humanidades, UNAM, Mexico 2006-2010 PhD student, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chalmers Publications, Patents & Presentations Publications 2007 Sierra-Alvarez R, Beristain-Cardoso R, Salazar M, Gómez J, Razo-Flores E, Field JA. Chemolithotrophic denitrification with elemental sulfur for groundwater treatment. Water Res. 41(6):1253-1262 2008 Andersen MR, Vongsangnak W, Panagiotou G, Salazar MP, Lehmann L, Nielsen J. A tri-species Aspergillus microarray-advancing comparative transcriptomics. PNAS. 105:4387-4392 2009 Andersen MR, Salazar M, et al. Sequencing of A. niger ATCC 1015 and comparison to A. niger CBS 513.88. Manuscript in preparation   Vongsangnak W*, Salazar M*, Hansen K, Nielsen J. Comparative genome-wide systems biology studies between Aspergillus oryzae and Aspergillus niger. (*equal contribution). Submitted   Salazar M*, Vongsangnak W*, Andersen MR, Nielsen J. Uncovering transcriptional regulation of glycerol metabolism in aspergilli through genome-wide gene expression data analysis. (* equal contribution). Manuscript in preparation Book Chapters 2009 Salazar M*, Papini M*, Nielsen J. Industrial systems biology of yeast and fungi. “Biosystems Engineering”. Advances in Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology. (* equal contribution). Talks 2008 Engineering Aspergillus niger as an efficient cell factory, First Nordfosk Meeting, Denmark 2008 Uncovering transcriptional regulation of glycerol metabolism in aspergilli through genome-wide gene expression data analysis, Eurofung meeting, Spain Poster Presentations 2006 Comparative analysis of glucose repression proteins in S. cerevisiae and aspergilli, First Danish Conference on Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Denmark   Comparative analysis of glucose repression in S. cerevisiae and aspergilli, International Specialized Symposium on Yeasts (ISSY25), Finland 2007 Glucose sensing and repression pathways in Aspergillus niger, Second Danish Conference in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Denmark   Revealing components of the glucose sensing and repression pathways in Aspergillus niger, Biochemical Engineering XV: Engineering Biology from Biomolecules to Complex Systems, Canada   Glucose sensing and repression pathways in Aspergillus niger, 13th European Congress on Biotechnology, Spain 2008 Regulatory network analysis of genome-wide transcription data from Aspergillus niger, 9th European Conference on Fungal Genetics, Scotland   Regulatory network analysis of genome-wide transcription data from Aspergillus niger, 9th International Conference on Systems Biology, Sweden 2009 Comparative transcriptomics analysis of glycerol metabolism in aspergilli, 25th Fungal Genetics Conference at Asilomar, United States Teaching and Tutoring Experience 2007 Teaching assistant, Fermentation Technology Course, DTU, Denmark 2008 Tutoring, Master student Camille Clement, INSA, France. “Construction and characterization of the snf1 mutant in Aspergillus niger”, Main supervisor: Jens Nielsen. Grants, Awards and Prizes 1997-2004 Fellowship, TELMEX Foundation, Mexico  2002-2004 Fellowship, Conacyt, Mexico 2006-2008 Fellowship, Conacyt, Mexico Personal text Research interest: Fermentation technology of Aspergillus niger, comparative genomics and transcriptomics among aspergilli, functional genomics and fungal genetics.