Nicolás Pinel Peláez

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Área de Sistemas Naturales y Sostenibilidad

Información general

Doctor en Microbiología, University of Washington, USA.

Contacto

Teléfono/phone: (57) 604 261 8938.
Correo electrónico/e-mail: npinelp@eafit.edu.co.
Dirección/address: Carrera 49 número 7 sur 50, Medellín (Colombia). Bloque 38.

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Resumen CV / Summary

Antes de unirse a EAFIT, Nicolás Pinel hizo parte del Instituto de Biología de Sistemas en Seattle (Washington, Estados Unidos) como investigador posdoctoral, donde participó en proyectos colaborativos con el Centro de Biomedicina de Sistemas de Luxemburgo y otros institutos de talla internacional. Es Doctor en Microbiología de la Universidad de Washington, con énfasis en Astrobiología. Trae consigo amplia experiencia computacional, bioinformática, de campo y de laboratorio con organismos tan diversos como microalgas, virus humanos, organismos extremófilos (en altas temperaturas, altas salinidades, y alta acidez, entre otros ambientes), bacterias anaeróbicas, levaduras marinas y sistemas simbióticos. Le apasiona compartir el encanto del mundo natural y la fascinación de la investigación a través de la docencia.

Before joining EAFIT, Nicolas Pinel was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) in Seattle (Washington State, USA), where he participated in collaborative projects with the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB). He earned a Ph.D. in Microbiology from the University of Washington with emphasis in Astrobiology. Nicolas has extensive computational, bioinformatic, field and laboratory experience with organisms as diverse as microalgae, human viruses, extremophiles (thermophiles, halophiles, acidophiles, etc.), anaerobic bacteria, marine yeast, and simbiotic systems. He is passionate about sharing the wonder of the natural world and the fascination of the process of discovery with students of all levels.

Intereses académicos e investigativos / Research and Teaching Interest

Bioenergía y microalgas, biología básica y aplicada de organismos extremófilos, ecología microbiana, entre otros.

Estudios realizados / Education

Ph.D. en Microbiología, University of Washington (Seattle, Washington, USA), con especialización en Astrobiología.
Licenciado en Microbiología, University of Miami (Coral Gables, Florida, USA).

Publicaciones / Publications

Muller E.E., Pinel N., Laczny C.C., Hoopmann M.R., Narayanasamy S., Lebrun L.A., et al. (2014) Community-integrated omics links dominance of a microbial generalist to fine-tuned resource usage. Nature Communications. November 26; 5: 5603. Doi: 10.1038/ncomms6603.
Davidson S.K., Dulla G.F., Go R.A., Stahl D.A., Pinel N. (2014) Earthworm symbiont Verminephrobacter eiseniae mediates natural transformation within host egg capsules using type IV pili. Frontiers in Microbiology. October 29; 5: 546. Doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00546. eCollection 2014.
Hillesland K.L., Lim S., Flowers J.J., Turkarslan S., Pinel N., Zane G.M., et al. (2014) Erosion of functional independence early in the evolution of a microbial mutualism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. October 14; 111(41): 14822-7. Doi: 10.1073/pnas.1407986111.
Laczny C.C., Pinel N., Vlassis N., Wilmes P. (2014) Alignment-free visualization of metagenomic data by nonlinear dimension reduction. Scientific Reports. March 31; 4: 4516. Doi: 10.1038/srep04516.
Stolyar S., Liu Z., Thiel V., Tomsho L.P., Pinel N., Nelson W.C., et al. (2014) Genome Sequence of the Thermophilic Cyanobacterium Thermosynechococcus sp. Strain NK55a. Genome Announcements. January 30; 2 (1). Pii: e01060-13. Doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01060-13.
Beer K.D., Wurtmann E.J., Pinel N., Baliga N.S. Model organisms retain an "ecological memory" of complex ecologically relevant environmental variation. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 2013 March; 80 (6): 1821-31. Doi: 10.1128/AEM.03280-13.
Muller E.E., Pinel N., Gillece J.D., Schupp J.M., Price L.B., Engelthaler D.M., et al. Genome sequence of Candidatus Microthrix parvicella Bio17-1, a long-chain-fatty-acid-accumulating filamentous actinobacterium from a biological wastewater treatment plant. Journal of Bacteriology. 2012 December; 194 (23): 6670-1. Doi: 10.1128/JB.01765-12.
Kjeldsen K.U., Bataillon T., Pinel N., De Mita S., Lund M.B., Panitz F., Bendixen C., Stahl D.A., Schramm A. Purifying selection and molecular adaptation in the genome of Verminephrobacter, the heritable symbiotic bacteria of earthworms. Genome Biology and Evolution. 2012; 4 (3): 307-15. Doi: 10.1093/gbe/evs014.
Walker C.B., de la Torre J.R., Klotz M.G., Urakawa H., Pinel N., Arp D.J., et al. (2010) Nitrosopumilus maritimus genome reveals unique mechanisms for nitrification and autotrophy in globally distributed marine crenarchaea. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. May 11; 107 (19): 8818-23. Doi: 10.1073/pnas.0913533107.
Walker C.B., Stolyar S., Chivian D., Pinel N., Gabster J.A., Dehal P.S., et al. (2009) Contribution of mobile genetic elements to Desulfovibrio vulgaris genome plasticity. Environ Microbiol. September; 11 (9): 2244-52. Doi: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2009.01946.x.
Dillon J.G., Miller S., Bebout B., Hullar M., Pinel N., Stahl D.A. (2009) Spatial and temporal variability in a stratified hypersaline microbial mat community. FEMS Microbiology and Ecology. April; 68 (1): 46-58. Doi: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2009.00647.x.
Pinel N, Davidson SK, Stahl DA. (2009) Verminephrobacter eiseniae gen. nov., sp. nov., a nephridial symbiont of the earthworm Eisenia foetida (savigny). International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 2008 September; 58(Pt 9): 2147-57. Doi: 10.1099/ijs.0.65174-0.
Stolyar S., Van Dien S., Hillesland K.L., Pinel N., Lie T.J., Leigh J.A., Stahl D.A. (2007) Metabolic modeling of a mutualistic microbial community. Molecular Systems Biology. 2007; 3: 92.
Walker C.B., Stolyar S.S., Pinel N., Yen H.C., He Z., Zhou J., Wall J.D., Stahl D.A. (2006) Recovery of temperate Desulfovibrio vulgaris bacteriophage using a novel host strain. Environ Microbiol. 2006 November; 8(11): 1950-9.

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