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Biography

Much of my current research focuses on bioinformatic analysis particularly for Genome-Wide Association Studies, QTL mapping and RNA-seq data. The main goal of my project is to understand the regulation of tococromanols (vitamin E) compound-derived metabolic pathways. Part of this goal involve the study one of the last steps in tococromanols biosynthesis which is catalyzed by the 2-methyl-6-phytylquinol methyltransferase. This enzyme in tomato is encoded by two key paralog genes, VTE3(1) and VTE3(2). I intend to integrate different types of high-throughput data analysis to elucidate how tomato plants, as sessile organisms, had developed a plethora of response mechanisms as tococromanols to environmental constraints. The regulation of those mechanisms can be explained at different organization levels; from changes in leaf anatomy to epigenomics.