Education

Ph.D in Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biomedicine, Institut de Biotecnologia i de Biomedicina & Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2015

Current Position

Postdoctoral scientist in Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Biomedicine, Nanotechnology and Structural Biology. Institut de Biotecnologia i de Biomedicina. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona. Spain

Publications (since 2013)

1. Contreras Rodriguez, A. R., Saiz-Poseu, J., Garcia-Pardo, J., Garcia, B., Lorenzo, J., Ojea-Jimenez, I., Komilis, D., Sedó, J., Busqué, F., Sanchez, A., Ruiz-Molina, D. and Font, X. (2016). Biocompatible polydopamine-like particles for the removal of heavy metals at extremely low concentrations. RSC Adv 46: 40058-40066. 
2. Lufrano, D., Cotabarren, J., Garcia-Pardo, J., Fernandez-Alvarez, R., Tort, O., Tanco, S., Aviles, F. X., Lorenzo, J. and Obregon, W. D. (2015). Biochemical characterization of a novel carboxypeptidase inhibitor from a variety of Andean potatoes. Phytochemistry 120: 36-45.
3. Garcia-Pardo, J., Grana-Montes, R., Fernandez-Mendez, M., Ruyra, A., Roher, N., Aviles, F. X., Lorenzo, J. and Ventura, S. (2014). Amyloid formation by human carboxypeptidase D transthyretin-like domain under physiological conditions. J Biol Chem 289(49): 33783-33796.
4. Nunez, C., Oliveira, E., Garcia-Pardo, J., Diniz, M., Lorenzo, J., Capelo, J. L. and Lodeiro, C. (2014). A novel quinoline molecular probe and the derived functionalized gold nanoparticles: sensing properties and cytotoxicity studies in MCF-7 human breast cancer cells. J Inorg Biochem 137: 115-122.
5. Oliveira, E., Santos, H. M., Garcia-Pardo, J., Diniz, M., Lorenzo, J., Rodriguez-Gonzalez, B., Capelo, J. L. and Lodeiro, C. (2013). Synthesis of functionalized fluorescent silver nanoparticles and their toxicological effect in aquatic environments (Goldfish) and HEPG2 cells. Front Chem 1: 29.
6. Tanco, S., Lorenzo, J., Garcia-Pardo, J., Degroeve, S., Martens, L., Aviles, F. X., Gevaert, K. and Van Damme, P. (2013). Proteome-derived peptide libraries to study the substrate specificity profiles of carboxypeptidases. Mol Cell Proteomics 12(8): 2096-2110.