Victoria Eugenia Villegas GÃlvez
Primary Teacher
Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Universidad del Rosario
Spain
Biography
Aspiring doctorate University of Rosario-Karolinska Institute.Magister in Biological Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Biologist, Universidad del Valle. Degree in Biology and Chemistry, Universidad Santiago de Cali. Internship at Plant Breeding International, Cambridge, in a collaborative work with cenipalma. Experience in research of biochemical and molecular markers in plant breeding and subsequent application of the same techniques in medicine, particularly in the molecular diagnosis of duchene and mitochondrial diseases. Teaching experience in biochemistry, cell and molecular biology for students of basic sciences and medicine in undergraduate and postgraduate courses. She has worked as a researcher and teacher in cenipalma, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and linked since 2005 to the University of Rosario where she is also part of the Research group of Basic Medical Sciences. As academic pair has been jury evaluator of thesis of undergraduate and graduate. The results of the research have been presented at national and international events and published in indexed journals.
Research Interest
Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Publications
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VICTORIA EUGENIA VILLEGAS , MAGDA CAROLINA SÃNCHEZ, LILIAN CHUAIRE. 2009 . Polymerase Chain Reaction and Molecular Diagnosis. Colombia Medical. Vol. 40 No. 3 (July-September) pg 347-52. ISSN 1657-9534 • VICTORIA EUGENIA VILLEGAS, FERNANDO VELANDIA, CESAR PAYÃN. 2008 . Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: clinical, pathological and molecular study of a case. Health Sciences Journal. Volume 6 No.3 (September - December) pg 36-46.
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NANCY PATRICIA JARA, MICA DÃAZ, VICTORIA VILLEGAS , CLARA LÓPEZ DE MESA, DIANA TORRES, JAIME BERNAL, ALBERTO GÓMEZ, IGNACIO BRICEÑO. 2010 . Application of authenticity criteria in mitochondrial studies on archaic bone. remains from a prehispanic Muisca population. Colombia Medica Vol. 41 Nº 4 - (October-December) pg 306-14.
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MARLENY SALAZAR, FEDERICA CONSOLI, VICTORIA VILLEGAS , VICTOR CAICEDO, VALERIA MADDALONI, PAOLA DANIELE. GIUSEPPE CAIANIELLO, SONIA PACHÓN, FEDERICO NUÑEZ, GIUSEPPE LIMONGELLI, GIUSEPPE PACILEO, BRUNO MARINO, JAIME AND BERNAL, ALESSANDRO DE LUCA, BRUNO DALLAPICCOLA. 2011 . Search for somatic GATA4 and NKX2.5 gene mutations in sporadic septal heart defects. European Journal of Medical Genetics Volume 54, Issue 3, May-June 2011, Pages 306-309.
