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Dr. José Raggio Quilez

Personal data

 

Name: Jose Raggio

Date and place of birth: Ceuta, Spain,  January 9th 1979

 

Educational background

2004:  Graduation on Pharmacy at Universidad Complutense de Madrid,

2007-nowadays: PhD Thesis student, Faculty of Pharmacy, Universidad Complutense Madrid

 

Current position title:  PhD Student

 

Present research/professional speciality:

PhD thesis in process related with high mountains and polar lichens ecophysiology, relationship between growth and photosynthesis, responses to environmental changes and lichens adaptation to extreme environments.

Considerable experience in the use gas exchange and fluorescence systems for measuring photosynthesis. Experience on HPLC and GC techniques, spectrophotometry and chlorophyll extraction. Experience on installation of field monitoring stations.

 

Years as practising researcher:       6

 

Congresses participation: 3 national congresses and 6 international congresses with 14 posters presentation and 3 oral communications:

● XVII Simposio de Botánica Criptogámica, Tomar, Portugal., 23-26 Septiembre 2009. Oral communication “Ecophysiological comparison of different types of crustose lichens adapted to high mountains environments”

● XVIII Simposio Botánica Criptogámica, Barcelona, Spain, July 2011. Oral communication “Resistance of the vagrant lichen Aspicilia fruticulosa to extreme space conditions: results of experiments with real flight and simulations”

● 7th International Lichenological Symposium, Bangkok, Thailand, January 2012. Oral communication (accepted for presentation) “Photosynthesis, N2 fixation and nutrients content of three Placopsis species adapted to a subantarctic environment”

Exceptional qualifications:

 

  • Collaborator on LACOPE and ANTEX Research Projects. Member of the ANTCOMPLEX Research project as Phd student (2007-2011).
  • Participation on the expedition to Navarino Island ( 55°S,Tierra del Fuego, January and February 2005) as collaborator of ANTEX project.
  • Participation on the 2008/2009 Spanish Antarctic expedition to Juan Carlos I Base. (62°S December 2008/ January 2009).
  • Participation on the 2009/2010 New Zealand Antarctic expedition to Scott Base and The Dry Valleys (77°S, January 2010)
  • Three months scientific stay at the University of Nottingham  to develop nitrogenase activity and chemical analysis measurements on cold adapted lichens (May 2010-July 2010)

 

 Publications:

 

  1. Burgaz AR, Raggio J (2007). The Cladoniaceae of Navarino Island. Mycotaxon 99: 103-116.
  2.  Amo de Paz G,  Raggio J, Gomez-Serranillos MP, Palomino OM, Gonzalez-Burgos E, Carretero ME, Crespo A (2010). HPLC isolation of antioxidant constituents of Xanthoparmelia sp. Journal of Pharmaceuticals and Biomedicals Analysis  53 (2): 165-171.
  3. De los Ríos A, Raggio J, Pérez-Ortega S, Vivas M, Pintado A, Green TGA, Ascaso C and Sancho LG (2011) Morphological, anatomical and ecophysiological strategies in Placopsis pycnotheca (lichenized fungi, Ascomycota) allowing rapid colonization of re3cently deglaciated soils. Flora 206 (10): 857-864.
  4. Raggio J, Pintado A, Ascaso C, De la Torre R, De los Ríos A, Wierzchos J, Horneck G and Sancho LG (2011). Whole lichen thalli survive exposure to space conditions: Results of Lithopanspermia experiment with Aspicilia fruticulosa. Astrobiology 11 (4): 281-292.
  5. Pérez-Ortega S, Fernández-Mendoza F, Raggio J, Vivas M, Ascaso C, Printzen C, Sancho LG and De los Ríos A. (2012) Extreme phenotypic variation in Cetraria aculeata (lichenized Ascomycota). Adaptation or incidental modification? Annals of Botany 109 (6): 1133-1148
  6. Raggio J, Green TGA, Crittenden PD, Pintado A, Vivas M, Pérez-Ortega S, De los Ríos A and Sancho LG (2012). Comparative ecophysiology of three Placopsis species, pioneer lichens in recently exponed glacial forelands. Symbiosis 56: 55-66
  7. Sánchez FJ, Mateo-Martí E, Raggio J, Meeβen J, Martínez-Frías J, Sancho LG, Ott S and De la Torre R (2012) The resistance of the lichen Circinaria gyrosa (nom. Provis.) towards simulated Mars conditions- a model test for the survival capacity of an eukaryotic extremophile. Planetary and Space Science 72 (1): 102-110