Juan Antonio Valdés
Universidad Andrés Bello, Chile
Biography
Juan Antonio Valdés is working as an Associate Professor of the Faculty of Biological Sciences at the Andres Bello University, Chile and Associate Researcher of the Interdisciplinary Center for Aquaculture Research (INCAR), where he leads the Molecular Biotechnology laboratory. His research is focused on the understanding the molecular mechanisms regulating skeletal muscle growth in teleost. The application of this expertise has provided new insights in the field of stress response in marine fishes. Currently, he is focusing on the identification and characterization of cortisol-mediated non-genomic signaling in the stress response of salmonids, by using next-generation transcriptomic and proteomic tools.