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Awards

November 2022 Reconocimiento espíritu explora

June 2021 Académico Destacado. Universidad Santo Tomás, sede Valdivia

September 2016 Beca pasantía internacional Joslin Diabetes Center, Universidad de Harvard, MA. MECESUP

January 2012 Beca Doctorado Nacional. CONICYT

Degrees:

2018
Doctorate     Structural, Cell and Molecular Biology
2011
Undergraduate     Structural, Cell and Molecular Biology

Publications resulting from Research
• Francisco Astorga, María J. Navarrete-Talloni, María P. Miró, Veronica Bravo, Magaly Toro, Carlos J. Blondel, Luis P. Hervé-Claude. Antimicrobial resistance in E. coli isolated from dairy calves and bedding material (2019). Heliyon (Elsevier) (5)11: 1 – 7

• Bustamante FA, Miró MP, Velásquez ZD, Molina L, Ehrenfeld P, Rivera FJ, Bátiz LF. Role of adherens junctions and apical-basal polarity of neural stem/progenitor cells in the pathogenesis of neurodevelopmental disorders: a novel perspective on congenital Zika syndrome (2019). Transl Res. Mar 5. pii: S1931-5244(19)30051-9. doi: 10.1016/j.trsl.2019.02.014. Review.

• de Paola, Matilde; Miró, María Paz; Ratto, Marcelo; Bátiz, Luis Federico; Michaut, Marcela Alejandra. Pleiotropic effects of alpha-SNAP M105I mutation on oocyte biology: ultrastructural and cellular changes that adversely affectfemale fertility in mice (2019). Scientific reports. ISSN: 2045-2322









• Solís-Maldonado M, Miró MP, Acuña AI, Covarrubias-Pinto A, Loaiza A, Mayorga G, Beltrán FA, Cepeda C, Levine MS, Concha II, Bátiz LF, Carrasco MA, Castro MA (2018). Altered lactate metabolism in Huntington’s disease is dependent on GLUT3 expression. CNS Neuroscience and Therapeutics. 12835, 1-10.

• Alexis Arcos, Matilde de Paola, Diego Gianetti, Diego Acuña, Zahady D. Velásquez, María Paz Miró, Gabriela Toro, Bryan Hinrichsen, Rosa Iris Muñoz, Pamela Ehrenfeld, Francisco J. Rivera, Marcela A. Michaut, Luis Federico Batiz. (2017) α-SNAP is expressed in mouse ovarian granulosa cells and plays a key role in folliculo genesis and female fertility. Scientific Report 7: 11765, 1- 14.

• Adriana Covarrubias-Pinto, Pablo Moll, Macarena Solís-Maldonado, Aníbal I. Acuña, Andrea Riveros, María Paz Miró, Eduardo Papic, Felipe A. Beltrán, Carlos Cepeda, Ilona I. Concha, Sebastián Brauchi, Maite A. Castro (2015). Beyond the redox imbalance: Oxidative stress contributes to an impaired GLUT3 modulation in Huntington's disease. Free Radical Biology and Medicine 89(2015)1085–1096.

• F.A. Beltrán, A.I. Acuña, M.P. Miró, M.A. Castro, Brain Energy Metabolism in Health and Disease, Neuroscience-Dealing With Frontiers, Dr. Carlos M. Contreras (Ed.) (2012).

• Beltrán FA, Acuña AI, Miró MP, Angulo C, Concha II, Castro MA, (2011). Ascorbic Acid Dependent GLUT3 Inhibition Is a Critical Step for Switching Neuronal Metabolism J Cell Physiol 226, 3286-3294