Profile
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OrganizationUniversity of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez
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Employment StatusUniversity / College Faculty
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Telephone(787) 832-4040
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Address(s)PO Box 9000
Mayaguez, PR 00681
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Biography
Dr. Pastrana is a Professor of Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the Unviersity of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez. She received her Ph.D. in Biophysical Chemisty from Rutgers University and completed postdoctoral studies at the Mayo Clinic and Foundation in the Department of Pharmacology and Biochemistry/Molecular Cell Biology. Her laboratory at UPRM seeks to understand the structure/function/stability relationship by applying biotechnology techniques such as site directed mutagenesis, isotope labeling, fermentor, based expression of proteins of interest. Their isolation, purification and biochemical characterization to ensure sufficient high quality protein for the study of these proteins by molecular biophysical techniques such as infrared spectroscopy, two-dimensional correlation spectroscopy (2DCOS) and bioinformatics molecular modeling to be applied towards the understanding of protein biological functions and protein thermodynamics.
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