Education

2018 – 

PhD candidate at Productive Ecology and Resource Conservation (WUR) - Department of Microbial Ecology (NIOO-KNAW). Sandwich PhD (Microbiology Laboratory. Agronomy Faculty (Montevideo, Uruguay). 

         "Abiotic and biotic factors that shape the community structure, physiology and activity of methanotrophs in freshwaters systems"

2012

Master in Microbiology. PEDECIBA- University of the Republic (Montevideo, Uruguay). Deparment of Microbiology. Biological Research Institute "Clemente Estable" - Limnology Section. Science Faculty.

          "Role of the bacterioplankton in the ammonium uptake in a coastal lagoon: Laguna de Rocha"

2004

Bachelor in Biochemistry. Science Faculty. University of the Republic (Montevideo, Uruguay). Biochemistry Laboratory. Agronomy Faculty. University of the Republic (Montevideo, Uruguay)

          "Effect of herbicides on cyanobacteria isolates from Uruguayan rice paddies"

Position

2010 – present

Assistant in Microbiology Laboratory. Agronomy Faculty. University of the Republic.

 

Internships

2013

Department of Microbial Ecology. NIOO-KNAW. Wageningen, The Netherlands

2010

Molecular Ecology Department. Max Plank Institute for Marine Microbiology. Bremen, Germany

2008 and 2009

Oceanographic Process Laboratory. Concepción University. Concepción, Chile.

 

Grants

2017

PhD Sandwich Programme fellowship at WUR. National Agency for Research and Innovation (Uruguay).

2013

Project "Effect of cyanobacterial inoculation "Effect of cyanobacterial inoculation in methane emissions from rice paddies". PI. CSIC-University of the Republic. 

2012

Attendance "Latin American ISME Meeting" (Foz, Brazil). PEDECIBA

2010

Internship at Max Plank Institute. National Agency for Research and Innovation-PEDECIBA

2009

Internship at Concepción University. National Agency for Research and Innovation

2009

Master fellowship.National Agency for Research and Innovation

2008

Internship at Concepción University. Institut Pasteur, Montevideo. Uruguay

Grants from different institutions  from Uruguay, Chile and USA for attending international courses

 

Teaching experience

2009 - Assistant in the Microbiology course (Degree in Agronomy). Faculty of Agronomy. University of the Republic (Montevideo, Uruguay)

 

 

 

Bodelier Group
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Nitrogen and phosphorus control of methane cycling in wetland sediments

2019

Bodelier, P. L. E., Pérez, G., Veraart, A. J., & Krause, S. (Accepted/In press). Methanotroph Ecology, Environmental distribution and functioning. In E. Y. Lee (Ed.), Microbiology Fundamentals and Biotechnological Applications Heidelberg: Springer

2016

Pérez, G., Doldán, S., Scavone, P., Borsani, O., Irisarri, P. Osmotic stress alters UV-based oxidative damage tolerance in a heterocyst forming cyanobacterium. Plant Biol. Biochem. 108: 231-240.

Batani, G; Pérez, G., Martínez de la Escalera, G., Piccini, C., Fazia, S. Competition and protist predation are important regulators of riverine bacterial community composition and size distribution. J. Freshwater Ecol.31: 609-623.

2014

Pérez, G., Farías, L., Fernandez, C., Conde, D., Piccini, C. Incidence of phytoplankton and environmental conditions on the bacterial ammonium uptake in a subtropical coastal lagoon. J. Limnol. 73: 122-130.

2012

Pérez, G., Doldán, S., Borsani, O., Irisarri, P. Differential response to moderate UV-B irradiation of two heterocystous cyanobacteria isolated from a temperate ricefield. Adv. Microbiol. 2: 37- 47

2010

Fabre, A., Carballo, C., Hernández, E., Píriz, P., Bergamino, L., González, S., Pérez, G., León, J.L., Aubriot, L., Bonilla, S., Kruk, C. El nitrógeno y la relación zona eufótica/zona de mezcla explican la presencia de cianobacterias en pequeños lagos subtropicales, artificiales de Uruguay. Pan-American J. Aquatic Sci.5: 112 – 125.