Paula Nicole Oyarce

Postdoctoral Fellows

Postdoc

Current

Selected Publications

  • Oyarce P, De Meester B, Fonseca F, de Vries L, Goeminne G, Pallidis A, De Rycke R, Tsuji Y, Li Y, Van den Bosch S, Sels B, Ralph J, Vanholme R, Boerjan W (2019) Introducing curcumin biosynthesis in Arabidopsis enhances lignocellulosic biomass processing. Nature Plants 5, 225-237.

  • Mnich E, Vanholme R, Oyarce P, Liu S, Lu F, Goeminne G, Jørgensen B, Motawie M, Boerjan W, Ralph J, Ulvskov P, Møller BL, Bjarnholt N, Harholt J (2017) Degradation of lignin β-aryl ether units in Arabidopsis thaliana expressing LigD, LigF and LigG from Sphingomonas paucimobilis SYK-6. Plant Biotechnology Journal 15, 581-593.

  • Tsuji Y, Vanholme R, Tobimatsu Y, Ishikawa Y, Foster CE, Kamimura N, Hishiyama S, Hashimoto S, Shino A, Hara H, Sato-Izawa K, Oyarce P, Goeminne G, Morreel K, Kikuchi J, Takano T, Fukuda M, Katayama Y, Boerjan W, Ralph J, Masai E, Kajita S (2015) Introduction of chemically labile substructures into Arabidopsis lignin through the use of LigD, the Cα-dehydrogenase from Sphingobium sp. strain SYK-6. Plant Biotechnology Journal 13, 821-832.

  • Vanholme R, Morreel K, Darrah C, Oyarce P, Grabber JH, Ralph J, Boerjan W (2012) Metabolic engineering of novel lignin in biomass crops. New Phytologist 196, 978-1000.

Education

  • 2012 - 2016: PhD, Bioenergy and Bio-aromatics lab, PSB-VIB,  Gent University, Belgium. 
  • 2005 - 2010: BSc, Bioengineering, University of Concepcion, Chile. 

Professional Profile

  • 2022 - current: Postdoc researcher, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.
  • 2010 - 2011: Assistant researcher, Forest genomics lab, Biotechnology Center. University of Concepción, Chile.

Awards

  • Becas Chile fellowship (2011)

Research Interests Keywords

Metabolomics Abiotic Stress Cell wall analysis Molecular biology