Ximena Gutiérrez Ramos
Research Interests
One of the many questions that I would like to answer is how the body plan regulatory genes evolved? Genetic and bioinformatic tools can allow us to understand how a conserved gene toolbox can change and create a diversity of shapes as we can appreciate in insects. My research aims are to understand the role of cis-regulatory elements in the transcriptional regulation in segmentation genes and the evolutionary trajectories of these mechanisms.
One of the many questions that I would like to answer is how the body plan regulatory genes evolved? Genetic and bioinformatic tools can allow us to understand how a conserved gene toolbox can change and create a diversity of shapes as we can appreciate in insects. My research aims are to understand the role of cis-regulatory elements in the transcriptional regulation in segmentation genes and the evolutionary trajectories of these mechanisms.
Publications
Gutiérrez-Ramos X, Vázquez M, Dorantes-Acosta AE, Díaz-Fleischer F, Peralta-Alvarez CA, Nuñez-Martínez HN, Arzate-Mejía RG, Recillas-Targa F, Arteaga-Vázquez MA, Zurita M. Novel tephritid-specific features revealed from cytological and transcriptomic analysis of Anastrepha ludens embryonic development. Insect Biochem Mol Biol. 2020 Jul;122:103412. doi: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2020.103412. Epub 2020 May 15. PMID: 32417415.
Rosas-Cárdenas Fde F, Caballero-Pérez J, Gutiérrez-Ramos X, Marsch-Martínez N, Cruz-Hernández A, de Folter S. miRNA expression during prickly pear cactus fruit development. Planta. 2015 Feb;241(2):435-48. doi: 10.1007/s00425-014-2193-0. Epub 2014 Nov 4. PMID: 25366556.
Gutiérrez-Ramos X, Vázquez M, Dorantes-Acosta AE, Díaz-Fleischer F, Peralta-Alvarez CA, Nuñez-Martínez HN, Arzate-Mejía RG, Recillas-Targa F, Arteaga-Vázquez MA, Zurita M. Novel tephritid-specific features revealed from cytological and transcriptomic analysis of Anastrepha ludens embryonic development. Insect Biochem Mol Biol. 2020 Jul;122:103412. doi: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2020.103412. Epub 2020 May 15. PMID: 32417415.
Rosas-Cárdenas Fde F, Caballero-Pérez J, Gutiérrez-Ramos X, Marsch-Martínez N, Cruz-Hernández A, de Folter S. miRNA expression during prickly pear cactus fruit development. Planta. 2015 Feb;241(2):435-48. doi: 10.1007/s00425-014-2193-0. Epub 2014 Nov 4. PMID: 25366556.
Education
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (2016-2021)
PhD, Biomedical Sciences
Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro (2011-2016)
BS, Microbiology
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (2016-2021)
PhD, Biomedical Sciences
Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro (2011-2016)
BS, Microbiology
Contact
ximenagr(at)umd(dot)edu
ximenagr(at)umd(dot)edu