Larrondo Luis F.

I received my Ph.D. in Cellular and Molecular Biology at the P. Universidad Católica de Chile, studying the enzymology and genomics of lignin degradation by white rot fungi with Dr. Rafael Vicuña. Then, as a PEW Latin American Fellow, I went to the lab of Jay C. Dunlap (Dartmouth Medical School), where as a postdoc I became interested in fungal functional genomics, photobiology, and circadian regulation, developing different tools such as a high-throughput platform for in vivo circadian studies in Neurospora crassa. In 2009, I joined the P. Universidad Católica de Chile, where currently I am Full Professor and since 2018 the director of the Millennium Institute for Integrative Biology (iBio) (previously Millennium Nucleus for Fungal Integrative and Synthetic Biology, 2014-2017) and a HHMI International Research Scholar. Work conducted in my lab, has contributed to advance the understanding of circadian timing, the role of clock-regulation on plant-pathogen interactions, general transcriptional mechanisms, and the effect of light on fungal transcriptional programs, and synthetic transcriptional circuits as well.