Karina I Paredes Páliz
Departamento de MicrobiologÃa y ParasitologÃa, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Sevilla. Profesor GarcÃa González, 2, 41012-Sevilla, Spain.
Biography
Karina Paredes Páliz is a young researcher from Ecuador who has taken her degree in Biology. She has a grant from the Ecuadorian Government and is currently doing her PhD in Molecular Biology and Biomedicine in the Department of Microbiology and Parasitology of the Faculty of Pharmacy (University of Seville). The area that focuses her research is Environmental Biotechnology, specifically the Bioremediation of heavy metals with the use of bacteria and plants. Several of her works focus in the Phytoremediation of estuaries contaminated near to the River Odiel, province of Huelva-Spain.