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Personal Information

First name: Luis

Middle name: María

Last name: Vaschetto

Gender: Male

National Identity Document (DNI): 30289666

Birthplace: Oncativo, Córdoba, Argentina

Date of birth: 09/12/1983

Age: 35

Postal Address: Ruta Nacional No 9 Km 627, Oncativo

(Córdoba). Argentina. Código Postal 5986

Phone contact: +54-035**-********

E-mails: *************@*******.*** (primary mail)

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Academic Training

- Undergraduate Degree in Genetics. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Químicas y Naturales (FCEQyN). Universidad Nacional de Misiones (UNAM). Misiones, Argentina. Graduation date: May 5, 2011.

- PhD in Biological Sciences. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales

(FCEFyN). Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC). Córdoba, Argentina. Thesis Title: Phylogeographic analysis of Geraeocormobius sylvarum Holmberg 1887

(Arachnida, Opiliones, Gonyleptidae) and biogeographical implications in the Northeast of Argentina. Graduation date: March 17, 2016. Teaching experience

1. Teacher of Chemistry. Instituto de Educación Córdoba (IEC) High School (2013/2014). Córdoba, Argentina (website: http://iec.edu.ar/). Orientation: Natural Sciences. 2. Teaching Assistant in Graduate and Undergraduate courses. Departmento de Genética de Poblaciones y Evolutiva. Facultad de Ciencia Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (2012-2014, 2018). Fellowships

Doctoral-level scholarship provided by the Fondo para la Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (FONCYT, Argentina). Area: Biology of Organisms and Systems. July 1, 2011 to July 1, 2013.

Type II Doctoral-level scholarship provided by the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET, Argentina). Area: Biological and Health Sciences. April 1, 2014 to April 1, 2016.

Postdoctoral-level scholarship provided by the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET, Argentina). Area: Biological and Health Sciences. Title: Phylogeographical analysis of Parapachyloides uncinatus (Sørensen 1879)

(Arachnida, Opiliones, Gonyleptidae). April 1, 2016 to April 1, 2018. Professional distinctions and memberships

First Place Award: Poster Presentation (Animal Session). “Phylogeographic analysis of Geraeocormobius sylvarum Homberg 1887 by using the Cytochrome Oxidase I

(COI) gene”. Regional Meeting of Genetics. 2016. Corrientes, Argentina.

DNA Day 2018 www.springernature.com/gp/researchers/campaigns/dna-day/. Key articles nominated by Springer-Nature Editors, subject Genome Engineering:

“Modulating signaling networks by CRISPR/Cas9-mediated transposable element insertion” (2018) published in Current Genetics. DOI: 10.1007/s00294-017-0765-9.

Member of the Epigenetics Society (2018).

Member of the Cancer Epigenetics Society (2019). Participation in Research Projects

PICT-2007-01296. 2009-2011 FONCyT National Agency of Scientific and Technological Promotion (Argentina). "Diversity, biogeographical and evolutionary historical relations between Gonyleptidae Opiliones (Arachnida) from Yungas and Paranaense regions: a multidisciplinary approach".

Secretary of Science and Technology (Secyt - Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina). Resol. Secyt 162/12. 2012-2013. "Diversity and Biogeographical relations between Opiliones (Arachnida) from Yungas and Mesopotamia, Argentina". Secretary of Science and Technology (Secyt). Resol. Secyt 1565-1514. 2014-2015. Harvestmen (Arachnida) from Yungas and Mesopotamia in Argentina: systematic and biogeographical patterns.

Principal posters and conference presentations

I. Lombardo L, Nisi M, Salines N, Vaschetto LM, Vanzetti L, Helguera M. 2011. Development of a mutant bread wheat population by EMS and its validation via identification of mutagenized High Molecular Weight Glutenin genes. Argentine Congress of Genetics. Corrientes, Argentina.

II. Vaschetto LM, L. Vanzetti L Lombardo L, Helguera M. 2011. "Development of a 96 - bread -wheat cultivars core-collection and determination of its population structure". 2nd Argentine Congress of Bioinformatics. Córdoba, Argentina. III. Vergara J, Acosta L, Gonzalez-Ittig R, Vaschetto LM, Gardenal N. 2012. Potential distribution modeling and phylogeographic analysis of Discocyrtus dilatatus (Arachnida, Opiliones): two approaches to address the Mesopotamia-Yungas disjunction. Argentine Meeting of Cladistics and Biogeography. Mendoza, Argentina. IV. Lombardo L, Goméz D, Nisi M, Vaschetto LM, Fissore G, Vanzetti L, Fraschina J, Helguera M. 2012. Development of three VRN-1 near-isogenic lines in bread wheat and their responses to vernalization. XXIX Argentine Meeting of Plant Physiology. Mar del Plata, Argentina.

V. Vaschetto LM, Gonzalez-Ittig R, Vergara J, Acosta L. 2012. Haplotype diversity of the COI gene in Geraeocormobius sylvarum (Arachnida, Opiliones, Gonyleptidae). Latin American Congress of Genetics. Rosario, Argentina. GP, P: 47. VI. Vaschetto LM, Gonzalez-Ittig R, Vergara J, Acosta L. 2016. Phylogeographic analysis of Geraeocormobius sylvarum Homberg 1887 by using the Cytochrome Oxidase I (COI) gene. Regional Meeting of Genetics. Corrientes, Argentina. Publications in peer-reviewed journals

I. Vanzetti L, Campos P, Demichelis M, Lombardo L, Aurelia R, Vaschetto LM, Bainotti C, Helguera M (2011) Identification of leaf rust resistance genes in Argentinean hexaploid wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cultivars. Electronic Journal of Biotechnology 14(3):9-9. Publisher: EJB Electronic Journal of Biotechnology. II. Vanzetti L, Yerkovich N, Chialvo E, Lombardo L, Vaschetto L, Helguera M (2013) Genetic structure of Argentinean hexaploid wheat germplasm. Genetics and Molecular Biology 36(3): 391-399. Publisher: Sociedade Brasileira de Genetica. III. Vaschetto LM (2015) Exploring an emerging issue: Crop epigenetics. Plant Molecular Biology Reporter. DOI: 10.1007/s11105-014-0796-z. Publisher: Springer New York Publishing Company.

IV. Vaschetto LM, González-Ittig R, Vergara J; Acosta LE (2015) High genetic diversity in the harvestman Geraeocormobius sylvarum (Arachnida, Opiliones, Gonyleptidae) from subtropical forests in north-eastern Argentina revealed by mitochondrial DNA sequences. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research. DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12093. Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc. V. Vaschetto LM (2016) Miniature Inverted-repeat Transposable Elements (MITEs) and their effects on the regulation of major genes in cereal grass genomes. Molecular Breeding. 36:30. DOI 10.1007/s11032-016-0440-8. Publisher: Springer Netherlands.

VI. Vaschetto LM (2016) Understanding the role of protein interaction motifs in transcriptional regulators: implications for crop improvement. Briefing in functional genomics. DOI: 10.1093/bfgp/elw022. Publisher: Oxford University Press. VII. Acosta LE, Vaschetto LM (2016) Palaeoclimatic distribution models predict Pleistocene refuges for the Neotropical harvestman Geraeocormobius sylvarum

(Arachnida: Opiliones: Gonyleptidae). Journal of Natural History, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2016.1245450. Publisher: Taylor & Francis. VIII. Vaschetto LM (2017) RNA activation: A diamond in the rough for genome engineers. Journal of Cellular Biochemistry, DOI: 10.1002/jcb.26228. Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.

IX. Vaschetto LM (2017) Modulating signaling networks by CRISPR/Cas9-mediated transposable element insertion. Current Genetics, DOI: 10.1007/s00294-017-0765- 9. Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

X. Vergara J, Acosta LE, González-Ittig R, Vaschetto LM, Gardenal, N (2017) The disjunct pattern of the Neotropical harvestman Discocyrtus dilatatus (Gonyleptidae) explained by climate-driven range shifts in the Quaternary: paleodistributional and molecular evidence. PLOS ONE 12(11), e0187983. Publisher: Public Library of Science.

XI. Vaschetto LM (2018) miRNA activation is an endogenous gene expression pathway. RNA Biology, DOI: 10.1080/15476286.2018.1451722. Publisher: Landes Bioscience.

XII. Vaschetto LM (2018) Editorial: Small Activating RNAs as Promising Agents for Biotechnological Use. Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, DOI: 10.2174/138920101908180913103654. Publisher: Bentham Science. XIII. Vaschetto LM, Ortiz N (accepted, in press) The role of sequence duplication in transcriptional regulation and genome evolution. Current Genomics. DOI: 10.2174/1389202920666190320140721. Publisher: Bentham Science. XIV. Vaschetto LM, Beccacece HM (accepted, in press) The emerging importance of non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) in the insecticide tolerance, with special emphasis on Plutella xylostella (Lepidoptera: Plutellidae). Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA. Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.

XV. Vaschetto LM (Under review) The role of Piwi-interacting RNAs and LINE-1 retrotransposons in cancer epigenetics.

XVI. Vaschetto LM (Reviewer Assignment Pending) Comparative analysis of the IGF2R

(Mus musculus) and PHERES1 (Arabidopsis thaliana) imprinted proteins: a comprehensive evolutionary study based on epigenetic targets XVII. Vaschetto LM, González-Ittig R, Vergara J; Acosta LE (In preparation) Phylogeography of the harvestman Geraeocormobius sylvarum (Arachnida, Opiliones, Gonyleptidae) support range fragmentation and formation of Pleistocene refugia in northeastern Argentina.

XVIII. Vaschetto LM, Litholdo CG, Sendín LN, Terenti C (In preparation) Cereal circular RNAs (circRNAs): an overview of the computational resources for identification and analysis.

XIX. Vaschetto LM (In preparation) Activation of gene expression via regulation of chromosome architecture: lessons learned from plants and animals. Referee/Reviewer: Issues in Biological Sciences and Pharmaceutical Research, Molecular Plant Breeding, Current Pediatric Reviews, BMC Genomics, Nucleic Acids Research, PLOS ONE, Arachnology.

Editorial duties

Guest editor at Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology (2-year IF 2016: 2.46). ISSN: 1873-4316 (Online); 1389-2010 (Print). Upcoming thematic issue: “Small Activating RNAs as Promising Agents for Biotechnological Use”. Issue release date: October, 2018.

Guest editor at Current Gene Therapy (5-year IF 2016: 3.023). ISSN: 1875-5631

(Online); 1566-5232 (Print). Upcoming thematic issue: “The emergence of non- coding RNAs as versatile and efficient therapeutic tools”. Tentative issue release date: March 1, 2019.

Book Editor at Methods in Molecular Biology - Springer Protocols. Cereal Genomics: Methods and Protocols. Publisher: Humana Press. Tentative book release date: July 1, 2019.

Guest editor at Current Genomics (5-year IF 2017: 2.733). ISSN: 1875-5488

(Online); 1389-2029 (Print). Upcoming thematic issue: “The critical role of epigenetic regulation in developmental programming of higher organisms”. Tentative issue release date: April 1, 2020.

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