ALBERTO PASAMONTES FÚNEZ

*** * ****** *** *, ****6 Davis, CA

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WORK EXPERIENCE

January 2015 - up to date

I’m working as an Associate Specialist in Cristina Davis’ BioMems Group (UC Davis, CA, USA). My primary focus is to mentor master and PhD student and lead new metabolomics projects related with breath samples

February 2012 – December 2014

I’m working as a post-doctoral fellowship in Cristina Davis’ BioMems Group (UC Davis, CA, USA). My primary focus as an analytical chemist is to lead projects and develop and apply algorithms to preprocess and analyze metabolomic data (plants, animals and humans) from different biosensors (GCDMS) and chemical analysis machines such as GC/MS, LC/MS.

February 2009 – February 2012

I worked at Shirota Functional Foods. S.L (Reus, Spain). Startup I had a Post-doctoral fellowship from Spanish government Torres Quevedo

“Development of functional foods by bioinformatics techniques”. I applied bioinformatic tools to biological data and using virtual screening methodologies (structure based, ligand-based, QSAR, data analysis).

February 2007- January 2009

I worked at Dow Chemical S.L. (SPAIN) as an analytical/chemometric specialist. Development/management/improvement/validation of new methodologies in an analytical laboratory and applying chemometrics tools in different projects (PAT).

January 2006- September 2006

Post-doctoral contract in the University Rovira i Virgili. I was working at Nanosensor group research giving support to new PhD students

EDUCATION

January 2006 PhD in chemistry (chemometrics), “Multivariate curve resolution applied to sequential injection data. Analysis of amoxicillin and clavulanic acid”, Rovira i

Virgili University, Tarragona (SPAIN)

2001- 2003 Master in Biochemistry, Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain

May 2003 Master in Analytical Chemistry, “Determinación de amoxicilina mediante

análisis de inyección secuencial y resolución de curvas multivariante”,

Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona

1997- 2001 Degree in Chemistry, Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Aksenov AA, Yeates L, Pasamontes A, Siebe CA, Zrodnikov Y, Simmons J, McCartney MM, Delplanque JP, Wells RS, Davis CE. (2014) Metabolite content profiling of bottlenose dolphin exhaled breath. Analytical Chemistry 86(21): 106**-*****.

Mansoor JK, Schelegle ES, Davis CE, Walby WF, Zhao W, Aksenov AA, Pasamontes A, Figueroa J, Allen RL. (2014) Analysis of volatile compounds in exhaled breath condensate in patients with severe pulmonary arterial hypertension. PLoS One 9(4): e95331.

Aksenov AA, Pasamontes A, Peirano DJ, Zhao W, Dandekar AM, Fiehn O, Eshani R, Davis CE. (2014) Detection of Huanglongbing disease using differential mobility spectrometry. Analytical Chemistry 86(5): 2481-2488.

Martinelli F, Scalenghe R, Giovino A, Pasquale M, Aksenov AA, Pasamontes A, Peirano DJ, Davis CE, Dandekar AM. (2014) A translational genomic approach for early and infield detection of flavescence doree. Plant Biosystems 1: 1-12.

Schivo M, Aksenov AA, Yeates LC, Pasamontes A, Davis CE*. (2013) Diabetes and the metabolic syndrome: possibilities of a new breath test in a dolphin model. Frontiers in Endocrinology (Nature Publishing Group) Volume 4: article 163.

Schivo M, Seichter F, Aksenov AA, Pasamontes A, Peirano DJ, Mizaikoff B, Kenyon NJ, Davis CE*. (2013) Mobile instrumentation platform to distinguish airway disorders. Journal of Breath Research 7(1):017113.

BOOKS

Peirano DJ, Aksenov AA, Pasamontes A, Davis CE*. (2013) Chapter 18: Approaches for Establishing Methodologies in Metabolomic Studies for Clinical Diagnostics. Medical Applications of Artificial Intelligence (ed. Arvin Agah). CRC Press, Taylor Francis Group. pp. 279-304. ISBN: 978-1-439-88433-1.

Aksenov AA, Guaman Novillo AV, Sankaran S, Fung AG, Pasamontes A, Martinelli F, Cheung WHK, Eshani R, Dandekar AM, Davis CE*. (2013) Chapter 6: Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) for Non-Invasive Plant Diagnostics. Natural Products for Pest Management (eds. J Beck, JR Coats, SO Duke, ME Koivunen). ACS Symposium Book Series, American Chemical Society. pp. 73-95. ISBN 978-0-8412-2900-6

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

Chemometrics Classification methods (PLS, PLS-DA and N-PLS); exploratory analysis (PCA, PARAFAC); second order data (MCR-ALS); cluster analysis (SIMCA, KNN, HCA); experimental design (screening and optimization); univariate analysis; data fusion; model validation (permutation, cross- validation, optimization, feature selection)

Chemoinformatics Structure and ligand based drug design, docking methods, pharmacophore hypothesis generation, conformational analysis, QSAR and QSPR, chemical libraries design, 2D and 3D structure similarity, enrichment analysis, biomarker discovery and validation

Softwares Matlab, JMP, Unscrambler, Statistica, R

Bioanalytical Liquid Chromatography: LC/HPLC/UPLC- DAD, Q-TOF

Gas Chromatography: GC - FID, EI, TOF, Q-TOF

Optical Spectroscopy : RAMAN, IR, NIR

Validation of analytical methods,

LANGUAGES

English I have a very good level of spoken and written English.

Spanish &

Catalan Mother tongue

REFERENCES

- Cristina E. Davis, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (USA)

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- Ricard Boqué, Ph.D.

Professor of chemistry, Rovira i Virgili University (SPAIN)

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