- Microbiology
- Lipid Metabolism
- Lipid Biochemistry
- Molecular Biology
Dr. Diana Sahonero Canavesi
Research Interests
Microbial Physiology and membrane-lipid biosynthesis
My research focuses on the biosynthesis of membrane lipids in microbes; by combining classic microbiological cultivation (aerobic and anaerobic), biochemistry and molecular biology, I study the biosynthetic pathways of membrane lipids in bacteria.
Bacterial membranes change in response to environmental conditions and different types of stress. I investigate which factors change the lipid composition of bacteria-producing membrane-spanning (ether) lipids.
Research Experience
- Postdoc, August 2017 -Present, MMB-Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
- Postdoc, August 2016 -July 2017, CIGOM- Research consortium of the Gulf of Mexico, Biotechnology Institute -Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
- Postdoc, June 2015-July 2016, Molecular Microbiology Laboratory, Biotechnology Institute -Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Education
- 2009 - 2015 Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences , Center for Genomic Sciences, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.
- 2003 - 2007 B.Sc. Biology, Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla.
Websites
Linked news
Thursday 06 April 2023
Lauded microbiologist Jill Banfield visits NIOZ
Earth scientist Professor Jill Banfield of the University of California at Berkeley received the Van Leeuwenhoek Medal yesterday, during the annual meeting of the Royal Dutch Society for Microbiology. This award for influential (micro)biologists has…
Monday 19 December 2022
Linking fossil climate proxies to living bacteria helps climate predictions
Microbes have skins that react to the environment, much in the same way that our skin sweats when it is hot , or shivers when it is cold outside. Fossilized microbial skins can give us a glimpse of how the climate was in the deep geological past. By…
NIOZ publications
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2022
Sahonero Canavesi, D.X.; Siliakus, M.F.; Abdala Asbun, A.; Koenen, M.; von Meijenfeldt, F. A.B.; Boeren, S.; Bale, N.J.; Engelmann, J.C.; Fiege, K.; Strack van Schijndel, L.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Villanueva, L. (2022). Disentangling the lipid divide: Identification of key enzymes for the biosynthesis of membrane-spanning and ether lipids in bacteria. Science Advances 8(50). https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abq8652Sahonero Canavesi, D.X.; Villanueva, L.; Bale, N.J.; Bosviel, J.; Koenen, M.; Hopmans, E.C.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2022). Changes in the distribution of membrane lipids during growth of Thermotoga maritima at different temperatures: Indications for the potential mechanism of biosynthesis of ether-bound diabolic acid (membrane-spanning) lipids. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 88(2). https://dx.doi.org/10.1128/aem.01763-21
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2021
Lara, P.; Vega-Alvarado, L.; Sahonero Canavesi, D.X.; Koenen, M.; Villanueva, L.; Riveros-Mckay, F.; Morett, E.; Juárez, K. (2021). Transcriptome Analysis Reveals Cr(VI) Adaptation Mechanisms in Klebsiella sp. Strain AqSCr. Front. Microbiol. 12. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.656589Velázquez-Sánchez, C.; Vences-Guzmán, M.Á.; Moreno, S.; Tinoco-Valencia, R.; Espín, G.; Guzmán, J.; Sahonero Canavesi, D.X.; Sohlenkamp, C.; Segura, D. (2021). PsrA positively regulates the unsaturated fatty acid synthesis operon fabAB in Azotobacter vinelandii. Microbiological Research 249: 126775. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.micres.2021.126775
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2019
Bale, N.J.; Rijpstra, W.I.C.; Sahonero Canavesi, D.X.; Oshkin, I.Y.; Belova, S.E.; Dedysh, S.N.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S (2019). Fatty acid and hopanoid adaption to cold in the methanotroph Methylovulum psychrotolerans. Front. Microbiol. 10: article 589. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2019.00589Balzano, S.; Villanueva, L.; de Bar, M.; Sahonero Canavesi, D.X.; Yildiz, C.; Engelmann, J.C.; Maréchal, E.; Lupette, J.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2019). Biosynthesis of long chain alkyl diols and long chain alkenols in Nannochloropsis spp. (Eustigmatophyceae). Plant Cell Physiol. 60(8): 1666-1682. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pcp/pcz078Smit, N.T.; Rush, D.; Sahonero Canavesi, D.X.; Verweij, M.; Rasigraf, O.; Guerrero-Cruz, S.; Jetten, M.S.M.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S; Schouten, S. (2019). Demethylated hopanoids in ‘Ca. Methylomirabilis oxyfera’ as biomarkers for environmental nitrite-dependent methane oxidation. Org. Geochem. 137: 103899. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2019.07.008
