Microbiology, Soil-Pant Interactions, Rizosphere and Plant Nutrition; Phytoremediation of contaminated soil; Plant physiology; Plant Pathology

Postdoctoral Sponsor
2023-2025: Dr. Ana Fallard. FONDECYT postdoct Nº 3230501. Extreme microbiota improves tolerance to water deficit by multigenerational selection. Wheat as a model of key staple crop.
2022-204. Dr. Cecilia Paredes. FONDECY postdoc Nº 3220546 . Development of an eco-friendly fiertilizer based on citrus peel-cattle manure with prosphate rock and fungal consortia, for improving soil properties and crop production: an economical and renewable alternative for use in organic farming.

Post Grado
2020-actual: Tutor PhD Isabel Mendez, Doctorado en Ciencias de Recursos Naturales Universidad de la Frontera
2020-actual: Tutor PhD Manuel Saldivar, Doctorado en Ciencias de Recursos Naturales Universidad de la Frontera
2019-actual: Tutor PhD Rodrigo Rodriguez, Doctorado en Ciencias de Recursos Naturales Universidad de la Frontera
2017-actual: Tutor PhD student Maryannis Chavez, Doctorado en Ciencias de Recursos Naturales Universidad de la Frontera
2017- 2019: Co-tutor PhD student Blenda Silva, Universidad de Amazonas, Brazil
2014- 2016: Co-Tutor PhD student Sharon Viscardi, University of Federico II, Napoli-Italy.

Pregrado
2023-2024: tutor Undergraduate thesis, Agronomy, Isabel Coronado; Universidad of La Frontera, Temuco-Chile. Registration Nº21543393518, Thesis Name: Cuantificar genes de patogenicidad de Gaeumannomyces graminis en cepas sometidas a radiación UV y variaciones de temperatura.
2022-2023: Tutor undergraduate thesis, Biotecnology, Vanessa Candia; Universidad of La Frontera, Temuco-Chile. Registration Nº 19809479k17, Thesis name: Caracterización morfológica y molecular de microorganimos ciltivables de costras biologicas (Biocrust) provenientes de biomas subantárticos de Chile.
2022-2023: Tutor Undergraduates thesis, Biotecnology, Josefa Mendoza; Universidad of La Frontera, Temuco-Chile. Registration Nº19765673517. Thesis name: Detección y cuantificación de Gaeumannonyces graminis var tritici en la seleción multigenercional desde suelos conductivos a suelos supresivos en plantas de trigo.
2018- 2019: Tutor undergraduate thesis. Biochemists, Isabel Mendez; University of La Frontera, Temuco-Chile. Registration Nº: 19005921914, Thesis name: Biocontrol de Gaeumannonyces graminis en trigo mediante el uso de bacterias aisladas de suelos supresivos.
2017-actual: Tutor undergraduate thesis. Biochemists, Camila Fernandez; University of La Frontera, Temuco-Chile. Registration Nº 19305547814, Thesis name: Consorcio microbiano basado en hongos Antárticos para el biocontrol de pudriciones en postcosecha de uva
2017: Tutor undergraduate thesis. Biotechnologist, Pedro Huenchual; University of La Frontera, Temuco-Chile, Registration Nº 181980389-12, Thesis Tittle: Aislamiento de microorganismos de suelos antárticos y su efecto antagónico ante Gaeumannomyces graminis var. tritici.
2019-actual: Tutor undergraduate practice. Chemical and Farmacy. Lucas Musante; University of La Frontera, Temuco-Chile. Registration Nº 19719861317
2019-actual: Tutor undergraduate practice. Agronomy. Isabel Coronado; University of La Frontera, Temuco-Chile. Registration Nº 21543393518
2018-2019: Tutor undergraduate practice. Biochemists. María Jose Ruiz; University of La Frontera, Temuco-Chile. Registration Nº: 19809685716
2018-2019: Tutor undergraduate practice. Biochemists. Valentina Fritz; University of La Frontera, Temuco-Chile. Registration Nº 19764735316
2018-2019: Tutor undergraduate practice. Biotechnologist. Catalina Jara; University of La Frontera, Temuco-Chile. Registration Nº 20060842917
2018-2019l: Tutor undergraduate practice. Biotechnologist. Carlos Patterson; University of La Frontera, Temuco-Chile. Registration Nº 20080342617

2005 Mutis Scholarship (Postgraduate studies), Spanish Agency of International Cooperation (AECI), Spain
2001 Universidad de la Frontera award (Better academically), La Frontera University
2014- a la fecha programa 1000 científicos 1000 aulas, Programa Explora Araucanía
2014 a la fecha Feria de Investigación Universidad de la Frontera

Congresos Nacionales e Internacionales
Duran P., Tortella, G, Viscardi, Sh., Mora, ML and Pozo MJ (April, 2018). Oral Presentation Microbial community composition in take-all suppressive soils. XV Meeting of the Working Group “Biological and integrated control of plant pathogens. Lleida- Spain.
Duran, P.; Viscardi, SN.; Carrion, V.; Mora, ML.; Pozo, MJ. (2017). Suppressive soils against Gaeumannonyces graminis of soils under monoculture management is regulated by rhizosphere microorganisms. 7 Congress of European Microbiologists (FEMS), Valencia- España.
Durán, P., Acuña, J.J, Jorquera, M., Viscardi, Sh., Mora M.L., Pozo MJ. (Septiembre, 2016) XIV Meeting of the IOBC-WPRS Working Group Biological Control of Fungal and Bacterial Plant Pathogens Biocontrol and Microbial Ecology, Berlín-Alemania
Acuña, J., P. Durán, L. Lagos, A. Ogram, M.L. Mora and M. Jorquera. 2016. Bacterial alkaline phosphatase in the rhizospheres of plants grown in Chilean extreme environments. Organic Phosphorus Workshop 2016, September 5-9, Lake District, England
Duran, P, Acuña, J.J., Jorquera, M., Paredes, C. and Mora, M.L. 20th World Congress of Soil Science. 2014. Isolation of putative endophytic bacteria from selenium-supplemented wheat plants and their potential use for biofortification and biocontrol of a soil borne pathogen
Duran, P, Acuña, J.J., Jorquera, M. and Mora, M.L. II Conferencia iberoamericana de interacciones beneficiosas microorganismo-planta-ambiente (Sept, 2013) selenium biofortification in wheat plants by co-inoculation of selenobacteria strains and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi for obtaining enriched selenium foods (Oral presentation)
Mora, ML, Acuña, J.J., Durán, P and Demanet, R. (Septiembre, 2013). Organic selenium forms from selenobacteria strains able to enhance selenium in wheat grain. II Conferencia Iberoamericana de Interacciones Beneficiosas Microorganismo-Planta-Ambiente (IBEMPA). Sevilla, Spain. Accepted
Acuña J., Durán P., Jorquera M. and M.M Mora. Selenium compounds formed by selenobacteriaselected from the rhizosphere as a potential biofertilizer for biofortification of wheat crops. FEMS Microbiology Congress 2013. Liepzig, Germany. Accepted
Bech, J., Duran, P., Poma, W., Sánchez, I., Barceló, J., Roca, N., Boluda, R., Roca-Pérez, L., Poschenrieder, C. European Geosciences Union (mayo, 2010). The first report of Pb and Zn accumulation in some native plants from the Peruvian Andes. Viena (Austria). 12 (2716)
Bech, J.; Corrales, I; Duran, P, Roca, N; Tume, P; Barceló, J; Poschenrieder, Ch. European Geosciences Union (May, 2010). Accumulation of antimony and other potentially toxic elements in plants around a former antimony mine located in the Ribes Valley (Eastern Pyrenees), Viena (Austria), 12 (2713)
Bech J., Duran, P., Barceló, J., Roca, N., Tume, P., Poschenrieder, Ch.European Geosciences Union (May, 2010). Soil and plant contamination by lead mining in Bellmunt (Western Mediterranean Area), Viena (Austria), 12 (2704)
Bech J., Duran, P., Roca, N., Poma,W., Sánchez,I., Barceló, J. y Poschenrieder, Ch.European Geosciences Union (May, 2011).Accumulation of Pb and Zn in Bidens triplinervia and Senecio sp, spontaneous species from mine spoils in Peru, as potential use for phytoremediation in South America. Viena (Austria), 13 (1924)
Bech, J., Barceló, J., Roca, N., Tonón, L., Duran, P., Larriva, G. y Poschenrieder, Ch.European Geosciences Union(May, 2011).Trace element accumulation in plants from mine soils at a silver mining area in southern Ecuador. Viena (Austria), 13(1126)
Bech, J., Duran, P., Roca, R., Barceló, B., Boluda, R., Roca-Perez, L., and Poschenrieder, Ch.European Geosciences Union (May, 2011). Accumulation of heavy metals in plants growing around an abandoned mine in Poblet, Tarragona (NE Spain), Viena (Austria), 13 (2311)
Duran, P.; Jorquera, M.; Viscardi, SN.; Carrion, V.; Mora, ML.; Pozo, MJ. (2017). screening and characterization of potentially suppressive soils against Gaeumannomyces graminis under extensive wheat cropping by Chilean indigenous communities. Congreso latinoamericano de Fitopatologia. SOFICHIT
Durán, P.; Acuña, J.;Jorquera, M.; Viscardi, SH.; Mora, ML.; Pozo, MJ (2016): Take all suppression and microorganisms involved in the decline of disease in southern chile take all suppression in andisol from chile. III Taller Latinoamericano de PGPR.
Jorquera, M., J. Acuña, P. Duran, P. Barra, L. Lagos, F. Cid, J. Rilling, N. Inostroza, O. Navarrete & M.L. Mora. 2016. Bacterias promotoras del crecimiento vegetal de ambientes extremos chilenos. 3er Workshop
Duran, P., Bech, J., Roca, N., Poschenrieder, C. and Mora, M.L. Workshop: 3rd International workshop: Advances in Science and Technology of Bioresource, Pucón, (November, 2011). The first report of Pb and Zn accumulation in native plants from Peruvian Andes, 19.
Duran, P., Acuña, J., Jorquera, M.A. and Mora, M.L. Congreso Chileno de Microbiología, Valdivia (2012). Enhanced selenium content in wheat grain by co-inoculation of selenobacteria and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi as a potential flour biofortification strategy, B82.
Acuña, J.J., Duran, P., Jorquera, M.A. and Mora, M.L. XXXIV Congreso Chileno de Microbiología, Valdivia (Noviembre, 2012). Organic selenium forms from selenobacteria strains able to enhance selenium in wheat grain as a potential biofertilizer, B2
Durán, P., Acuña, J.J, Jorquera, M. and Mora, M.L. (2013) Isolation of putative plant-growth promoting endophytic bacteria from selenium-biofortified wheat plants and their potential protective effect against fungal soil-borne pathogen Gaeumannomyces graminis