Paula Nicole Oyarce
Postdoctoral Fellow
Awards
Becas Chile Fellowship (2011)
Education
2012 - 2016: PhD, Bioenergy and Bio-aromatics lab, PSB-VIB, Gent University, Belgium.
2005 - 2010: BSc, Bioengineering, University of Concepcion, Chile.
Professional Profile
2022 - current: Postdoc researcher, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.
2010 - 2011: Assistant researcher, Forest genomics lab, Biotechnology Center. University of Concepción, Chile.
Selected Publications
Oyarce P, De Meester B, Fonseca F, de Vries L, Goeminne G, Pallidis A, De Rycke R, Tsuji Y, Li Y, Van den Bosch S, Sels B, Ralph J, Vanholme R, Boerjan W (2019) Introducing curcumin biosynthesis in Arabidopsis enhances lignocellulosic biomass processing. Nature Plants 5, 225-237.
Mnich E, Vanholme R, Oyarce P, Liu S, Lu F, Goeminne G, Jørgensen B, Motawie M, Boerjan W, Ralph J, Ulvskov P, Møller BL, Bjarnholt N, Harholt J (2017) Degradation of lignin β-aryl ether units in Arabidopsis thaliana expressing LigD, LigF and LigG from Sphingomonas paucimobilis SYK-6. Plant Biotechnology Journal 15, 581-593.
Tsuji Y, Vanholme R, Tobimatsu Y, Ishikawa Y, Foster CE, Kamimura N, Hishiyama S, Hashimoto S, Shino A, Hara H, Sato-Izawa K, Oyarce P, Goeminne G, Morreel K, Kikuchi J, Takano T, Fukuda M, Katayama Y, Boerjan W, Ralph J, Masai E, Kajita S (2015) Introduction of chemically labile substructures into Arabidopsis lignin through the use of LigD, the Cα-dehydrogenase from Sphingobium sp. strain SYK-6. Plant Biotechnology Journal 13, 821-832.
Vanholme R, Morreel K, Darrah C, Oyarce P, Grabber JH, Ralph J, Boerjan W (2012) Metabolic engineering of novel lignin in biomass crops. New Phytologist 196, 978-1000.