Jorge Vallejo Ortega

Nationality: Spanish
Adress (city and country): Valencia (Spain)
E-mail address:: jorvaor@protonmail.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jorgevallejoortega/
GitHub: https://github.com/jorgevallejo/
Blog: https://jvallejo.livejournal.com/


Education and training

Master's degree in Bioinformatics and Biostatistics: Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (2019-2021)
Master's degree in Biotechnology of Human Assisted Reproduction: IVI Valencia (2007-2009)
Bachelor's degree in Biology: Universidad de Valencia (1996 – 2001)


Work experience

Animal technician

Animal Production - Universidad de Valencia [Mar. 2020 - Actual]

Daily care and maintenance of animals for research (mice, rats, rabbits).

Laboratory official

INCLIVA [Mar. 2019 – Dic. 2019]

Involved in the daily care and maintenance of the animals. Rotarod assays and collection of data.

Laboratory technician

Drug Discovery Unit in IIS La Fe [Oct. 2017 – Dic. 2018]

In charge of cell cultures. Cell assays, protein and nucleic acids extraction, and other usual techniques for Molecular Biology.

Laboratory technician

Bionos Biotech [May. 2015 – Jul. 2017]

Caretaker for the medaka fish (Oryzas latipes) and zebra fish (Danio rerio) colonies, including transgenic strains. Breeding and embryo harvesting, plus standard tasks of animal facility maintenance. Toxicity assays on embryos and overfeeding assays on adult fish.

Laboratory technician

Pancreatic Islet Development & Regeneration Unit in the Andalusian Center for Molecular Biology and Regenerative Medicine (CABIMER) [Dic. 2009 – Jul. 2014]

Transgenic mice lines colony management, isolation of mouse pancreatic islets, cell line culture, PCR, RT-PCR, RT-Q-PCR, Western blot and transformation of competent bacteria.


Language skills

Spanish: mother tongue.
English: Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE). C2 equivalent.


Digital skills

R / RStudio / Python / Jupyter Notebooks / MySQL / Git / GitHub / Linux / Windows / Bash /


Publications

Hu He KH et al. In vivo conditional Pax4 overexpression in mature islet β-cells prevents stress-induced hyperglycemia in mice. Diabetes, 60(6): 1705-15 (2011).

Marín, I. y Vallejo, J. Parkinson Disease: From Cellular and Animal Models to Genomics. Current Genomics; vol. 6, nº 4, pp 227-240 (2005).

Vallejo, J; Gómez-Piquer, V. y Tarín, J.J. Inducción de la partenogénesis en ovocitos de mamíferos. Revista Iberoamericana de Fertilidad; 20: 177-87 (2003).


Certifications and courses

Flow Citometry: technical bases (25h) by CIPF's Citomics laboratory (2018).
University Expert on Medical Genetics (168h) by Universidad de Valencia's Genetics Department (2016 - 2017).
Category C certificate on caretaking and experiment design on research animals by Conselleria de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación de Valencia (2009).