Fernando Santos-Beneit
Professor
Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences, Medical School Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne
UK
Biography
Fernando Santos Beneit studied Biology at University of León (Spain). He spent ten months as a Socrates-Erasmus grant holder at the department of Molecular Cell Physiology of the “Vrije Universiteit†in Amsterdam (Holland), where he worked with the Gram-negative bacterium, Paracoccus denitrificans. He conducted his PhD in molecular biology at University of León, where he was awarded a PhD (cum laude) in 2010, as well as the 2012 University of León Extraordinary Prize for the best thesis in Biology. He dedicated his ten years to studying phosphate regulation in the model actinomycete Streptomyces coelicolor, with particular focus on secondary metabolite regulation and nutrient stress cross-talk. He developed most of my work at the Institute of Biotechnology of León, but He also collaborated with different researches at the department of Molecular Biology in the Faculty of Biology as well as with several biotechnology companies. In 2013,
Research Interest
Biology of the antibiotic-producers streptomycetes