Lucrecia Alvarez, MS, PhD
Residential Faculty
Department: Biology
Contact Information
Campus: Main
Office Location: LS Building
Office Number: LS-249
Email: lucrecia.alvarez@gccaz.edu
Phone number: (623) 845-4586
Bio
Biography
Dr. M. Lucrecia Alvarez has a M.S. in Biochemistry and a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the National University of Rosario, Argentina. Dr. Alvarez is a full-time professor of Microbiology, General Biology, and Biotechnology at Glendale Community College and Adjunct Professor of Chemistry at Applied Chemistry Department, National Technological University, Rosario, Argentina. Dr. Alvarez previously taught Microbiology and Biotechnology at Mesa Community College, Microbiology at Chandler Gilbert Community College as well as Biochemistry to master’s students at the National University of Rosario, Argentina. She holds three additional appointments as editor for three scientific journals: RNA & Disease, Clinical & Cellular Immunology, and PLoS ONE.
Dr Alvarez is also a scientist with almost 20 years of experience working in a wide area in biology including transgenic plants and plant-made vaccines as well as genetics and molecular biology of diabetes and cancer. Dr. Alvarez is author of more than 30 scientific publications. In 2001, Dr Alvarez obtained in Argentina the National Science and Technology Award for Outstanding Research after developing transgenic wheat with improved nutritional and bread-making quality. In 2002, she joined a world leader group in plantmade vaccines at ASU. She obtained an effective vaccine in tomato for prevention of bubonic and pneumonic plague. In 2008, Dr. Alvarez started diabetes research at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) where she functionally characterized the first known long non-coding RNA associated with diabetic nephropathy as well as different
microRNAs that contribute to diabetic nephropathy, hypercholesterolemia, and atherosclerosis. In 2013, Dr. Alvarez joined Mayo Clinic of Arizona to work on genetics and molecular biology of breast cancer.
In 2018, Dr. Alvarez accepted a position as a Residential Faculty at Glendale Community College (GCC) where she currently teaches General Biology (BIO181), Microbiology (BIO205), and Methods in Nucleic Acids (BIO208). In addition, Dr. Alvarez actively participates and directs undergraduate students’ research at GCC, where she is also the advisor of the Biotechnology Club.
Linkedin profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/lucreciaalvarez1
Scientific publications: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=XS549SgAAAAJ&hl=en
Research Gate profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Maria_Alvarez7