Prof. Claudio F Gonzalez is currently teaching the Advanced Lab course at the UF/IFAS Department of Microbiology and Cell Science. He earned his PhD from the National University of Tucuman. He was awarded with a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Stanford University in 2003. Then, he pursued a second postdoc at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) (2003–2004) and Banting and Best Institute (University of Toronto) (2004–2007). His research interests are gene expression and regulation, protein engineering, enzyme production, and characterization. His lab is interested in the functional and biological characterization of unknown proteins with hydrolytic activity.