Dr. Linda P Guamán is the Biomedical Research Center Director at the Centro de Investigación Biomédica (CENBIO), Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud Eugenio Espejo, Universidad UTE, Quito, Ecuador. She earned her Master’s Degree in Microbiology from the Universidad San Francisco de Quito in 2012 and her Ph.D. from Universidade de São Paulo in 2017, also in Microbiology. She is passionate about using bacteria as cell factories and is experienced in engineering Prokaryotes using synthetic biology and metabolic engineering approaches. As a researcher, she has worked in three different countries and languages collaborating in multicultural teams. For her Ph.D. thesis, she improved xylose uptake and P3HB accumulation in B. sacchari, aiming to use the xylose from sugarcane bagasse to produce P3HB, a biopolymer that can replace plastic made from petroleum. She also collaborated in engineering E. coli to produce branch chain fatty acids, which are similar to the molecules from gasoline, jet fuel and diesel, during her internship at Washington University in St. Louis. Her specialties include Microbiology, molecular microbiology, synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, CRISPR Cas9, molecular cloning, food microbiology and biochemistry.