PhD. Milton Barcos, is an Agricultural Engineer by training, and has two Master's degrees in Biotechnology and a Doctorate in Sciences with a specialty in Plant Biotechnology from the Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico (CINVESTAV-IPN). He currently works as a professor in the Faculty of Life Sciences of the Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL). Since 2001 he has been working at the Biotechnological Research Center of Ecuador (CIBE-ESPOL) in improving banana cultivation from the nutritional aspect with organic amendments, to selection assisted by molecular markers. In 2014 he was appointed Head of the CIBE Environmental Bioremediation Laboratory, since then he has been working on issues of microbial bioremediation, phytoremediation and the production of bioproducts seeking to restore agricultural areas that are strongly affected by different types of anthropogenic activities. In Postgraduate studies, he has taught and coordinated the Introduction to Biodiscovery Module in the different cohorts of the Master's Degree in Applied Biosciences of the VLIR-ESPOL Program. Likewise, he has given the modules of Introduction to Biodiscovery, Metabolomics and Bioremediation in the first cohort of the Doctoral Program in Applied Biosciences of FCV-ESPOL. He is the tutor of numerous undergraduate and postgraduate theses. And he has published several articles in indexed magazines.
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