Chemist
Chemist

Biography

Nathalie Munoz is a bioanalytical chemist with the Biomolecular Pathways team in PNNL’s Environmental Molecular Sciences Division and the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) user program. Munoz received her PhD from Florida State University. She studied changes in the metabolome of human mesenchymal stem cells when cultured under different environmental conditions, using mass spectrometry coupled to gas chromatography and 13C-labeled tracers to answer questions in her research. Munoz is involved in multiple projects with a focus on synthetic biology, biofuel production, and environmental science. In all of them, she applies mass spectrometry-based metabolomics as the approach to solve interesting biological questions. 

Research Interest

  • Metabolomics 

  • Mass spectrometry 

  • Metabolic flux analysis 

  • Synthetic biology 

Education

  • PhD in Molecular Biophysics, Florida State University, 2015 

  • BS in Chemistry, Universidad del Valle, 2008 

Publications

2020 

  • Chaves J.E., R. Wilton, Y. Gao, N. Munoz Munoz, M.C. Burnet, Z. Schmitz, and J. Rowan, et al. 2020. "Evaluation of chromosomal insertion loci in the Pseudomonas putida KT2440 genome for predictable biosystems design." Metabolic Engineering Communications 11, e00139. PNNL-SA-155823. doi:10.1016/j.mec.2020.e00139 

  • Geiselman G.M., X. Zhuang, J. Kirby, M. Tran-Gyamfi, J. Prahl, E.R. Sundstrom, and Y. Gao, et al. 2020. "Production of ent-kaurene from lignocellulosic hydrolysate in Rhodosporidium toruloides." Microbial Cell Factories 19, Article No. 24. PNNL-SA-150034. doi:10.1186/s12934-020-1293-8