Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, Department of Integrative Biology
B.S. Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia - Biology
Graduate School Developer, University of Bristol, School of Biological Sciences
Post-doctoral Associate, University of Bristol, School of Biological Sciences
Research Associate, Instituto de Biodiversidad Alexander von Humboldt, Colombia
Graduate Student Instructor, Research Assistant and Laboratory Manager, UC Berkeley
Academic Internship, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama
- Cyanobacteria evolution
- Microbial ecology picocyanobacteria and Planktothrix
- Phylogenetics and evolutionary biology
C. E. Blank and P. Sánchez-Baracaldo. Timing of morphological and ecological innovations in the Cyanobacteria – a key to understanding the rise in atmospheric oxygen. Geobiology 8: 1–23. 2010.
Sánchez-Baracaldo P., B. A. Handley, and P. K. Hayes. Picocyanobacterial community structure of freshwater lakes revealed by phylogenetic analyses and clade-specific quantitative PCR. Microbiology 154: 3347–3357. 2008.
Hayes P. K., N. A. El Semary, and P. Sánchez-Baracaldo. The taxonomy of cyanobacteria; molecular insights into a difficult problem. In: Unraveling the Algae. Natural History Museum, pp. 93–101. 2007.
Sánchez-Baracaldo, P., P. K. Hayes, and C. E. Blank. Morphological and habitat evolution in the Cyanobacteria using a compartmentalization approach. Geobiology, 3:145–165. 2005.
Hegarty M, J. Jones, I Wilson, G. Barker, J. Coghill, P. Sánchez-Baracaldo, R. Abbott, Keith Edwards, and S. Hiscock. Development of anonymous cDNA microarrays to study changes to the Seneciofloral transcriptome during hybrid speciation. Molecular Ecology 18: 2493-–2510. 2005.
Sánchez-Baracaldo, P. Phylogenetic relationships of the Subfamily Taenitidoideae, Pteridaceae. American Fern Journal. 94: 126–142. 2004.
Sánchez-Baracaldo, P. Phylogenetics and biogeoraphy of the neotropical fern genera Jamesonia and Eriosorus, Pteridaceae. American Journal of Botany. 91:274–284. 2004.
Bown P., J. Plumb, P. Sánchez-Baracaldo, P. K. Hayes, and J. Brodie. Sequence heterogeneity of green (Chlorophyta) endophytic algae associated with a population of Chondrus crispus Stackhouse (Gigartinaceae, Rhodophyta). European Journal of Phycology 38:153–163. 2003.
Reiser, L., P Sánchez-Baracaldo, and S. Hake. Knots in the family tree: Evolutionary relationships and functions of knox homeobox genes. Plant Molecular Biology 42:151–166. 2000.
Arens. N. C., and P. Sánchez–Baracaldo. Variation in tree stipe length in association with canopy height: tracking preferred habitat through morphological change. American Fern Journal 90:1–15. 2000.
Arens. N. C., and P. Sánchez-Baracaldo. Distribution of tree ferns (Cyatheaceae) across the successional mosaic in an Andean cloud forest, Nariño, Colombia. American Fern Journal 88: 60–71. 1998.