José Andrés Ramos Alemar
José Andrés Ramos Alemar, Puerto Rican entomologist (1915 – 1989) DESCRIBED HEMIPTERA GENERA Antillotolania 1957 Deiroderes 1957 Gaetopsis 1957 Jibarita 1957 Oreopenes 1957 Monobeloides 1979 Paraprosoptropis 1946 Spathenotus 1957 HONORS Ramosella McKamey & Deitz 1996 (Hemiptera)
Jose Ruiz Herrera
José Ruiz Herrera, Mexican mycologist and biochemist (Ciudad de Mexico 12 May 1935 – Authored about 300 publications with about 8,700 citations in according to Research Gate Recognized as foremost expert on fungal cell wall in the world Proposed a new mechanism of regulation of gene expression With I. Salas Vargas. Inhibición de la elongación de RNA m. Un nuevo mecanismo de regulación de la expresión genetica (1973) With I. Salas Vargas. Regulation of nitrate reductase at the transcriptional and translational levels in Escherichia coli. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 425:492-501, 1976 Isolated chitin synthetase and developed a technique for synthesizing microfibrils of cell wall in vitro With S. Bartnicki-Garcia. Synthesis of cell wall microfibrils by a “soluble” chitin synthetase from Mucor rouxii. Science 186(4161):357-9, 1974 Discovered and isolated the chitosomes, intracellular organelles that contain and deliver chitin synthetase to cell surface With C.E. Bracker & S. Bartnicki-Garcia. Structure and transformation of chitin synthetase particles (chitosomes) during microfibrils synthesis in vitro. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 73:4570-4, 1976 Isolated the 16S subunit, the smallest unit capable of synthesizing chitin in vitro With S. Bartnicki-Garcia & C.Bracker. Dissociation of chitosomes by digitonin into 16S subunits with chitin synthetase activity. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 629:201-16, 1980 With Spanish researchers determined different aspects of the molecular basis of cellular differentiation and dimorphism in fungi specifically the role of polyamines and DNA methylation Polyamines, DNA methylation and fungal differentiation. Crit. Rev. Microbiol. 20:143-50, 1994 Helped to characterize the structure and role of proteins in the synthesis and final architecture of the fungal cell wall DEVELOPED METHODS With J.J. Gonzalez. A continuous method for the measurement of urease activity. Anal. Biochem. 31:366-74, 1969 With A. Flores Carreón. Descripción de un metodo para medir glucosa y α-glucosidasa. Rev. Lat. Am. Microbiol. 16:187-8, 1974 With C.G. León Ramírez, L. Valdés Santiago, E. Campos-Gongora, L. Ortiz Castellanos & E.T. Arechiga. A molecular probe for Basidiomycota: the spermidine synthase-saccharopine dehydrogenase chimeric gene. FEMS Micriobiol. Lett. 312(1):77-83, 2010 Papers in top journals With V.O. Singh, J. Van der Woude & S. Bartnicki-Garcia. Microfibril assembly by granules of chitin synthetase. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 72:2706-10, 1975 With J. Kamper, R. Kahmann, M. Bolker, L.J. Ma, T. Brefort et al. Insights from the genome of the biotrophic fungal plant pathogen Ustilago maydis. Nature 444:97-101, 2006 HONOURS Ruth Allen Award, American Society of Plant Pathology (1984) LINKS www.academic.oup.com/femsyr/article/6/7/949/492055
Jose Ellis Ripper Filho
José Ellis Ripper Filho, Brazilian physicist (Rio de Janeiro 25 February 1939 – Authored 71 papers and one book Developed innovative technologies in photonics His lab was the third in the world to obtain second generation semiconductor laser PATENTS (15; incomplete) With T.L. Paoli. Mode locking in semiconductor lasers US3696310A (1969) With T.L.Paoli. Optical coupling of adjacent stripe contact geometry semiconductor lasers US3701044A (1970) With T.L. Paoli. Dynamic fm control of the trasverse modes of a self-pulsing semiconductor laser US3723903A (1971) With L. Asaro. Double heterojunction laser containing intermediate homojunction CA968443A & DE2258087A1 (1971)
Jorge Reynolds
Jorge Reynolds Pombo, Colombian biomedical engineer (Santafé de Bogotá 22 June 1936 – From British father and relative to scientist Francisco José de Caldas Authored 174 papers Discovered the similarity between that human and cetacean hearts Obtained the electrocardiogram records of several aquatic vertebrates (1984) Designed and built electrocardiogram equipment suitable to whales researches (1985) First to study the cardiac effects of alpinism (1978) DEVELOPED The first external pacemaker with inner electrodes and external electronic unit (1958) An equipment for electrocardiogram via telemetry (1971) With Jorge Hernando Ulloa & Jorge Ulloa Domínguez. The first external venous pacemaker in the world for prevention of thrombosis in airplane passengers (1999) The first nanotelepacemaker (2011) A wireless sensor for measuring pH changes around a implant (2012) A nanosensor for management of facial paresthesis (2013) A brain nanopacemaker for management of Parkinson & Alzheimer syndromes (2013) LINKS http://scienti1.colciencias.gov.co:8081/cvlac/visualizador/generarCurriculoCv.do?cod_rh=0000587443
Jorge Redón
Jorge Juan Redón Figueroa, Chilean lichenologist (1936 – DESCRIBED LICHENES SPECIES Haematomma campanense 1978 with Walkowiak Lecanactis pseudamylacea 1972 with Follmann Omphalodina johowii 1972 with Follmann Pertusaria epibryon 1985 Pseudocyphellaria imshaugii 1992 with Galloway HONORS (Lichenes) Redonia Dodge 1973 Redonographa Lücking, Tehler & Lumbsch 2013
Jisheng Ruan
Jisheng Ruan, Chinese microbiologist (Tangshan City, Hebei Province 1926 – Developed a method for controlling soft rot disease of cabbage (1956) Helped to establish the importance of spore surface ornamentation in the classification and identification of Actinomycetes (1964) Developed a method to distinguish between aerial and substrate hyphae in coverslip cultures for recognition of actinomycete genera (1963) published in Acta Microbiologica Sinica (1974) Discovered several new interesting bioactive compounds such as benzamides, quinazolines, azalomycin macrocyclic lactones and a new sesquiterpene from Streptomyces strains With D. Qiu & Y. Huang developed improved methods for selective isolation of diverse actinomycetes of genus Micromonospora and a genus-specific nested PCR for rapid identification of putative Micromonospora isolates (2008) DESCRIBED BACTERIAL TAXA Genera Actinopolymorpha 2001 with Y.M. Wang, Zhang, Xu & Y. Wang Amycolata 1986 with Lechevalier, Prauser & Labeda Amycolatopsis 1986 with Lechevalier, Prauser & Labeda Thermobifida 1998 with Zhang & Wang Thermobispora 1996 with Y. Wang & Z. Zhang Nomomuraea 1998 with Zhang & Wang Species 93 (until 2011) HONORS (Bacteria) Jishengella Xie, Wang, Qu, Lin, Goodfellow & Hong 2011 Ruania Gu, Pasciak, Luo, Gamian, Liu & Huang 2007 LINKS http://www.bismis.org/files/BulletinofBISMIS_3-1.pdf