Short Bio

I am a biologist with an M.Sc. in Bioinformatics from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and a PhD in Plant Biology from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU). I currently work as a plant virology researcher in the Hafrén Lab at the Department of Plant Biology at SLU. My doctoral research focused on how plant viruses manipulate Arabidopsis thaliana’s post-transcriptional regulatory mechanisms, including RNA interference machinery, stress granules, and translational regulation.

Content

Scientific Outreach

Science communication blog:

Bio-Viroloía blog and bookdown

Public Research Repositories

ComparativeTranscriptomics_SA_ATGs — Comparative analysis of salicylic acid and autophagy gene responses to viral infection using published RNA-seq data.
P25_ViralTF — Research on the BNYVV P25 protein as a chromatin-associated transcriptional repressor.
ProteinStructure — Structural analysis workflows for CaMV P6 complexes predicted with AlphaFold 3 and Protenix.
RdRpStructuralEvolution — RdRp structures and transcriptomics supporting research on RNA silencing, plant fertility, and Turnip rosette virus transmission.
TpUGT89B1_Docking — Structural modeling and protein–ligand docking of red clover TpUGT89B1.

Tools and workflows

Codes_Repository — A collection of Bash, AWK, Perl, and R code.
NBlockTester — A Perl tool for detecting miRNA-like fragments derived from small noncoding RNAs in small RNA-seq data.
Proend (fork) — HbYX motif prediction across organisms and viruses.
proend-scripts (fork) — Scripts for identifying HbYX motif-containing protein sequences in FASTA files.
RNAseq-workflow (fork) — Resources for setting up an RNA-seq workflow.

Teaching and learning

Hands_On_Machine_LeaRning
Sociovirology_Lab — A laboratory exercise on viral genetics and plant growth–defense trade-offs in the Nicotiana benthamiana / Turnip mosaic virus system.
LaTeX_Course (fork) — Introductory LaTeX course materials, templates, examples, and exercises in Spanish.

Aimer G. Diaz