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• ORSP Award for Outstanding Efforts in Securing Extramural Funding - The University of Texas at El Paso (05/13/2019)
• Academic and Research Excellence in Biochemistry Award - UTEP - COS Pre-commencement Awards (12/12/2017)
• Outstanding Graduate Student in Environmental Science Award - UTEP - COS Pre-commencement Awards (12/12/2017)
• Graduate School Travel Award for $850.00 - UTEP graduate school (12/05/2017)
• Graduate School Travel Award for $850.00 - UTEP Graduate School (12/05/2017)
• UTEP College of Science Faculty Research Mentoring Award - UTEP - COS (04/27/2017)
• Dodson Research Grant from The Graduate School at The University of Texas at El Paso - UTEP (01/17/2017)
• Wieland Fellows Program Graduate Student Award to Bianka Holguin - College of Science, Wieland Fellows Program (12/22/2016)
• College of Science Best Thesis Award - UTEP (12/06/2016)
• Faculty Research Mentoring Award to Ricardo A. Bernal - UTEP College of Science (12/06/2016)
• 3rd place Poster Presentation in Graduate Expo - Janelly Villalobos - The University of Texas at El Paso Graduate School (11/11/2016)
• ORSP Award for Outstanding Efforts in Securing Extramural Funding - Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (09/15/2016)
• ORSP Award for Outstanding Efforts in Securing Extramural Funding - Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (04/15/2015)
• Tenure and Promotion to Associate Professor - The University of Texas at El Paso (09/01/2012)
• Graduate Marshal for Students Spring 2012 Commencement - UTEP (05/12/2012)
• MRC Career Development Award Postodoctoral Fellowship (01/01/2004-12/31/2004)
• EMBO Postdocoral Research Fellow (01/01/2002-12/31/2002)
• GAANN Research Fellowship - Purdue University (01/01/2000-12/31/2000)
• Biophysics Training Grant Fellowship - Purdue University (01/01/1997-12/31/1997)

• Cryo-Electron Microscopy, Medical Research Council- Laboratory of Molecular Biology (2006)
• Ph D in X-Ray Crystallography & Cryo-Electron Microscopy, Purdue University (2002)
• MS in Biological Sciences, The University of Texas at El Paso (1993)
• BS in Microbiology, Texas A&M University (1990)

• The Hsp60 C-terminus Senses Substrate and Triggers Allosteric ATP Hydrolysis bioRxiv (2023), Daniel H. von Salzen, Alejandro Rodriguez, Anwar Ullah, Ricardo A. Bernal.
• Insights Into the Role of Heat Shock Protein 27 in the Development of Neurodegeneration. Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience 15 (2022), Bianka A. Holguin, Zacariah L. Hildenbrand, Ricardo A. Bernal.
• Biomass-derived ultrathin carbon-shell coated iron nanoparticles as high-performance tri-functional HER, ORR and Fenton-like catalysts JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION 275 (2020), Md A. Ahsan, Alain R. Santiago, Alejandro Rodriguez, Viridiana Maturano-Rojas, Bonifacio Alvarado-Tenorio, Ricardo A. Bernal, Juan C. Noveron.
• Biomass-derived ultrathin carbon-shell coated iron nanoparticles as high-performance tri-functional HER, ORR and Fenton-like catalysts JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION 275 (2020), Md A. Ahsan, Santiago, Alain R. Puente, Alejandro Rodriguez, Viridiana Maturano-Rojas, Bonifacio Alvarado-Tenorio, Ricardo A. Bernal, Juan C. Noveron.
• Effects of nano-enabled agricultural strategies on food quality: Current knowledge and future research needs. Journal of hazardous materials 401 (2020), Alex Gomez, Mahesh Narayan, Lijuan zhao, X Jia, Ricardo A. Bernal, M L. Lopez-Moreno, Jose R. Peralta-Videa.
• Spent tea leaves templated synthesis of highly active and durable cobalt-based trifunctional versatile electrocatalysts for hydrogen and oxygen evolution and oxygen reduction reactions GREEN CHEMISTRY 22 20 (2020), Md A. Ahsan, Muhammad A. Imam, Alain R. Puente Santiago, Alejandro Rodriguez, Bonifacio Alvarado-Tenorio, Ricardo A. Bernal, Rafael Luque, Juan C. Noveron.
• Spent tea leaves templated synthesis of highly active and durable cobalt-based trifunctional versatile electrocatalysts for hydrogen and oxygen evolution and oxygen reduction reactions GREEN CHEMISTRY 22 20 (2020), Md A. Ahsan, Muhammad A. Imam, Puente Santiago, Alain R., Alejandro Rodriguez, Bonifacio Alvarado-Tenorio, Ricardo A. Bernal, Rafael Luque, Juan C. Noveron.
• Complex Destabilization in the Mitochondrial Chaperonin Hsp60 Leads to Disease. Frontiers in molecular biosciences 7 (2020), A Rodriguez, D Von Salzen, B A. Holguin, Ricardo A. Bernal.
• Single-Ring Intermediates in the Catalytic Cycle of the Human Mitochondrial Hsp60 Springer International Publishing 18 1 (2019), Jay M. Bhatt, Ricardo A. Bernal.
• MitCHAP-60 and Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia SPG-13 Arise from an Inactive hsp60 Chaperonin that Fails to Fold the ATP Synthase β-Subunit. Scientific reports 9 1 (2019), Jinliang Wang, Adrian S. Enriquez, Jihui Li, Alejandro Rodriguez, Bianka Holguin, Daniel Von Salzen, Jay M. Bhatt, Ricardo A. Bernal.
• Sucrose-Mediated Fast Synthesis of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles for the Photocatalytic Degradation of Organic Pollutants in Water. ACS omega 4 4 (2019), M T. Islam, A Dominguez, B Alvarado-Tenorio, Ricardo A. Bernal, M O. Montes, Juan C. Noveron.
• Sucrose-Mediated Fast Synthesis of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles for the Photocatalytic Degradation of Organic Pollutants in Water ACS OMEGA 4 4 (2019), Md T. Islam, Arieana Dominguez, Bonifacio Alvarado-Tenorio, Ricardo A. Bernal, Milka O. Montes, Juan C. Noveron.

• The Hsp60 C-terminus Senses Substrate and Triggers Allosteric ATP Hydrolysis. (2023), Volume UACJ, Cuidad Juarez, Chih. , Ricardo A. Bernal.
• The Hsp60 C-terminus Senses Substrate and Triggers Allosteric ATP Hydrolysis (2023), Volume UACJ, Cuidad Juarez, Chih., Ricardo A. Bernal.
• Effects of CMT2F-linked HSP27 mutations on neuropathy in Drosophila melanogaster (2022), Valerie Galindo, Aldo Pizana, Holguin Bianka, Ricardo Bernal, Paul R. Sabandal, Kyung-An Han.
• Mutations in Small Heat-Shock Protein 27 Affect Phosphorylation Regulated Chaperone Activity (2019), Volume West Lafayette, Indiana, Bianka Holguin, Ricardo A. Bernal.
• Mutations in the Small Heat Shock Protein 27 Affect Phosphorylation Regulated Chaperone Activity (2019), Volume Galveston, Texas, Bianka Holguin, Janelly Villalobos, Karen A. Orta, Maria Grajeda, Andres Orta, Ricardo A. Bernal.
• Inhibitory Role of Functionalized Fullerenes in HIV-1 Maturation (2019), Volume El PAso, Texas, Alejandro Rodriguez, Zachary Martinez, Edison Castro, Manuel Llano, Luis A. Echegoyen, Ricardo A. Bernal.
• Mutations in the Small Heat Shock Protein 27 Affect Phosphorylation Regulated Chaperone Activity (2019), Volume El Paso, Texas, Bianka Holguin, Janelly Villalobos, Karen A. Orta, Maria Grajeda, Andres Orta, Ricardo A. Bernal.
• Assessing φ-EL A91T Mutation as an Inhibitor in Heptameric Ring Separation (2019), Volume El Paso, Roberto Salas, Alejandro Rodriguez, Daniel Von Salzen, Bianka Holguin, Ricardo A. Bernal.
• Heat Shock Proteins and their Role in Human Disease (2019), Volume Las Cruces, New Mexico, Ricardo A. Bernal.

• High Resolution Cryo-EM Reconstructions of the Heat Shock Protein 60 and its Conformational Intermediates
• High Resolution Cryo-EM reconstgructions of the heat shock protein 60 and its conformational intermediates.
• High Resolution Cryo-EM Reconstructions of the Heat Shock Protein 60 and its Conformational Intermediates
• Deciphering the Structural and Functional Basis for Ring Separation in Chaperonins
• SCORE-SC3 - Structural Significance of Point Mutations within the Human hsp60 Chaperonin