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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)

• Using Bacteriophages to Treat Resilient Bacteria Found in Produced Water Water (2024), Ramon A. Sanchez Rosario, Jesus Garcia, Vivian Rodriguez, Kevin A. Schug, Zacariah L. Hildenbrand, Ricardo A. Bernal.
• 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.

• Evaluation of ROS-mediated oxidative stress in alpha-synuclein (2024), Volume UTEP, Olga F. Aguilar Palomares, Ricardo A. Bernal.
• Unconventional Bacterial Disinfection in Produced Water (2024), Volume Cairns, Queensland, Australia, Zacariah L. Hildenbrand, Ramon A. Sanchez Rosario, Ricardo A. Bernal.
• 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.

• 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