FACULTAD DE
AGRONOMÍA y SISTEMAS NATURALES

• Entrenamiento Postdoctoral Facultad de Veterinaria y Ciencias Pecuarias Universidad de Chile.
• Ph.D. Acuicultura, Universidad Barcelona, España, 2015
• M.Sc. Acuicultura, Universidad de Valencia, España, 2009
• Bioquímico, Universidad Andrés Bello, Chile, 2007

Perfil ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8826-2096

• Phillip Dettleff; Javiera Rodríguez; Daniel Patiño-García; Renan Orellana; Rodrigo Castro; Sebastián Escobar-Aguirre; Ricardo Daniel Moreno; Jaime Palomino. Molecular Characterization of Embryos with Different Buoyancy Levels in the Yellowtail Kingfish (Seriola lalandi). Animals. 2022. DOI: 10.3390/ani12060720.
• Ariel Valenzuela; Ignacia Rodríguez; Berta Schulz; Raúl Cortés; Jannel Acosta; Víctor Campos; Sebastián Escobar-Aguirre. Effects of Continuous Light (LD24:0) Modulate the Expression of Lysozyme, Mucin and Peripheral Blood Cells in Rainbow Trout. Fishes. 2022. DOI: 10.3390/fishes7010028.
• Tadich, Tamara; Escobar-Aguirre, Sebastian. Citizens' attitudes and perceptions towards genetically modified food in Chile: Special emphasis in CRISPR technology. 2022. Austral J Vet Sci. 10.4067/s0719-81322022000100001.
• Escobar-Aguirre, S., Felip, A., Mazón, M.J., Ballester-Lozano, G., Pérez-Sánchez, J., Björsson, B.T., Zanuy, S., Carrillo, M. 2020. Long-term feeding of a maintenance ration affects the release of Igf-1 and leptin, and delays maturation in a male teleost fish, Dicentrarchus labrax L. Aquaculture, 527, 735467. DOI: 10.1016/j.aquaculture.2020.735467
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• Escobar-Aguirre, S., Alegría-Morán, R.A., Calderón-Amor, J., Tadich, T.A. 2019. Can responsible ownership practices influence hunting behavior of owned cats?: Results from a survey of cat owners in Chile. Animals, 9 (10), art. no. 745. DOI: 10.3390/ani9100745.
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• Valenzuela, C.A, Escobar-Aguirre, S., Zuloaga, R., Vera-Tobar, T., Mercado, L., Thrandur Björnsson, B., Valdés, J.A., Molina, A. 2019. Stocking density induces differential expression of immune-related genes in skeletal muscle and head kidney of fine flounder (Paralichthys adspersus). Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology, 210:23-27 DOI:10.1016/j.vetimm.2019.03.004.
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• Rivas-Aravena, A., Fuentes-Valenzuela, M., Escobar-Aguirre, S., Gallardo-Escarate, C., Molina, A., Valdés, J.A. 2019. Transcriptomic response of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) skeletal muscle to Flavobacterium psychrophilum.Comp Biochem Physiol Part D Genomics Proteomics, 31:100596. DOI: 10.1016/j.cbd.2019.100596
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• Escobar, S., Arancibia, D., Escorza, A., Bravo, C., Andrés, M., Zamorano, P., Martínez, V. 2019. Development of a bicistronic vector for the expression of CRISPR/Cas9-mCherry system in fish cell lines. Cells. 8(1), 75.
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• Escobar, S., Felip, A., Carrillo, M., Zanuy, S. 2016. Is the kisspeptin system involved in responses to food restriction in order to preserve reproduction in pubertal male sea bass (dicentrarchus labrax)? Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology, 199:38-46.
• Escobar, S., Rocha, A., Felip, A., Carrillo, M., Zanuy, S., Kah, O., Servili, A. 2016. Leptin receptor gene in the european sea bass (dicentrarchus labrax): cloning, phylogeny, tissue distribution and neuroanatomical organization. General and Comparative Endocrinology, 229:100-111.
• Carrillo, M., Espigares, F., Felip, A., Escobar, S., Molés, G., Rodríguez, R., Alvarado, M.V., Gómez, A., Zanuy, S. 2015. Updating control of puberty in male european sea bass: a holistic approach. General and Comparative Endocrinology, 15: 42-53.

• 2022-2024. Refrigeración de embriones de Seriola lalandi para una producción estable de larvas y juveniles. FONDEF IDID21I10059.
• 2020-2023. Effects of 11-deoxycorticosterone and cortisol on fish somatic growth. CONICYT - FONDECYT REGULAR. Coinvestigador. FONDECYT ID15I10100.
• 2019-2022. Genomic editing by CRISPR/Cas9 in the Atlantic Salmon for functional studies of genes associated to iron metabolism and P. salmonis infection. CONICYT – FONDECYT Iniciación en investigación. Investigador Responsable. FONDECYT 11190649.
• 2019-2022. Using Coho salmon genomics and transcriptomics for a better understanding of selection, admixture, inbreeding and disease resistance shaping Chilean commercial populations. FONDECYT Regular 2019 – FONDECYT. Co-investigador. FONDECYT 1191189.
• 2016-2019. Generación de una estrategia a través de para el estudio de los factores asociados a la resistencia genética a p. Salmonis en el salmón del atlántico.FONDECYT 3160370. Investigador responsable.