Broodbank Senior Research Associate
University of Cambridge
CAMBRIDGE, England, United Kingdom
Research overview
I am fascinated by plant gene regulation: how the organisms respond to internal and external stimuli modifying the expression of genes at transcriptional or posttranscriptional levels. My main project explores the role of RNA silencing and epigenetic mechanisms using tomato as a model plant.
Biography
My fundamental question is “how are genes regulated?”. In my PhD at the University of Zaragoza, I studied transcription factors in cyanobacteria, followed by postdoctoral research on plant miRNAs at the University of East Anglia and other small (s)RNAs with David Baulcombe at the University of Cambridge. In my current project, as Broodbank Senior Research Fellow, I have found a novel mechanism that associates regulatory sRNAs with a type of transposable elements, and these with regulation of gene expression. From September I will continue this research as Group Leader at the University of Kent (Canterbury).
(CS-24-2) small RNAs from transposons affect gene expression in hybrids
Tuesday, August 8, 2023
1:23 PM – 1:43 PM EDT