Author: Stephan

IV Frontiers in Plant Biology

Next up for our lab is the IV Edition of the Workshop “Frontiers in Plant Biology” which will be held at the CBGP between the 17th and 19th of April. This time our three...

Kick-off Meeting EvoDevoSigNet

Just back from a two days Kick-off Meeting of our EvoDevoSigNet (@EvoDevoSigNet) group financed by the Spanish State Agency for Investigation (@AgEInves). It was a very intense and highly interesting meeting. Learned a lot...

Junior seminar Adrián

This Tuesday 9th of April 2024, our Illuminati Adrián gave a fantastic presentation on his PhD project in the Junior Seminar series of the CBGP. Another obligatory step towards the defense of his doctorate...

New preprint on fungus-triggered plant growth promotion

In case you are interested in the mechanism that contributes to Serendipita indica-triggered growth promotion, have a look at our latest #preprint out in @biorxiv_plants on the crosstalk between the root colonising fungus and Arabidopsis thaliana: González Ortega-Villaizán...

Fungal ENA ATPases

and her crew are starting strong into the new year!!! Fresh from the press, they report on the phyogenic and structural intricacies of fungal ENA ATPases, using the Neurospora crassa protein as an example....

IAM takes me to Jena

Absolute looking forward to this trip to the Max-Planck in Jena, Germany, after a couple of weeks of compulsive project proposal writing…!!! 

Quality in teaching

Over the course of 2023, I participated in the DOCENTIA 2.0 program that evaluates the quality of Professors at Spanish Universities. The evaluation follows guidelines established by the Fundación Madri+d and Agencia de Calidad...

Los pueblos de la ETSIAAB

Like always, a pleasure to contribute to activities of the School. Especially, when it is about a presentation of my roots. Many thanks to Alonso Redondo for having me.

Piriformospora and N nutrition

Another paper from our fantastic ICPS research team. I am delighted to have been part of this work addressing the question as to whether the root-colonizing fungus Piriformospora indica is capable of improving nitrogen...

Back to Chile

Very excited to travel a second time to Chile this year and to meet old friends and collaborators. In addition, I am super pumped to present our latest results on abiotic stress responses in...