The memory of trees: Molecular insights in priming and increased stress tolerance

You are cordially invited to participate in International webinar on The memory of trees: Molecular insights in priming and increased stress tolerance by Dr. Luis Valledor, Plant Physiology. Department of Organisms and Systems Biology. University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Asturias, Spain. Registration is now open. It’s free and participation certificates will be provided. E-mail: [email protected] Website: https://bioingene.com Twitter:   / bioingene   Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/Bioingene-10... LinkedIn:   / bioingene-com-3a51ba1b6   Speaker Information: Dr. Luis Valledor, Plant Physiology. Department of Organisms and Systems Biology. University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Asturias, Spain. His research career has been mainly focused on the mechanisms of plant abiotic stress tolerance and development by employing high throughput omic analyses. During his PhD he started characterizing Pinus needle functional maturation employing proteomics, transcriptomics, and epigenetics defining new key processes involved in needle growth directly related to tree growth and biomass production. After the impact of these works, he was awarded with a Marie Curie IEF postdoctoral fellow to join Weckwerth’s lab at the University of Vienna and the UniOvi Ph.D. extraordinary award. During his postdoc he focused on the study of metabolic rearrangement of Chlamydomonas under nitrogen and cold stresses, also developing state-of-the-art mass spectrometry workflows which allowed to go further, redefining previous paradigms and discovering new metabolic pathways involved in the accumulation of sugars and lipids. After two years in Vienna he move to Czechglobe, center of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic as team leader, were he started developing a state-of-the-art platform for applying LC-MS methods in Pinus (grounds of our current work) to explore proteome and metabolome, while continuing his work with microalgae. In mid 2014 he returned to the University of Oviedo to study heat stress and UV-adaption processes in Pinus radiata by using omics and integrative approaches at different cellular levels supported by the employ of model organisms (Chlamydomonas and Arabidopsis). This research line has been continuously supported by competitive grants until present. Currently his main research line is focused on combining natural variation and systems biology to increase our understanding of abiotic stress response, mainly the combination of heat and drought, acclimation and memory in Pinus species. He has contributed as PI in 4 National Projects and as a researcher in 1 European and 9 National projects. He has published 75 articles in ISI journals, 18 book chapters, and edited a special issue in the Journal of Proteomics (Journal of which he is the member of the editorial board), Frontiers in Plant Science and co-edited the book Plant Proteomics 3rd Ed (Methods in Mol. Biol). According to Google Scholar he has been cited more than 3500 times and has an h-index of 33 with an average of more than 30 cites/articles. He has published in the most prestigious journals in their field, such as: “Mol. Cell”, “NAR”, “Blood”, “PNAS”, “Mol. Cel. Proteomics”, “The Plant J.”, “Biotech for Biofuels”, “J. Exp. Botany”, or “Mol. Ecology”. He is a usual reviewer for top journals of his research field, ANEP evaluator for panels AGR and BFS, and member of the board of the Spanish Proteomics Society. He has had 31 oral participations in national and international conferences (7 invited talks). Currently he is joining the EU COST action FA1306 (The quest for tolerant varieties - Phenotyping at plant and cellular level). He has supervised 7 doctoral theses (4 in progress), and 12 master/degree theses. Currently he is lecturing in Biology and Biotechnology degrees (UniOvi), and in the official Master of Biotechnology of Environment and Health, being the coordinator of the subject “Plant Biotechnology”. Google Scholar ID: https://scholar.google.at/citations?u...