Education and Career

UB Full Professor (2024 - present), Universitat de Barcelona

Associate Professor in Genetics (2008 - 2024), Universitat de Barcelona

Postdoctoral Fellow (2003-2005), LIPM (CNRS-INRA), Toulouse, France

Postdoctoral Researcher (2000-2003), CNB-CSIC, Madrid

PhD in Genetics (1999), Universitat de Barcelona

Research Interests

My research interests are to understand how bacterial pathogens colonise and cause disease on plants. Precisely, I want to define the genes required for the bacterial pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum to cause disease on plants and at which steps of the infection process they are required. In addition, I study the tomato responses to infection by Ralstonia solanacearum.

Education and Career

CSIC Researcher (2012-present), CRAG, Barcelona

Research Associate (2011-2012), University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA

Postdoctoral Fellow (2006-2011), University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA

PhD in Plant Molecular Genetics (2006), ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Research Interests

Our research aims at filling a major gap of knowledge by providing a detailed picture of the mechanisms controlling and executing pathogen-triggered programmed cell death (PCD) in plant cells. We are studying the composition and dynamics of protein platforms (“deathosomes”) that may act as cell death rheostats, integrating extra-, inter- and intra-cellular signals to respond to them with a univocal death/non-death decision.