We are very happy that our most recent work got eventually published in New Phytologist. Our study investigates the molecular mechanism behind the observation that IAM, a precursor to the growth hormone auxin, inhibits...

Adrían participated in a Podcast emitted on the 16th of November in Canal UNED. The topic is ‘Nuestras decisiones económicas como sociedad y la biotecnología’. Find the link here: Podcast  The podcast is in...

From to . After giving a keynote lecture at the Opening Symposium in March 2023, I am very grateful that I was again invited over to Chile to close the Anillo Project of my...

Like in previous years, the @CBGP_Madrid participates in the activities related with the celebrated between the 4th and the 14th in Madrid. On Tuesday 4th of November, our lab members Adrián González Ortega-Villaizán and...

We warmly welcome in our lab. Meli is an ERASMUS+ student from Türkiye, who joined one of our research projects in the beginning of September. Together with Estefi, he will work until February on...

Officially celebrating my 15th anniversary at the @CBGP_Madrid today. How time flies! I want to use this special occasion to extend my thanks to everybody who walked part of the with me, including Bachelor and Master...

In this work we ask the question as to whether we can use natural variation as a tools to identify novel components of IAM-mediated primary roots growth inhibition. Through the close collaboration with the...

As the last scientific activity of our lab before the summer break, Estefi represented us masterly at the “2025 IS-MPMI Congress” which was held in Cologne, Germany between the 13th and 17th of July....

Today, our visiting student from Morocco, defended her Master’s degree thesis with great success in her home University in Tangier. Unfortunately, we were not able to support her personally, but we were keeping fingers...

On Thursday, 10th of July, we celebrated the PhD defense of our team member Francis Onejeme. Since his incorporation in our group in 2022, it was not always a smooth and easy journey, but...

I had a great time at the #pbe2025 Meeting of the FESPB in Budapest, Hungary. I highly appreciate that I was invited to participate as session chair and to act as featured speaker. It...

Yesterday, April 11th, our former PhD student Adrián González Ortega-Villaizán defended his doctoral project in a wonderful fashion. You really nailed it! On behalf of the entire lab, I want to take the chance...

We just settled our travel plans for this summer conference season. Estefi will travel to the 20th Congress on Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions that will be held in Cologne, Germany, between the 13-17th of July....

Strawberries are water-demanding plants. They require consistent moisture to thrive, especially during the fruiting period. Hence, the current climate change scenario poses significant threats to strawberry production, impacting various aspects of growth, yield, and...

Next month, our lab will actively participate in the PlantACT! Conference which will be held at the “Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agronómica Alimentaria y de Biosistemas” of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid between...

Since the beginning of February, we have two new members in the lab at the CBGP. On the one hand, we are super excited to welcome , who joined our recently funded research project...

We thought that someone would possibly be interested to get an oral explanation of the key findings of our work. Thus, we generated deep dive one-on-one narratives of the main findings of the papers...

On behalf of our entire research team, I am super happy and proud to see our latest work finally published in . In this study, we asked the question as to whether three different...

Super happy to see this work on the role of root colonizing fungi on strawberry VOCs under drought conditions by my friends from Chile, @patrikoramos and @marlaboratory, finally published. Glad that I was able...

Our Postdoc will leave us by the end of the year and join the lab of Dr. Rajani Sarojam at the TEMASEK Lifesciences Laboratory in Singapore. On behalf of the entire Pollmann Lab, I...

We are guest-editing a Special Issue on the molecular mechanisms of plant-microbe interactions. The Special Issue is now open for submissions:https://mdpi.com/journal/ijms/special_issues/1JB5SQ1UK5You are all invited to submit your work and get a 20% discount. Special...

We asked the question whether co-evolution of plants and fungi in similar arid environments would trigger the same responses in infected host plants. In case you are interested in the answer and the underlying...

On behalf of the entire Pollmann Lab, I would like to congratulate our Postdoc Eoghan King for his appointment as lecturer at AgroParisTech. He will incorporate into the SYNAPS team at IJPB Versailles. Great...

Qualification We are looking for a skilled candidate with a Master’s degree in Molecular biology, Biotechnology, or Microbiology. Prospective applicants should have a background in plant molecular biology and/or microbiology. Furthermore, the ideal candidate...

It is often beneficial to conduct a thorough examination of the phenotype of plants under the applied test conditions, as this frequently provides insights into areas of interest within the transcriptomics data. Indeed, this...

On Friday 27th of September, the CBGP participated in activities of the European Researchers’ Night 2024 in the framework of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions program, celebrating science across Europe. Our lab member collaborated in...

If you want to learn how fungi from the Antarctic can promote strawberry growth under drought and elevated temperatures, have a look at our latest #preprint out in @authorea: Yañez Ortega, M.A. et al. 2024 Authorea...

Yesterday, we had two things to celebrate. On the one hand, our lab member defended her Master thesis project in the Biotechnology and Bioengineering of Plants program with great success. On the other hand,...

Last Wednesday, our undergraduate student, defended his Bachelor thesis in Biotechnology with great success. He made us all very happy, but without doubt Adrián is most proud of him, as he directly supervised the...

In case you are interested in how endophytic fungi affect the fragrance of strawberry fruits, check this #preprint from my friends in Chile in @SSRN: Rodríguez-Arriaza F. et al. (2024) SSRN Synopsis Strawberries (Fragaria...

On behalf of the entire ICPS research team, I am happy and very proud to announce that our latest work on the role of auxin homeostasis at the root tips in coordinating the interaction...

We are very happy to see our latest book chapter on plant hormone crosstalk under abiotic stress conditions finally printed in Progress in Botany, edited by Ulrich Lüttge, Francisco M. Cánovas, María-Carmen Risueño, Christof...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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

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...

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.

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...

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...

Felicidades Andrés!!! This Monday, another of our students took it to the goal line. defended his impressive Bachelor thesis in Biotechnology with huge success. Since the end of last year, we were working together...

Yesterday our Master student defended with great success her thesis in Biotechnology and Bioengineering of Plants. Over the last months, among other things, Estefi dedicate herself to the isolation of fungal endophytes from plants...

A few days ago, a new Postdoc, Manish Kumar Patel, joined our group with a Maria Zambrano fellowship for attracting international talent. Manish obtained his PhD in 2018 from the Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University...

Congratulations to , and their crew!!! Their new work on the changes in the transportome of Serendipita indica between free-living and endophytic-living fungi under control and moderate salt stress conditions has just been published...

This week we had the pleasure to welcome in our group. Daniel is an undergraduate student from the Université Paris-Saclay where he is currently studying Chemistry. In his stay in our lab, Daniel will be...

Last week, Adrián represented our lab at the National Plant Hormone Conference in Segovia, Spain. It was a pleasure listening to him and following his presentation. On top of nailing his first ever presentation...

Meet us at the XVI Congreso Fitohormonas – Metabolismo y modo de acción that will be held in Segovia between the 19th and 21st of April. will guide us through his work in an...

  Our congratulations go to from Begoña Benito’s group, who defended her PhD project entitled: “Study of potassium nutrition in the symbiosis between Serendipita indica and Arabidopsis thaliana exposed to K+ deficiency and salinity:...