New lecturer at AgroParisTech
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...
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:...
Our visit to Chile was great. We shared some highly interesting conversations with internationally renowned scientists that, actually, opened up whole new perspectives for our own work. On the way we kicked off the...
We’re excited to host Prof. Dr. Marcel Quint at the CBGP, giving us a talk about his work on thermomorphogenesis.
Very much looking forward to this trip to Chile to visit old friends and collaboration partners after a long time of travel restrictions. A journey to the Southern hemisphere in winter/spring is always highly...
It is our great pleasure to host Prof. Ralf Oelmüller from the University of Jena, Germany, at the CBGP.
Congratulations Paloma!!! We have another new Doctor in town. On behalf of the entire lab I must express how proud we are of our former PhD student Paloma Ortiz-García who rocked her PhD defence...
Finally published We are delighted to share our latest work on the crosstalk between auxin and abscisic acid with you. This review article is basically part of the introduction of Paloma’s thesis. By anticipating...
We warmly welcome Luis Morales from the Universidad Autónoma de Chile, one of our collaborators, to our lab. Luis obtained a Banco Santander Mobility Fellowship and will stay one month in the CBGP to...
Happy New Year Folks On behalf of the entire Pollmann Lab, I wish you a Prosperous New Year, full of success, health and happiness. To start 2023 well, we would like to share with...
Finally, the part of Tatiana’s PhD thesis, which has been elaborated over the course of her stay in our lab in 2019, has been accepted for publication in Environmental and Experimental Botany. On...
On behalf of the complete lab, I heartily congratulate Andrés for obtaining one of the Becas de Colaboración 2022/2023 student fellowships of the UPM. Such a great start in the last episode of your...
Ahead of the official start of the BioMines project, we took the chance for a first field trip to the abandoned mining site in the Sierra of Madrid, before the weather changes for the...
Optimized rhizosphere microbial communities for enhanced plant productivity and stress resilience Host Organization: CBGP (UPM-INIA) – Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas Doctoral INPhINIT Fellowships Programme – Incoming. Call for applications 2023 (LINK)...
Super exited that our review article on the possible impact of environmental stress conditions on sustaining existing plant–microbe interactions has now been published in Plant, Cell & Environment. It was a tremendous experience to...
Green remediation of mine affected soils: putting the microorganisms to work More than happy to be part of the project and the CBGP team working on soil microbes, endophyte fungi, and the application of...
It is again this time of the year and Halloween is in sight, we are very happy to welcome back to our group, after he was already ‘short-term’ member of our crew as a...
It is our great pleasure to welcome the newest member of our team at the CBGP and in our lab. Eoghan will be working in our new µNutri-Heat mission, coordinated by Juan Carlos del...
We are excited to attend the 16th Meeting of Plant Molecular Biology held in Seville, Spain, from tomorrow 14th until Friday 16th of September. Paloma and myself will present our most recent results and...
Root endophyte fungi help to reduce drought stress in strawberry Excited to see this latest work of our REDES project #190078 funded by the Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo (ANID, Chile). Here, we...
On behalf of the entire ICPS research team, I am delighted to announce that our latest work on the role of the Ca2+ sensor CBL7 in coordinating the interaction between the root endophyte fungus...
Finally we are good to go After endless virtual meetings, we finally celebrated the kick-off meeting of our new PRIMA project #Quinoa4Med (#Q4M) from the 27th to the 28th of July at the Centre...
Congratulations Irene In the last week our Bachelor student Irene Viguera Leza defended very successfully her thesis in Biotechnology. Over the past months, I more and more relished Irene’s project and finally got really...
Next hurdle taken… After getting her work published, Paloma successfully presented her project in the Junior Seminar Series of the CBGP. Being able to pick up theses kind of activities after the COVID break...