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...

Finally, we put a gene ID to the acronym LAUCH1 So glad that we made the right educated guess when we decided to have a closer look at MYB74 a couple of years ago....

Last week, from the 17th to the 18th of May, the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid celebrated its UPMday22. In this occasion, the students that were not able to properly celebrate their graduation due to...

Open Postdoc vacancy We are looking for a highly motivated researcher to analyze the plant response to heat and nutritional deficiencies using a novel and revolutionary approach. Expertise in phenotyping, metabolomics, metagenomics and plant...

We are excited to share the #preprint of our latest manuscript in which we demonstrate a so far undiscovered role for the Ca2+ receptor protein CBL7 in driving the interaction of Serendipita indica with Arabidopsis...

Finally, it is done… After plenty of administrative struggles, we are now delighted to welcome our newest lab member at the CBGP, Francis Onejeme. Francis obtained a Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND) fellowship to...

Potassium exchange in Arabidopsis – Piriformospera indica interaction Very happy about the new contribution of Begoña’s crew on the nutrient exchange in plant-fungus interaction, which has just recently been published in the Frontiers in...

We are in this together – and we will get through this, together! António Guterres (UN Secretary-General) Almost two years of being careful and respecting social distancing concepts as strict as possible, but it...

A new project for Christmas Really happy to be part of the project and the CBGP team working on seed germination traits. Looking forward to kick the project off in the next year Synopsis...

This event saves my Christmas…!!! Waiting is over…!!! After a pandemic-inflicted postponement of more than one year, our former lab member, , will finally play his first full concert with his group Makaú and...

Thanks for having us in this collaboration Nice work on the root endophyte-mediated activation and action of expansin isoforms in the Antarctic plant Colobanthus quitensis. It is a pleasure to work with this talented...

Just a few days ahead of Halloween, we are very happy to welcome as newest member of our crew. Irene is a last year undergraduate student in our Biotechnology grade at the ETSIAAB and...

The entire lab is delighted that Adrián decided to join us again for his PhD. After having him for his Bachelor thesis, we are now looking forward to accompany Adrián in the next step...

All the best for your future career… After more than two years, it was unfortunately time to part ways with our postdoc Pepe Moya, who was the main responsible for our GWAS project. It...

The MBC in ABC En vanguardia: al día con los últimos avances tecnológicos https://abc.es/formacion/abci-vanguardia-ultimos-avances-tecnologicos-202109201325_noticia.html#vca=rrss-inducido&vmc=abc-es&vso=tw&vli=noticia.foto… a través de @abc_es @La_UPM @CBGP_Madrid @etsiaab @informaticaupm The Master’s Degree in Computational Biology is aimed at graduates in Experimental...

It took indeed a while, until we got this part of our work wrapped up and ready for publication. However, thanks to the great work of our ex-lab member Marta Pérez Alonso, who is...

We are very happy to see our latest book chapter on multiplex plant hormone analytics finally printed in Solanum tuberosum – Methods and Protocols, edited by David Dobnik, Kristina Gruden, Živa Ramšak, and Anna Coll...

We are very happy to see our latest review article published in Biomolecules. In this work, Pepe Moya summarised the up to date largely overlooked role of amide signalling compounds in plants, and how...

If you are going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start. Charles Bukowski Finally, I made it all the way… It was exhausting and I definitely had better days in my...

Here comes another #preprint in which we like to share our work on the molecular basis of jasmonate-mediated induction of the auxin biosynthesis-related genes YUCCA8 and YUCCA9. In addition, the work highlights a role...

We are excited to share the #preprint of our latest review in which Pepe Moya wrapped up the up to date largely overlooked  role of amide signalling compounds in plants. The work pays special...

Slowly but steadily we further our understanding on the possible role of IAM in plant growth and development. In our latest work on the ami1 rty double mutant, which was recently published in the...

Elucidating the signal perception and integration mechanisms that orchestrate plant growth repression in plants under abiotic stress Host Organization: CBGP (UPM-INIA) – Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas Doctoral INPhINIT Fellowships Programme –...

Like in the years before, our lab will actively contribute to the Science Week activities of the UPM / CBGP. The Science week is organised by the Counsel of Science, Universities and Innovation of...

Very honoured to be awarded with the 3rd prize for my teaching activities and academic excellence in our Master program in Biotechnology Agroforestal. A great shout-out to my students @masterbiotec and the Student’s Delegation...