User:Ruben Alcazar

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Contact Info

• Rubén Alcázar

• Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
• Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics
• Carl-von-Linné Weg, 10 - 50829 Cologne, Germany

Max Planck, Cologne SFB680

Scientific career

• 2010, Postdoc SFB680, MPIPZ Germany. Co-evolution of plant-pathogen interactions.
• 2008, Postdoc MPIPZ Germany. Hybrid incompatibilities in Arabidopsis thaliana.
• 2006, Postdoc BP2005, MPIPZGermany. Natural variation of growth resposes to temperature.
• 2005, Postdoc EU-ROST, University of Barcelona. Polyamines in drought stress tolerance.
• 2004, PhD Plant Biology, University of Barcelona. Polyamines in abiotic stress and regulation of development.
• 1999, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Specialization in Genetic Engineering, University of Barcelona

Research Interests

- Genetic and molecular basis of plant adaptation to local environments using Arabidopsis thaliana as model species. See publication list on this topic (Alcázar et al.,2009 PNAS; Alcázar et al.,2010 Nature Genetics; Alcázar et al., 2011 Current Opinion in Plant Biology). - Natural variation in polyamines.

Publications

List of publications and citations

Useful links

* Institutes & Institutions

• Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Köln
• Universitat de Barcelona
• Barcelona Knowledge Campus

* Projects

• SFB680
• COST-INPAS Action on abiotic stress tolerance

* Scientific databases and resources

• 1001 Arabidopsis genomes
• TAIR
• Genevestigator - microarray database