Dr. Iván Reyna-Llorens, CRAG Centro de Investigación Agrigenómica (Spain)
“Recruitment of regulatory networks for photosynthesis”
Short bio
I completed my PhD in Plant Sciences at the University of Cambridge, investigating the genetic regulation of C4 photosynthesis and the molecular mechanisms driving its evolution. As a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Julian Hibberd, I developed genomic approaches to enhance crop yield through photosynthesis, including mapping tissue-specific regulatory landscapes in C3 and C4 grasses. Since late 2021, I have been leading the Synthetic Biology and Photosynthesis group at the Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG). Our group is interested in understanding how global re-arrangements of gene regulatory networks have shaped the evolution of carbon concentrating mechanisms like C4 and CAM and to use this information to engineer novel photosynthetic pathways. To do so, we employ different genomics, phenomics and synthetic biology tools.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.27.563924v1.abstract
https://academic.oup.com/jxb/article/73/14/4615/6660818
https://academic.oup.com/plcell/article/31/10/2297/5985706
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