Alejandro Ferrando Monleón

Alejandro Ferrando holds a degree in Biology, with a specialization in Biochemistry, from the University of Valencia.

In 1995, he earned his PhD in Biology from the Universitat Politècnica de València for his work under the supervision of Professor Ramón Serrano, focused on the identification of salt tolerance genes through overexpression and their characterization in the model organism S. cerevisiae.

Subsequently, between 1995 and 2001, he began his postdoctoral stay at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, Germany, where he learned the equivalent genetic technology in plants known as "Activation Tagging" in the department led by Jeff Schell.

• Ferrando A., Fathinajafabadi A., Martínez-Férriz A., Farràs R. 2021. Ribosomal Pauses during Translation and Proteostasis. Chapter 1. Proteostasis and Proteolysis 1st Eds. Chondrogiani, Pick and Gioran. Taylor and Francis CRC Press ISBN 9780367499327

• Poidevin L., Forment J., Unal D., Ferrando A. 2021. Transcriptome and translatome changes in germinated pollen under heat stress uncover roles of transporter genes involved in pollen tube growth. Plant, Cell & Environment 44, 2167-2184.

• Rutley N., Poidevin L., Doniger T., Tillet R., Rath A., Forment J., Schlauch, K., Ferrando A., Harper, J., Miller, G. 2021. Characterization of novel pollen-expressed transcripts reveals their potential roles in pollen heat stress response in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Reproduction 34, 61-78.

• Cottilli P., Belda-Palazón B., Adkar-Purushothama CR., Perreault JP., Enrico Schleiff E., Rodrigo I., Ferrando A., Lisón P. 2019. Citrus exocortis viroid causes ribosomal stress in tomato plants. Nucleic Acids Research. 47 - 16, pp. 8649 - 8661.

• Poidevin L., Unal D., Belda-Palazón B., Ferrando A. 2019. Polyamines as Quality Control Metabolites Operating at the Post-Transcriptional Level. Plants. 8 - 4, pp. 109

• Ferrando A., Castellano MM., Lisón, P., Leister, D., Stepanova A., Hanson J. 2017. Editorial: Relevance of Translational Regulation on Plant Growth and Environmental Responses. Frontiers in Plant Science. doi: 10.3389/fpls.20

• Belda-Palazón, B., Almendáriz, C., Martí, E., Carbonell, J., Ferrando, A. 2016. Relevance of the axis Spermidine/eIF5A for plant growth and development. Frontiers inPlant Science. 7 - 10.3389/fpls.2016.00

• Li, T., Belda-Palazón, B., Ferrando, A., Alepuz, P. 2014. Fertility and Polarized CellGrowth Depends on eIF5A for Translation of Polyproline-Rich Formins in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genetics 197, 1191-1200.

• Belda-Palazón, B., Nohales, M.A., Rambla, J.L., Aceña, J.L., Delgado, O., Fustero, S., Martínez, M.C., Granell, A., Carbonell, J., and Ferrando, A. 2014. Biochemical quantitation of the eIF5A hypusination in Arabidopsis thaliana uncovers ABA-dependent regulation. Frontiers in Plant Science 5. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00202

• Belda-Palazón, B., Ruiz, L., Martí, E., Tárraga, S., Tiburcio, A.F., Culianez, F., Farras, R., Carrasco, P., and Ferrando, A. 2012. Aminopropyltransferases Involved in Polyamine Biosynthesis Localize Preferentially in the Nucleus of Plant Cells. PloS One 7(10): e46907. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0046907