Emilio Gutiérrez from the Institute of Plant Biochemistry and Photosynthesis, attached to cicCartuja —a joint centre of the CSIC, University of Seville and Junta de Andalucía— has received an Individual Action from the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme (MSCA-IF-EF).
The aim of the Individual Actions (IF) is to improve the creative and innovative potential of experienced researchers, through individual projects. Specifically, Emilio has received the Standard European Fellowship (EF-ST) modality, which facilitates mobility between European countries.
Emilio holds a degree and a PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Seville with a thesis entitled ‘’SIRd, a protein with uspa domain and siCipk6 substrate, regulates the immune response in Solanaceae’’. He was on a postdoctoral stay in Sweden, which allowed him to start his own line of research based on the study of the formation of stress granules (SGs) in plants. SGs are riboprotein complexes that play a fundamental role in both the regulation of gene expression and metabolism under stress conditions.
In April 2017, she joined Dr. José Luis Crespo’s group at the IBVF with a prestigious Marie Curie scholarship, which allows her to continue with her reSGulating project, which aims to characterize the link between the dynamics of stress granules and autophagy in photosynthetic organisms.
In September of this year, she will begin a Juan de la Cierva – Incorporación (MINECO) contract through the University of Seville, which will allow her to continue her line of research started in Sweden.