Francisco Javier Florencio Bellido

Degree in Biology from the University of Sevilla (1978) and PhD from the same university in 1982. Postdoctoral training at the University of California at Berkeley (UCB) 1986-1988. I obtained the position of Associate Professor in 1987 and Full Professor from 2000 at the University of Sevilla. My research has focused on cyanobacteria in aspects related to adaptation to nutritional and environmental conditions: nitrogen source, carbon availability, irradiance, heavy metals. Analyzing both gene expression and metabolic pathways of such adaptation

Since 1989 I have had continuous funding from national research plans. My research has focused on cyanobacteria as model organisms to study photosynthetic metabolism. The most relevant contributions in this long period include as main fields the assimilation of nitrogen, where the dissection of the glutamine synthetase control system and the discovery of 2-oxoglutarate as a sensor of the carbon-nitrogen state should be highlighted. The second area is confined to the field of redox systems, highlighting the study of thioredoxin and its regulatory role in metabolism. The third area has been the resistance systems to heavy metals and metalloids. I would like to highlight the plastocyanin/cytochrome c6 control system. Also highlight my involvement in cyanobacteria biotechnology, in the reorientation of carbon metabolism of its flow that have a high interest in the production of compounds of energy interest and in processes of capture and storage of CO2.