Samuel Gámez Arcas

Grade in Biology, University of Sevilla, 2016

PhD in Biotechnology, Public University of Navarra, 2023

My research is based on elucidating the relationship between autophagy and ROS production in the regulation of carbon metabolism under different nutritional and light situations in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii cells. Specifically, we are studying the role of autophagy in different stress situations that cause chloroplast damage and generate oxidative stress.

Our specific objectives are:

• Study of the molecular mechanisms involved in the activation of autophagy under oxidative stress conditions that cause damage in the chloroplast.
• Functional analysis of autophagy under nutritional limiting conditions involving metabolic reprogramming.