Federico Valverde Albacete

Group: Environmental and epigenetic regulation of development in plants

Position: Senior Research Scientist (Investigador Científico) CSIC

Contact:

Office D109 tel. ext. 446025

Laboratory L106

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Formation

Grade in Biology, Seville University, 1992

Doctor in Biochemistry, Seville University-CSIC, 1999

Postdoctoral Contract, JIC, Norwich, UK, 1999-2001

Postdoctoral Contract, MPIZ, Cologne, Germany, 2001-2003

‘Ramón y Cajal’ and ‘I3P’ Contracts, IBVF, CSIC, Seville, Spain, 2004-2009

Project: PID2020-117018RB-I00. Under review: 1- PID2023-146331OB-I00. 2- DGP-PIDI-2024-02697.

Research Interests

My studies are focused on the external factors, particularly light quality and day length (photoperiod), that modulate plant development and physiology. Senior Scientist at CSIC (2009) and Scientific Researcher (2023), founder of the Plant Development Unit (PDU) at IBVF, I help to conceive the external coincidence model of flowering and pioneered the application of gene co-expression networks in the evolution of plant photoperiod response. I am interested in molecular studies of the photoperiodic signal in plant physiology, in the interplay of light signalling with other external factors, the application of Systems Biology techniques, and their possible biotechnological applications.

Publications

de los Reyes P, Romero-Campero FJ, Gao H, et al. CONSTANS alters the circadian clock in Arabidopsis thaliana. Mol Plant. 2024 Jun 17: S1674-2052(24)00186-2. doi: 10.1016/j.molp.2024.06.006. Online ahead of print.

Romero JM, Serrano-Bueno G, Camacho-Fernández C, et al. CONSTANS, a HUB for all seasons: How photoperiod pervades plant physiology regulatory circuits. Plant Cell. Published online March 21, 2024. doi:10.1093/plcell/koae090.

Serrano-Bueno G, de Los Reyes P, Chini A, et al. Regulation of floral senescence in Arabidopsis by coordinated action of CONSTANS and jasmonate signaling. Mol Plant. 2022;15(11):1710-1724. doi:10.1016/j.molp.2022.09.017.

G. Serrano, R. Herrera-Palau, J.M. Romero, et al. Chlamydomonas CONSTANS and the evolution of plant photoperiodic signaling Curr. Biol., 19 (2009), pp. 359-368. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2009.01.044.

Valverde F, Mouradov A, Soppe W, Ravenscroft D, Samach A, Coupland G. Photoreceptor regulation of CONSTANS protein in photoperiodic flowering. Science. 2004 Feb 13;303(5660):1003-6. doi: 10.1126/science.1091761.