Welcome Mauricio Lopez Obando
Mauricio recently started a MSCA-EU fellowship to implement the EPPIMAL project under the supervision of Hugues Renault in the team “Evolution and Diversity of Plant Metabolism” of the IBMP. EPPIMAL focus on the study of PPI networks, in different plants species, of three key proteins from the phenylpropanoid, the abscisic acid and the strigolactones metabolic pathways respectively.
Mauricio started his research career doing his Ph.D in the team led by Claire Lurin (OG-UEVE-INRAE, Evry, France) working with Arabidopsis thaliana PentatricoPeptide Repeat (PPR) proteins and organellar RNA editing. He pursued his research career shifting his research focus to land plant evolution by performing a first post-doc in Catherine Rameau’s lab (CORAM-IJPB-INRAE, Versailles, France). In Rameau’s lab, he worked on strigolactone signaling and evolution using the bryophyte and model moss Physcomitrium patens. This experience marks an inflexion point in his research career toward the study of land plant evolution. He next moved to Sweden for a second post-doctoral experience in Eva Sundberg’s lab (SLU-Plant Biology Department, Uppsala, Sweden). In this post-doc, he continued his work on strigolactons but he also studied the function of P. patens transcription factor homolog genes of vascular plants involved in reproductive development.