Ignacio Rubio-Somoza

Ignacio Rubio Somoza studied Biology at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) where he was firstly introduced to the exciting world of plant research working on somatic embryogenesis in Vitis vinifera. He moved to the Centre of Molecular Biology "Severo Ochoa" for carrying out a Master in Biotechnology (Madrid, Spain). Funded by a FPI fellowship he obtained his PhD working in the transcriptional regulation of antagonistic genetic programs orchestrating barley seed maturation and germination at the Polytechnic University of Madrid. After a short stay at the Roberto Solano´s lab (CNB, Spain) as CSIC IP3 postdoctoral fellow, he moved to Tübingen (Germany). There, he joined Weigel Lab at the MPI for Developmental Biology funded by fellowships from the Spanish Government and EMBO to work on miRNA-mediated regulation of hormone pathways and Transcription factors. Since 2016, Ignacio is the group leader of the Molecular Reprogramming and Evolution (MoRE) lab at the CRAG (Barcelona, Spain). The main focus of the MoRE lab is to understand how organisms, more concretely plants, coordinate their genetic programs devoted to control development and immunity.