First Name: María-Eugenia
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First Name: María-Eugenia
Curriculum vitae Gas López Mª Eugenia April 2014 Contact Information: Last Name: GAS LÓPEZ First Name: María-Eugenia Date of birth: October 25th, 1975 Place of birth: Alicante, Spain Sex: Woman Nationality: Spanish e-mail address: [email protected] Education: 04/12/2007 Doctorate Degree at the University of Valencia. Thesis directors: Dr. Ricardo Flores Pedauyé, Dr. Carmen Hernández Fort and Dr. José-Antonio Daròs Arnau (PhD developed at The Institute for Molecular and Cellular Plant Biology, CSIC, Valencia, Spain. PhD. awarded with the highest possible grade). 2000-2001 Master of Research in Molecular Genetics and Evolution (DEA) at the University of Valencia (Spain) (Final degree obtained: 9/10). 1998-1999 Teaching Aptitude Course, University of Valencia (Spain). 1993-1998 B. Sc. Degree in Biochemistry at the University of Valencia (Spain), 1993-1998. (Final degree obtained: 8.24/10) Research experience: 2009-2013 Postdoctoral researcher at the Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (IGBMC), from September to November. Illkirch. Supervisor: Dr. Bertrand Séraphin. Research topic: mRNA decay, protein interaction networks, and translation. 2008-2009 Postdoctoral researcher at the Centre de Génétique Moléculaire (CGM), from September to August. Gif-sur-Yvette. Supervisor: Dr. Bertrand Séraphin. Research topic: mRNA decay, protein interaction networks. 2007-2008 Senior Research Technician at the Valencian Institute for Agricultural Research (IVIA), from September to August. Valencia (Spain). Supervisor: Dr. Luis Navarro Lucas and Dr. Gema Ancillo Antón. Research topic: Flowering in citrus. 2000-2007 PhD student at the Institute for Molecular and Cellular Plant Biology. Valencia (Spain). This work period was interrupted during nine months (2002-2003) for health reasons. Supervisor: Dr. Ricardo Flores Pedauyé, Dr.Carmen Hernández Fort and Dr. José-Antonio Daròs Arnau. Research topic: Viroid replication. 1998-2000 Research graduate at the Department of Genetics of the University of Valencia from October to May. Supervisor: Dr. Rosa de Frutos Illán and Dr. Luis Pascual Calaforra. Research topic: Transposable elements. 1 Curriculum vitae Gas López Mª Eugenia 1995-1998 Research student at the Department of Genetics of the University of Valencia. From February to September. Supervisor: Dr. Rosa de Frutos Illán and Dr. Luis Pascual Calaforra. Research topic: Transposable elements. PhD Fellowships 01/03/2005-28/02/2006 Spanish National Research Council and Bancaja Foundation Program 15/06/2000-31/01/2005 Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology Research Grants 01/06/2013-30/11/2013 Postdoctoral Research at Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (Illkirch, France). Funded by Centre Européen de Recherche en Biologie et en Médecine GIE. 01/06/2011-31/05/2013 Postdoctoral Research at Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (Illkirch, France). Funded by the County Council Department of Education 01/04/2011-31/05/2011 Postdoctoral Research at Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (Illkirch, France). Funded by Centre Européen de Recherche en Biologie et en Médecine GIE. 01/09/2009-31/03/2010 Postdoctoral Research at Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (Illkirch, France). Funded by Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. 01/04/2009-31/08/2009 Postdoctoral Research at Centre de Génétique Moléculaire (Gif sur Yvette, France). Funded by Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. 01/09/2008-31/03/2009 Postdoctoral Research at Centre de Génétique Moléculaire (Gif sur Yvette, France). Funded by National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). 15/01/2008-29/08/2008 Senior Research Technician at the Valencian Institute for Agricultural Research (IVIA), Valencia (Spain). Funded by Dept of Plant Protection and Biotechnology. 03/09/2007-28/12/2007 Senior Research Technician at the Valencian Institute for Agricultural Research (IVIA), Valencia (Spain). Funded by Dept of Plant Protection and Biotechnology. List of publications: Publications: Peer-Reviewing Journals - Francis SM, Gas ME, Daugeron MC, Bravo J, Seraphin B (2012) Structure of the Rbg1Tma46 complex reveals new functional domains and their role in polysome recuitment. Febs Journal 279: 445-445 2 Curriculum vitae Gas López Mª Eugenia - Francis SM, Gas ME, Daugeron MC, Bravo J, and Seraphin B (2012) Rbg1-Tma46 dimer structure reveals new functional domains and their role in polysome recruitment. Nucleic Acids Res, 40, 11100-11114. - Gas ME and Seraphin B (2010) Twins take the job. EMBO J, 29, 2260-2261. - Flores R, Gas ME, Molina-Serrano D, Nohales MA, Carbonell A, Gago S, De la Peña M, and Daros JA (2009) Viroid replication: rolling-circles, enzymes and ribozymes. Viruses, 1, 317-334. - van den Elzen AMG*, Henri J*, Lazar N, Gas ME, Durand D, Lacroute François, Nicaise M, van Tilbeurgh H, Séraphin B, and Graille M (2010) Dissection of Dom34-Hbs1 reveals independent functions in two RNA quality control pathways. Nat Struct Mol Biol, 17, 14461452.* Both authors contributed equally. - Gas ME, Molina-Serrano D, Hernandez C, Flores R, and Daros JA (2008) Monomeric linear RNA of citrus exocortis viroid resulting from processing in vivo has 5'phosphomonoester and 3'-hydroxyl termini: implications for the RNase and RNA ligase involved in replication. J Virol, 82, 10321-10325. - Gas ME, Hernández C, Flores R, and Daròs JA (2007) Processing of nuclear viroids in vivo: an interplay between RNA conformations. PLoS Pathog, 3, 1813-1826. - Flores R, Delgado S, Gas ME, Carbonell A, Molina D, Gago S, and De la Peña M. (2004) Viroids: the minimal non-coding RNAs with autonomous replication. FEBS Lett, 567, 42-48. - Martínez-Sebastián MJ, Hernández M, Mejias B, Gas ME, Pérez A, Pascual L, and de Frutos R. (2002) Evolutionary patterns of the gypsy and bilbo retrotransposon families in the Drosophila species of the obscura group. Mol Phylogenet Evol, 25, 254-266 Book chapters: - Chlebowski A, Tomecki R, Gas ME, Séraphin B, and Dziembowski A (2010). Catalytic properties of the eukaryotic exosome. (RNA Exosome) In Jensen TH (Ed.), Landes Bioscience 702, 63-78. - Flores R, Gas ME, Molina D, Hernández C, and Daròs JA (2008). Analysis of viroid replication (Plant virology Protocols: From Viral Sequence to Protein Function). In Foster G, Hong Y, Johansen E, and Nagy P (Eds.). Humana Press, Totowa (USA), pp. 167-183. Participations in Meeting and Congresses: - Poster presentation on Yeast DRG proteins: new proteins required for efficient translation elongation in eukaryotes at 9th SifrARN Meeting. Annual Société Française de Biochimie et Biologie Moléculaire Conference, (Bischenberg), 2013. Gas ME, Francis SM, Bravo J, and Séraphin B. Prize for the best poster. - Attendance to the EMBO conference “Eukaryotic RNA Turnover: From Structural Insights to Diseases” (Strasbourg), 2013. - Poster presentation on Rbg1-Tma46 dimer structure reveals new functional domain and their role in polysome recruitment at 17th Annual Meeting of the RNA Society, Ann Arbor (Michigan), 2012. Francis SM, Gas ME, Daugeron MC, Bravo J, and Séraphin B. - Oral presentation on Mapping protein interaction networks; application to the RES complex at the ESF RNA Quality workshop. A workshop for Phd students and post-docs working in labs that participate in the European Science Foundation-RNA Quality Programme (Strasbourg), 2010. Gas ME and Séraphin B. - Poster presentation on Functional Study of transcription factors potentially involved in the juvenile to adult phase transition in citrus at the XVIII Congress of the Federation of 3 Curriculum vitae Gas López Mª Eugenia European Societies of Plant Biology, Valencia (Spain), 2010. Castillo MC, Gas ME, Navarro L, Ancillo G. - Oral presentation on Mapping protein interaction networks: application to the RES splicing factor at TERM09 Meeting (Domaine de Seillac), 2009. Gas ME and Séraphin B. - Poster presentation on RNA Processing during viroid replication at Workshops on Biology (Replication and Recombination of RNA Virus Genomes), Cantoblanco (Spain), 2009. Martínez F, Marqués J, Nohales MA, Gas ME, Molina-Serrano D, Flores R and Daròs JA. - Poster presentation on Functional study of genes potentially involved in juvenile-to-adult transition in citrus plants identified by gene expression profiling at 11th International Citrus Congress, Wuhan (China), 2008. Ancillo G, Gas ME, Gadea J, Forment J, Juárez J, Marqués MC, Pina JA and Navarro L. - Oral presentation on Viroid RNA processing during replication at Viroids and viroid-like RNAs 2008, Berlin (Germany), 2008. Gas ME, Molina-Serrano D, Martínez F, Marqués J, Hernández C, Flores R and Daròs JA. - Oral presentation on Processing of viroid RNAs during their replication at IX Congress of Virology, Zaragoza (Spain), 2007. Gas ME, Molina-Serrano D, Marques J, Hernández C, Flores R. and Daròs JA. - Oral presentation on Termini of linear monomeric RNA, the resulting products of the processing of dimeric transcripts of a nuclear viroid in transgenic plants: Inference about the enzymes involved in the processing, at IX Spanish Congress of Virology, Zaragoza (Spain), 2007. Gas ME, Hernández C, Flores R and Daròs JA. - Poster presentation on Processing of the viroid RNAs of the family Pospiviroidae in transgenics plants, at the VIII Congress of Plant Molecular Biology, Pamplona (Spain), 2006. Gas ME, Hernández C, Flores R and Daròs JA. - Poster presentation on Viroid RNA processing during replication, at the II Meeting of Ribored, Barcelona (Spain), 2006. Gas ME, Molina D, Hernández C, Flores R and Daròs JA. - Poster presentation on Mapping the processing site of Citrus exocortis viroid oligomeric (+) strands with an in vivo system at the XIII International Congress of Virology, International Union of Microbiological Societies. San Francisco (California-USA), July 2005. Gas ME, Hernández C, Flores R and Daròs JA. - Oral presentation on Viroid replication, at the II European Congress of Virology, Madrid (Spain), 2004. Flores R, de la Peña M, Gago S, Delgado S, Gas ME, Carbonell A, Martínez de Alba E, Hernández C and Daròs JA. - Attendance at the VII Spanish Congress of Virology, Valencia (Spain), 2001. - Attendance at the X Congress of the Spanish Society of Phytopathology, Valencia (Spain), 2000. - Poster presentation on Sequence homologous to the hobo in E strains of Drosophila melanogaster at the II Congress of the Spanish Society of Genetic, A Coruña (Spain), 1999. Gas ME, Sánchez MD, Galindo MI and Pascual L. - Poster presentation on Phylogenetic analysis of Drosophila class I and II transposable elements, at VII Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, Barcelona (Spain), 1999. Mejias-Nogales B, Gas ME, Pérez-Muñoz A, Vázquez R, Gandia M, Martínez-Sebastián MJ and de Frutos R. 4 Curriculum vitae Gas López Mª Eugenia - Attendance at the I Congress of the Spanish Society of Genetic, Valencia (Spain), 1997. Participation in funded research projects: - Structural and functional analysis of Rbg1/Tma46 heterodimer. County Council Department of Education (Programa VALi+d), from 2010 to 2012. PI: Bertrand Séraphin. - Mechanism of exosome activation during cytoplasmic mRNA decay. CNRS, Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, Centre Européen de Recherche en Biologie et en Médecine GIE, and County Council Department of Education (Programa VALi+d), from 2009 to 2013. PI: Bertrand Séraphin. - Functional study of genes potentially involved on citrus flowering. Institute for Agricultural Research of Valencia, from 2007 to 2008. PI: Dr. Luis Navarro and Dr. Gema Ancillo. - DNA microarray platform to study juvenile to adult transition in Citrus. Conselleria de Empresa, Universidad y Ciencia de la Generalidad Valenciana, from 2005 to 2007. PI: Dr. Gema Ancillo. - Molecular and cellular viroids and plant viruses biology. Valencian Government, from 2003 to 2005. PI: Dr. Ricardo Flores. - Viroids: enzymes, ribozymes and auxiliary factors involved in their replication, and in the control of this pathogens through specific ribozymes. The Ministry of Science and Technology of Spain, from 2002 to 2005. PI: Dr. Ricardo Flores. - Cis-sequence and cis-factors involved in the replication cycle of viroids. The Ministry of Education and Science of Spain, from 1999 to 2001. PI: Dr. Ricardo Flores. Major fields of training Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Plant Molecular Biology, Drosophila melanogaster, DNA recombination techniques, RNA isolation, in vitro transcription assays, in vitro translation assays, protein purification methods (TAP- Purification), protein interaction methods, in vitro cross-linking experiments, protein purification methods (recombinant proteins, TAPPurification), polysome analysis and RNA and protein purification from sucrose gradients, reporter gene assay, yeast two hybrid, Northern, and Western Blot techniques, tryptic digestion of in-gel or in-solution proteins for mass spectrometry analysis, PCR, qPCR, and RT-PCR, RNA ligase-mediated rapid amplification of cDNA end, site-directed and random mutagenesis techniques, primer extension and DNA sequencing, SILAC, radioisotopes manipulation, and data computer analysis. Skills Teamwork I have successfully undertaken various team projects. Communication Oral communication skills expressed in presentations and writing skills developed with grants application and grant reports, posters, articles and chapter books. Research collaboration During my postdoctoral stay I collaborated with the group of Dr. Bravo (Valencia, Spain). Managing Experience in managing research projects with well-defined goals, resources and timescales. Leaderships Postdoctoral workers at the CGM and IGBMC are encouraged to be independent and to take full scientific responsibility for their 5 Curriculum vitae Gas López Mª Eugenia own projects, there being a special emphasis on preparing them to become group-leading scientists. Self-motivated I am a very dynamic person. Courses: - Teaching Aptitude Course, University of Valencia (Spain), 1998-1999. - VI International meeting about Human Genome: clonation and transplantation in the 21th century”, International Menéndez Pelayo University, Valencia (Spain), 1999. - Undergraduate practice in Clinical Biochemical Laboratory at Villajoyosa Hospital, Alicante (Spain), 1997. - Undergraduate practice in Clinical Biochemical laboratory at Dr. Pesset Aleixandre Hospital, Valencia (Spain), 1997-1998. - “Advanced course for molecular diagnostic techniques” Prince Felipe Research Centre, Valencia (Spain) 1997. - “Cellular damage and inflammatory response” Course of the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain), 1996. Languages: - Mother tongue: Spanish. - English: Advanced - French: Intermediate Other credits - Member of Spanish Society of Biochemistry. - Referee of the Doctoral thesis entitled “Molecular characterization and development of new diagnostic methods for the genus Fabavirus. BTH evaluation as a control method” carried out by the graduate student Ms. Rosa Mar Ferrer Gual under the guidance of Dr. José Guerri Sirera, Dr. Pedro Moreno Gómez and Dr. Luis Rubio Miguélez (Valencian Institute for Agricultural Research, Valencia, Spain). 6