The brassinosteroid receptor gene BRI1 safeguards cell-autonomous brassinosteroid signaling across tissues.

Blanco-Touriñán N, Rana S, Nolan TM, Li K, Vukašinović N, Hsu CW, Russinova E, Hardtke CS.

Sci Adv. (2024) 10, eadq3352

Connecting emerging with existing vasculature above and below ground.

Blanco-Touriñán N, Hardtke CS.

Curr Opin Plant Biol. (2023) 76, 102461

The primary root procambium contributes to lateral root formation through its impact on xylem connection.

Blanco-Touriñán N, Torres-Martínez HH, Augstein F, Champeyroux C, von der Mark C, Carlsbecker A, Dubrovsky JG, Rodriguez-Villalón A.

Curr Biol. (2023) 33, 1716-1727.e3

COP1 destabilizes DELLA proteins in Arabidopsis

Blanco-Touriñán N, Legris M, Minguet EG, Costigliolo C, Nohales MA, Iniesto E, García-León M, Pacín M, Heucken N, Blomeier T, Locascio A, Cerny M, Esteve-Bruna D, Díez-Díaz M, Brzbohaty B, Frerigmann H, Zurbriggen MD, Kay SA, Rubio V, Blázquez MA, Casal JJ, Alabadí D.

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA (2020) doi: 10.1073/pnas.1907969117

Noel Blanco-Touriñán

Although I studied Biotechnology, I am more interested in basic research and my main goal is to understand how plants adapt their development to environmental cues.

- 2025 to present / Group leader / IBMCP, Valencia, Spain

- 2023 to 2025 / Postdoc at U Lausanne (Christian Hardtke's lab)

- 2020 to 2023 / Postdoc at ETH-Zurich (Antía Rodríguez-Villalón's lab)

- 2015 to 2020 / PhD candidate / IBMCP, Valencia, Spain.

- 2013 to 2015 / Master in Plant Molecular and Cellular Biotechnology / U Politécnica de Valencia, Spain

- 2009 to 2013 / Biotechnology Degree / Universidad de Salamanca, Spain

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noelblanco@ibmcp.upv.es

Tel: +34 963 878 659