Prof. Dr. Amparo Acker-Palmer
Biological and related sciences , Health, Cell Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Vascular Biology, Tumour Biology
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Agriculture, Biological and related sciences , Environment
Natural Resources, Agricultural Sciences
Horticulture, Plant Physiology, Molecular Assisted Breeding, Paleogenomics, Sustainable Agriculture, Agrochemicals, Climate Change
Villum Young Investigator Award by the Villum Foundation (Denmark)
Danish, English, Spanish
Sánchez-Pérez R*, Pavan S, Mazzeo R, Moldovan C, Del Cueto J, R Agliese, Lotti C, Ricciardi L, Dicenta F, Lopez-Marqués R, Møller BL. Mutation of a bHLH transcription factor allowed almond domestication. Science (2019) (364:1095-1098).
Thodberg S, Del Cueto J, Mazzeo R, Pavan S, Lotti C, Dicenta F, Neilson EHJ, Møller BL, Sánchez-Pérez R*. Elucidation of the Amygdalin Pathway Reveals the Metabolic Basis of Bitter and Sweet Almonds (Prunus dulcis). Plant Physiology (2018) 178: 1096-1111.
Ricciardi F, Del Cueto J, Bardaro N, Mazzeo R, Ricciardi L, Dicenta F, Sánchez-Pérez R*, Pavan S*, Lotti C. Synteny-Based Development of CAPS Markers Linked to the Sweet kernel LOCUS, Controlling Amygdalin Accumulation in Almond (Prunus dulcis (Mill.) D. A. Webb). Genes (2018) (DOI: 10.3390/genes9080385)
Del Cueto J, Møller BL, Dicenta F, Sánchez-Pérez R*. β-Glucosidase activity in almond seeds. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry (2018) 126: 163-172.
Del Cueto J, Ionescu, IA Picmanova, M Gericke O, Motawia MS, Olsen CE, Campoy JA, Dicenta F, Møller BL, Sánchez-Pérez R. Cyanogenic Glucosides and Derivatives in Almond and Sweet Cherry Flower Buds from Dormancy to Flowering. Frontiers In Plant Science (2017) Vol 8. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2017.00800.
Gray C, Schindler B, Migas L, Picmanova M, Allouche A-R, Green A, Mandal S, Motawia M, Sánchez-Pérez R, Bjarnholt N, Møller BL, Rijs A, Barran P, Compagnon I, Eyers C, Flitsch S. Bottom-up elucidation of glycosidic bond stereochemistry. Analytical Chemistry (2017). Volume: 89 Issue: 8 Pages: 4540-4549.
Ionescu IA, Møller BL, Sánchez-Pérez R. Chemical control of flowering time. Journal of Experimental Botany (2017) Vol. 68, No. 3 pp. 369–382.
Picmanova M, Neilson EH, Motawia MS, Olsen CE, Agerbirk N, Gray CJ, Flitsch S, Meier S, Silvestro D, Jørgensen K, Sánchez-Pérez R, Møller BL, Bjarnholt N. A recycling pathway for cyanogenic glycosides evidenced by the comparative metabolic profiling in three cyanogenic plant species. Biochemical Journal (2015). 469: 375-389. DOI: 10.1042/bj20150390.
Koepke T, Schaeffer S, Harper A, Dicenta F, Edwards M, Henry RJ, Møller BL, Meisel L, Oraguzie N, Silva H, Sánchez-Pérez R*, Dhingra A*. Comparative Genomics Analysis in Prunoideae to Identify Biologically Relevant Polymorphisms. Plant Biotechnology Journal (2013). 11: 883-893.
Sánchez-Pérez R, Saez F, Jonas Borch-Jensen, Dicenta F, Møller BL, Jørgensen K. Prunasin hydrolases localization during fruit development in sweet and bitter almonds. Plant Physiology (2012). 158: 1916-1932.
Spanish bitter almond eradication plan. Ministerio de Agricultura y Pesca, Alimentación y Medio Ambiente. CEBAS-CSIC. PI at CEBAS-CSIC and scientific coordinator, 2018 – 2020
Center for Plant Plasticity. Villum Foundation (Denmark). Faculty of Science. University of Copenhagen. Co-PI in the WP 1= “Physiological and metabolic plasticity”: “Endogenous turnover of cyanogenic glucosides” and WP2 = “Plasticity in the course of development”: “Variation in cyanogenic glucoside content during ontology). Financed: 4.023.194 €, 2013 – 2018
The molecular mechanisms to break flower bud dormancy in fruit trees. Villum Foundation (Denmark).Faculty of Science. University of Copenhagen. PI Raquel Sánchez Pérez. Financed: 523.755 €), 2013 – 2017
Molecular Biology of the almond cyanogenesis. Séneca Foundation. PI Raquel Sánchez Pérez. Financed 46.120 €, 2010 – 2012
Adjunct coordinator at the CSIC group of experts to write a “White book on the challenge: Biotechnology and Plant Genetic Breeding”, 2019 – 2020, Spain
Senior Staff Meeting member at Plant Biochemistry Section (PLEN Department), Copenhagen University, Denmark, 2015 – 2017
Organizing committee member of Plant Genomics 2017, Thailand.
National Representative member in EU-COST action FA1104 "Sustainable production of high-quality cherries for the European market", 2014 – 2016
Postdoctoral committee member at Plant Biochemistry Section (PLEN Department), Copenhagen University, 2013 – 2015
Scientific Secretary member of the VI International Symposium on Almonds and Pistachios. International Society for Horticultural Science, 2013
Frontiers in Plant Science: Research Topic en Frontiers: From Functional Genomics to Biotechnology in Ornamental Plants.
Agronomy: Research Topic “The molecular mechanism and Approaches to Break Dormancy in Fruit Trees” https://www.mdpi.com/journal/agronomy/special_issues/Dormancy_Fruit.
Agronomy: Research Topic “Domestication and Transcription Factors Related to Important Traits in Horticultural Crops” https://www.mdpi.com/journal/agronomy/special_issues/Domestication_Transcription_Horticulture.
BBC Science in Action, starts at 7.40 min https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csym1t
https://thesciencebreaker.org/storage/breaks/how-almonds-became-sweet.pdf
Married, mother of two daughters.
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Biological and related sciences , Health, Cell Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Vascular Biology, Tumour Biology
Biological and related sciences , Health, Cell Biology, Cellular signaling, Cancer biology, Cancer therapy
Environment, Mathematics and statistics, biogeochemistry, isotope geochemistry, soil science
Biological and related sciences , cell biology, molecular biology, biomedicine