Prof. Patrizia Agostinis
Biological and related sciences, Health, Cell Biology, Cellular signaling, Cancer biology, Cancer therapy
PhD María Almuedo-Castillo
Nominated by
- The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
- AcademiaNet member since 16.09.2020
- AcademiaNet- Selection Criteria
Employed by
- Centro Andaluz de Biología de Desarrollo (CABD)
Academic Discipline/Fields
- Natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
Field
Biological and related sciences
Area of specialisation
Biology and Biomedicine
Research interests
Developmental biology, Regeneration, Quantitative imaging, Zebrabish, Morphogenesis, Tissue mechanics
Distinctions and Awards
Diploma of recognition for the most relevant PhD thesis defended in 2014 in the different Faculties of the University of Barcelona (4th position).
Award for financial support to attend the Embryology Course organized by Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) (06/2011-07/2011, Woods Hole, MA, USA). Source of award: The Company of Biologists Ltd Scholarship Mac V. Edds, Jr. Endowed Scholarship Fund Surdna Foundation Scholarship.
Award for financial support to attend the Evolution of Complex Systems Course organized by the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) (12/2013, Okinawa, Japan).
2nd price for the best poster presentation: Almuedo-Castillo M*, Crespo X, Adell T, Saló E. JNK controls the onset of mitosis of planarian stem cells and triggers apoptotic cell death required for regeneration and remodeling (2nd European Meeting on Planarian Biology, 09/2013, Dresden, Germany).
3rd price for the best poster presentation: Almuedo-Castillo M*, Saló E, Adell T. Dishevelled is essential for axon guidance and planar cell polarity in planarians (The Wnt meeting 2010, 10/2010, Stockholm, Sweden).
Sport Career: Junior Elite Athlete from 2001 to 2002 and Senior Elite Athlete from 2003 to 2007. Silver medal in the World Cup (Luzern, Switzerland) in July 2006 in LWW4x. Bronze medal in the World Championships 2002 (Sevilla, Spain) and in the World Cup (Munich, Germany) in August 2002 in LWW2-. 10 times Spanish Champion in the senior category between 2002-2007.
Interested in
- Lectures, Membership in scientific bodies, Professorship, Refereeing
Languages
Catalan, English, French, Spanish
Doctorate
- 2014: Wound healing and Body plan design during Planarian regeneration: Non canonical Wnt and JNK signaling pathways
Short CV/Education and training
- Since 2020Junior Leader fellowship “La Caixa” incoming at CABD. Sevilla, Spain
- 2019 – 2020Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow at CABD. Sevilla, Spain. With a break for maternity leave from 09/2019 to 03/2020
- 2018 – 2019“Contrato de Apoyo a Unidades Científicas Excelencia María de Maeztu 2016” from CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas)
- 2017 – 2018Post-doctoral researcher contract from the ERC Starting Grant 637840 given to Patrick Müller. Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society. Tuebingen, Germany
- 2015 – 2017EMBO post-doctoral fellow in the Systems Biology of Developmental Unit. Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society. Tuebingen, Germany
- 2014 – 2015Post-doctoral researcher contract from the ERC Starting Grant 637840 given to Patrick Müller. Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society. Tuebingen, Germany
- 2009 – 2014PhD Degree in Genetics by the University of Barcelona, Biology College (Spain). Maxima Cum Laude graduation. 4th position for the most influential PhD thesis 2014
- 2008 – 2009Master Degree in Developmental Biology and Genetics by University of Barcelona, Biology College (Spain)
- 2001 – 2008Biology degree (Bachelor foreign equivalent) by the University of Sevilla, Biology College (Spain)
- 2002 – 2007Professional rower of the Olympic Spanish team
- 1997 – 2001High School at Martínez Montañés. Sevilla (Spain). Graduated with honors
- 1989 – 1997Elementary School at French School. Sevilla (Spain)
Selected publications
Cadozo M*, Almuedo-Castillo M* and Bovolenta P. (2020) Patterning the Vertebrate Retina With Morphogenetic Signaling Pathways. Neuroscientist. 26:185-196. *equally contributing.
Vázquez-Marín J, Gutiérrez-Triana JA, Almuedo-Castillo M, Buono L, Gómez-Skarmeta JL, Mateo JL, Wittbrodt J, Martínez-Morales JR. (2019). yap1b, a divergent Yap/Taz family member, cooperates with yap1 in survival and morphogenesis via common transcriptional targets. Development. 146:dev173286.
Almuedo-Castillo M, Bläßle A, Mörsdorf D, Marcon L, Rogers KW, Soh GH, Schier AF, Müller P. (2018) Scale-invariant patterning by size-dependent inhibition of Nodal signaling. Nature Cell Biology. 20:1032-1042.
Adell T, Barberán S, Sureda-Gómez M, Almuedo-Castillo M, de Sousa N, Cebrià F. (2018) Immunohistochemistry on Paraffin-Embedded Planarian Tissue Sections. Methods Mol Biol. 1774:367-378.
Almuedo-Castillo M, Crespo-Yañez X, Seebeck F, Bartscherer K, Salò E, Adell T. (2014) JNK controls the onset of mitosis in planarian stem cells and triggers apoptotic cell death required for regeneration and remodeling. PLoS Genet. 10:e1004400.
Almuedo-Castillo M, Sureda-Gómez M, Adell T. (2012) Wnt signaling in planarians: new answers to old questions. Int J Dev Biol. 56:53-65. Review.
Iglesias, M, Almuedo-Castillo M, Aboobaker A., Salo E. (2011) Early planarian brain differentiation is independent of regenerative polarity mediated by the Wnt/β-catenin pathway. Dev Biol. 358: 68-78.
Almuedo-Castillo M, Salo E, Adell T. (2011) Dishevelled is essential for neural connectivity and planar cell polarity in planarians. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 108:2813-2818.
Soft Skills/Other activities and achievements
Other activities and achievements/family
Partner and mother of a son
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