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1 CURRICULUM VITAE Elena Baena González Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência Plant Stress Signaling Rua da Quinta Grande 6 Phone: Oeiras Fax: Portugal [email protected] Employment 10/2008-Present Principal Investigator (Ciência 2007), Laboratory of Plant Stress Signaling Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal 10/ /2008 Post-doctoral fellow in Jen Sheen laboratory, Boston, USA Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Molecular Biology Harvard Medical School Department of Genetics Energy and sugar signaling during stress and development in Arabidopsis thaliana Education 09/ /2002 PhD in Plant Physiology and Molecular Biology University of Turku, Finland PhD thesis: Novel regulatory aspects of photosynthetic electron transport in plants 09/ /1995 MSc in Biology (Genetics) University of Oulu, Finland Masters Thesis: Microsatellite and DNA sequence variation in Cardaminopsis petraea 14

2 Publications in peer-reviewed journals Baena-González E (2010) Energy Signaling in the Regulation of Gene Expression during Stress. Mol. Plant 3: Baena-González E and Sheen J (2008) Convergent energy and stress signaling. Trends Plant Sci. 3: Baena-González E, Rolland F, Thevelein J, and Sheen J (2007) A central integrator of transcription networks in plant stress and energy signaling. Nature 448: Bishop CL, Ulas S, Baena-González E, Aro E-M, Purton S, Nugent JH, Mäenpää P (2007) The PsbZ subunit of Photosystem II in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 modulates electron flow through the photosynthetic electron transfer chain. Photosynth Res 93: Rolland F, Baena-González E, and Sheen J (2006) Sugar Sensing and Signaling in Plants: Conserved and Novel Mechanisms. Annu Rev Plant Biol 57: Baena-González E, Svab Z, Maliga P, Josse E-M, Kuntz M, Mäenpää P, and Aro E- M (2003) Alternative plastoquinone reducing pathways maintain electron flow in thylakoids under conditions of Photosystem II inactivation. Plant J 35: Baena-González E, and Aro E-M (2002) Biogenesis, assembly and turnover of photosystem II units. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 357: Baena-González E, Baginsky S, Mulo P, Summer H, Aro E-M, Link G (2001) Chloroplast transcription at different light intensities: Glutathione-mediated phosphorylation of the major RNA polymerase involved in redox-regulated organellar gene expression. Plant Physiol 127: Editor s choice paper in Science STKE: Lighting Up Gene Expression in Chloroplasts. Sci. STKE 2001, Issue 109, p. tw425 Baena-González E, Gray JC, Tyystjärvi E, Aro E-M, Mäenpää P (2001) Abnormal regulation of photosynthetic electron transport in a chloroplast ycf9 inactivation mutant. J Biol Chem 276: Mäenpää P, Baena González E, Li C, Khan MS, Gray JC, Aro, E-M (2000) The ycf9 (orf62) gene in the plant chloroplast genome encodes a hydrophobic protein of stromal thylakoid membranes. J Exp Bot 51: Mäenpää P, Baena González E, Ahlandsberg S, Jansson C (1999) Transformation of nuclear and plastomic plant genomes by biolistic particle bombardment. Mol Biotechnol 13: Baena-González E, Barbato R, Aro E-M (1999) Role of PSII phosphorylation in the PSII repair cycle and oligomeric structure. Planta 208: Pursiheimo S, Rintamäki E, Baena-González E, Aro E-M (1998) Thylakoid protein phosphorylation in evolutionarily divergent species with oxygenic photosynthesis. FEBS Lett 423: van Treuren R, Kärkkäinen K, Kuittinen H, Baena-González E, Savolainen O (1997) Evolution of microsatellites in Arabis petraea and Arabis lyrata, outcrossing relatives of Arabidopsis thaliana Mol Biol Evol 14: Publications in conferences Baena-González E, Rolland F, and Sheen J (2008) KIN10/11 are master regulators of the convergent stress transcriptome. In Photosynthesis. Energy from the sun. 14th International Congress on Photosynthesis. Springer, Heidelberg, Germany 15

3 Baena-González E, Gray JC, Tyystjärvi E, Battchikova N, Mäenpää P, Aro E-M (2001) The ORF62 protein of the thylakoid membrane is involved in regulation of photosynthetic electron transport. In 'PS2001 Proceedings: 12th International Congress on Photosynthesis'. CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne, Australia Baena-González E, Barbato R, Aro E-M (1998) Role of phosphorylation in photosystem II repair cycle and oligomeric structure. In: G. Garab (ed.), Photosynthesis: Mechanisms and Effects, Vol III, Participation in meetings/conferences SEB meeting, June 29-July 2, 2012, Salzburg, invited oral EMBO Young Investigator Meeting, May 7-9, 2012, Lisbon, invited oral Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Breeding, Cologne, Germany. Energy signaling, stress, and ABA, March 3, 2012, invited oral 1st European meeting on the TOR kinase signaling pathway in plants, INRA-Versailles, France, December 5-6, 2011, invited oral 6 th International PhD Summerschool on Environmental Signaling, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, August 22-24, 2011, invited oral International workshop on Resistance and Tolerance to Infection, organized by the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Convento da Arrábida, Portugal, October 15-18, 2010, invited oral 6th SPPS PhD Student Conference, Helsinki, Finland, September 2-5, 2010, invited oral Instituto Superior de Agronomia (ISA), June 30, 2010, invited oral XVII Congress of the Federation of European Societies of Plant Biology, Valencia, Spain, July 4-9, 2010 EMBO Young Investigator Meeting, May 10-12, 2010, Heidelberg, invited oral 8 th Plant Genomics European Meeting (Plant GEM), Lisbon, Portugal, October 7-10, 2009, invited oral XXXII SEBBM meeting, Oviedo, Spain, September 23-26, 2009, invited oral EMBO conference on Frontiers of Plant Research, Cádiz, Spain, May 6-9, 2009 FESBP meeting, Tampere, Finland, 2008, oral ASPB meeting, Merida, Mexico, 2008, oral ASPB meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, August 5-9, nd EPSO conference, Ischia, Italy,10-14 October 2004 New England Arabidopsis Meetings bimonthly Other scientific contributions Reviewer for research panels 16

4 Reviewer for BARD - The US-Israel Agricultural Research & Development Fund (2011) Evaluation panel for the Plant-KBBE (Plant Knowledge Based Bio-Economy) projects (2010) Reviewer for Horizon Breakthrough project (Netherlands Genomic Initiative) (2008) Reviewer for scientific journals Plant Cell, Plant Journal, Plant Physiology, New Phytologist, Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Planta, Cell Research, Food Technology and Biotechnology, PlosOne Students Theses supervised (all on-going) 05/09- Cláudia Martinho 05/11- Leonor Duarte 11/11- Mattia Adamo Thesis committees Tânia Serra, ITQB, Universidade Nova de Lisboa; on-going thesis Cecilia Pina, ITQB, Universidade Nova de Lisboa; on-going thesis Theses reviewed Bernhard Wurzinger, University of Vienna, 2011 Ye Ning, University of Copenhaguen, 2011 Ana Farinha, Universidade Nova Lisboa, 2010 Funding 01/ /2015 Marie Curie Actions FP7-People-2010-ITN (Networks for Initial Training), Project , MERIT Metabolic Reprogramming by Induction of Transcription ( ) 01/ /2015 EMBO Installation Grant EMBO-Proj.1984, Stress, energy and development: connecting the dots ( ) 05/ /2013 Portugal-Spain Bilateral Collaboration program Accões integradas, Accão no. E-26/10 ( 4.000) 04/ /2013 FCT-PTDC/AGR-AAM/104939/2008, Novel regulatory mechanisms of the energy sensor kinases in Arabidopsis ( ) 04/ /2013 FCT project PTDC/BIA-BCM/107924/2008, The role of mirnas in plant energy signaling ( ) 03/2010 EMBO Young investigator Small Grants, Generation of small RNA libraries associated to energy deficiency ( 6.000) 12/ /2011 Marie Curie International Reintegration Grant PIRG03-GA , Energy signaling in the stress response ( ) Other awards 17

5 MGH ECOR fund for medical discovery, One-year post-doctoral fellowship, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA, 2008 Finnish Association of Physiologists, Best PhD Thesis in Physiology, 2001 Emil Aaltonen Foundation, Finland, Doctoral fellowship, 1999 Parvela Prize, Best Masters Thesis in Genetics, University of Oulu, Finland, 1996 Honor prize for MSc studies, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Oulu, Finland, 1995 Languages Native Spanish speaker, excellent knowledge of English, Finnish, and Portuguese, fluent in French 18