Formació acadèmica: Professora Agregada (Biologia Cel·lular) Doctora en Biologia per la UdG (2008) Llicenciada en Biologia per la UdG (2005) Línies de recerca: Identificació de possibles gens implicats en la formació del fel·lema en Quercus suber utilitzant seqüenciació massiva. Genòmica funcional del fel·lema: Caracterització dels gens de la formació del periderma de les patates. Anàlisi químic i estructural de la suberina del periderma. Publicacions en revistes científiques: Serra O., Mähönen A. P.; Hetherington A. J.; Ragni L. (2022) The Making of Plant Armor: The Periderm. Annual Review of Plant Biology. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-arplant-102720-031405 Fernández-Piñán, S.; Sànchez-Guirado, C.; Figueras M.; Serra O. (2021) Gene Downregulation in Potato Roots Using Agrobacterium rhizogenes-Mediated Transformation. In: Dobnik D., Gruden K., Ramšak Ž., Coll A. (eds) Solanum tuberosum. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2354. Humana, New York, NY. pp 353-372 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1609-3_17 Kashyap, A.; Capellades, M.; Zhang, W.; Srinivasan, S.; Loromaine, A.; Serra, O.; Figueras, M.; Rencoret, J.; Gutiérrez, A.; Valls, M. & Coll, N.S. (2021) Induced ligno-suberin vascular coating and tyramine-derived hydroxycinnamic acid amides restrict Ralstonia solanacearum colonization in resistant tomato roots. BioRxiv. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.06.15.448549 ? Boher, P.; Soler, M.; Fernández-Piñán, S.; Torrent, X.; Müller, S.; Kelly, K.A.; Serra, O. & Figueras, M. (2021) Silencing of StRIK in potato suggests a role in periderm related to RNA processing and stress. BMC Plant Biology: 21, 409. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-021-03141-z Dastmalchi, K.; Chira, O.; Rodriguez, M.P.; Yoo, B.; Serra, O.; Figueras, M. & Stark R.E. (2021) A chemical window into the impact of RNAi silencing of the StNAC103 gene in potato tuber periderms: Soluble metabolites, suberized cell walls, and antibacterial defense. Phytochemistry 190: 112885. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phytochem.2021.112885 Fernández-Piñán, S.; Boher, P.; Soler, M.; Figueras, M. & Serra, O. (2021). Transcriptomic analysis of cork during seasonal growth highlights regulatory and developmental processes from phellogen to phellem formation. Scientific Reports 11: 12053. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-90938-5 Busta, L.; Serra, O.; Kim, O.T.; Molinas, M.; Peré-Fossoul, I.; Figueras, M. & Jetter, R. (2020). Oxidosqualene cyclases involved in the biosynthesis of triterpenoids in Quercus suber cork. Scientific Reports 10: 8011. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-64913-5. Soler, M.; Verdaguer, R.; Fernández-Piñan, S.; Company-Arumí, D.; Boher, P.; Góngora-Castillo, E.; Valls, M.; Anticó, E.; Molinas, M.; Serra, O. & Figueras, M. (2020). Silencing against the conserved NAC domain of the potato StNAC103 reveals new NAC candidates to repress the suberin associated waxes in phellem. Plant Science 291: 110360. 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