Ana Montserrat Martín Hernández

1984 1986. Undergraduate student: Inhibition of adenovirus replication by different antiviral compounds . Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa (Madrid). Supervisor: Dr. Carmen Fernández-Puentes. 1986 - 1990, Ph D Thesis on "Identification, characterization and expression of the thymidine kinase gene of African swine fever virus". Dept of Microbiology. School of Medicine. Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. Ph. D. supervisor: Dr. Enrique Tabarés. Postdoctoral experience: 1991-1993, Investigation of the early events occurring at the onset of the establishment of persistence of foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) in cell culture . Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Adviser: Prof. Esteban Domingo. May-July 1993, Fidelity assays of RNA and DNA polymerases Institut Pasteur, in Paris. Adviser: Dr. Simon Wain-Hobson, 1993-1996, Fidelity of copy of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) reverse transcriptase . Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Adviser: Prof. Esteban Domingo. 1996-1998, The role of saponines and saponin-detoxifying enzymes in plant-pathogen interactions . The Sainsbury Laboratory, John Innes Centre. Adviser Dr. Anne Osbourn. 1998 to 2004, Research associate. Development of new gene silencing technologies for functional genomics in plants . The Sainsbury Laboratory, John Innes Centre. Adviser: Prof. David Baulcombe. Independent Research Experience: 2004 to 2008: Researcher (Ramón y Cajal contract). Development of gene silencing technologies for Cucurbitaceae . Institut de la Recerca y Tecnologia Agroàlimentaries. 2008 to date: Researcher I3. Centre de Recerca en Agrigenomica CSIC-IRTA-UAB (CRAG). Working on VIGS in cucurbits and recessive resistance to CMV in melon.

doctorate at Ciencias biológicas (Biología Molecular) from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (1990). Has experience in Microbiology, focusing on Applied Microbiology